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September 27, 2025 17 mins

Guest host Connie Willis and Dr. Bradley Nelson explore his research into the human heart and emotions, why people with a broken heart have an inability to trust others or maintain meaningful relationships, and how releasing energy from emotional baggage can even heal physical pain.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's a highlight from coast to coast AM on iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
All Right tonight, our guest, if you've ever had a
broken heart, have you? Is there anybody out there that hasn't.
That's who I want to hear from, because good for you.
It's tough along the way, but you grow and you learn.
So we are going to be discussing when people are
deeply hurt and they experience these feelings of not trusting anymore,

(00:26):
they don't want to get close. Something has happened, maybe
along the way in their life. It could have been environmental,
but it also could have been beyond that. And you're
going to learn tonight about Wow. You know, it's not
just something that happened when I was eight years old
or three years old. It could be something else. And

(00:47):
I could also get rid of that and I can
feel good again and I can allow love back in
my heart. As you guys know, love is the only
thing that is real, at least that's what I absolutely believe.
It's the only thing that is real. It's the only
thing that is not man made. This is something that
comes and it's there, and it's and and it's it's

(01:07):
hard to describe. It's just like our Bigfoot and our
aliens and our other things that we talk about that
sometimes we just can't describe to other people, but they're
real and we know that they are those of us
that have seen it. Love is the same way. It's like, man,
I just really can't describe it, except you can't see
it right. But you can't see it. You can see
it in actions and different things like that. But you
know what, I'm not the expert in talking about it.

(01:30):
We have that man here tonight. Doctor Bradley Nelson is
with us author of the best selling books The Emotion Code,
The Body Code, and his newest book is The Heart
Code that's going to be coming out December second, but
it's now available for pre order and with some special gifts,
and you can learn more about that at doctor Bradleynelson

(01:51):
dot com and it's Bradley spelled with A L E
Y and Nelson is in E L S O N
and that's dot com. So amazing man known worldwide and
also has these methods that he is pioneered that will
help you to get over this. And he's got fifteen

(02:12):
thousand practioneers out there that are helping people. He's huge,
he's gigantic in one of his clients is Tony Robbins.
So there you go, doctor Nelson Bradley, thanks for being here.
Welcome to Coast to Cosa. M And I don't know
if you can get a better introduction to that, because
you said you're amazing and it's been very nice to

(02:34):
meet you. And I know that you've been crazy busy,
but you made time to stay up with us tonight.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Well, thank you so much for having me on Connie.
And yeah, that was a fabulous introduction. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
So right now where did where were you just? And
where are you now? You're in Vegas now right?

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Well, yeah, Hardy and hours ago I was in and
we had just done a seminar in Warsaw, Poland, and
I'm in Las Vegas now. They're having a practitioner summit
here and so yeah, I have a little bit of
jet lag, but I'm feeling good, glad to be with you.
I'm excited to talk about this.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Are you really feeling good?

Speaker 3 (03:20):
I want to know the truth.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Now, come on, I am.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
I'm a little tired trade but I'm okay.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
I got you, I got you, So tell me more
about yourself. If somebody comes up to you and says, hey,
you know, who are you, how do you describe yourself?

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Well, you know, it's been a very interesting journey for me.
I was a computer programmer back in the early nineteen eighties.
I had a business called the Computer Tutor. And back
then people were buying new computers, new IBM PCs or
PC compatibles, and there was no software, and so people

(04:01):
would hire me to come into their business and look
at their flow and how everything worked, and then I
would write the software so that they could get some
use out of this computer that they had purchased. And
I really enjoyed that. I really had a great time
doing that, and I thought, I'm going to be doing
this for the rest of my life. But when I

(04:23):
was thirteen years old, I was healed of kidney disease
for which there was no treatment medically, and at that
age I had decided that I wanted to go into
the healing arts and become a holistic kind of a doctor.
But then when I discovered computers, I kind of got

(04:44):
sidetracked from that. But my father in the winter of
nineteen eighty four, I was I'm from Montana, and my
wife and I went home. I drove home a few
states away and we're talking with my folks, and my
dad out of the blue, asked me if I didn't
want to go to chiropractic school because it seemed like

