Survival skills for Cord Cutting and more, a Guest Post by Grace W.
February 12th, 2012 by Rose Rosetree
What's a Highly Sensitive Person to do?
Something else comes to mind about your comments, ROSE, about all the shifting and discomfort.
My experience has been of late that it is a SWELL time to get serious about developing and using Energy Spirituality skills. Along with being gentle with ourselves. I view these now as survival skills, not a “oh-I’ll-get-to-them-someday-when-I-have-time” kind of thing.
Heightened sensitivity even for a Highly Sensitive Person
It is definitely a mucky, STUFF-y, grey slimey sort of jungle out there in some parts these days, as ROSE has so often and so eloquently described. I have to be in a big city for work and notice it a bit more perhaps. Along with noticing my HSP-ness going through spurts of even more heightened sensitivity. It has been challenging at times to deal with, for sure!
What I shared with ROSE (as one of those many emailers she’s been dealing with!) was actually a recent triumph with my Energy Spirituality skills, given the current state of releasing and shifting that’s going on.
Being as sensitive as I am, I’m seeing how it’s crucial for me to use the great gifts of that sensitivity to hone my skills and not be overwhelmed.
Here’s an example. Last week, I had a massage by my dear massage therapist. Earlier in the day, I goofed by neglecting to do my daily discipline of Spiritual Cleansing and Protection skills.
Meaning that I failed to ‘prep’ the massage table and space by clearing the muck away before I got there. Yes, for those who aren’t aware, you can do cool healing like that with those skills. What a difference it makes.
After the massage, I felt relaxed, as usual, but soon felt this heavy sadness come over me. I sensed that it wasn’t the kind of sadness that moves along. It wasn’t mine. I checked for a cord of attachment to the massage therapist and cut it. Not a lot of muck in it, really.
But when I did my Spiritual Cleansing and Protection skills… Wow! Presto-change-o! It disappeared. I felt like my old self.
Using my Power of Command
I thought, wow, now *that* is power. There have been so many times in my life when I’ve been bogged down similarly, but have basically wasted the evening just feeling awful. It was really something to be able to completely turn the situation around, to be able to get back to my plans for the day.
A similar thing happened yesterday, when the end of my work week left me feeling practically comatose with a headache and mucky, drained feeling. Thankfully, I mustered enough clarity in there to check for a cord of attachment to an overly talkative colleague, cut it and felt instant relief. (This became Cut Cord of Attachment #160 in my personal collection.)
Cumulative benefit from cutting cords of attachment
My experience has been that the more cords of attachment I cut, the more easily I can sense when one needs to be cut and the more easily I can tell what emotion is mine and when there’s something else going on that I can use my skills to clear up.
I see these skills that ROSE teaches as basic survival skills these days during these times of such rapid change. Especially as a sensitive person. I was reflecting on this the other day and had the following realizations.
Other skill sets of Energy Spirituality
My name change (it’s been a year now) has definitely helped me feel more congruent and certain kinds of annoying little conflicts have disappeared. (This was set in motion by a session of Thrill Your Soul Aura Reading Research.)
My empath skills definitely help me be able to cope with all the folks I need to interact with in a given week and not be the eternal ‘aura vacuum’ that an unskilled empath becomes.
The cord cutting keeps me from getting permanently bogged down by all that STUFF, as well as preventing conflicts, I’d guess.
The spiritual cleansing skills are part of my daily routine and continue to astound me. I’m able to clear myself out daily.
The magnetize money skills keep me focussed on objective reality when I need to be and have shifted my former frame of reference in relation to money and magnetizing.
In short, given that these really are challenging times, this set of skills sure can help to lessen the challenges a bit and sometimes a whole lot. I don’t know where I’d be without them.
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Photo credit for today’s guest post by GRACE W. goes to a web page with a terrific photograph.
Note that this author’s perspective also lists “symptoms” of being a Highly Sensitive Person, and there is clearly no clue about the types of survival skill described in today’s article. But giving photo credit where it is due:
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/highly-sensitive-person.html
Grace, wonderful post! I can certainly relate to your experiences being an empath. I really have to get going on Rose’s “Use Your Power of Command for Spiritual Cleansing and Protection” book, especially since I see a few practitioners a week, but just in general I will make the time to utilize this tool. Thanks again.
