Cut Cords of Attachment (16 page)

With Rosetree Energy Spirituality, it’s important to connect with your Higher Self. That way, you can receive the highest wisdom possible about your client, rather than half-hidden leftovers from your own past.

Trying to guess which ideas come from where could be crazy-making; don’t even go there. Instead, simply do all the steps of the “Questioning” technique, and make this your emphasis:

• Close your eyes to go within.
  
• Relax, not by trying to relax but just sitting pretty, being yourself.
  
• Ignore any quick answer that comes
  before
  you take your Vibe-Raising Breaths.
  
• If an answer really does come from your Higher Self, it will return after you take those breaths.
  

What counts is your very first experience
after
you take those Vibe-Raising Breaths.

And now, Courageous Explorer, you are so cleared for takeoff. Skip forward to Step 6.

2. Clairvoyant Location to See the Cord of Attachment

The “Questioning” technique gives you cord location purely as information. But sometimes a spiritual healer prefers a more sensuous approach, using sight or touch.

Keep in mind that your senses will be observing something subtle in either case.

TALE: Only in Fantasyland

Over the past 37 years, I have taught students in a great variety of settings, from juvenile offenders at a halfway house to the privileged, pampered guests at one of America’s premier resorts, Canyon Ranch. Often I have taught adult education classes in public schools.

My most shocking experience yet occurred in a Virginia schoolroom in 2006 when I taught aura reading. The students didn’t seem to be listening to a word I said. As a joke, I asked them:

“When you came here today, did any of you expect that I would just switch on auras for you? Did you think our class would be like watching TV, where you would sit back after I switched everything on for you? And then you could just sit back and watch the pretty colors.”

Hands went up. I stifled a scream.

At least I knew what the problem was, so I could help my students adjust expectations. (After this, they managed to learn just fine.)

TV and movies are great, but their special effects have given some people the nuttiest expectations. Nobody else can switch on a higher state of consciousness for you.

Likewise, whether you see auras or feel them, hear them or smell them, don’t expect it to be like a TV show.

You live at Earth School, not Fantasyland. So choose reality rather than fantasy. That’s where the real miracles happen.

Subtle Seeing Differs from Fantasies About Seeing

Myth notwithstanding, many people do have clairvoyant perception, in their own way, as part of their authentic Gift Set. When you use the following technique, your spontaneous experience may bring a quick inner image. Or, perhaps, a perception will linger.

Certainly, because of synesthesia, other inner experiences can also be activated. So don’t limit yourself by expecting that only visuals count. Everything from your personal Gift Set counts as valid information. While doing a dedicated technique like the one that follows, every experience you have spontaneously is valuable.

I have heard some students refer to my techniques as “aura sensing.” This dismissive term shows they are not yet ready to fully relinquish The Myth About Auras. To them, clairvoyant techniques like the following one, represent “Real aura reading” while other methods are, supposedly, how an untalented non-clairvoyant can console himself.

Ridiculous! You can easily prove to yourself how false this is. Use all four of the techniques in this chapter to bring results.

No matter which technique you prefer, remember that any aura reading worth the name equals
perception plus interpretation.
Use a technique for perceiving a cord and, if necessary, supplement what you receive with some “Questioning” to provide an interpretation.

TECHNIQUE: See the Cord of Attachment

When you prefer to locate a cord by seeing it with Deeper Perception, use this technique.

As your own client, sit in front a mirror. (Note: Stay positioned in front of that mirror until you have completed Step 9 to Cut Cords of Attachment.)

If you have a client other than yourself, make sure your client sits opposite you, clearly visible.

1. Close your eyes.

2. Take (what else?) a Vibe-Raising Breath.

3. Do the “Get Big” technique.

4. Set the intention to be of service to your client. Aim to find the particular cord of attachment you name, e.g., “Juliet’s cord to her nurse Babette.”

5. Open your eyes and look at your client’s body. Accept what you see, a cord location.

6. Close your eyes. Inwardly tell yourself, “Technique over. And I did great.” Or the equivalent.

7. Open your eyes.

Q&A For Clairvoyant Location

Now let’s consider some common questions about seeing cords of attachment.

How will that cord look to me?

Like any other experience with auras, the way you perceive a cord of attachment depends on your personal Gift Set.

Deeper Perception is also subtle, so please don’t expect an illustration straight out of
Gray’s Anatomy.
Any of the following examples would count as valid. Here are examples of how you might receive information about cord location:

• One body part can light up inwardly. Compared to the rest of what you are seeing on the client, you will find that one particular place is highlighted. Count this as your cord location.
  
• You could have an experience of magnetic intensity. As you visually scan your client’s body, attention could be drawn to one particular area. Auras are made of electro-magnetic energy, after all. Having a place seem sticky or magnetic to your sight—yes, that counts.
  
• Or you may actually see a cord-shaped object that attaches into a part of your client’s body.
  

Spiritual sight is not physical sight. Using human senses, like vision, we process auric information differently from how we experience life physically. The customary channels are used, but with higher consciousness. That’s why my self-affirming method of teaching aura reading is called Aura Reading
Through
All Your Senses®, not Aura Reading
With
All Your Senses.

Why didn’t the cord look how I expected it to?

For accuracy at cord cutting, release expectations. Have you been taught to see particular colors in certain places? Forget it. Otherwise, auras will show up for you according to somebody else’s rules.

Anyone can succeed at a copycat job if he works hard enough. But here’s the problem. Should you try to read auras as though you were someone else, your Gift Set will go into arrested development.

By analogy, you have a unique personality that expresses your soul. For a while you could choose to imitate somebody else you admire. You could dress like your hero; wear your hair in that same style; copy the hero’s mannerisms; even get look-alike plastic surgery.

