Energetic cord cutting-what’s the hype-and does it actually work? In this episode, we peel back the curtain on this highly misunderstood practice and reveal why it might just be the key to reclaiming your energy and breaking free from what’s holding you back.

Ever feel like someone or something has a grip on your energy, even long after they’re gone? That’s no coincidence. We’re diving into the untold truths about energetic cords—how they form, why they cling, and what cutting them can do for your life. But the answers might be completely different than what you’ve heard before.

Spoiler alert: it’s more about you than you probably realize, but not in the way you think. 

Get ready for eye-opening insights, practical tools, and the spiritual secrets no one talks about. Whether you’re a cord-cutting skeptic or a seasoned pro, this episode has something for you. Step inside the Spirit Speakeasy and discover how to free yourself from energy drainers—and expand into the life you deserve.

You will walk away from this episode knowing:

-What exactly is a “cord”

-What is “cord cutting”

-How are these cords created or formed? 

-Can these cords hurt you?

-How to do DIY cord cutting 

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Episode Transcript:

hey, beautiful soul, welcome to spirit speakeasy. I'm Joy Giovanni, joyful medium. I'm a working psychic medium, energy healer and spiritual gifts mentor. This podcast is like a seat at the table in a secret club, but with mediums, mystics and the spiritual luminaries of our time. So come behind the velvet ropes with me and see inside my world as I chat insider style with profoundly gifted souls, we go deep, share juicy stories, laugh a lot, and it wouldn't be a speakeasy without great insider secrets and tips. You might even learn that you have some gifts of your own so step inside the spirit speakeasy.
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back, or welcome in for another episode of spirit speakeasy. Today, we're diving into the truth about cord cutting, what, why and how to do it. You will walk away from this episode, knowing what do we mean by the word cord what is cord cutting? How are these cords created or formed? Can cords hurt you? And I'm going to teach you some quick tips for how to DIY cord cutting for yourself. So I'm really excited to get into this episode, but I want to just mention for me, cord cutting is one of those things that's sort of along the same lines of this idea of soul mate or twin flame. It's one of these things that has gotten picked up at different times in either like pop culture or just completely misunderstood most of the time. It's often framed in like, a scary way. And I think there's just such misunderstanding about what cords are, what cord cutting is, why you would want to do it, or wouldn't want to do it, and how to do it. I think that we're a lot of the things that I've seen out there about it, it's like this magic, energetic solution, which, like most things, I hate to spoil it for you, but it's it's not, it's profound and powerful, but it's not like a magic wand. So we're going to learn all about it. I do for those of you that are regular listeners, thank you so much, and welcome in. I want to give a quick update, and then we'll dive right in. So you may have noticed, if you're here with me weekly that these last few weeks have been just me. In the fall, I had several interviews scheduled, and for one reason or another, people had to cancel or, you know, emergencies rose up, and then through the holidays, people haven't been available to schedule. So when you see it just me for a few weeks in a row, just means that something's going on with the interview side. We will start having guests again soon. I'm working on that, but in the meantime, there are so many topics that I always have a list going of things I want to dive into with you. So we will be just us for a while. Also, don't forget about the upcoming workshop. If you're watching this the month that it is delivered to you the workshop Saturday, January 25 it's called, take charge of 2025 with the power of your intuition. I will link it in the show notes, and there will also be some sort of little it's called dynamic content, some sort of little message from me that pops on sometime during this episode to teach you about it. I would love to have you there with me, even if you can't make the live session, it's, it's from 10am to 4pm Pacific, with some breaks in there, three separate sessions. So it's like a really meaty workshop. So I hope that you will get in for that. There'll be a replay if you can't make it live. And I'm super excited about that. Okay, so those announcements being given, let's dive right into the truth about cord cutting. First, I want to just touch into what do we mean by the word cord because a lot of times, you know, I'm always complaining about the language, as you guys know, or or just bringing our awareness to it, we hear these words, or we use these words, and we don't stop to think like, well, what does that actually mean? And there was a time when I first