Cord-cutting: a spiritual technology that changed my life
Writing the words spiritual technology made me chuckle a bit. I know it sounds a bit lame
I decided to write an article about cord-cutting as a DIY healing technique because it has made a big difference to me and to my relationships. Anyone who has had a difficult relationship with a significant other or parent figure can benefit from this article. At the end I recommend some resources (including a free book chapter) along with a way to learn how to cut your own cords. But first of all, I’m going to begin by explaining what cords are exactly.
What are cords and why cut them?
A cord is a negative energetic structure that ties you and another person together.
When you form a relationship with a person, you make two types of connection. The first type of connection is the spiritual, positive bond that contains energies like unconditional love, good times and lesson learned together, fondness, affection – stuff like that. This is a positive cord that we never sever because it contains all that is good about the relationship.
The second type of connection is a negative cord of attachment – this energetic structure is very different from the positive type because it contains all the negative energies that have ever been a feature of your relationship. For example, let’s say you have a cord of attachment to an unfaithful ex-boyfriend. Encoded within this cord are the feelings you had when you found out he was cheating on you. This could be feelings of paranoia, energies of inadequacy; feelings of rage. Also encoded within the cord could be the pattern of wanting to please your boyfriend, so that he wouldn’t ever leave you.
When you split up, you may never see each other again, but the negative structure (the cord of attachment) between you remains. And this cord that connects you two contains those unhelpful patterns and dynamics: rage, inadequacy, paranoia; keeping quiet and pleasing others at your own expense.
Even though you are supposed to have moved on from the relationship, those energies circulate between you both and still affect you. For example, you still think of your ex-partner and you still despise him even though you wish you didn’t. When you get into a different relationship, you feel the same old paranoia. And things that happen remind you of the old relationship – even though it bears no resemblance, in reality. This happens because those negative energies from the cord are flowing into your aura 24/7 and affecting your ability to move on; or feel, think and act differently.
This relationship is just one (dramatic) example. You can form cords with literally anyone you have (or have had) a meaningful relationship with, and each one is draining in its own way.
What is cord cutting?
Cord-cutting is a process that severs that negative attachment between you and another person so that the shadow of that past relationship does not hang over you or affect your behaviour in the present. This means that the rage, paranoia and inadequacy (that have NO relevance to the present), particular to that fore-mentioned relationship can be eliminated. And obviously other relationships can be improved too because of it. It does not mean that you lose contact with the person or that it weakens the positive connection. Cord-cutting will never mean the person disappears from your life unless you consciously make that happen by severing contact. If anything, that pure, positive connection is improved because it is no longer overshadowed by negative energies.
Who do we form cords to?
Most major cords are formed with:
Lovers, spouses (exes and present), children, parents, siblings, close friends, sexual abusers, any sexual partners.
More minor cords are often formed with: clients, teachers, bosses, co-workers, friends, acquaintances.
Every relationship is unique so you could have a major cord to your boss but a minor cord to your favourite sibling. Sometimes cords are so minor that they don’t affect you at all.
You will usually be able to tell who you have the most toxic cords with, because there will be a certain negativity associated with the relationship, no matter how much you love or respect the person.
The most impactful cord cutting I’ve seen happens through cutting cords to parents, partners and ex-lovers.
How does cord-cutting happen?
An effective cord-cutting process will usually involve at least 10 steps and will take at least 35-40 minutes.
Effective cord-cutting does not happen through simply asking the archangels to sever the cords, seeing them do it and then thanking them. Believe me, I’ve tried it and it doesn’t work. I’ve been on the receiving and giving end of that “quickie” method. I wasted time and money on it myself as a client. And I’ve wasted my client’s time three years ago when I trained in a modality which teaches you to cut cords this way. As part of a reading around that time, I cut a cord for a friend. He got back to me the next day saying that he really didn’t feel any different. I checked my work and lo and behold, the cord was still there even though I had asked for it to be cut. I was puzzled as to how this could be so.
I now understand that the golden rule of cord cutting is this:
In order to cut cords effectively, you have to discuss (and understand) what negative patterns are a feature of your relationship with that person. You need to learn from those patterns and impact other relationships. Obviously you also need some intuitive ability to be able to find out what patterns are present within the cord.
The client really has to realize what these are so that other relationships can be impacted and so they move on from these negative patterns. Obviously you can’t do this if you just ask Archangel Michael to sever all cords to everyone you’ve ever known. After all, the cords contain valuable learnings and so Archangel Michael won’t eliminate all those wonderful opportunities for learning, by just obliterating the cords. That would be like the earthly equivalent of cheating on a computer game. And it’s not possible to do because the divine beings who cut cords for us don’t oblige when we ask for their assistance in that regard.
