Clearing Our Energy Fields by Cutting Cords from Things that are Difficult to Stop Thinking About

For our practice of the day, we’re going to do something that we do periodically, but we’re going to add in another way of thinking about it and of doing it—and that’s our cord-cutting exercise. I’ll go through the basic explanation and then the little extension that we’re going to add on.

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For those of you who aren’t familiar with this, when we interact with another person, there’s an energetic cord that goes between us. So, for any of you who are watching this, there’s a cord going from your third eye to my third eye, as you’re watching and trying to understand what I’m saying. In most interactions, as soon as the interaction is over, the cord drops away. But there are times when the cord doesn’t drop. These cords can go to any of our energy centers or chakras—emotional ones tend to go to our third chakra, but they can also go to others. With those we are close to, we often have cords connecting our heart chakra to our spouses, parents, children, close friends. Those are supposed to be there.

Now, let’s say you’re out in the world—especially in any type of healing profession—and you encounter someone who’s very needy or you’re working on someone. Sometimes that person has such a strong need that the cord between you doesn’t drop away after the interaction, not because anyone wants to hold on, but because that need kind of keeps it there. What happens in those situations is that the person doing the healing or therapy can start getting tired afterwards or even start experiencing the same symptoms as the person they worked with. So, clearing or cutting these cords is what we’re going to do now.

There are also other times this can happen. Like I mentioned, we have cords with people we love, but sometimes those people are no longer in our world. They may have died, or in the case of marriages, there may have been a divorce. In the case of children, they grow up, they move on, they get into relationships, they get married. And if we hold onto the old dynamics of the relationship, it can make things murky. This is probably one of the reasons why so many people have challenges with their kids or their parents, depending on which side of the equation you’re on. Most of us are on both sides at various times in our lives. So clearing those cords can help those relationships evolve.

When someone has died, they’ll always be in your heart, but the presence is no longer there in the same way, and some part of the cord wants to shift. In the case of divorce or separation, it’s really important. And when a child moves on, you’re still connected, but it’s a different cord. The role we had as a mother or father is not the same as when they were under our protection. We have to let them fly and learn to fly on their own.

Cords can also come from the environment—strong events, the news, or things that feel overpowering and hard to stop thinking about. Usually we talk about these as impressions, but I believe there’s an energetic cord involved too. The political world, for example, can weigh heavily on people. These things can become obsessive and draining. Clearing those cords can help us be clearer about our intentions and actions.

One of the great things about this cord-cutting exercise is you don’t have to know what the cords are. You don’t need to think of a specific cord for this to work. And it doesn’t remove cords that are meant to be there—your connections with loved ones stay intact. It only removes the ones that are inappropriate or unnecessary at this point in time.

So here’s how we do it. Sit up straight—you can also do it standing. Imagine or feel a cutting instrument above you and in front of you. I’m leaving that up to your imagination. When I first learned this, I saw a beautiful, ornate, bone-handled knife. It could be a samurai sword, a lightsaber, or anything else that feels right to you. Imagine that implement coming down from above, down through your energy field to the floor, cutting and clearing any cords that are inappropriate for you right now.

Let’s do that. And let’s do it again. You can add a sound with it—like a martial arts “hai!” or “hey!”—if that feels right, or no sound at all.

Now do the same thing again, but starting above and behind you, cutting and clearing any cords that are inappropriate and connected to your back. Most cords tend to be front or back—rarely on the sides—but you can do the sides if you feel it’s needed.

Sometimes, when you do this, some cords are hard to clear. They’ve been there a long time, so you just do what you can. Let them do what they need to do. You might sense a cord was cut but is now dangling—just ask it to return to where it came from. If it won’t, you can use elements like water or fire to clear the space.

After this, you might notice a little hole in your energy or auric field where a cord used to be. You can stitch that up with golden thread or fill it with golden light.

Now let’s fill all of this cleared space with good energy. We’ll connect to the earth and draw up energy from it through our feet, breathing it into any parts of us that need healing—especially where cords were cut. Then we’ll breathe down light from above, letting it fill those same spaces, flowing in through your crown into your body and energy field, filling up any holes from the inside.

For cords that are more difficult to clear, it helps to do this several times. You clear some at first, then more later. Long-term cords may start to come back, so repeating this practice helps eventually clear them completely. Short-term ones are usually easier to deal with.

This practice is especially helpful for anyone in a healing profession. It’s a good thing to do at the end of your day, or even after each client or session, to disconnect. Or if you’ve just been in a heavy emotional situation, it can help you reset afterward.