You are the Universe! - E32: The Science behind Issues in our Tissues - The Emotion Code

Episode Date: July 2, 2025

“Have you ever felt like you’ve tried everything to heal—therapy, breathwork, plant medicine, energy work, affirmations, even years of yoga and journaling—but you’re still looping the same patterns? Maybe you find yourself avoiding the hard conversations, sabotaging your own success, or numbing out when things get too real. If that’s you, you’re not alone. What if the reason nothing has fully worked… is because you’re carrying trapped emotions—energetic imprints from the past that are still living in your body and your subconscious mind? Today, we’re going to explore how unresolved grief, trauma, and emotional energy can keep you stuck in the past—and how releasing it can unlock the peace, joy, and freedom you’ve been searching for.”www.VictoriaHaffer.com

Welcome to the you or the universe podcast, where we awaken the healer within and return home to joy, wholeness, and freedom. I'm your host, Victoria Hafer. I've been facilitating massive transformation for people just like you and their animals for over two decades. And today we're diving into how unresolved trauma, grief, and emotional pain can keep us stuck in the past. And how releasing trapped emotions can bring us into a state of freedom, peace, and radiant vitality. This episode bridges science, energy medicine, and soul-level healing for humans, and our beloved animal companions. Have you ever felt like you've tried everything to heal your chronic thing, right? Your pain, your gut issues, anxiety, depression? Things like therapy, breath work, plant medicine, energy work, affirmations, years of yoga in journaling or meditation,

but you're still looping the same patterns? Maybe you find yourself avoiding the hard conversation, sabotaging your own. own success or numbing out when things get too real. If that's you, you're not alone. What if the reason nothing is fully worked is because you're carrying trapped emotions, energetic imprints from the past that are still living in your body and your subconscious mind. Today, we're going to explore how unresolved grief, trauma, and emotional energy can keep you stuck in the past and how releasing it can unlock the secret to your eternal peace, joy, and freedom that you've been searching for. Let's start with the biology of energy and emotion. You may have heard the phrase issues in our

tissues, especially if you've taken my yoga class. It's not just a catchy saying. Neuroscientists, epigenetic scientists, and somatic practitioners all agree every experience you've ever had, Every emotion, belief, trauma, and even moment of joy has been stored in your body as well as in your subconscious mind. The subconscious stores over 90% of our memories and patterns. It's nonverbal, timeless, and records every sensory detail, the sounds, the smells, the emotional intensity, much like a black box on an airplane. But the body holds this too. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps score, confirms that trauma is not just remembered in the mind, but it's lived out in the muscles, the fascia, your immune system, and even our posture and our breath.

So here's where it gets even deeper. We are acoustical, energetic beings. Every cell emits a frequency. Every emotion has a vibrational signature, like sign waves, sound waves in the body. When these emotions are unprocessed or suppressed, they're low frequency vibrations. Just think of things like the emotions like shame and guilt and grief, resentment, right? Anger. Become energetic blocks in the body.

Stuck in our nervous system, our lymph, our organs, or even our glands. So this is where the science of the biofield comes in. That's the scientific term for what we call the aura or the electromagnetic field. The biofield is the electromagnetic field that surrounds and interpenetrates the body. Kind of like your personal Wi-Fi signal. It's measurable and scientifically recognized by institutions like the National Institute of Health and researchers like Dr. Beverly Rubik. Think of your biofield. is your body's energetic memory drive. It stores emotional trauma, physical injuries, inherited patterns, even ancestral wounds. These stored frequencies distort the energy flow between your body systems and your environment. It's why chronic pain, autoimmune conditions, anxiety, and even destructive behavioral patterns or addictions can remain long after the original trauma has occurred. So whether you're aware of them or not, these lower vibrational inference can keep you stuck in the past, looping the same emotional reaction or health issue over and over and over again.

So how do we access this hidden archive, you ask? I use a very powerful tool and you might know it as muscle testing or applied kinesiology. If you've ever worked with a chiropractor or perhaps a functional medicine doctor, you might be aware of this tool. It's a tool to communicate directly with the subconscious mind in the biofield. It's a way of asking the body questions and receiving yes or no responses through changes in muscle strength or energy flow. So here are some common types of muscle testing. One is the arm test. Again, if you've ever worked with your chiropractor or functional medicine doctor, you might know this as you put your arm straight out. The practitioner will gently press on the arm while making a statement, a strong muscle equals truth or, you know,