When you cut a cord properly, you should never have to cut a cord to a person more than once. And you only ever have one cord to one person. If a practitioner claims you need to do it more than once or on a regular basis, it’s because it wasn’t done properly the first time.
My personal experiences with cord-cutting
When I first came across cord cutting in 2008, I was sceptical about how cord-cutting could benefit me. In the first session I had, we cut a cord to an ex-boyfriend and by the time we had finished I felt totally different – as if the relationship had happened 100 years ago. I couldn’t imagine how it had ever had a negative impact on my life, it felt so long ago. The shadow of that relationship has not been back to haunt me since.
I’ve also cut cords to both my parents and believe that has improved my relationship to both. I’ve become aware of patterns that affect me in those relationships and so I’ve become much more conscious and clear not to be affected by them.
The cord I cut to my dad was probably the most dramatic. I have two dads – a step-dad (my mum’s present husband) and my real dad. I have always had a strong bond and a close friendship with my mother. And my real dad is a loving, kind and generous man who gave us kids a fantastic childhood. But I’ve had a rather complicated relationship with him because of things that have happened in the past. A lot has gone on in our family but I won’t go into any more details here because it concerns people other than me. Suffice to say that I wasn’t surprised to find that this cord was an extremely toxic one. And removing it made a dramatic difference to my life.
How cord-cutting made life better
I’ve always been a head-in-the-clouds kind of person. I spent much of my early life wanting to escape from the reality of life. Although I had a lovely childhood, I would say I probably never engaged with life all that much, and spent much of my childhood absorbed in studies and in a make-believe world. I would have made a great nun because I had no taste for the real, outside world until about the age of 25. I was deeply absorbed in the spirit realm, with a strong connection to my guides, spirit and non-physical teachers, yet it felt like I was not cut out for the practicalities of real, earthly life – ever.
Until I cut the cord to my father. I literally changed overnight in terms of groundedness about 9 months ago and it has been like that since then.
The cord from my father and the troubled relationship we’d had meant that I was receiving huge amounts of negative energies that I wanted to escape from – hence my desire to escape from the world. When I’d got readings with other intuitives, they’d tell me that I was carrying and running away from someone else’s emotional burdens. Although that was useful information in some ways, it also wasn’t useful because I didn’t know what to do about it. Life was very heavy and I felt very drained, until I cut that cord.
In the days after I cut that cord, emotions flooded out of me and it feels like I became 10x more grounded overnight. and I wrote this article in the months after the cord cutting: CRISIS! My life fell apart two months ago. Please forgive me. The Anna you knew no longer exists. The cord-cutting was the catalyst for that change.
I was then inspired to change the name of this site to psychicbutsane.com and wanted to focus on a more down-to-earth approach to psychic development.
It wasn’t easy coming back to earth in the weeks following the cord cutting. In fact, it was really painful. I had to face emotions I’d buried for years. But I’ve been a lot happier since I cut it. So that’s why I know cord-cutting works and that’s also why I offer it. I only offer services that I am sure help people and have first-hand evidence that they work because even if this is from the ego, I need to know that I’m actually making a positive difference.
I offer cord-cutting sessions on my Aura Healing page. I find it does help to have your biggest cords cut by someone else, who is an impartial person. For example, if your relationship to your mother is very fraught, it may be hard for you to get some objectivity and know what patterns are present in the relationship.
My sessions take around 45-55 minutes. Cord-cutting sessions are still cheaper than readings though (they use up less energy).
If you have any questions or comments about this article or cord-cutting, leave me a comment.
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18 Responses to “Cord-cutting: a spiritual technology that changed my life”
Peter says:
July 5, 2010 at 12:48 am
I really love this article!
This is such an important topic. I hope a lot more people learn about it in the coming months and years.
It is a very effective technique – sometimes quite dramatic.
Anna says:
July 5, 2010 at 12:55 am
Hi Peter – thanks for your comment! I agree that it is important and I also hope to spread the word about cord cutting more in the future.
Keith Handy says:
July 5, 2010 at 2:14 am
This is perfect timing for me, thanks. (Actually, it would have been “perfect timing” at any point within the last several months, but I digress.)
Arthor says:
July 5, 2010 at 9:11 am
Hmmm… wouldn’t it be better to teach people how to cut the cords themselves?
The thing is that these energies are there for us to work with.
I’m not against cord-cutting.
It’s just that there are multiple issues in play, including how we deal with negative energies. Of course much of the work requires getting stronger with things like auric shielding; or bringing in larger amounts of positive energy to displace or funnel into the negative energy.
Exhausting, I admit. But I remain unconvinced that pure cutting is the best way. It would be better to have more connected or improved positive energy flow that offsets or repels the negative energy; and strengthen one’s psychic protection in general.
Anna says:
July 5, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Hi Arthor,
Yeah, I agree. It’s definitely better to be able to cut your own cords than to rely on someone else to do it for you. The book I recommended above (cutting cords of attachment) teaches you to do that.
