Pranic Healing, Energetic Cords, Some Very Big Differences

Those Very Big Differences in the title of this article would, of course, be between the Pranic Healing approach to cutting “energetic cords” and my system of 12 Steps to Cut Cords of Attachment(R).

Thanks so much to Nick, who asked this question:

I was curious though, have you ever heard of pranic healing? They talk about cords, and removing them, I was curious if you know of any difference, because to me they seem the same.

I’m definitely not an expert at Pranic Healing, although I have known about it for decades and once received a session from a practitioner I respected. Yet even a cursory bit of research on this topic has turned up loads of differences. I noticed them because of my decades of work with clients where I have focused on this particular approach.

Here are some thoughts for reflection, if you have been curious about the differences between my method to cut cords of attachment vs. the method taught as part of Pranic Healing. The basis for this discussion is an article adapted from Your Hands Can Heal You, a book by Pranic Healing Master Stephen Co and Dr. Eric Robins.

Difference #1 between Pranic Healing and 12 Steps to Cut Cords of Attachment(R)

A one-page method is offered for cutting cords of attachment. My how-to book, Cut Cords of Attachment, is 350 pages. It requires developing many different skills. None of them is hard. All can be learned from that book. But they must be learned… then applied, in order to create a permanent healing.

If you really want to find out what it can mean to cut cords of attachment, why would you trust a source that aims to teach the entire method in just one page?

I can only imagine how Master Stephen Co or any professional practitioner of Pranic Healing would react to a one-page summary of “All You Need to Know to Do Professional Pranic Healing.”

There is good reason why so many clients have sessions with me and report huge results from cutting one cord of attachment.

Difference #2 between Pranic Healing and 12 Steps to Cut Cords of Attachment(R)

Working with “all the cords” is a feature of this Pranic Healing method. I would not recommend such an approach because, to this healer, quality healing cannot be done in this way.

Cutting cords is not something an intelligent person does every day. It is not a little sideline to “the really important other bits of healing.” Instead, one cuts one cord of attachment per person per lifetime and it remains done.

The healing is informative, meaningful, and can even be life-changing. It is not a matter of “energetic hygiene.”

Difference #3 between Pranic Healing and 12 Steps to Cut Cords of Attachment(R)

As a casual reader you might not notice differences of terminology, when healers speak about cords, but to a specialist in this field, those differences are very revealing.

In Pranic Healing, these terms are used quite interchangeably:

• Cut cords of attachment

• Cut energetic cords

• Remove negative energy transference

• Cutting negative cords

• Use Energy Hygiene

Yes, I’m going to add more details in following points. Meanwhile, for Difference #3, here is my definition of cords of attachment, not to be confused with either energetic cords, negative cords, or energy hygiene.

A cord of attachment is formed when you are actively interested in someone, in a personal way. It contains toxic energies, in a highly personal pattern, that run through your subconscious mind 24/7. A cord of attachment can be permanently removed with a quality method, one cord at a time.

If you went to a surgeon to have something moved out, how would you feel if your surgeon called it “Whatever.” In the following points I’ll try to explain more the very big differences between these not-interchangeable terms.

Difference #4 between Pranic Healing and 12 Steps to Cut Cords of Attachment(R)

“Energetic cords” is, at best, an imprecise term. Auras are made of energy. Beautiful spiritual ties are made of energy. Psychic ties are made of energy. And yes, cords of attachment are made of energy.

Unless someone is competent to tell these apart, through both knowledge and perception, why would that person be competent to heal any one of them? (I would, by the way, be glad to teach you how to identify all of these concepts and use appropriate skills. Because learning about Deeper Perception is really your birthright, so you have no need to settle for less.)

Given the Pranic Healing technique that involves supposedly cutting all cords at one time, it might be effective on cutting psychic ties instead.

Psychic ties are made of energy at the astral level. They are relatively insignificant, compared with cords of attachment. They can be a nuisance. They are not personal. Removal of psychic ties does not require deep learning, and removing them does not bring soul-level healing. Still, removing psychic ties is useful.

Psychic ties do come up for healers and clients during sessions. When teaching my workshop on Spiritual Cleansing and Protection, I do recommend using a technique to remove them on a regular basis.

During my personal sessions, I routinely move them all out. Every session. In the client’s hearing. Yes, my client gets this kind of healing, too, not just me. Because psychic ties CAN all be moved out at one time.

The Pranic Healing technique could be a fine approach to cutting psychic ties — I happen to prefer the one I use and teach in my workshop for Spiritual Cleansing and Protection. But there is a very big problem if this is considered to have anything to do with cutting an entirely different energy structure, cords of attachment.

Woe to the consumer who never learns the difference. It means you think something has been healed when it hasn’t. And that form of astral debris is far more limiting and serious than the one that was healed. Oops!

Difference #5 between Pranic Healing and 12 Steps to Cut Cords of Attachment(R)

Difference #6 between Pranic Healing and 12 Steps to Cut Cords of Attachment(R)

“Cutting negative cords” — when I hear language like this, I get very worried. It implies there could be such a thing as a “good” cord of attachment.

In my practice, I do make a distinction between a MAJOR cord of attachment and a MINOR cord of attachment. When a client says, “Cut my cord to Joe,” I will research it on my “Yuckiness Index” to assess wither it’s major or minor. Because I don’t generally like to use my client’s precious session time to remove a minor cord of attachment.