started becoming aware of any of this work that I was hearing cord cutting or cords, and the word attachments kind of used interchangeably. And then the word attachment started to be about, you know, scary, imaginary things attaching to our energy, which we can also let me know if you guys want to dive into that at some point, because that's, again, often misconceived or misunderstood. But I was thinking of a chord the way it was always framed, or the talks I had heard about it, or the way I'd heard it explained, it sounded like this kind of yucky or scary or spider webby situation that someone else could kind of connect to us in a way, and that's really not what it is. So let's start by clarifying some points about what a chord. Actually is before we dive into the cutting aspect of it. So number one, these are energetic chords, not physical chords. So it's not like there is something physically connected or attached to you, but it's an energetic connection and an energetic chord, and it just is essentially what it sounds like. It's a it's a wave of energy because it's non physical. So it's not like a physical chord. It's an energetic chord. Point number two, what you need to know about what a chord is, not all chords are quote, unquote bad. You know, I don't love the the black and white of bad and good, but there are some chords that, yeah, it's worth our while to work on releasing. But some chords, you know, these bad or negative ones, can perpetuate upset or dependency or imbalance, but other types of chords foster love and growth and mutual support. So start just opening your mind to this idea of it's not a one size fits all, Oh, something we definitely want to get rid of. But there's, there's much more gray in here. It's a spectrum like everything else. And point number three about understanding what chords actually are is to understand that chords are essentially emotions that create an energetic frequency to your human energy field like to you, almost like an energetic email that goes out, and when it's received, it goes into a folder. So it's the emotion that creates the momentum or the activity or the charge, whatever word makes sense to you in there for this energetic connection, or cord, so to speak. I also just quickly want to say, Please give me some grace with this topic. A lot of the a lot of the I don't know, explanation or understanding of this energy work doesn't necessarily directly and exactly translate into language, and we don't all experience it quite the same. So, you know, maybe if I was like a quantum physicist or something, but I'm not, so I hope my examples and analogies that I'm going to give as we move through this will make sense, and I'll try to explain it in different ways, even when I was thinking of that email analogy. The reason I used it is because, like, we can sometimes email goes right into a folder and we're not even aware of it at all, but it is someone kind of energetically pinging you, which we'll talk more about in just a second here. So I also want to have a bit of a working definition. Now that we kind of have some understanding of what a chord is, I want to have a working definition with you about what energetic cord cutting means. So energetic cord cutting is a spiritual practice, and it's really aimed at releasing unhealthy or draining or outdated energetic ties between yourself and another person or situation or past experience, that's right. Cords aren't always about a person, necessarily. Cord cutting is not always about severing the relationships entirely, but it's about recalibrating those energetic boundaries or energetic connections to allow for healthier dynamics, personal growth boundaries all of that. For example, we always have a relationship with our past self, right? It's not like we can somehow disown our past self. It's part of us, but we can learn how to live with that energy, and that's within our ability to work with. How do we relate to the energy of our past self? How do we feel about our past self? For example, all of that is part of this mix when it comes to chords. So sometimes, yeah, it's a relationship or a situation that's severed completely from us, but not always. Sometimes it's just about changing the energy of the connection or on the other side of that coin, you know, like I was saying, sometimes cord cutting is done to help heal a relationship and or a situation that's already severed and like, quote, unquote, out of our lives, have you ever known someone who was still very connected to, like, a past trauma As part of their main identity? That's probably a heavily corded event. They probably have a lot of energetic, emotional cords tied to that traumatic event. Now we can't erase the traumatic event, but we can change the energy of how we relate to it, how we process it in the present, right? And as we go forward, that can shift and change some more. So this is why I think cords are just so commonly misunderstood. And the thing to know here is emotional work and personal development, or personal growth, work is also a main part of this idea of cord cutting. So I.
