Dear Nikkimoon,
I was taught about cords in a rather negative manner..like blood sucking leeches or energy drainers! Over the years Ive come to see them as attachments that are present with my blessing, conscious or unconscious. Perhaps we have abandoned or turned away from the "awareness" needed to recognize them. The physical world we live in distracts from this awareness which requires going beyond the obvious.
I think of cords as "symbols" of attachments: emotional, energetic, thought,physical, etc. If you have a relationship with someone and you decide to end it...arent you still "attached" to that person until you are ready to truly let it go and isnt there something that remains with you always? Those that cross our paths help to weave the threads of our lives into a unique tapestry. Im not sure that I believe that it is possible to eliminate these threads as if they never existed, like erasing chalk writing from a board.
Perhaps it is up to us to determine if we keep a thread vs. a cord?
Whatever we believe, we are ultimately responsible for ourselves & our actions, not the reactions of others.
Perhaps it takes two to form a cord and two to cut it totally? But arent we responsible for our side of the cord?
I see a great deal of similiarity between exploring cords & the explorations of psychotherapy. But what the bleep do I know? :)
peace & joy,
holobon