(05:04):
a great career and I'd always wanted to do that.
And I said, now I'm going this other direction. And
he said, well, why don't you think about it one
more time? And so I did. And having learned at
a young age. When I was seven years old, actually,
I was sick with the measles and my father my
mother asked my father if he would pray for me

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so I'd be able to get well. And knowing my
dad is probably the first time I'd ever heard him pray,
but I think they were They're pretty worried about me.
I was really sick. And as my father was saying
this prayer for me, this transformation began at the top
of my head and it went in about one second
through my whole body and the soles of my feet,

(05:48):
and I was instantly completely healed. Wow, and I learned Yeah,
And that was just such an incredible experience, and I
learned a couple of really powerful things from that. I
learned that there's a higher power we can draw upon
for one thing, and the other thing was that healing
doesn't have to take place necessarily over a long period

(06:11):
of time. It can happen instantaneously, because it did to me,
and I remember that like it happened yesterday. So anyway,
I had to pray about this decision. Now, you know,
when my father asked me that question about what I
wanted to do with my life, and I thought I
had things figured out. I was going to stay in

(06:32):
computers and so on, and so prayed about that decision
and got a very clear, powerful answer that I was
supposed to go into the healing arts. And so I did,
and so I because I was a computer programmer, I
had this interesting perspective. And when I got into practice,

(06:54):
I started working with people, it began to dawn on
me that every single person that I worked on had
a subconscious mind. We all have a subconscious mind. The
conscious mind is where we live and spend all of
our waking hours. But the subconscious mind is that internal

(07:14):
computer that is creating millions of new cells every minute,
and that is keeping our hearts beating day and night
all our lives, keeping air moving in and out of
our lungs and creating trillions of chemical reactions every minute.
And what I began to realize was that the subconscious
mind in each of my patients was a computer that

(07:38):
could be asked questions and it could give answers, and
so it was a process that went on for quite
a while. And this is so Eventually, what I learned
was that the number one biggest common denominator for all
of my patients, no matter what they were suffering from,
no matter how young or old they were, whether they

(08:01):
whether they were dealing with things like depression or anxiety,
or phobias, or panic attacks or post traumatic stress disorder,
or self sabotage or weight issues, or if they were
dealing with some kind of a disease process they've been
diagnosed with some kind of a disease, sometimes a really
life threatening disease even or if they were just dealing

(08:22):
with physical pain. What I found was they all had
something in common, and that was what I came to
call their emotional baggage.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
It was.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
It was the energy of the emotional experiences that had
that they had gone through that had not been processed correctly,
and it's It's very interesting if you think about it,
these bodies of ours. You know, we take them pretty
much for granted. Our bodies have a certain amount of

(08:56):
weight and a certain amount of mass and so on.
But the reality of it is our bodies are really
just made of energy. I mean, if you put your
hand under a big microscope, when you start zooming in,
eventually you're looking at a cell and you keep zooming in.
Eventually you're looking at a molecule and you keep zooming in.
Eventually you're looking at an atom. And if you look
inside the atom, you see there's really nothing in there.

(09:16):
It's just empty space and some little infinitesinely tiny energies
zipping around. And that's really what we are. We're being
supure energy. So when you're feeling an emotion, what you're
feeling on a quantum level is a specific vibration. Nikola
Tesla long ago said, if you want to understand the
secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency

(09:41):
and vibration. And he said that because that's what everything
ultimately is made out of. Even things that seem very
solid to us, like a plate of steel or the
table that you're sitting at, or the walls of your
house or a mountain. Literally everything is made of energy,

(10:01):
including emotions, and so sometimes what happens to us is
an emotion will come up that we don't want to
deal with, and so we'll we'll bury it and we'll
move on. And the problem is now that energy that
was trying to express itself is trapped in the body.

(10:22):
Sometimes and an experience happens to us, and sometimes it's
just overwhelming. You know, we've all experienced things like that
where suddenly you know, your spouse asks your forage of wars,
or or suddenly you find out that a parent has
died or some terrible things happened. Those emotions can be overwhelming,

(10:45):
and those don't get processed very well either, and so
those can result in this emotional baggage literally trapped energy
of these emotions. Another another kind of a case is
where an emotion comes up for us, we decide that
we're going to really enhance that and so we fly
off the handle, for example, and then later we're embarrassed.