It's just like everything else. There's no magic solution, and we are required to do our free will work as part of this. I'm going to talk about this a little bit more when we touch into the actual like cord cutting how to later in the episode. But the thing with cord cutting is, even if we dissolve or cut the cord, for example, if we haven't done the emotional work or personal growth or processing that cords just gonna show right back up, because that emotion is still having charge, energetic charge or power behind it. So so that that begs the question, then, how do these energetic chords form? Right? There are kind of three main ways that these energetic chords can form. There are emotional interactions as the first form. So energetic chords can form when we experience strong emotions towards someone or something. These emotions could be positive feelings such as love or compassion or joy or negative or challenging feelings such as anger or resentment or fear. For for instance, a positive example could be like a deep bond of affection with a loved one that may create an energetic connection that feels nurturing and supportive. I'm sure you can think of a friend or family member or other other loved one that you've had at some point in your life that felt like a positive, supportive bond, right? A negative example or a challenged example would be persistent feelings of guilt or unresolved anger towards someone that may create a cord that feels heavy or draining, kind of like a that proverbial monkey on our back, right? So it can feel like that when it's a challenging or negative example of a chord. These chords can result from emotional investment or entanglement, whether through intimate relationships or family ties or even a fleeting but like meaningful or intense encounter with a person. And it can also be about experiences or things, right? We can have chords to past versions of ourself or potentials that didn't come to fruition, to an event that happened, to a job or position that we held. So it's it's much broader than we think of it. The second way that these energetic chords can form is through mental interactions. Now this is a little bit different. Mental interactions involve the thoughts and beliefs that we form about others, like people or situations. So when we focus our attention on someone, whether through like obsessive thinking or obsessive worrying or strong mental preoccupations, like we just they're on our mind, we keep thinking about them. We're, you know, whether it's a loving thought or a challenging thought that we're having, the energetic chords can develop this way. Please note, this really traces back to an emotion that has been triggered even subconsciously. So even with this mental interaction that's creating a chord, it's the emotion underneath that's giving this energetic cord. It's it's power, it's connection. But sometimes, depending where we are in our growth or healing around whatever this topic is, a person, a situation, sometimes we might not feel it as an emotion, but there is always an emotion underneath. An example is think about a time that maybe you have, like replayed arguments, or really spending time overthinking what someone else thinks of you, or maybe idealizing someone
in a in a mildly, even unconsciously jealous way. These can all create chords, and really, the other thing to know is it's about how our mental energy is preoccupied, or how it's being used, because it can really drain us as the as the person having the emotion, right? But it's the emotion underneath that gives this cord its energy. It's not just thinking about someone you haven't thought of in a while, or seeing someone doing something wonderful and thinking like, oh, wow, that's really cool that they can do that. Or I really, I really want to learn that it's not that it's, it's an emotion underneath, right? It's, and this is where it becomes so powerful to be able to identify our emotions, because, you know, resentment and jealousy live very close to each other on the spectrum, but it's knowing kind of which is which. Anyway, I digress. The third, the third way that these chords can be created or formed is through spiritual interactions. A spiritual interaction refers to the soul level connection, or like karmic ties that we form with others, past life connections, if you. You believe in that this can stem from shared spiritual experiences, agreements, or even sometimes unresolved emotions. This can have been an emotional connection that has continued, like I was saying, from a past lifetime experience together as souls. If you believe in that which you know I do, even very brief encounters can be deeply meaningful and leave an imprint if they touch upon our deeper spiritual growth or personal spiritual evolution, for example, or like the core of who we are. An example that I thought of for this was if you've if you've had a mentor who profoundly impacts your spiritual journey, and it doesn't. I want to be very cautious here, because spiritual in this context doesn't mean religious. It's the unfolding of who you are as a soul in this lifetime experience. So it could be a writing mentor, it could be a professional mentor, could be a fitness mentor, could be an artistic mentor. In my case, I'm mostly even though I have had lots of great mentors outside of this spiritual work, I'm thinking of my mediumship mentors or psychic development mentors, but a mentor who profoundly impacts your spiritual journey, you may have a chord created with them, a connection through this shared understanding and experience, this mentorship, if you