Cut Cords of Attachment (25 page)

Whatever the content of conversation during a session of spiritual healing, energetic change is what frees the client from old fears or pain or behavior. Thus, spiritual healing is structured in Aha!s and miracles, not hard work.

Personally, it took me years to adjust to the underlying ease of Rosetree Energy Spirituality. Having done my share of psychological healing, I was used to hard work and pain. By contrast, spiritual healing has the underlying emotion of joy. That’s the nature of God, after all.

Does spiritual healing have to mean faith healing, like something coming from a televangelist or faith healer? Absolutely not. Innumerable types of healing belong in the category of spiritual healing. Cutting a cord of attachment doesn’t demand faith any more than it requires that you obtain ministerial credentials.

One of my goals with this book is to help both healers and clients understand that mainstream churches do not have the exclusive right to practice spiritual healing. This would be like saying that Good Humor ice-cream bars are the only kind of dessert.

Deeper Energy, Extra Oomph

Adding an energy component to healing of any kind greatly increases the results. The human energy field has always been a level of cause for what happens in objective reality.

Today more people than ever are developing Energy Literacy so that they can produce, and appreciate, results at this level of causation.

When you make a change at the surface level of life, the results are limited compared to what you can do at a deeper level.

• On the surface level, a certain amount of energy is available when you tear a sheet of paper.
  
• The chemical level lies deeper. If you burn the same sheet of paper, considerably more energy will be released. More power available!
  
• What if you could split even one atom from deep within that sheet of paper? (Not that I’m suggesting you run out and do this.) Even more power would become available.
  

Here I have given analogies about destruction. But what about healing and, specifically, what about
techniques
for healing? When you combine healing skills, a positive intention, and the power of the human energy field, healing intensifies exponentially.

12 Steps to Cut Cords of Attachment is a fine example. This skill set definitely qualifies as a method of spiritual healing. In practice, as we have seen, spiritual counseling and other modalities are often based on a model for psychological healing.

What can you tell a client who believes that all inner healing requires emotional drama or systematic emotional release?

Agree with your client that this is true for psychological healing. Then explain you are doing something different, a form of spiritual healing. Make sure your client understands the difference. Less work! More joy!

Combining Approaches

Psychological, physical, and spiritual healing can be used in combination. This is, after all, the promise of mind-body-spiritual healing. You can use Rosetree Energy Spirituality as part of a holistic approach.

For instance, as a psychotherapist you might find a client who resists exploring a painful area. A perfect opportunity to refer your client to a professional at Rosetree Energy Spirituality! This can help your client to gain new strength. This can help you succeed way better in future, as you facilitate psychological healing.

It takes away nothing from your professional clout to refer your clients to a graduate of the Mentoring Program in Rosetree Energy Spirituality, just one or two sessions with a skilled practitioner. (Likewise, this practitioner doesn’t hesitate to refer clients to psychotherapists and psychiatrists, as appropriate.)

Part time, you could study to get your own professional skills in this modality. Afterwards you can ethically and effectively add that full skill set to your tool kit for helping clients.

Position Yourself Clearly

Doing sessions with family members and friends, it’s important to frame your healing work clearly. Otherwise these clients will probably expect psychological healing.

It will be up to you to educate them about Rosetree Energy Spirituality. During all of the 12 Steps to Cut Cords of Attachment, watch carefully for signs that your client is expecting healing of a different kind, or at a different level. Then supply appropriate clarification.

Often, this understanding really sinks in during Step 10, as your client wakes up to the fact that his aura has changed permanently, with important implications for practical life.

TALE: Ready to Change, Not Just Discuss

An exceptionally bright and articulate man, Hugh had plenty of experience with psychological healing. He expected our first session to be the same process. Perhaps with a little aura-type content added to the conversation....

Asked to set an intention, Hugh said, “I’d like to understand the problems I have with communicating. Read my aura and show me the blockage so that I can have more insight.”

Oh, this session was going to be good. I could smell it. Hugh’s aura was basically healthy, just loaded with STUFF. And this client genuinely wanted to move forward. Granted, we were going to need to clarify the difference between spiritual healing versus psychological healing.

We had to shift his intention immediately. Hugh was, pretty much, aiming to improve his self-improvement process of psychological healing. But intention is about a result in life, not success at doing a technique. “Better communication” became Hugh’s official intention.

Next we did a Before Picture, so Hugh would notice as much contrast, even with the immediate results of his session. With Archangel Michael’s help, my client was going to have his aura transformed beyond his mildest dreams!

Doing his Before Picture:

• Heart Chakra Databank for
  Emotional Self-Acceptance:
  Hugh felt uneasy, insecure.
  
• Throat Chakra Databank for
  Communication in Close Relationships:
  Hugh had the energetic equivalent of a lump in his throat, the habit of stuck communication.
  
• Solar Plexus Chakra Databank for Sharing Power with Others: More stuck energy, this time causing Hugh to not use much of his power when interacting with others.
  

Back at the topic of intention, I encouraged Hugh to move away from a healing model that equates discussing a problem with solving it. Right now, he could aim for permanent STUFF removal, then put-in with what expressed his soul at his current level of development.

This led us to discuss the difference between psychological healing and spiritual healing.

A deeply thoughtful man, Hugh understood each point. He kept repeating, “That’s very interesting.”

Meanwhile, with each step of understanding, his third eye continued to awaken. (It was a lot of fun for me, noticing this, as though a commentary to our conversation came straight from his aura.)

Psychological healing depends on the intellect; usually it doesn’t involve a person’s connection to Source. Hugh had come to this session with a way over-functioning Solar Plexus Chakra Databank for Analyzing my Life, plus a closed-down Third Eye Chakra Databank for Connection to Spiritual Source.

