Cord Connections

If we’re not an island, how do we connect?

So, let’s talk about partners, shall we? I use the term partners on the one hand because it’s a generic way of talking about intimate relationships in all their varieties including marriage, life partners, hand fasted, committed dating, living together, and on and on. On the other hand, I use it because the other terms are more logistical than relational. They point out how the connection is formed, by what means, rather than what the relationship is or what we want it to be. Whatever type of partner you have or want to have, entering into a relationship isn’t just emotional and logistical, it’s also energetic. When we connect with another being in an intimate way a thread of our Prana/Chi connects with a thread of theirs. This is commonly called a cord. Our life force flows to them and back again and vice versa. This is in part why relationships are so nourishing to us. We are literally more than we were before. We become a physical “we” as well as a metaphorical one. This is also one of the reasons why our intimate partners can hurt us more than anyone else. They are directly tapped in. Which is why we are able to know what our partner is thinking or feeling even when they are far from us. The link isn’t much affected by distance or time, although it can be depending on how it’s operating in the moment. It’s also why we can know something is hinky with a partner before…