Thanks, ELAINE! Great to hear from you. The Spiritual Protection and Cleansing skills really are amazing, so I hope you do go for it.
A related aspect of the “empowered by empathy” theme of ROSE’s work is the empowerment that comes from really getting “Hey! that’s somebody else’s crap! not mine!” What a relief that has been. I spent so much time in years past thinking so much STUFF was me and/or mine, when it could have been (and thankfully now has been) cleared out.
GRACE W., thanks for sharing this latest insight in Comment 3.
Let me take a moment to expand upon something that is important in what you wrote, the order.
By becoming a skilled empath, you have the habit of using your consciousness to be more fully present, even better individuated from other people.
Using skills of Empath Empowerment, you are not doing unskilled empath merges and picking up STUFF from other people’s auras (as illustrated and described in “Become the Most Important Person in the Room.”
Now you have a basis for distinguishing STUFF from other people. Energetically you are more whole, plus you have some concepts that have grown with you.
Why bother to make this point? See the next comment.
Discerning what belongs to you and what belongs to other people is a skill that can be exercised at any level of consciousness.
It can be done while someone is completely unskilled as an empath. Unfortunately, this often is the case.
I have stopped counting how many people have proudly informed me they are skilled empaths because they take time during the day to sort out “What belongs to me and what doesn’t.”
If you read the description about unskilled empath merges in “Become the Most Important Person in the Room,” it will be clear to you that an intellectual or emotional or social exercise of this nature has zero impact in protecting an unskilled empath.
STUFF goes into you regardless of the fancy distinctions being made with your conscious mind.
So thank you, GRACE W., for indirectly clarifying, “Don’t put the cart before the horse.”
Once you are a skilled empath, it’s easy and even pleasurable to realize you are in the presence of someone else with problems and that you can decline to become involved… decline on every level, including that subconscious level where one reads chakra databanks.
What a great post GRACE W – thank you!
Very interesting, ROSE! Thanks for clarifying. What popped into my mind as I finished reading both comments was this awareness. It’s not an intellectual exercise for me, as in sitting down to sort out, ‘gee, is this mine or Joe’s STUFF?’
I don’t know if I articulated it very well in my initial comment, but it is for me now almost an instantaneous sort of awareness. That’s been the really fun part that’s actually taken me by surprise. There will be a sensation, then a quick, hmmm, that’s not moving, it doesn’t feel like me. If it’s a cord, often the name of the person will pop into my mind.
That part of comment 3 came from a thought that popped into my mind like a flash of review back to a time when I wasn’t even playing that intellectual game of ‘this is mine, that’s Joe’s.’ I thought a whole lot of stuff was me back then, who I was. I wasn’t even playing that sorting game! So the contrast from then to now startled me.
Something I do really love about energy spirituality is the speed and stealth aspect of the skills, as opposed to a slow, plodding approach to healing. Of course, that includes acknowledgement of doing each skill properly and not rushing anything. I do have great respect for that.
When you consider the impact of a phone session and for me now, a cord cutting session, it’s just astonishing that results can be felt so quickly.
I think I understand this a bit better now, having read that interesting Kali Yuga article you shared. I’m referring in particular to the speed of change that is possible now.
Grace, thank you so much for your post. I really really enjoyed and was inspired by it.
Thank you, ANONYMOUS, for your kind words. I’m glad that what I shared could be inspiring to you.
I’m grateful for these skills and the help they give me in dealing with my daily life. Even with that great help, I’ve been out of sorts fairly often lately, dealing with various shifts and feeling like my current life doesn’t fit so well. That’s why I call them survival skills now. I don’t know about other blog buddies, but with all the changes I’ve been experiencing, I know it would be a lot worse without these skills.
So in that context, your positive feedback is especially appreciated.
Grace, I really enjoyed this post. Thank you for sharing! I’m SO thankful for this blog Rose!!
I’m impressed by your 160 cords, Grace!