These chakra databanks improved considerably by the end of Hugh’s session, as well as the three other chakra databanks in his official After Picture.

In my opinion, psychological therapy couldn’t much change Hugh’s father-son relationship as long as his cord kept repeating its pattern 24/7. Hugh would have kept on analyzing problems, not solving them.

Maybe Shakespeare’s Hamlet suffered from something similar. (Please do let me know if you ever turn up a lost Shakespeare manuscript in which Hamlet’s healer describes his cord items.)

Productive Search for Logical Consequences

Validating your client’s experience is a skill that develops with practice. Since this isn’t psychological healing, how much discussion will you really need?

Let your motto be “Enough discussion, neither too little nor too much.” Elaborate discussion isn’t required. Just do your best to summarize all that you wrote in your Dialogue Box.

Often you will find that Step 10 becomes a client’s favorite part of a session because it is so helpful, having just that little bit of discussion (which is timed right after moving out a chronic pattern of stuck energy).

What will it take for you to develop a sense for “Enough discussion”? Relax and be in the moment. I can’t tell you the perfect number of minutes required. This will depend on your conversation in the here-and-now.

Regardless of how experienced you become at Rosetree Energy Spirituality, you can be guided by what you notice in the moment. Pacing is a flow.

How can you find that flow? Over the decades, with every session, there is no substitute for giving the client your undivided attention, having the intention to help, teaming up with Divine Beings, and using your common sense.

Occasionally (not obsessively), you might consciously observe, “How is my client responding? How much more discussion is needed?”

Sometimes you will read out one cord item after another, receiving very little reaction.

Other times your client will become extremely vocal. Which cord item will strike your client as especially important? There’s no telling, not until your client tells
you.
If your client considers something important, it is.

But do save one point to emphasize when you conclude the validation process. This could be something you starred when reviewing your Dialogue Box back in Step 9. Or it could be any cord item that you discuss during Step 10, something that clearly carries a big emotional charge for your client.

Whichever item you emphasize at the end of Step 10, this may be what your client remembers most from the entire session.

Throughout Step 10, reassure your client as necessary. Yes, sometimes a client will become slightly alarmed during the validation process. Hearing about dynamics within a cord, perhaps she will realize that she has seemed awfully demanding. Or maybe a once-loved cordee is being shown in a new and unflattering light.

If you should sense that your client is becoming alarmed, remind her that you are simply describing a pattern from the past:

• It is not the whole story about the relationship
  
• Or everything about your client
  
• Or everything about your cordee
  
• Or that entirely separate energy structure, the spiritual tie between your client and this person.
  

Instead, these are subconscious dynamics that used to repeat 24/7. None of these dynamics will ever hurt your client again. It’s like describing a nightmare after waking up. Your client is safe now.

Cords to Trusted Professionals

Sometimes the people we trust most are involved in the worst cords of all. I’ve stopped counting how many clients have come to me with hideous cords of attachment to a healer, teacher, therapist, etc.

When we feel most vulnerable and reach out for help, we want to trust. That trust can well deserved. Over time, for perfectly human reasons, a trusted professional relationship may sour.

For instance, suppose that the minister or spiritual advisor or healer has great integrity. Thus the client becomes deeply invested emotionally. That’s good. Only the depth of connection can cause a strong internal reaction. (Ever hear of transference? That’s not just something to work through therapeutically. It can land straight in a cord.)

Another possibility: Your client has outgrown that particular healing modality. The practitioner holds on. Such a human dynamic! Neither person involved may have consciously noticed that it was time to let go.

Also a factor: Counselors, psychics, and healers can participate in astral-level interactions that become part of the relationship. Any official initiation, for instance, will intensify the cord of attachment to that practitioner. At my blog you can read examples of this if you search under
Astral-Level Ponzi Schemes
.

Finally, there’s the sad fact that psychopaths can be strongly attracted to otherwise honorable professions. Priests, ministers, teachers, and others may abuse those who depend on them. Removal of such cords of attachment counts as very major cord cutting.

Suppose that you are, by now, an experienced healer who has cut many minor cords of attachment. Now you have moved a major cord of attachment to a trusted professional. There you are at Step 10.

Your role in describing cord items can require special diplomacy. If you are the client, be extra gentle with yourself. Take additional time, as needed.

If helping that family member or friend. be sensitive to your client’s ideals and involvement. This client may have a lot invested in a therapeutic relationship and feel torn about seeing it for what it really is. The following technique can help.

TECHNIQUE: Special Care with Cords to Trusted Professionals

Experience has led me to develop this slight shift of emphasis when the client’s cordee is a current, or former, professional healer or teacher.

1. When a therapeutic relationship is involved in a cord of attachment, read out the Dialogue Box as you normally do in Step 10.

2. Validate problems without turning anyone into a villain. Take care to keep the conversation balanced.

3. In Step 11, discuss with your client how to keep the good, release the bad.

Q&A About Cords to Trusted Professionals

Cutting cords of attachment to a trusted professional, you can be placed in a sensitive position. Let’s address some of the concerns that you may have about this.

What if, as a healer yourself, you feel squeamish about cutting a client’s cord of attachment to another professional?

Gossip is not your goal but healing. Here at Earth School, everyone must overcome one illusion after another.

What does it take to see life clearly and accept relationships for what they are?

A cleaner aura helps. Every time you cut a cord of attachment, you are facilitating permanent healing of your client’s aura. That is a good thing.

But what if the psychiatrist or teacher really is right, while your client is wrong?