Cord Cutting Ritual

Cord Cutting is an energetic tool that effectively cuts ties, connections, attachments, bonds, karmic imprints, mental chains, and psycho-energetic cuffs with people from the past and present. Cord Cutting can be applied to anything that holds us back, from beliefs that diminish our potential, to any self-sabotaging patterns, and it can be a powerful way to end an entanglement, and let go of old emotional baggage. Cord Cutting purifies the energetic highway in our relationships and helps us gain clarity about the relationship. It requires clear intention, simple ritual, and an object with which you will cut the cord.

When to do a Cord Cutting Ritual?

1. When you feel ‘entanglement’ with someone you love and care about, but you are feeling overwhelmed by them. Don’t feel guilty about cord cutting with the ‘loved one’, it doesn’t sever the loving connection, you are not getting rid of the other person. It can be your partner, parents, siblings, and even business partners that you need to clear the air between. It will help you to release anything that doesn’t serve your highest good, and the highest good of this relationship.
2. Sometimes we might be ‘too close’ to our partner’s energy. It is normal to be much more sensitive to the feelings, emotions, and moods of people we spend a lot of time with. We take on ourselves their ‘stuff’ and then it becomes our ‘stuff’, but we never feel comfortable with this extra baggage as it burdens our psychic energy. There’s no shoulds and no need to take on other people’s pain; co-suffering is very inefficient. If you’ve been soaking up your partner’s worries, fears, or sadness, it’s time to let them go! When you’re clear and free of the burden, new solutions and ideas are easier to access and implement.
3. If you have outgrown old patterns and habits, you’ve gone through a transformation or are in the middle of change, it’s beneficial to release ties with anyone who is ’unhappy’ with the new you, anyone who is judgmental or wants the ‘old you’ back.
4. Sometimes the cords are held on our side because somehow we’re benefiting from dependencies and perhaps we are afraid of letting them go. Then the cord cutting can reveal hidden fears and help us release them. This will also help the other person immensely. Most importantly, you are giving yourself a permission to stand on your own two feet, without depending on the others.
5. Sometimes cord cutting is necessary if someone is going through a difficult ending of a relationship. A ritual can be beneficial in coping with the reality of finality. By creating a ritual, there’s a sense of letting go but also an opening for a new beginning. There’s grief, relief, and clarity.
6. Cord cut with your past self, your old habits, unwanted beliefs, things you want let go of and released, and say goodbye to.

HOW OFTEN CAN I PERFORM THE CORD CUTTING RITUAL?

When I was first introduced to Cord Cutting in 2011, I was immensely curious and eager to implement this technique. The experience was very beneficial and surprising, the cords were super easy to release, except the third eye, which made me think a lot about the way this relationship operated. I’ve been called to this ritual at the ‘right time’ it seems, maybe once or twice a year, whenever I feel a lack of clarity or if I’m not sure about the intentions of the other person.

Do this ritual whenever you feel it’s needed. Sometimes you will have to repeat the cord cutting with someone more than once. If you have a clear intention and you wish to improve your relationships and well-being, cord cutting can be a very helpful method that you can practice monthly and even weekly.

WHAT DO I NEED FOR THIS RITUAL

Make sure you have at least 30 minutes of uninterrupted time to perform this ritual, although you can make it a whole day self-care ceremony.

It is beneficial to have a physical tool to cut your cord with, a sturdy stick from the forest (one that makes a good swish), a butter knife (it’s a safe option), a ritual obsidian knife, or even scissors. I like using scissors. The act of clipping the invisible tie is fun. I also really like to use an obsidian knife, as it is a quite powerful crystal that has a potent vibration and gets the job done precisely and all the way through!

If you don’t have a tool, or rather not to use any, you can visualize a pair of beautiful golden scissors appearing in your hand, and when it’s time to cut your cord, just use your imaginary scissors.

You can make your ritual more elegant and personal, by adding other elements, like a prayer, journaling about your relationship, an altar offering, or meditation. You can set up candles, play your favorite music or do it in total darkness! The more conscious preparation goes into your ritual, the more potent and stronger it is.

You can choose to do this ritual during a full moon, which helps with releasing emotions and can aid in more potent emotional connection to the process.

