Cord Cutting Spiritual: 6 Simple Ways To Do It

Spiritual cord cutting is a great technique to do when you feel like you have negative energetic cords attached to someone or something. You have energetic cords attached to everything you come into contact with. Some cords are stronger than others and some cords are beneficial, while others can hold you back.

If you are trying to move forward in a certain area of your life but something keeps holding you back, it’s worth it to do a cord-cutting ceremony to release anything that you are energetically holding onto. This benefits both you and the other person as you release the old and make space for the new to enter.

What is an Energetic Cord?

Everything is energy and when you come into contact with someone either physically or over the internet or phone, an energetic cord is attached. The strength of this cord depends on your relationship with that person.

You will have a stronger cord attached to your spouse than to the cashier at the grocery store. It all depends on how much energy you give to something.

You can have cords attached to places as well. This includes things such as your house, your workplace, or any environment or thing that you have a strong attachment to or that you visit often.

You can also have cords attached to animals. If it is your own animal, the cord will be stronger than an animal that isn’t yours (but there are always exceptions.)

What is Spiritual Cord Cutting?

The spiritual meaning of cord cutting is the energetic removal of an old, toxic, or worn-out cord from people and things either from your past or your present.

Cords are formed all the time, but it is simple to remove them with intention. The stronger cords are usually more difficult to remove as you may have things holding you back from cutting the cords such as negative emotions and pain.

Cord cutting is removing things that no longer serve you and that are holding you back from moving forward.

Which Cords Should You Cut?

• Old Relationships

Relationships that are no longer in your life, but you still think about or feel attached to should be cut. This may include exes, friends, family, or past coworkers and bosses.

• People Who You No Longer Want in Your Life

Cord cutting should also be done for people who are in your life, but you don’t want in your life. Maybe you feel like it’s time to move on but for some reason, a certain person just won’t leave your life or your mind. It’s a good idea to cut the negative cords of attachment so that you can move on.

It doesn’t mean that these people will never be in your life, it simply means that right now you don’t want to be in that person’s space or have them in yours. You want to energetically set a boundary with them.

• Old Workplaces

You don’t want the energy of old workplaces affecting your current work which can happen if you don’t cut cords with them.

If you have energetic cords attached to old workplaces it can show up in many ways such as having the same ‘negative’ experiences in your new workplace just with different people.

It’s a great idea to cut cords with any past jobs, bosses, workplaces, and co-workers that are no longer in your life. Just because they are no longer in your life, doesn’t mean you aren’t energetically still connected. The connection will get smaller over time; however, you might as well cut it and release that old energy now.

• Old Residences

It’s a good idea to cut cords with old residences you’ve had or your current place if you’re trying to sell it. If someone new moves into a house that you used to occupy and you’re still attached to it, then your energies can intermingle. It’s a good idea every time you move to cut ties so that you can start fresh, and the new owners can start fresh.

If you are trying to sell your place and it’s not selling, try cutting cords with it. You may be attached to your house energetically which is preventing someone from buying it. Do this as often as you feel you need to and see if it opens up more potential buyers.

• Toxic Family Ties

You may have some of the strongest cords with family since you’ve likely been around them a lot especially when you were younger. Some family dynamics may not be serving you anymore.

You take on a lot of energy from family and often take on many of their beliefs especially when you’re young. Not everyone has the most empowering beliefs or energy so it’s important that you cut any toxic ties with family.

• Social Media Followers & People Who You Follow

When you post on social media and interact with people, it forms an energetic cord between you. This affects both people involved.

It’s a great habit to get into to cut cords every night with anyone you are interacting with or even just people following you. Even if they don’t comment, their energy is still intermingling with yours when they consume your content.

When you cut the cords, you are essentially clearing your energy. You aren’t saying you don’t want to talk to them or anything like that, it’s just a clearing so that you both don’t take on each other’s energy.

This also helps you to detach if anyone comments with anything that is negative or they have bad intentions towards you (even if they don’t voice that to you, energetically it is there.)

• Anyone Who Doesn’t Have Your Best Interests in Mind

If someone doesn’t have your best interests in mind, they may intentionally or unintentionally direct negative energy towards you. If you are aware that someone is doing this, it’s important to cut cords with them.

I once had someone who had bad intentions toward me, and I knew it. I had stomach pain for a few days and tuned into the energy. I realized it was this woman who was directing negative energy towards me. So, I cut cords with her and released her from me, and my stomach pain instantly went away. It was as if by magic! It was so crazy but really proved to me the power of doing this energetic work.

