Cut Cords as a Smart Consumer

Such synchronicity! Last night Donna Seebo interviewed me on her radio show about cutting cords of attachment. Donna is such a pro at intuitive reading and healing (as well as being a superb interviewer — so I’m glad that the show will be archived at her website and, soon, should be available as well off my own home page).

Our conversation included this rather embarrassing fact: Mind-body-spirit healing is a pretty unregulated field. So people can hang up their shingles on the basis of a short workshop, or just reading ideas off the Net. By contrast, other practitioners have worked carefully over a long apprenticeship to develop truly professional skills.

Read auras, friends, to tell the wheaty healer from the chaffed-up. Or else use common sense, which is the theme for today’s post.

Last week alone, I heard THREE different physical healers tell me stories about newbies who just decided they were qualified and started working with students. And here’s where the really big synchronicity comes in. After the interview with Donna, I checked my email, and look at what came in from “Josephine”:

I have encountered a strange situation : I worked with some people who made it obvious that they didn’t like me, and it made me feel very bad - it threw me for a loop. 

When I went home, I could feel an entity attached to the nape of my neck, and it was SO constricting , uncomfortable, and inhibiting  to my personality …..

I went searching on the Internet for “how to clear entities”  myself, because I couldn’t afford to pay my regular healers to clear  me.  I found  a woman named “Phoebe” whose site sounded very convincing. She gave me a free “auric clearing” and then a discount on a “karmic clearing.” 

After the second session, I was nauseous  for  nine days, and then after that I felt blank, as if part of me – my personality, and confidence, and self-esteem or something – is missing.  I don’t know what she did ….

I was told by my healer-friend that this woman had corded me through my crown, or something.  My healers did a session on me, but I still do not feel like  myself. Is this situation something you could help me with? 

Poor kid! I’ve written back to Josephine, telling her that I can help her to heal but also being realistic. By now, she may need several sessions (whereas before all her “free” help, just one session might have done the job.)

CONSUMER SMARTS

Regarding the fees that a professional would charge to cut a cord of attachment properly, or do other types of healing work, for some people it is a matter of priorities rather than true financial scarcity. You’ve met people who wouldn’t dare to get a cheap haircut “because it would show” but will gladly skimp on their own emotional and spiritual development. Do go ahead and show them this cautionary tale! (This is one of many received here, I might add. The timing of this one is what caused me to turn it into a blog post, that’s all.)

What can you do if, like all too many people today, you do have dire financial problems? Maybe you don’t go for haircuts at all, and barely manage to pay for basic food.

Then do-it-yourself might be quite necessary. By this, I mean intelligent and responsible choice of do-it-yourself.

Please don’t just surf the Net, seeking whatever sounds as though it might possibly be good, seems cheap, and could be learned really fast. You’re playing with your mind, spirit and soul, not some ant farm.

One book that can teach you systematically, and safely, how to cut cords of attachment is called, ahem, “Cut Cords of Attachment.”

You could read it to become a wise consumer, as well as learn how to do professional-quality work for yourself.

Find whatever books or workshops really have quality, not just mine. It’s your judgment call about which teacher appeals to you and can teach you practical skills. When you gain those skills, it’s a kind of insurance policy.

So gain skills while your life is going smoothly. Don’t just wait until there is an emergency and you need really well established skills. The day you need to move a really heavy object is not the day to lift your first barbell.

THE DREADED “CORDING ME THROUGH THE CROWN”

Friends, these days I’ve heard more and more people talk about having a negative person “cord you.” As cutting cords moves more into the mainstream, one hears all kinds of wild fictions and fantasies on the subject. But this one makes about as much sense as having a woman with fertility problems “umbilical-cord” you, a nearby grownup.

Clearly I don’t know everything about all possiblities everywhere for all people, but I can tell you this, for what it’s worth. In over 20 years of professional work in this field I have never, personally encountered this in a client. Not once.

Therefore, one consumer tip I can give you is to be aware that “crying werewolf” is a time-honored sales tactic. “Tell your mark that problems aren’t her fault but that someone bad is causing them. Make the ailment sound scary and exotic.” Ooh, the enticing howl of astral danger!

My advice? If some healer talks about your “being corded by someone” or “your being under psychic attack,” do not ask that healer to help you. Turn around. Walk away. Find a healer with clarity, skills, and the ability to empower you.

Josephine is learning the hard way about consumer smarts. I hope her story helps you to learn an easier way.