Cord cutting does the things you recommend here. It helps you to have more improved positive energy – that’s a big part of the session – replacing the negative patterns with more helpful behaviours. I’m sure there are other ways to create the same effects if you go through similar steps. I don’t know any other ways though. I personally believe that psychic protection/auric shielding is no substitute for healing and change.
Maybe you can let us know if you know of some.
Arthor says:
July 6, 2010 at 9:10 am
Hi Anna,
In my experience aura shielding will work, just not permanently (it requires constant habitual recharging).
I’d be curious to know what kind of aura protection or shielding practice you were doing. There are a lot of different ways of doing it and I’d like to compare to what I do.
In regards to the attachment or negative energies issues, ideally people learn to do these things themselves. I see the book has a section on that like you said.
That would probably be a good technique to add in but I tend to take a different view of these things. My view is there is no avoiding negative energy so all the bad stuff is there as training.
More sensitive people often need more discipline, especially when it comes to where their minds are at. Daydreaming and worrying can bleed off a lot of energy.
Aura exercises work well focus one’s energy. I think they are often not practiced as much as they should be because it can get boring. If they were they would prove more helpful.
I like your site. It’s a refreshing relief from the usual psychic sites.
Good name for the site, too. Grounded psychism.
Lisa at Practically Intuitive says:
July 6, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Hi Anna,
I’ve taken the cord cutting classes in person with Rose – have taken all her classes, actually, and am pretty well versed in the subjects she teaches.
This was a WONDERFUL article on cord cutting. Very detailed and I think offers a great insight into a little-known topic. There are so many different opinions on what and how cord cutting works and I think one had to go with what resonates for them.
Because you and I have been trained in Rose’s trademarked method, naturally, we put the emphasis on healing as a result of cutting the cord. This really is big energetic work and I especially like that Rose really speaks to the integrity of it in her book and in her phone sessions.
Really nice piece. I love your site, Anna. Looks like we have studied many things on the same path (Rose’s work, Spiritual Realignment, etc.)
Anna says:
July 6, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Hi Arthor,
Thanks!
I don’t do much auric shielding consciously anymore.
I do feel my energy pulling back and inwards automatically when I’m in a place that’s got toxic energy or when I’m around someone who’s very angry.
And I do clear out my aura regularly in case it contains energies that don’t belong to me.
I guess for negative energy that comes from relationships, the way I see it, is that the energy becomes a part of your aura. For example, if you are verbally/physically abused by your mother when you’re little, it’s difficult to heal that by shielding your aura, because the negative patterns and behaviour sits in the aura. It’s not an integral part of you, but the ‘stuff’ is there and it can be removed, right?
So I think healing and cord cutting is better for that. Yes, I agree that sensitive people are more likely to lose energy worrying, etc. The more open and empathic you are, the easier it is to lose energy in that regard I suppose. But in terms of clearing out the effects of toxic relationships and difficult events from your life, I believe that cord-cutting is the best technique I’ve found…so far at least.
Anna says:
July 6, 2010 at 11:43 pm
Hi Lisa,
Welcome – Thanks so much for leaving your comment…I checked out your site, love the name.
I think you are right that we all have to just go with the technique that resonates with us. And I also think that cord cutting can be a deceptive name for a healing session because it’s much more than cutting a cord! It’s really a complete relationship healing session.
Thanks for stopping by Lisa!
Ferlin says:
July 7, 2010 at 1:51 am
Hi Anna,
I had a cord cutting session with you once and I still very appreciate your work. However, I don’t understand what it means that you need to understand the lessons in the cord. What I understand is what happened between us (the relationship). Could you please explain that? Thanks.
Anna says:
July 10, 2010 at 10:47 pm
Hi Ferlin,
Sorry for the delayed reply. When I talked about understanding the lessons contained within the cord, I mean you understand what energies are in the cord and how they have been affecting your life and your behaviour in that relationship (and in other relationships). Once you’ve got awareness of how it affects you, healing and change is possible. Without the awareness, healing cannot happen.
Does that answer your question?
truthforharmony says:
July 11, 2010 at 9:20 am
Anna,
Thanks for sharing your insight on spiritual cords as well as subjects. This helps to spread the truth about who we are and how we can heal ourselves.
Anna, you got it right. You cannot simply just cut the spiritual cord and it’s gone permanently. You can ask Archangel Michael cut it but it will come back if you don’t understand the issues related to spiritual cord and to forgive yourself and other person and let go.
Let me share one of my personal experience. I heard about spiritual cord from Doreen Virtue. I ask Archangel Michael to cut the cord. I really feek different after the cord cutting. But it comes back the next day because inside me I still have not forgive and let go.