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How Do You Know If You Have Strong Cords Attached to Someone or Someplace?

• You Think About Them Often (Not in a Positive Way)

If someone is constantly popping up in your mind and it causes you anxiety or stress and it doesn’t feel good, then you likely have an energetic cord attached to them.

• You Are Drained When You Are Around Them

Some people will energize you, while others will drain you. If you are drained after spending even a short amount of time with someone, then it’s worth it to cut cords with them. You likely have energetic cords attached, otherwise, their energy wouldn’t affect you.

• You Are Drained in An Environment You Frequent Often

If you feel drained in an environment you go to often and it’s not because of something else like you are tired or stressed, then you have energetic cords attached to this place. This is if it happens often. If it only happens once then maybe it’s something else like I mentioned.

It’s a good idea to cut cords with this place and also try to not go to the place as often (if you can.) Of course, if it’s your workplace, it’s pretty difficult not to go.

However, you will find that as you cut cords things in that environment will shift. You may end up getting a new job or your position will shift or the people there will shift. Pay attention to what happens after you cut cords.

• You Feel Like This Person, Situation, or Place Is Holding You Back

If you feel like someone is holding you back, then it’s time to cut cords with them. Maybe you’ve grown a lot recently and now feel like you and this person aren’t on the same page, and you no longer resonate with them or their beliefs.

You may also feel like a place is holding you back and you’ve received everything you need from it and now it’s time to move on. This could be any place such as a workplace, a particular gym, a coffee shop, a house, etc.

You can also cut cords with beliefs that you feel are holding you back. Maybe you realize that one of your beliefs is limiting and you no longer want to keep it. Cut the cord with that belief and let it go.

• You’ve Had a Lot of Negative Experiences With This Person or in A Certain Environment

If you encounter someone and have a negative experience with them, it’s a good idea to cut cords. If you don’t then the energy of that experience can linger, and you may get caught up in the emotions of it.

Ask that you learn whatever you need to from the experience and then release it. This will help it move past you faster so that you don’t stay stuck in that energy.

• You Don’t Want to See Someone or Run Into Them Anymore

If you keep running into someone and you don’t want to, then cut cords with them and see what happens. Cutting cords is setting an energetic boundary that says you no longer want to see someone. It is kinder than doing it in person.

The person you are doing it with likely won’t know that you’ve cut cords, but they will just start to fade out of your life, your timing will be off, and you’ll no longer run into each other.

• The First Person You Think of When You Think About a “Cord Cutting Ceremony”

Who is the first person you think of when you hear the term “cord-cutting”? This is someone you should cut cords with. This is how your intuition speaks to you. The first impression you get (without overthinking it), is your intuition.

Even if your rational mind doesn’t understand why you should cut cords with this person, your intuition and higher self know that it will benefit you.

How to Spiritually Cut Cords with Someone or Something

1. Do An Energetic Visualization Ceremony With Your Angels And Spirit Guides

You can ask your spirit guides, angels, or higher self to help you with this cord-cutting ceremony. They will assist if you ask. Archangel Michael is known for carrying a sword with him that is helpful for cutting cords, so you can ask for him specifically if you want.

Visualize the person, place, or situation that you want to cut cords with. Notice if you see any cords.

How big are these cords?

What color are they?

Once you see these cords, it’s time to cut them. Imagine Archangel Michael’s sword or your own sword cutting the cords in half and removing them. You don’t have to use a sword; you can use whatever comes to mind.

Once all the cords are cut and removed, fill up the holes where the cords used to be with white light or any other color that you prefer.

I like to imagine the person floating away and I bless them for their highest good while sending love to them.

That’s it! You can do this type of cords cutting ceremony as often as you like. While you may only need to do it once, sometimes it needs to be done a few times to really make sure that you get all the cords, especially if you interact with them and grow new cords again after doing this.

2. Write a Letter to Them and Burn It

Another way to cut cords with someone or someplace is to write a letter pouring out your heart and getting everything off of your mind. Say everything you want to say. Then burn that letter as a way of releasing it.

This helps you to get closure without having to contact someone directly. It also burns away any energetic cords attached to them. Imagine as the letter is burning that you are burning any remaining cords with them, and they are melting away. You two are no longer attached.

3. Smudge

Another way to cut cords is to smudge after you’ve energetically released the person, place, or situation. Grab some sage and sage yourself as well as your place, your car, or whatever needs to be released.