strong in the arm versus a weak muscle equals false, right? A false statement or not for the highest and best of the, whether it be you're testing for a supplement or, you know, a belief system or something like, you know, nutrition or if your body does have anything like a pathogen or fungus or bacterial infection. And other common type, really powerful, it's called the sway test. And so you stand tall. You close your eyes, right, get, you know, feet or hip distance wide. Think mountain pose if you're a yogi. And ask a question. Your body leans forward for the yes or back for the no. So again, just kind of stand there, close your eyes and then ask a simple question like my name is. So for me, I would say my name is Victoria, which if it's a truth statement,

and if your mind is clear, you will gently begin to sway forward. And then if I were to say, my name is Michael, then the body would actually sway backwards. Another way of testing your subconscious mind is through a pendulum. So using a crystal pendulum, crystal, or it can be copper or silver or something. And then you work with that as well, right? You ask the question, yes and no, as you find out with your pendulum, show me a yes. So what does your pendulum do when you ask it yes? And then you would say, what will you do when it shows me a no? For me, it's clockwise for the yes. And then actually my no is a straightforward and back. So everybody can be a little bit different. So you want to get into touch and tune with your own pendulum. So these tools work

in person or long distance. Most people go, how on earth? So many of my clients are actually virtual. So I do Zoom sessions with people and their animals. And it's called proxy testing. So I could, or if you're testing even for a child, like a small child or a baby or a pet, you know, you set the intention and the connection to the unified field through that. And again, that's, you can look that up. There's so much evidence around that and how it can be positive and really give some really great information. So a couple of things you want to think about.

your muscle testing can be influenced by dehydration or your hydration. So it's really important that, you know, you check your, you know, one of the ways that I have my clients check is just the next time you urinate, look at the color of your urine. So if it's a bright yellow or it's brown or dark, bright yellow could also mean if you're taking vitamins that you're not actually digesting, specifically B vitamins will often show up bright yellow. But if it's a darker color or more brown-looking color, then you are absolutely dehydrated.

So you won't get accurate results with your muscle testing. So definitely have your, if you're going to do it yourself or you're working with a client or a student, then, you know, have them drink about four ounces of water prior to the testing. Also, if someone is emotionally overwhelmed, it's really important to kind of get them into a place where they can get to a certain neutrality and get a little balanced in the moment. if they have an extreme skepticism or even fear around the muscle testing or a huge disconnection from the body. I've had clients who, you know, and that's why they work with me.

So we can set up that safe space. We can start to teach the body that it is safe, especially if you do have any PTSD or past trauma. You know, it's going to take a little while for you to be able to get into that space and just, start to, you know, teach your body that you're safe in this moment. So always grounding, hydrating, and centering yourself before the testing. Now, the methods I use to help people and animals heal at the frequency level are called, you might be familiar with these techniques, the emotion code and the body code. They were both developed by Dr. Bradley Nelson. He is an amazing functional medicine chiropractor and he's written books on these things so you can definitely

find those on the internet or on the on the amazon the emotion code is designed to identify and release trapped emotions that are energetically stored in the body so so overall it's kind of like the level one of learning about the emotion coding and then the body code goes broader goes broader and deeper. And it gets into clearing imbalances specifically in different energies, pathogens, toxins, structural misalignment, circuitry. You know, I literally go through with my clients, depending on what your challenges, your issue, whether your challenge be chronic back pain or migraines or, you know, maybe it's some kind of a toxin overload in the body and you're getting all kinds of like bumps in the body and maybe it's lymphoma or something,

right? So there's so many things, but I have worked with hundreds and hundreds of people using this process and really getting to the root cause of all the imbalances and the dis-ease in the body. So with muscle testing, we ask questions such as what emotion is stuck. When did it become trap. Sometimes it's important. Sometimes it isn't to know exactly, you know, often it will come up that we do a, we do the muscle testing and then we say, was it before the age of 20? It was it before the age of 10? And then it will be seven years old. And then I'll say that the client, you know, does anything come to mind at the age of seven, blah, blah, blah. And then mostly, not surprisingly, my clients will come up with something. And they'll say, oh, yeah, at the age of seven, I lost my mother or something like that.