So a year later, after learning about the power of forgiveness and how it works from Bryan Farnum, I decided in my heart that I will first forgive this person and I ask that person’s soul or higher self to forgive me on the issues I have with that person. Then I ask Archangel Michael to cut the cord. This time it was permanent. My heart is lighter and I no longer get upset or angry or any of the negative feeling that I have with that person when I see her or him. Of course you might still react with negative feeling if they push your button. But the different if you no longer hold that negative feeling. You just let go once it is over within that day.
As Anna said, to cut the cord, you need to understand the issues you have with person or thing. Next you have to forgive yourself and the other person. Then you can ask Archangel Michael to cut it.
Again, this is my personal experience.
For a more in-depth about spiritual cord, check out Bryan Farnum’s recent radio show (http://www.blunt.fm/index.html) about spiritual cord. He gifted that can discern all truth.
Also, for those who are interested in what the chakra cords looks like, check this web site (http://www.emfbalancingtechnique.com).
Kenneth
Jesebelle says:
November 22, 2010 at 4:51 am
“You will usually be able to tell who you have the most toxic cords with, because there will be a certain negativity associated with the relationship, no matter how much you love or respect the person.”
how can you love/respect a person when they give you constant negative feelings? I am quite annoyed with ‘new agers’ in general and their warped concept of love.
Real l o v e is respect. If you’re not being respected, you are not being loved. If someone gives you bad feelings, they are not respecting you.
Why smother everything into a pot and call it ‘love’?
I hate the misconception that love has anything to do with ‘doing good’.
Doing good is actually the same as doing bad, it’s only presented in a different way. Both of these intentions are based on fear and the real love is generated automatically by being in a state of fearlessness and this will be reached most easily when a person is viewed, treated and respected like a God which they truly are.
This knowledge should make the do-gooder stop his hypocrisy because by wanting to do ‘good’ to someone it implies that they are in need of something that the do-gooder can give to them as opposed to viewing them as the God they are. But if you can’t see the Godess in someone there’s no need to fake that either.
Having do-good intentions is based on ego and thus fear. It’s a pure hypocrisy.
Real love has nothing to do with others. In that state, there is no intention towards others. The only natural intention one can have is to do good to oneself, that’s what people are designed for, to make themselves feel good. All claims of making others feel good are just a mask to get something from the other that wll make themselves feel good, actually better than the other. Therefore, socalled ‘do-good’ intentions are always a form of manipulation for the ‘do-gooder’ to make himself feel better by placing himself subtly above the other. The paradox is that they will only be able to make somebody else feel at best when they have no intentions (either bad or ‘good’) towards that person by being in their own state of fearlessness.
Jesebelle says:
November 22, 2010 at 5:02 am
Also, I have a question about major cords usually being formed with sexual partners as said in this article. Does that include one-night stands? Or does one really has to have some intense sexual relationship to form a ‘major’ cord?
If one-night stands form major cords as opposed to minor cords, does a prostitute who experiences sex with her clients as very clinical and detached also form major cords with her clients?
Is it purely the act of penis in vagina or the bodily fluids being mixed or is it specifically the sperm in one’s body , the energy behind the orgasm that causes the cord to be major (instead of minor if it was a one night stand anyway?)
If it would be merely because of the entering of one’s personal private space like the vagina that you normally don’t share with strangers whom you at maximum would form a minor cord with, that causes the cord to be major? If so, do women have major cords with their gynecologist/ obstetrics?
Just curious to a psychic’s opinion about this…
Anna says:
November 23, 2010 at 3:23 pm
Hi Jesebelle,
Here are my thoughts on this (as a relatively new practitioner of this modality, I hasten to add)…
From what I’ve learned (and seen so far with clients), we do not form major cords with every single sexual partner, especially if the sexual relationship is brief and there is little emotion to it. For example, I do not think it likely that a prositute would form major cords to every single client. Possibly minor cords and perhaps a few major cords to certain clients. It really depends on the level of emotion, interest and trauma that two people experience together, or because of the other person.
No, clients would certainly not have major cords to their gynecologist unless there was an element of violation or abuse in the encounter.
Ana says:
April 25, 2011 at 2:56 pm
Hi Anna, it seems that after the cord cutting you go through a bit of emotional roller coaster right? Do you consider this as being the grief from letting go of all the attachment the cord caused?
Helen Read says:
November 4, 2011 at 2:42 am
Im interested in knowing more about this technique.
Through the Michael Teachings. I came across another way to block other peoples unwanted attention. Its mysteriously effective and very simple.
If someone for any reason has gotten under my skin, and poisoned me emotionally or mentally, to the point that I feel unecessarily aggravated or preoccupied with their opinion, I write their name down on a piece of paper,
put it in a baggie, fiill it with water, allow it to freeze, and eventually throw it out with the trash. Its very liberating. It can literally cool out alot of anger/irritation.
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