will. On the other hand, a romantic relationship, bond with someone, which is, by the way, also a spiritual connection, may create chords that manifest as like repeating patterns or challenges until we as the individual, address the underlying emotions and release the pattern, most patterns, particularly like challenged or like, quote, unquote, unhealthy patterns in our relationship. It's an unhealed emotion. So and again, relationships, intimate, romantic relationships, and either, even sometimes, like familial relationships are a spiritual connection. Maybe I'll maybe we'll talk more about that in another episode. So essentially, those three ways that it can be created is emotional, mental or spiritual interactions, but all of them have some emotional underpinning which creates the the energetic charge that that makes the cord connect or or creates that attachment or bond. So when you this is a way it might be showing up in your own life, or maybe you can identify it for yourself or even a close friend when you check up on someone like a crush or an ex or someone you're mildly stalking in a healthy way on social media, for example, or you're asking through friends to check up on someone, maybe you are essentially opening an energetic pathway of connection. You're reaching out. You know, it might feel like you're just being nosy or just wanting a little bit of juice or information about them, right? But you're actually energetically wanting to reach out to plug in to their energy. And I say plug in in quotes, quote unquote, plug in. But energetically, that's what's happening. You're pinging or plugging into their energy. It's not the action of looking or inquiring that makes a quote, unquote, good or bad cord. It's the emotion underneath. So even just you mildly stalking an ex on social media, you're plugging into their energy. You're creating a chord. You just created a chord, if you did that. And again, it's not the action of looking or inquiring, it's the emotion underneath. So a healthy cord that could be created if you're just like perusing maybe an ex or an old friend, if you see them and you have the emotion within you, genuinely, I'm genuinely so happy that they're doing well. Look at their family that's wonderful, wishing them blessings and love and luck and all the things, whatever, that's a healthy chord. An unhealthy chord would be if you see that ex and their new family, for example, and you have this feeling in the pit of your soul, really, this fiery or obsessive or spiraling, and it might not even be that deep for you. It might just feel mildly annoyed. So that's an unhealthy cord. It's all about the emotion that is driving that cord from underneath. And the other thing to know is sometimes a chord goes both ways, right? Sometimes it's me engaging with you. You engaging with me. It's a mutual back and forth chord, like we each have a chord. But sometimes it's one way, like that example we just described, where we're looking at someone that we maybe known from the past, for example. So the next question, I think that naturally comes then, is, Can chords hurt you? So if we are pinging other people, or, you know, energetically plugging into other people with. Chords. Certainly, other people are plugging into us with chords. Can chords hurt you? Can someone else's cord hurt you? Not really. And I think this is one of the misconceptions where it's like, oh, there's so many chords all over me, or it's, it's a I might, I might like, just cause a little bit of stir with this. But it's those healers or spiritual worker type people that are always wanting to tell people, like, there's a curse on you. There's a it's this kind of thing, like, oh, other people are putting the evil eye on you. They're,
yeah, they're they're putting chords on you or attention on you, that's negative. So can someone else's cords hurt you? Not really. Again. It's more about doing our own emotional work and personal growth and development. Think of someone who's like in the limelight, who's either like a celebrity or like a public figure, for example, if they're taking care of themselves and working on ways to deal with that level of attention on them. They can be great, no problem, right? Successful, balanced. But if they're not, they can kind of succumb to all the pressure of the way we say it in our common culture is like the eyes on them, right? Quote, unquote, lots of eyes on them. It's too much pressure. And the truth is, there's obviously other factors that go into this, if someone is a public figure, and whether they're in their own health and strength or not, but you get the idea, I hope so if someone else's cords or attention on you could take you down. We wouldn't have public figures and celebrities and influencers and people with millions of followers looking at their stuff and thinking about them, right? So just keep that in mind whenever you hear or see something about chords rising up that's fearful they can't no one else's chords can hurt you. So why do we care about chords, and why are we paying attention to them. Someone else touching into our energy cannot necessarily hurt us. However. One if you're sensitive, you might become aware of it, even if you don't recognize exactly what it is, it could feel like someone do you ever get that feeling when you're alone and you feel like someone's looking at you, or someone's like, watching over your shoulder. That could be someone connecting in energetically and plugging into your energy or cord. It could also feel like, Have you ever, I just did this earlier this week? Have you ever text someone and then