As soon as people think in term of “negative” cords, I wonder if that person knows the basic Facts of Life about Cords of Attachment.

When you become interested in a new person, you get two energy structures. One is an etheric-level spiritual tie, which is good. And there is a completely separate second structure, an astral-level cord of attachment. This contains whichever patterns from the relationship prove most troubling to you as a person.

I have, personally, cut cords of attachment for clients on every continent except Arctica, Antarctica, and South America. (And I have, at least, worked with clients in Mexico.) Sure, I haven’t seen everything in my career of the past 39 years. But I haven’t ever encountered a “good” or even “okay” cord of attachment.

Difference #7 between Pranic Healing and 12 Steps to Cut Cords of Attachment(R)

In Pranic Healing, cutting cords of attachment is used as a form of “Energy hygiene.” Cutting psychic ties, sure, I can see that. It’s more like flossing or perhaps putting on some deodorant. But cords of attachment?

• Think major surgery.

• Think disgusting inner trauma, recycling for decades but finally over for now.

• Think hideous imprinting, repeating 24/7 in your aura and subconscious mind and now, thanks to cutting one single cord of attachment in a quality way, that particular set of imprints can be gone for good.

Yes, I know brushing those teeth must be done every day. And bathing is good. No disagreement there. Anybody who considers “cutting cords of attachment” merely one of these aspects of basic hygiene, however? Ack!

Difference #8 between Pranic Healing and 12 Steps to Cut Cords of Attachment(R)

Nothing in the Pranic Healing method to cut “energy cords” makes an “Energy Sandwich,” the kind of positioning in consciousness that can bring a healer the circuits needed to do a great job at cutting cords.

And, no, creating that “Energy Sandwich” takes more explanation than simply saying, “Archangel Michael, cut all my cords of attachment.” This common method to cut cords isn’t from Pranic Healing, I know, but it is an equally questionable method of visualizing away “all cords of attachment.”

I do have a lot of respect for Pranic Healing — when it is used for doing things that are properly done with Pranic Healing. And based on what I’ve seen on the Internet, one of those things is definitely not cutting cords of attachment.

Difference #10 between Pranic Healing and 12 Steps to Cut Cords of Attachment(R)

Summing up the method of Pranic Healing compared to my system to cut cords of attachment, the biggest difference is that the former isn’t really a system for cutting cords of attachment. Instead, it’s a technique that might work very well for cutting psychic ties, a very minor form of astral debris, but useful for removal.

Hey, that’s a pretty big difference, come to think of it!

But an even greater difference, if possible, is this. Pranic Healing is a form of Energy Medicine. It attempts to heal someone’s aura based on entering it through the physical body. Other systems of Energy Medicine include Donna Eden’s Energy Medicine, Janet Mentgen’s Healing Touch, Reiki, Barbara Brennan’s method, acupuncture, and other holistic methods.

For some clients and some healers, this is the very most effective way to approach human healing. For many others, however, Energy Spirituality is more effective. It attempts to heal someone’s aura based on entering it through inner self-awareness. So self-knowledge and soul-level aha!s are part of the healing process. The 12 Steps to Cut Cords of Attachment(R) are a form of Energy Spirituality.

Many physical illnesses can best be healed through Energy Medicine. But cords of attachment really aren’t illnessess, nor are they something like dirt to simply be brushed away. At this time, I haven’t yet heard of any method of Energy Medicine, physical medicine, massage, aromatherapy, etc. that can adequately and permanently cut cords. If you hear of one, do comment here.

Instead, such methods can soothe a client, or bring temporary relief. How sad, to settle for that!

Miracles of healing

While I was in the midst of writing this article, I had a second session with “Harvey.” In our first session, I used my standard technique to properly cut one cord of attachment. At the start of today’s session, I asked Harvey how he was doing.

Turned out, for 13 years he had suffered from an addiction to video games. After that one session, he told me delightedly, his addiction was gone.

I’m thrilled at how Harvey is doing. He’s not my first client to have miraculous results, or simply great relief, or life-altering clarity, as the result of cutting cords of attachment.

Some of my students have gone on to do beautiful work in this field, and I’ve heard the reports back from their happy clients.

And many people have learned to cut cords of attachment simply by reading my book. Then learning to do each of the 12 Steps. They have told me their stories and I’m immensely proud of them.

Other healing professionals have developed methods to Cut Cords of Attachment, some of which work and some of which don’t. Especially now that cutting cords is becoming more trendy, we can expect to find more and more people adding this to their list of services.

It does sadden me that professionals, Pranic Healers or others, can take great care with their chosen work, study it in depth, and then tack on a method to, supposedly, “cut energetic cords” as a kind of afterthought. If Pranic Healing really does include depth understandings, precision methods, and effective techniques for removing cords of attachment, perhaps you Blog-Buddies can set me straight.

It would be great if you also explained the various points I’ve raised previously, because all could be of serious concern to consumers of healing.

Nick, above, asked a great question. It’s up to each of you readers to weigh the answers here and decide if your own healing is worth more than playing with a quick visualization that isn’t such a great timesaver at all. Do you really want to have to imagine away all your “energetic cords,” day in and day out, for the rest of your life?