(Author’s note:  This is the third post about emotional baggage.  If you haven’t already done so, we recommend reading the first two articles before starting this one.)

Aka and Energy Cords

Our subconscious beliefs, as well as the consciousness contained in our energetic attachments, will use Aka and energy cords to keep us emotionally tethered to people and things.  We become hemmed into their restrictive, inhibiting patterns.

Aka Cords

The name “Aka” comes from the sacred Hawaiian Huna teachings.  Aka cords are made of thin strands of sticky, elastic connecting substance that links us to every person, place or thing we’ve encountered in our life through its threads and cords.  These Aka cords transmit vital force and thought forms through them according to Astrid Lee of therapeuticreiki.com.

Aka cords are formed through general contact with places and objects, people, animals, nature, plant life – anything we have had contact with.

These threads and cords are most strong with our spouse, family members and close friends.  They can also be formed over the phone, in a chat session, reading an article in a magazine or newspaper, etc.

Aka cords act as negative attachments that drain our energy, even with caring and loving family members and friends.  They can cause restrictive, heavy, tense, and uneasy feelings in our abdomen where our first three chakras are located.  They may foster body aches, such as muscle pain and headaches.

These Aka cords can also be created by our emotional baggage, i.e., energetic attachments that act like software in our being.

They may attach to any area of the body, but are predominantly found in the vicinity of our lower three chakras, especially in the area of the solar plexus.

Energy Cords

Energy cords are related to Aka cords, but not quite the same thing.

Similar to Aka cords, an energetic attachment uses energy cords to link itself with any person, place or thing that was involved during its creation.  As mentioned in What Is Emotional Baggage and How Is It Created? post, similar energetic attachments interconnect with each other within our being.  They can also connect externally to someone else.

Each energy cord takes on the frequency of the baggage from which it originated.  This is a significant characteristic.

These energy cords are also often hidden from our view when they are part of buried emotional baggage.

Energy Cord Interactions

For example, an energetic attachment of unworthiness would link to the person who was initially involved when the emotional baggage was created.  To do this, it would sense, and then connect to the lower octaves of the person’s being at the same level where energetic baggage is stored.

It may also link to that person’s corresponding emotional baggage, since they resonate with similar energies.

Affects Our Health

If an energetic attachment was created as part of a traumatic accident where physical harm occurred, the emotional baggage will use an energy cord to link itself to our internal organs associated with that accident.  It may attach itself to other people involved in the accident, either to their corresponding emotional baggage or to the lower octaves of their being.

More Factors…

Accidents are often caused by a flawed decision process on our part.  It may have happened because we were being emotional, distracted, confused, etc.  When this is the case (which happens very often), we may have shame, guilt, sorrow, and more, surrounding the event, which gets embedded in that energetic attachment’s programming.

This guilt and shame, unworthiness, etc., can combine with the injuries sustained in the accident to create an ongoing trauma to the associated organs.  They often take the brunt of these negative emotions and energies.

If the negative emotions contained in the subconscious beliefs and energetic attachments are not cleared and released, they may cause future medical problems with the organs that are linked to the energetic baggage.

Over time, these organs may exhibit disease and decay, such as cancer, heart disease, tumors, recurring infections, kidney stones, and so on.

Recurring spiritual, emotional, energetic and even physical issues are caused by connections to energetic baggage through these energy cords. 

Energetic Attachments Create Aka Cords

Our emotional baggage connects to the energies of our chakra system in the region of our lower back.  They attach in the areas that correspond to the locations of our first three chakras found in the front of our body. 

There are two Ying and Yang energies (so to speak) that crisscross down our back which create the energetic vortices that form as chakras in the front.  That makes our back an ideal location for emotional baggage energies to attach, which provides them a hidden entrance to interject themselves into our active life experience.

Energy Cord to Aka Cord Creation Process

As we discussed in the two previous posts, a discordant subconscious belief, like unworthiness, is activated when we move into a life situation that triggers it.

Someone or something brought us back into the familiar negative emotional/energetic pattern(s) that we know so well.  It can be anything, like our super-smart uncle stopping by to share his thoughts, which always seems to push our buttons.

When this happens, the energetic attachments associated with that unworthiness belief are also activated; and they will act like energetic software in our being.

Now activated, the energetic software (attachment) will also trigger the energies, emotions and mental processes embedded within it and bring them into our immediate life experience.

In that moment, we will encounter whatever emotions (and thoughts) that are embedded in it, like anger, fear, jealousy, inferiority, etc.  Our movie might even play in our mind, adding its audio, video, thoughts, and other linked-emotions, possibly repeating in a mental loop.

Additionally, the emotional baggage may use its connection to our lower spine to bring forth energies that manifest in our chakra system in the front of our body. 

When this happens, it can create Aka cords from the areas of our first three chakras to connect with whoever and whatever is involved in the interaction (e.g., our uncle). 

All the while this is happening, our emotional baggage will simultaneously use energy cords to interact with the corresponding emotional baggage of other people, objects, as well as our own organs.

Together, Aka cords and energy cords enable our subconscious to carry out its job of maintaining our beliefs/programming.

This can happen in a multi-experiential way that may be quite overwhelming.

