"The heart is the core of our  being, the core of who we really are.  The heart is constantly sending out information to the  body. Every beat carries critical messages that affect your emotional and physical health. 

 

Trapped emotions can create a wall around your heart to protect you but this can block you from living life to the fullest. People deal with uncomfortable situations in many ways, some attack, some retreat, and some hide, but usually we feel the need to defend and shield ourselves from being hurt.

 

Trapped emotions have substance, they consist of energy, just like everything else. When trapped emotions are created they must reside somewhere in your body and sometimes they will lodge in and around your heart, your subconscious mind will sometimes use the energy of these trapped emotions to create a barrier or shield around your heart. Literally, it creates a wall of energy around your heart to protect it. 

 

The price we pay for having a heartwall is incalculable, how many people have led disconnected and lonely lives due to the walls around their hearts? Heartwalls can lead to depression, divorce, and abuse. The patterns of abuse that are created can pass from generation to generation, causing all manners of pain and destructive behavior. The result of heart-walls on a larger scale leads to misunderstanding, prejudice, hatred and brutality. On a global scale, heart-walls lead to ethnic cleansing, nation against nation, terrorism, and war…this is altogether too much isolation and violence, sorrow and pain in this world"​

​Brad Nelson, Discover Healing​