they say, like, oh my gosh, I was just talking about you, or we were just, I was just thinking about you. That's them kind of pinging you with their energy. I know I keep saying ping. I think does anyone remember? Am I the only person that remembers the BlackBerry and we used to be able to ping your friends and just send like a little ping. It's not quite like a text message. Now, I guess it would be like Apple air tags, and you just ping the thing to see where it is. So someone is just pinging you and your energy, and then you because they're thinking about you, you text them, and they say, I was just thinking about you. That's an example of someone else attaching a cord to you. And the truth is, we release these cords out of our energy field all the time, just naturally, like we slough off skin cells, we are changing out our energy all the time. Sometimes it happens through sleep, like overnight when we're sleeping, sometimes through meditation or moving our physical energy. Or sometimes it just happens over time, sometimes through things like grounding. If you have a grounding practice, it can we can release chords through music. It's really by changing our energetic frequency, or raising our vibration, if you could, like, have a little dance party in your kitchen and get really joyful that will release cords that aren't serving you, or release other people's cords in your space. So it's really we're doing it all the time, unconsciously, the cords that actually, quote, unquote, hurt us or make us feel uncomfortable or even stuck are the chords we create to another person or thing. Hear me now, loud and clear, it is not the chords that other people are sending your way that can make you feel muddy or stuck or I'm using this word hurt in quotations, because it's not going to create like a physical illness, for example, but we're going to go into it now, as you can see what I mean, how it can kind of hurt you, but it's really the chords that we ourselves create to another person or thing that's what can be problematic for us in our energy. Okay, so how this can hurt you? It can drain your energy. Meaning, if you are having undercurrent of angry or obsessive or unhealthy, like yucky feeling, I guess, whatever, whatever emotion. You like in their thoughts towards someone else that is draining our energy, you're giving your precious time and attention to them. So that's how it can hurt you. It can distract you from other things that you're wanting to be doing. It can create emotional spiraling. Sometimes it can keep us from moving forward, if we keep going back to that emotion, to that connection, we keep thinking about it, we keep stewing on it, it's affecting our actual life. It can keep us feeling like stuck. So really, the reason to work on cord cutting is for yourself, but it's your own cords that really you need to work on. So it's kind of like doing your own housekeeping or your own you know, cleaning your your own energy, really is what this is. So really, the entire reason to do cord cutting is not for other people, it's for ourself, and it's not about other people's cords. It's about our own cords. I think this is so commonly misunderstood, but really, most of this spiritual work comes back to working on ourselves, being responsible for our own energy, our own emotions. How we are expending energy is our mind rolling and wrestling and you know what I mean, going crazy over over something that's something we need to address, not something someone else is going to address. We can't change other people. We can't control other people's actions or thoughts or inactions or emotions. So it's really only just like most things, it's really only us that we can work on. So how do we do DIY cord cutting, what you need to know? Let me just tell you a little bit about what you need to know, and then I will give you some options of how you could maybe try this work on your own, if you take nothing else away from this session, take this if you only do the energetic part of quote, unquote, cord cutting, like the psychic energy healing part, the cord will just come right back. It's the emotion behind the cord or underneath it, that creates the energy. So true cord cutting is in two parts. There's a psychic energy healing, or energetic work, part of the cord cutting, and there's a personal development part of the cord cutting, if you don't do both parts, it's essentially, it's it's um, yeah, it doesn't make any sense. It's essentially, like washing your car in a rainstorm, like, what is the point of that? You just did nothing so you could do just regular cord cutting. But like I said, it's happening anyway, other people's cords when you're doing lots of other activities, like we talked about. So part one of the cord cutting is intended for you to work on yourself, cord cutting in someone else's energy. Oh yeah, this is the other thing I wanted to tell you guys really quick. So the purpose of this, it's really just intended to work on ourselves, for ourselves. Many people, one know about cord cutting for other people, for someone else, and it usually has one of two effects, either one, nothing at all, like they don't know it doesn't change. They have no idea that you're cutting their cords for them or on their behalf. Or two, the other effect it can have is it's kind of like the energetic equivalent of going into someone's house and unplugging all their electronics and resetting everything it can they might notice it. They might not depending on how energetically sensitive they are, but it can set them back in their own healing or processing or growth. It's