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Dr. Nelson's work extends to animals, who also suffer from trapped emotions due to traumatic events. He cites traumatized chickens returning to normal after their trapped emotions were released remotely, highlighting that the healing is not a placebo effect, as animals have no such expectation.
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Dr. Bradley Nelson asserts that the vast majority of physical ailments, not just mental ones like anxiety or depression, are direct manifestations of trapped emotional energies from past experiences, which he terms "emotional baggage."
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In chronically ill patients, Dr. Nelson often found nearly all organs and glands were energetically out of balance. Simply removing their "heart wall"—the trapped emotional energy around their heart—would cause about 80% of these systems to spontaneously return to perfect balance.