Life hack #26: Cord cutting rituals to release emotional ties to your ex
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Life hack #26: Cord cutting rituals to release emotional ties to your ex
[00:00:00] Life hack #26 Cord cutting rituals to release emotional ties to your ex. Sometimes when our relationships that used to be loving and fulfilling and safe and warm and fuzzy, they turn into toxic or sad or grief because of a break up or whatever other reason, we can have a hard time letting go of those strong feelings, those strong emotional connections. And when you break up with somebody and you're forced to build your life without them and make your own happiness in life again, you can keep getting pulled backwards into thoughts of your ex or picturing them or stalking their social medias or wanting to drive by their house. Like whatever the issue is, it's like you're almost yearning for connection with that person.
And even if you don't want to reconnect with that person, it doesn't mean you don't still feel the urgent need to when you're struggling with an attachment. And so one of the things that I've been using successfully over the years is cord cutting [00:01:00] rituals. I've done these with therapists. I've also done these with energy healers, shamans, and you could even use YouTube videos or other podcast clips or websites to help guide you to do a self cord cutting ritual.
I'm going to put additional content on my TorontoUnicorn.com website. I have an episode page for life hack 26 and I'm going to put links there to help guide you through any cord cutting rituals you might want to pursue and give some recommendations for even just like videos that I watched that helped.
So you can get a link to that in the description. Cord cutting is more symbolic than anything else, uh, except that it's effective. But basically there's lots of ways to do it. Some people like to have a physical representation of a cord, so maybe it's a rope or a piece of string, and sometimes it's even just writing a goodbye letter and then burning it into the universe.
That's also considered a cord cutting ritual. So I know a lot about cord cutting, but in order to give more informed information on this podcast, I did rely on some insights from [00:02:00] InsiderTimer.com. So typically a cord cutting ritual consists of like a visualization, meditation, and a symbolic or literal cord, like a string, rope, uh, anything else.
It's a symbolic practice aiming at releasing negative bonds or attachments to a person, situation, or past event. And so while it can vary depending on personal beliefs and practices, a typical cord cutting ritual involves intention setting, cord cutting, forgiveness, and release. So some people do cord cuttings to break the sadness or grief associated with somebody, but you could also cord cut with somebody, even if they're just draining your energy.
So even if you're not overly haunted or sad about a break up, but you just can't stop thinking about them, you could do a cord cutting ritual to try and sever any invisible energetic cords that are still attached. And cord cutting isn't a once and done. Sometimes you need to do multiple cord cuttings, especially because after you cut a cord with somebody, in my personal experience, energetically it is felt by all parties involved.
I [00:03:00] cannot tell you how many times I've had an ex boyfriend come back or text me within like, I don't know, a day of me doing a cord cutting ritual, because they must've felt it. Now, having said that, was it a good thing that these exes reached back out and came back? Ultimately, at the end of the day, no. So keep that in mind.
The cord cutting ritual is not meant to like bring people back. It's meant to help you heal. So I would say that, yes, it is effective and people do feel it. And so they might have a sense of panic when they suddenly feel less of a connection to you. And so be prepared for that. But if you do reestablish connection with somebody after a cord cutting ritual, then you've undone your work and you would have to do another cord cutting ritual to ever make the same progress again. Like that is something I had to learn the hard way. You can do all the work, do a cord cutting, and then you could just quickly reestablish that connection with one phone call the next day.
Because now your energetic cords are tied again. I remember once I spent like $180 an hour to go get this energetic healing and it [00:04:00] was really, you know, really spiritual, really effective. And literally within like 24 hours, I was already reconnected to the guy by text. And I, I didn't, I didn't reach out to him, right.
He reached out to me, but it was undone. I felt like that was $180 bucks, not well spent because now I'm reconnected. So if you are doing a cord cutting ritual, move on after, maybe block them so that they can't come back. Court cutting is a really effective way of helping your brain process your desire to let go.
And so sometimes you need to do these rituals in order to accept in a different part of your soul and being that you do want to let them go. According to InsiderTimer.com, these are signs of unhealthy cording that you have with people. It's when your energy levels are depleted, you have feelings of general lethargy, depression, and unexplained sadness.
You have feelings of being stuck or unable to make decisions, obsessive thoughts about another person, speaking often about another person, often in a judgmental or deprecating way, lowered immune function. So getting sick [00:05:00] often and unhealthy habits and addictive behaviors, seeking comfort in excess such as smoking, binge eating, drugs, drinking, and even seemingly healthy habits such as overexercising.
So I'm not going to walk you through how to do a cord cutting here because I'm going to put that additional content on my website, but I'll give you the highlights. So you ground yourself through meditation or breath work. You visualize the energetic cord connecting you to the individual or situation.
You symbolically or literally use a tool to sever the cord. And you cleanse your energy field and fill the space left by the cord with love and compassion. Some signs that your cord cutting practice is helping is after you have a profound sense of freedom, you feel unburdened and liberated and a sense that considerable weight has been lifted off your shoulders.
Again, I can personally attest to cord cutting rituals, but sometimes you have to do many of them with the same person because you have so many ties. Either way, if you're stuck and you can't let go, try doing a cord cutting ritual and see if you wake up a little bit lighter tomorrow.