not advisable to do cord cutting on someone else. There are different techniques I use and teach for healers. You guys know, I still still a medium. I still see clients, and I still practice Reiki and energy healing with clients. So there are a couple different techniques I use and teach to be used on others as an experienced healer, but outside of that setting, outside of like someone coming to you for energy healing, and you're an experienced healer or or teacher or whatever. Outside of that setting, there's no need to worry about someone else's chords at all, like you don't need to do it for someone else, not your kids, not your pets, not not anyone you care about, definitely not an ex or someone that's out of your life. It's not about us trying to fix someone else. If that is your intention or how you're feeling, there's something to investigate there about your emotions underneath that desire to fix someone else, it often comes in the mask of like wanting to help, but truly, there's usually something else going on under there. So cord cutting for yourself, not for others. I'm going to give you the two parts. Parts. Because essentially, like I said, this works in two parts. There is this spiritual or psychic energy part, and I keep saying it differently, because some people like to think of it as energy healing. Some people like to think of it as psychic energy work. Some people like to think of it as
just clearing our own energy. So it's this is really the more energetic part of this tool. I'm going to give you some options of how to do it. I'm going to give you three options on the energy healing side of it, and remember, it's for yourself. So option one, you can just kind of with all of these. You just want to close your eyes and come into a little bit of a relaxed space, just like you would if you were going to do grounding or any kind of like visualization for yourself, or breathing exercise, for example, and just essentially visualize the cord you want to work on, which means imagine it so and again, I know we talk about this here so much, but the the these subtle additional psychic senses, These intuitive senses are very closely linked to our imagination. So it's okay when you're working on energy like this to just imagine it, get a visual representation of it, for example. And It's okay even if you feel like you're making it up and just visualize this cord dissolving from a cord into like a soft light and then dispersing out like a fog, like if you had fog that you opened a window and it just dispersed out. So it's just an easy visualization, and in the second part, you'll understand how you can identify the cord that you're needing to work on. Because, like I said, we don't need to work on all the cords. Some of them are quite positive, in fact. And I'll talk to you about that when we talk about the emotional or personal growth part. But essentially visualizing the cord, visualizing it, it dissolving from a cord into a soft, white light and then dispersing out like a fog. Option two for this spiritual, psychic energy part, as part of your meditation, or even, like a regular routine, bedtime, you know, exercise, just take a few moments, whether in the morning or the evening, or, you know, anytime in your day that feels like you have a few moments to yourself of quiet, and just hold the intention that any chords not serving you can be released. You're now ready, willing and able to release and allow any emotions to come to your awareness. This one's more of like an affirmation or an intention. So just it's about being ready, willing and able, because sometimes we might want to release a chord, but we're not ready, or we're not actually willing, or we're not able at that moment because we haven't processed the emotion. So you can just, you know, in your quiet moment, anytime in your day, before bedtime, is really great for a lot of people. Yeah, just have the intention that any chords not serving you can be released and just allowing any emotions to come to your awareness. And option three, for this psychic energy part, is inviting in Archangel Michael, if you're someone that's comfortable working with angels, and you know, if you've been here and heard me talk about angels, you already know my feeling on this. But if you haven't, angels do not belong to any
like only to any religion. So you can work with angels, even if it's has nothing to do with your religious practice, or if you have no religious practice, angels are for everyone, and you can just think of them as positive, loving light beings, if you like that word better. But Archangel Michael, you can imagine inviting him in to your room, to your space. Imagine him holding that white light sword that he has. He's often depicted holding a sword. Imagine that sword being made of white light energy, and imagine him, either like dissolving the cord, or I actually often will visualize it as him vacuuming up the cord with that sword. So whatever you like, and you can use any of the previous Archangel meditations to kind of get you in that zone if you need. Or you can just get quiet in your own space and just invite him in and invite him to help you release any cords that aren't serving you, and to gently help you process any emotions. So those are three options for the psychic energy or spiritual part. But remember, if you are not doing the emotional part of this cord cutting, that cord is just going to be right back pretty within pretty short order. So in the day to day, and this is not, well, let me, let me just tell you what it is. I'll tell you what it's not, in the day to