MOTHOD

This Cord Cutting is done from the bottom of your feet, where the root energy chakra is located, all the way through all the chakras, to the top of your head. I found this method to be very effective. The chakras are energy wheels – our power centers, and that’s where the exchange and connection with the universe and people happens.

PROCESS

1. Stand with both feet firmly on the ground, or sit on a chair.
2. Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths, relax your shoulders, and visualize your energy rooting down into the earth. Imagine the person or situation you wish to disconnect from, and see a cord extending from your root chakra toward this person’s root chakra.
3. Next, take your cutting tool. As you cut the cord, affirm your intention to release this attachment. You can simply say: I release this connection, and then swoosh, it’s cut!
4. Repeat with each chakra – if you’re not sure where your chakras are, find a guide below.
5. Feel the energy shift. The cords might fall apart, burn away, turn into ashes, disappear, or feel more intense than others…
6. Fill the space where the cord was with bright, healing light, and thank yourself for the courage to let go of this connection.

GUIDE TO THE CHAKRAS

CUTTING THE CORD AT THE ROOT CHAKRA – RED

This connection pertains to survival, a need to be seen, accepted, and loved.

Clearing this cord can help overcome deeply rooted fears, it can boost your self-esteem, vitality, and a sense of self-trust. It brings stability and a strong sense of being self-reliant. Restoring the balance can heal the body tremendously.

CUTTING THE CORD AT THE SACRAL CHAKRA – ORANGE

This connection pertains to sexuality, desires, needs, pleasures, and emotions.

Clearing this cord can help to establish healthy boundaries, understand your emotions, what motivates you, gives you pleasure, and what you need in a relationship. It can help you remove any blocks from receiving pleasures, and end emotional manipulations and dependency, obsessive attachment, and fear of sex.

CUTTING THE CORD AT THE SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA – YELLOW

This connection pertains to personal power, control, boundaries, motivation.

Clearing this cord can help release control and manipulative behaviors, on both sides, and it can help to let go of co-dependency. It restores depleted energy and brings back self-confidence and self-trust, especially if the relationship was not supportive and left you feeling vulnerable and lost.

CUTTING THE CORD AT THE HEART CHAKRA – GREEN

This connection pertains to giving and receiving love—from others and ourselves.

Clearing this cord can help Someone with a blocked heart chakra, it can release a ‘need’ to be loved and accepted, no matter what. It can help in feeling compassion, becoming more self-acceptant and self-reflective, it can clear up issues around a fear of intimacy, or difficulty in being affectionate

CUTTING THE CORD AT THE THROAT CHAKRA – BLUE

This connection pertains to the ability to speak freely, openly, and truthfully, it pertains to communication, how we are heard and how we incorporate new information.

Clearing this cord can help you release things that have been said, or needed to be said but you bottled them up. How you express your needs and desires, and what aspects of your creative self have been neglected or need to be released. Clearing the cord will attune you to heart and speak your truth.

CUTTING THE CORD AT THE ‘THIRD’ EYE CHAKRA – INDIGO

This connection pertains to illusions, blur between fantasy/reality, confusion, closed-mindedness, racing thoughts, and worry.

Clearing this cord can help you release false ideas and beliefs about the other person, or your role in a relationship. It can help you remove psychic connection with the other person, and clear any mental fog and misunderstandings between you.

CUTTING THE CORD AT THE CROWN CHAKRA – VIOLET

This connection pertains to spirituality, your ability to feel connected, joyful, and fulfilled.

Clearing this cord can help you find clarity, new solutions, and new perspectives. It can help you gain inner peace, no matter where you are in your relationship. It helps to accept what was and move on, releasing old karma, trauma, and patterns.

HOW CAN I MAKE THE RITUAL MORE PERSONAL

• You can play special music that uplifts your spirit, and dance, move, shake your body to release residue energy, and to wake up to a new you!
• Offer on your altar water, wine, cake, candles, flowers, poems, drawings, your journaling pages, incense, anything you wish to offer in exchange for the healing and clarity you will receive.
• Write a beautiful letter of forgiveness to yourself and forgive the other person too, and thank yourself for having the courage and willingness to move forward.
• You can purchase a special obsidian knife for this ritual, which might make the experience more powerful and magical!
• Even if the cord cutting is a serious business, have fun with this ritual, be playful, hopeful, and excited for the energy you will regain after ending the entanglements that used to deplete you.