(11:07):
But any of those three circumstances, either burying the emotion
or having the emotion be totally overwhelming just by its nature,
or really enhancing the emotion and artificially will result in
a trapped emotion. And one of the very first times
that I saw this phenomenon, many many years ago, was

(11:31):
a woman that I had seen as a patient. I
hadn't seen her for a few months, and all of
a sudden, one day she shows up at our office
and she thinks she's having a heart attack. She's got
this crushing chest pain, difficulty breathing, Her left arm is
completely numb, left side of her face is completely numb,
and this sure looks like a heart attack. Well, our

(11:52):
office was right next to a medical center, and I
told my staff, look, we might need an ambulance stand by,
but let me give me one minute with her. So
I started doing some testing. And when I say testing,
you can ask questions and they can be out loud
or they can be unspoken really and the subconscious mind

(12:16):
can answer those questions, and it does that through muscle testing.
So if you can imagine, I'm asking questions getting answers
through muscle testing with her, and very quickly, within a minute,
I found out what was going on that there was
a trapped emotion. The emotion was grief, and I was

(12:36):
able to trace it back and it had occurred three
years before. And when I arrived at that she burst
into tears and she said, I can't believe that's affected me.
I thought I dealt with all that, and I said, well,
what happened? And she said that three years before her
husband had been having an affair and she thought about it,
confronted him with the evidence, and the marriage blew up.

(13:00):
It was just a terrible betrayal because she was so
in love with him and was planning on being with
him forever, and yet you know, she was betrayed, and
so the grief was so intense. And when I released
that energy, and this is a very simple process that
anybody can learn, this whole this whole thing probably took

(13:24):
less than two minutes, and I released that trapped emotion
and the feeling came back into her arm and into
her face with about three seconds, and I mean they
were completely numb, and the chest pain suddenly was gone.
She could breathe, and she left the office about ten

(13:46):
minutes later, after joking with me and my staff and
talking with us. And after she left, I remember sitting
down at my desk and my head was kind of
spinning and I was thinking what in the world, what
did I just witness? What was that? But think about
this in this particular case, I think very likely. I mean,

(14:07):
I'm still connected with her. She has a horse ranch
in Oregon, and that was over thirty years ago. She's
never had a problem with her heart. But I think
that it's very likely that she would have probably had
a heart attack, and very likely she would have died.
No one would have really known that what killed her

(14:29):
really was her husband's affair. Think about that. We now
know that people die of a broken heart. It happens
all the time. It's actually got a name. In the West,
we call it cardiac syndrome. The Japanese discovered this. If
you're a woman fifty five or older, you're more likely

(14:50):
to have this. If you go through some intense emotional event,
you may suddenly have all the symptoms of a heart attack.
And I think that's what was going on with her.
The Japanese called it Takatsubo syndrome. A takatsubo is a
little bell shaped jar that Japanese fishermen will use. I'll
put on the bottom of the ocean and an octopus

(15:13):
will come along, and it seems like a perfect home
until it ends up as sushi. But the heart actually
know it's sad, but the heart will actually on X
ray will assume this shape of this fisherman's jar the takatsubo,
and that's why they call it Takatsuba syndrome in Japan.

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And what's happening is the heart is literally failing. So
if you feel like your heart, if you feel like
you're having a heart attack, by all means, go to
the hospital. But if they come back and they tell
you that your heart enzymes are normal and it wasn't
a heart attack, we don't know what it was. Very
likely what's happening is you're on the way of actually

(15:55):
dying potentially of a broken heart. Think about that.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Oh my, and was she coming in to see you
or she just happened You all just happened to be
next to each other at that time.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah, I hadn't seen her in that particular case, I
hadn't seen her for a couple of months, so all
of a sudden, one day she shut up. So this
was the first, my first experience really with this kind
of thing. But what we have found is that it
sounds unbelievable, but you know, we've certified and trained fifteen

(16:31):
thousand plus practitioners in one hundred and eight countries by now,
and there are hundreds of thousands, probably millions now doing
this work all over the world, and all the practitioners
are finding the same thing that I found in my practice,
and that is that physical pain is the most common

(16:57):
result of having emotional baggage. Percent of all the physical
pain that people have is actually due to emotional baggage.

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