day, the emotional aspect involves noticing how you feel when these thoughts come up. Like, back to the example of looking at someone's social media, feel the feeling on top. It may 1 just feel like jealousy or strong dislike, or maybe you can identify some judgment, just notice it. And then when you have time, you can dig a little deeper, but just notice, you know, because that's when chords are being created. It's when we are having and. An emotion, a thought, a feeling, towards another person, thing, situation, whether it's present or past, and notice, is this about something that happened in the past? Is this about something that's presently happening? Is this connected to an emotion I felt in the past? But just starting to notice is the first part of this assignment? Because really, these feelings are bubbling up all of the time, and we just move through our day without really noticing them, but slowing down a little bit just to be available, to take a mental note of how you're feeling, and then when you have some more time, either like on a walk, when you're contemplating or when you're journaling, is a great time to do this. Just dig a little deeper and contemplate what is the fear at the very root of the root of the feeling. And it might take several different times of holding space and asking yourself more questions to really get to the root of the root of this some chords are very deeply rooted. Are there other examples in my life when I have felt like this before? In this example, the bottom emotion, you know, the one with the social media, might be to deal with our own worthiness. It could be fear of being alone. It could be still being in pain over a loss that hasn't been fully grieved or processed. So it's really just getting down to the bottom of the bottom emotions. And sometimes there's lots of layers there, and that is what can help the core dissolve. So make this just a part of the way you move through the world, just noticing your responses and the emotions underneath to people and situations. The truth is, emotions are your doorway in and they are the key to allow cords to either completely dissolve over time, or in some cases, really just shifting to a more neutral or even positive cord, like, for example, maybe with a family member who you'll always be related to, but you can choose how to be in relationship with them differently or not at all, but without anger, without resentment, or without expending your time and energy. So even though there might be a relational cord, like you're always related to them, there's no emotional charge underneath the cord, and you can come to a neutral place. Some people benefit from having the help of a therapist for additional tools here, or support with processing these emotions underneath. But however you choose to work on this, processing and integrating the emotions that give these cords, they're like sticking power. Just know that this is the most crucial ingredient in clearing or releasing cords. There's no magic spell or magic candle that's gonna do it for you. No one else's cords are binding you in any way other than those that you have created for yourself. The longer you've been feeding a cord with your emotions, your time, your attention, or even your work to suppress the emotion, the more layers of emotions there can be to grow through, but you will be well rewarded with lots of your own aha moments along the way. So even though this is work that's done over time, right, peeling back those layers, there are these beautiful aha moments, these beautiful moments of clarity and recognition, and as a wonderful byproduct of doing your emotional work, as those hurt feelings or fearful voices and emotions start to become clear and maybe even subside, you may even start to recognize and honor the voice of your inner intuition a little bit more as part of this healing and growth process. So that is the reason to do the emotional work, and then you repeat the cycle as needed. Go back in and do the energetic side of cord cutting be available for the emotional side to be processing in an ongoing way. It's not a one and done. It's an ongoing process to do true, real cord cutting and again, no one else is binding you with their energy. We bind ourselves by not working on this personal development, this emotional healing, the way that we are still attached to something that happened again. We can't change things that have happened. We can change how we relate to them. We can change. We can work on our own feelings, to come to understanding, to come to peace, whatever might be needed in the individual situation. So I hope that you have learned a little something about cord cutting. Maybe you have been surprised about what this actually is and how it actually works. Let me know if this is new information to you, or if you already knew that this is how it worked, and hopefully we can kind of release some fear about cords and cord cutting and remember that it really does come back to our own intention, our own processing and the way we are loving and caring for ourselves and doing this emotional side of the work. Is part of that. So thanks for being here with me today. I always love having you, and I hope you will come to the workshop on the 25th please check the link in the show notes, and yeah, thanks for being here as always. And let me know if you decide to do this work, how it's working for you, and I always want to know if there are any other topics that you have questions about or are excited to learn about. So as always, Big hugs. Lots of love. Bye for now. From inside Spirit, Speakeasy.