Consciousness flows with intention, so you need not be a professional mime to do an extremely good imitation of your idol’s personality.

Sadly, this would bring only a limited kind of success. You would give the desired impression yet be socially stuck for as long as you kept trying. Imitating your hero, how could you attract the people who would be interested in you? Until you revert to being yourself, you won’t evolve past the thin slice of life you are copying.

If you do actually see a cord, must it appear in full color?

Fantasy strikes again! Here are some of the many ways you might see a cord, using your personal Gift Set:

• Light shoots out of a particular place.
  
• There’s an outline, like a grayed-out window on a computer screen.
  
• A cord can appear as a ghosted area, something you see inwardly, not quite physically.
  
• A symbol appears to you intuitively, like an arrow or an X to mark the spot.
  
• A blob of color shows up where you didn’t see it before, and it’s a contrast to other colors you see in that part of the person’s aura.
  
• You
  feel
  like you are seeing.
  
• You find yourself making up a story that you see something. For some reason, you choose a particular location. (Well, trust it. In the context of using a dedicated technique, you cannot be just making it up.)
  
• The language most commonly used is, “Somehow I see, yet I don’t see.”
  

Since cords of attachment are real, why don’t they look the same to everyone?

No matter how many times I repeat it, most people need to hear this idea many times before it really sinks in, so here goes:

Deeper Perception is subtle. It is not like having somebody toss a football, where spectators all see the same thing.

You can think of Deeper Perception as an intimately personal way that your Higher Power talks to you. That sacred language is nobody else’s business. All that matters is that you are willing to get the message.

TALE: So Suave

I love the woman who taught me Healing Touch, Level One. For this funny story, I’ll refer to her as ‘Maggie.” The Healing Touch Program® is a magnificent set of techniques for Energy Medicine, pioneered by the late Janet Mentgen, a brilliant healer and system builder.

During chit-chat at the start of the class, I mentioned that, although I never had studied Healing Touch before, I did have experience with reading auras.

Soon Maggie explained to our class how she wanted us to introduce ourselves. Everyone was supposed to answer a short set of questions.

When I began to take my turn, I could see Maggie pull a book close to her side. As I kept talking, she excitedly flipped through the pages, all the while pretending not to be looking at anything but me.

After I got to the end of my intro, Maggie thrust the book at me until it nearly poked me in the nose. Pages were open to a color illustration. Breathlessly Maggie asked, “Do you see… this?”

The book was
Hands of Light
by the renowned healer, Barbara Brennan. This had been a rather suave move on Maggie’s part. Everyone in the class became excited. Would I pass the test? Could I perhaps be a genius like Barbara?

“Of course not,” I said. “Why would I see things her way?”

Whoosh, there went our drama, deflating like a balloon that hadn’t been knotted up properly. Collectively, the class sighed in disappointment.

Yes, even a sophisticated teacher like Maggie can believe in The Myth about Auras. Supposedly, every aura reader sees things in color, always the same colors, uniform for everyone. What nonsense!

If anyone asks you, don’t feel ashamed to tell the truth. As a spiritual healer, your job is to bring results. Never are you obligated to live up to another person’s myth. And the test of your worth as a healer isn’t “Can I duplicate another person’s color illustration?” It is, “Do I have the courage to use the gifts that God gave me?”

Now, Courageous Explorer, congratulate yourself on exploring yet one more technique. For your next romp through this chapter, when cutting a cord of attachment, please start with the following technique—at least while making your first passage through all four main techniques in this chapter. Having completed today’s experiment in visual cord location, move on to Step 6.

3. Clairsentient Wisdom to Feel the Cord of Attachment

Clairsentience means “Truth touch.”

Many people have a Gift Set which includes a great deal of talent for reading auras by means of touch. If you are strongly clairsentient, the two remaining techniques in this chapter will be especially easy for you.

TECHNIQUE: Feel the Cord of Attachment

Any form of holistic healing is excellent preparation for identifying a cord of attachment by touch. You could be a chiropractor or massage therapist, study Eden Energy Medicine, do Reiki, Tai Chi, Qigong, etc.

Whether or not you are new to reading auras through touch, follow this sequence for best results:

1. Remember which is your Hand of Preference (as discussed in Step 3). Close your eyes.

2. Take a Vibe-Raising Breath.

3. Do the “Get Big” technique.

4. Set the intention to be of service to your client.

5. Rub both hands together until you build up some heat.

Open your eyes. Raise your Hand of Preference and position it a few inches in front of your client’s body. (And, of course, this “client” could be you!)

6. Move your Hand of Preference to explore the energy field around your client’s torso, arms, wherever you feel guided. You will start picking up lots of perceptions, whether confidently or tentatively, e.g., textures, flows of energy, patterns of information. You understand by now, don’t you? How you receive information is nobody’s business but your own.

7. Having completed your initial exploration, close your eyes again. Think the intention to find the particular cord of attachment you are aiming to cut, e.g., “I am going to locate Romeo’s cord to his fiancée, Cutie Pie.”

8. Open your eyes and feel around again. The first
different
item you notice, that’s it!

9. Close your eyes. Inwardly tell yourself, “Technique over. And I did great.” Or the equivalent.

10. Open your eyes. (Smile optional.)

Courageous Explorer, you are have done it again. Experimenting with this latest technique, perhaps you have found your fave. Definitely move forward to Step 6.

But I do urge you to try the fourth cord-location technique the next time you move through this chapter (which, if you count total times using this how-to manual, could count as your fourth time through).

4. Internal Validation to Locate the Cord of Attachment

Is there a lot involved in learning how to cut cords of attachment, finding your style, homing in on the techniques with the best match to your personal Gift Set?

Definitely! Yet more reason to emphasize being your own client now and for some time to come. When you feel ready to help family members and friends, take it slow. Take it
quality.