As you are sageing, imagine that you are releasing the energetic cords between the two of you. Imagine the sage is dissolving and clearing any negative energy and cords attached.

4. Cut the Connection with Your Hand

A really simple cord-cutting technique that you can do, which is especially useful right after you’ve just seen someone, is to take your hand and make a slice through the air between you and them. As you do this imagine that you are cutting the cords with them.

This is great to get into the habit of doing every time you come in contact with someone especially if you’re an empath. If you are sensitive or an empath, then you likely take on other people’s energy quite easily. So, doing this technique ensures that you are releasing all attachments to them (even if they aren’t negative.)

Many psychics and healers do this as well as other techniques after they’ve seen a client so as to not take on their energy.

5. Set Boundaries with Them

Setting boundaries with someone is a way to cut cords. If they are overstepping their boundaries, then there will be unhealthy attachments between you two.

But, if you set those boundaries and pull your energy back, they will also pull their energy back and bring some of those cords back to themselves, so they don’t get tangled in your energy.

6. Get Rid of Things from Them

The last spiritual way to cut cords with someone is to get rid of things that they gave you if you feel like they are keeping you stuck in the past. Of course, you don’t have to do this. You can also sage the objects. But getting rid of something from someone releases their energy.

Everything someone gives you holds some of their energy. When you donate this object, give it to someone else or get rid of it, you release the energy attached to it. The next owner can sage and clear the object, but the attachment won’t be as strong for them because they aren’t emotionally connected to it.

What Happens After You Do a Spiritual Cord Cutting Ceremony?

• You Both May Feel a Shift

After you cut cords, you may feel a shift in your energy. This will eventually show up in your outside world too.

They may feel a shift too but not know why. They may start to choose to do things differently, like going to a different coffee shop so they don’t run into you. But they won’t know why. It will just be an instinct to do things differently in regards to you.

• You Won’t Think About Them As Often (And Them You)

After doing a cord-cutting ceremony, you won’t be on each other’s minds as much. It’s as if you fade out of each other’s minds without trying.

You may find you think about them a lot less often than you used to. You won’t be front and center of each other’s thoughts anymore and you will think of each other less and less as time goes by or as you keep cutting cords.

• You Won’t Run Into Each Other As Much

When you cut cords with a person, you will no longer be in each other’s energy and won’t be on the same wavelength. Therefore, you won’t run into each other as much because your timing will no longer be in synch.

You know how when you hang around someone a lot, you seem to run into them without meaning to? I’ve certainly experienced this. After you cut cords, you won’t randomly run into them when you are out and about anymore. It will be as if you are on 2 different paths and no longer aligned.

I do want to say that it is still possible after you cut cords to run into them. If this does happen it’s part of the clearing process. You need to see each other one more time to ‘tie up loose ends’ and find closure so that you can both move on. You may not realize how this is happening, but it does happen.

• You’ll Both Feel Lighter

After you spiritually cut cords, you will both feel lighter. It may be a really subtle feeling, or it may be strong; it depends on each of your attachments to the other person and how in tune you are with each other’s energy.

They won’t know why they feel lighter, you will though. But it will be a sense of relief for both of you.

• Faster Manifesting & Your Life Will Move Forward

When you have negative cords attached to someone, it can keep you stuck in the past. You may not be moving forward as fast, and it may feel like something is holding you back.  As I mentioned before this can be a person, an object, or a situation.

For example, you may be looking for a new house but can’t find one until you cut cords with your current house. You may be holding on so tight to your old place that a new house can’t find its way to you.

Once you cut cords, many possibilities open up for you. It’s not that they weren’t there before, it’s just that you didn’t see them while you were attached to your old house. This can apply to anything or any person.

Cutting cords helps you to manifest faster as you release the past and let go. Sometimes you need to let go of the old first before the new can come in. I’ve experienced this many times. It’s scary because you may not see the new immediately, but rest assured when you let go, the new will be making its way to you.

Final Thoughts – Spiritual Cord Cutting

Cord cutting is beneficial for both you and the other person involved. It allows you to both be in your own energy without having the other person influence each other.

Spiritual cord-cutting is great to do if you feel stuck and need some help moving forward, if you feel someone has bad intentions towards you, or if you can’t get a person or place off of your mind.

You can cut cords with people, things, animals, and situations from your past. There really is no limit. Whatever you feel needs to get out of your energy, do a cord-cutting ceremony to release it and leave it in the past so you can move forward.

~Meghan