could have just been that they got into a car accident with their family. You know, it's usually some kind of event that will come up to the surface. It doesn't always have to be massively traumatizing. It could be something, you know, a little bit smaller and less intense. However, if the emotion wasn't resolved in that moment, it still could be, you know, chose to be trapped. So it's still trapped in that energy field. And we know that when we think about the flow,

of everything that's happening and you hear words like chi and prana and mana and mana and life force energy and really you know if you look at the Western medicine versus Eastern medicine Western medicine they basically just address the symptom right you have a headache so they say here take a pill to get rid of the headache however in Eastern medicine we always look at the root cause what is the root cause of this chronic headache what is the root cause of your lower back issues what is the root cause of this panic and or chronic anxiety or depression. So we get to the root cause. And often the root cause can be a trapped emotion or an event that occurred in the past that wasn't resolved in that moment in time. So using, right, so again, information, trapped emotions can be stored in

the body or the biofield as well as, and this could be a whole a whole entire pot another podcast it can be inherited or absorbed right so it can be there's oh my god massive books on on this where we talked about talk about um receiving from our ancestral line right that healing the ancestral line and in dr bradley's uh work he he does talk about that this has you know been proven that when you heal it in your time and space in your body you actually heal it for your ancestors as well. So that's pretty cool, right? I'll probably do another episode on that in the future. So using intention and asking these simple questions, let's say, for example, we say, you know, how many trapped emotions can we safely remove today in regards

to your chronic migraines? And then, you know, we do the muscle testing and we'll say, you know, is it three, is it four, is it five? Is it, oh, okay, seven, seven trapped emotions. Good. So then we go through. There's a chart and we go through and we muscle test through all the, all the emotions. And then using, we go along the governing meridian. The governing meridian starts at like the tip of the nose on the animal or a person and then goes up and over the head down and down pretty much to like the base of the tailbone. And you use a magnet. So we can reverse that charge, which is really pretty cool. Or you can actually use your own hand if you don't have a magnet. So, and then we release the trapped emotion from the energetic field. It's very powerful.

I know it's crazy. I have so many stories, so many stories about people and animals where I've done just one session with them and they're just a completely changed individual, more so with animals. Animals don't tend to hold on to things and create, make stories like us humans do. So this powerful healing can lead to instant emotional relief. Sometimes it requires a few sessions. I've had clients with one session and that's all they needed and then others need a few more. It's like peeling away the layers of the onion. It just really depends on how much work you've been doing on yourself over your lifetime. It also can lead to reducing and pain and inflammation, clearer thoughts and intuition, more peaceful

relationships, deep healing for our animals, companions, and just so much more. There's so many things I could share with you in so many stories, but not today. So I've witnessed incredible transformations when stuck energy is released. A woman I worked with had digestive issues that no doctor could explain. Through muscle testing and body code work, we found stored grief from a miscarriage she never emotionally processed. After the release, her bloating, her fatigue, her brain fog, all decreed. priest and then eventually within, I don't know, maybe it was a few weeks, a few months, but it eventually dissipated completely. And she finally began to feel safe again. Another one of my clients, dogs, had intense separation anxiety. We released a trapped

emotion of abandonment from when he was surrendered to a shelter. Within a week, he stopped whining at the door and started sleeping through the night. Again, it can be that easy. We have, You know, we've bought so many belief systems that healing has to be hard and it's treacherous and it's grueling and, you know, I'm not saying you're not doing the work and doing the work and processing this stuff, but it can be pretty, pretty powerful. And I've, again, so many stories. A beautiful Arabian mayor refused to be saddled. We uncovered a trapped emotion of terror from a past abusive trainer and there was a few more emotions that we released. And after just two sessions, she allowed a human to ride her and begin to build trust again with other humans. So again,

it's pretty cool stuff. And like I said earlier, animals tend to release a little bit quicker than humans do. So animals store energetic imprints just like we do, but they can't rationalize their pain. They feel it fully and heal fast when the energy is released. So where do you start? So here are three simple ways that I'm going to give you to start with. Number one is to practice the sway test daily. Ask your body what it needs and build trust with your own frequency field. Number two, tune into your own triggers. Remember every trigger, every annoyance, every irritation, right, is information.

It's your greatest teacher. The people that annoy you the most are your greatest teachers. I know that you don't want to hear this. But so instead of reacting, ask, is this emotion familiar? Could it be old energy surfacing? Could it be something, right? Are there emotions connected to this energy that could be released? And then number three, of course, work with a practitioner who can help you release trapped

emotions from your subconscious and biofield, right? I'm here if you need me and happy to support. You don't have to carry this pain forever. That is the good news. Remember, you're not broken, right? there's nothing wrong with you. It's just that we're carrying imprints of unprostis energy. And with the right tools, you can release them.

Reclaim your energy and return to a blissful, joyful state. So if this episode resonated, I invite you to share it with someone who's ready to stop looping the past and start living from their highest frequency. If you're ready to explore this work, I offer private sessions for people, for dogs, for horses, using the emotion code, body code, and intuitive energy healing work. You can visit victoria hafer.com to learn more about booking a session with me. And until next time, remember, you are an energetic being. You are worthy of joy. You are a perfect child of God goddess.

And you are more free than you've been led to believe. And remember to see and be the magic in everyday life.