***Underestimating The Sacred Art Of Cutting Cords

Welcome to today's conversation about cutting cords of attachment, a form of spiritual reading and a key technique for doing healing with Energy Spirituality. www.selfgrowth.com

A cord of attachment links you, the client for this type of healing, with the person at the other end of the cord. My term for that person is the "cordee."

Regarding the cordee, I have found a very common misunderstanding among otherwise skillful professionals at spiritual reading, intuitive reading and doing aura readings. Ever hear this one? "Before cutting a cord you must find out: Is the person ready?"

Puhleeze! Let's do some defining here. When you have an important relationship with Person X, both of you signal the connection in your energy fields. Two types of energetic structures develop, spiritual ties (discussed in yesterday's post) and cords of attachment.

You have a cord with Person X as the cordee. Person X has a cord with you as the cordee.

Do you have the right to remove a cord of attachment to Person X? Or for that matter, to Person Y or Person Z? Of course you do.

Do you have the right to remove anyone else's cord to you? Of course you don't.

It's really expecting too little of the healing process to fear that you won't be allowed to cut your attachment unless someone else gives permission. You don't need anybody else's permission to grow in life. That's between you and God.

THE EXCEPTION THAT PROVES THE RULE

In my 12 Steps to Cut Cords of Attachment® one of the steps is to "Ask permission," but that isn't asking permission of the cordee. Never!

As you know if you've had a phone session where I facilitated cutting a cord of attachment for you, www.selfgrowth.com , or you've read even part-way through my how-to book, Cut Cords of Attachment: Heal Yourself and Others with Energy Spirituality, www.selfgrowth.com , one reason why my trademarked system works is that you co-create the healing along with your choice of Divine Being.

I call this making an "Energy Sandwich," and go into a lot of detail in the book about why, technically, this is such an important thing to do. (Easy, too.)

Here I just want to clarify that co-creation with the Divine is important for asking permission before cutting a cord. When you're connected up to spiritual Source, it's wise to double check that it is appropriate for YOU to cut a cord of attachment. The client may not really be ready. Also, depending on other things going on in your mind-body-spirit system at this time in your development, under very rare circumstances, cutting a cord may not be appropriate for you to do.

For instance, consider the skill level of the person doing the healing. In Cut Cords of Attachment, I give the example of a time when I cut a cord that one of my students wasn't ready to do yet.

Given her skill level, working with a very troubled client, cutting that cord wasn't appropriate. But I was able to do it because, over two decades of specializing in this type of work, I have had a lot more practice than someone who had taken one weekend Intensive and practiced for, perhaps, three months afterwards.

Yes, many of my Intensive graduates, www.selfgrowth.com , and readers of Cut Cords of Attachment, www.selfgrowth.com , have turned pro, helping others, and I am overjoyed.

Until you have had a great deal of experience, however, there may be time when you don't receive permission to cut a cord due to the nature of the healing situation and your present skill level.

I would find it hard to imagine a scenario, however, where an experienced com0etent practitioner of Energy Spirituality would be told, "You can't cut a cord because the cordee isn't ready."

Sharing our stories, we can raise consciousness about Cutting Cords of Attachment. That includes conversations on the Net, where so much misinformation can be found.

Today's post invites you to share stories of times when you made the choice to grow -- in any context, not only cutting cords -- despite having others in your life who were stuck themselves. Maybe you even had someone who really didn't want you to succeed at growing, actively sabotaging your efforts.

How did you handle that? Did you decide, "I'll let others decide when I'm allowed to evolve"?