A friend and colleague of mine sent this along in an email recently. With his consent, I thought I’d send it further onto the community as I feel that it’s a good lesson to consider for all of us:
Do you ever feel drained?
Many of us have times when we feel drained of energy. We may feel drained physically, mentally, emotionally and/or spiritually. The draining may be brief or long lasting. Sometimes we know what has drained us, and sometimes we don’t.
Think of a time when you felt drained and then think of what happened before you felt drained. The time could have been recent or a long time ago.
*Were you with someone who drains your energy?
*Did you do healing work on people (physical, mental or spiritual)?
*Did you send prayers for someone’s healing?
*Did something happen in the country or the world that “knocked you for a loop”?
*Any or all of the above?
“Cut the Cord”
One way to look at being drained is to imagine a cord of energy between you and the person you were with or who you were attempting to heal. Sometimes that person is draining your energy by means of that cord. It is rarely if ever deliberate.
What can you do about it? CUT THE CORD, using your imagination to do it. And imagine cutting all the cords that drain you from around your entire body, head to toe, front to back and side to side.
Cutting the cord between you and another person does not mean that you do not care for that person. It means that you are protecting yourself from allowing your energy to be drained. A few years ago I did hands-on healing for several people, people I cared about and who cared for me. The next day I could barely move, until I cut the cord between me and each of them. I felt as if I had come back to life. I have had other people tell me they also felt much better after they cut the cord(s) with people they had done healing work on.
Cutting the cord is a tool that can be used in many situations. Here are some examples of when to cut the cord(s):
*Being in a difficult relationship, even if the relationship is over and even if the other person has left their body.
*Grieving the loss of somebody or something.
*Working with or for people who drain you.
*Thinking about what is going on politically in the country. (By cutting the cords to what is going on, that will enable you to think about what you can do to change things.)
**Here’s a big one: your own desires! Ask yourself, is there something that I want so much that thinking about it is using a lot of my energy? Am I trying to control the outcome of whatever the issue is, regardless of the fact that I know that I can’t control the outcome? By cutting the cord to your yearnings and attempts to control, you allow your energy to be spent doing what you want, rather than it being spent on wishing for it. The Buddha said: “Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.” Being attached to the outcome of what is going on often causes suffering. Cutting the cord removes suffering.
Give It a Try
What if you are not sure if you should cut the cord between you and another person? Start by cutting the cord and notice how you feel after having done that. Re-establish the cord and notice how you feel. Then go with whichever feels best. A cord may also be between you and an animal or plant, so cut that cord if it is draining you. If you are worried about something that may happen to you in the future, you can cut the cord to whatever that something might be, and then you can proceed with what you want to do or have to do.