Stuffing, Layering and Threading

Stuffing, layering and threading are key features of our emotional baggage interaction within our being.  They create the complexities in our life when dealing with energetic, emotional and spiritual challenges.

Stuffing

When we don’t address our limiting beliefs and emotional baggage, they tend to build up, especially our emotional baggage.

Each time another event is triggered by one of our subconscious beliefs, rather than deal with it, we figure that we can leave it for another day.  We push it down and try to bury it deep within our self so that we don’t have to feel it in the present moment.  This is what we call stuffing.

Layering

Over time, as we experience more life events triggered by our discordant beliefs and emotional baggage, they collect in layers.  The accumulation of the layers of energetic attachments tend to correspond to the pages and chapters of our life.

Year after year, decade after decade, lifetime after lifetime, we bury the uncomfortable emotions, energies and memories contained in the emotional baggage that we don’t want to deal with in the moment.  Over time, layers of energetic attachments build up, one on top of the other.

When we do not deal with an issue in our life, it remains.  In other words, what we resist persists – and repeats.

Threading

Threading is where an energetic attachment or attachments in one layer are linked (vertically) to a like-attachment, or attachments, in another layer by an energy cord.  This phenomenon is essentially universal.

For example, if the emotional baggage centered around anger and conflict was not dealt with, at some future point another like-event will undoubtedly occur.  It may happen within this life or pushed forward to occur in a future lifetime.

This pattern will continue until the issues around the discordant belief and associated emotional baggage are cleared and released.

Until we do, another event will manifest in what may appear to be a different situation.  Yet, it will have been created by the same energetic attachments (software).  With each new occurrence we are given yet another chance to deal with the issue(s) it presents.

This is truly a gift, even though it doesn’t feel that way when it’s happening.

Thread Stack Clearing

At some point in one of our many lifetimes, we can choose to start dealing with things, so that we can move forward on our spiritual path.  We stop the “stuffing” and begin the clearing and releasing of these discordant subconscious beliefs.

When this happens, if we are open enough to see the “big picture,” we can release an entire column of threaded energetic attachments all at once, from top to bottom.

This usually occurs when we clear and release the root discordant subconscious belief that spawned the series of layered energetic attachments to begin with.  Often, it is a longstanding, deep-seated belief that has been with us for lifetimes.  It is finally dissolved and replaced with the Divine principle that was hidden behind it.

When this happens, we immediately feel lighter, freer and spiritually liberated.  A giant burden has been lifted and we no longer engage in that behavior again, regardless of what it was.

Aka and Energy Cord Summary

Aka and energy cords have far more nuanced interactions than outlined within this writing.  However, if we can intuitively see and sense how they work, we can learn to observe them, then clear them ourselves.

Aka Cords

Aka cords are created both passively and actively.  Both types present similar issues.

Passively-Formed Aka Cords

As mentioned near the beginning, Aka cords are created passively by our coming into casual physical contact to people, places, or things.  Over time, the Aka threads turn into thick cords that can energetically and emotionally bind us to things and old patterns, and immobilize our energy.

They are also formed when we have an emotional attachment to something, like an old car, childhood house, special jewelry, favorite sweater, etc.  Even these passive connections take away our energy.

Actively-Formed Aka Cords

Actively-formed Aka cords provide the communication pathways (like wiring) that allow our subconscious to manifest the programming found in our inhibiting beliefs and energetic attachments.  This wiring is the vehicle to bring that discordancy into our immediate life experience.

For example, people who have control, dominance and anger issues will use Aka cord connections that originate from any of their first three chakra to attach to someone else.  They will use that connection to influence (subdue) the other person’s emotions and behaviors, i.e., push their buttons.  People in this example can create these Aka cords to other people while in close proximity, over the phone, in a chat session, and so on. 

They can even create Aka cord connections when playing their energetic attachment “movie” during moments of self-talk.

Again, Aka cords are typically easy to see.  They are usually found attached in the area of our lower abdomen and chakras.

Energy Cords

Energy cords provide the wiring for energetic attachments to enable much of the long term and ongoing manifestations of discordant beliefs within our being.

They are more elusive because they can get buried in layers of emotional baggage, with each layer having its own energy cords still attached to our organs, other people, places and things.

Because the energy cords have the frequency of the energetic attachment that created them, they can be hidden to our sight, almost invisible, elusive to our awareness.

Even for experienced spiritual practitioners, they are often very challenging to see, like hidden underground wiring.

Both Aka and energy cords can be severed by using an imaginary sword or knife, preferably glowing with white or golden light.

Additional Health Issues

We really want to emphasize how much of our health issues are directly caused by long-term layering of discordant energetic attachments that are linked to the lower octaves of our being.

Energy cords link energetic attachments together (vertically) to operate as a unified energy system.  United together, they can act like a poison or pathogen to us energetically, emotionally and physically.

It’s like having our body ladened with lead, asbestos, parasites, or a harmful chemical agent.  Over time — often after lifetimes of our ignoring issues — it frequently manifests in our physical bodies as disease.

More specifically, health issues are routinely created by energy cords that linked emotional baggage to the organs that were affected by the accident/incident that spawned the energetic attachment(s) in the first place.

More Than Physical

Additionally, the functioning of our organs is simultaneously physical, spiritual, and even metaphorical.  Because of this, if we have an energetic attachment that was created by an incident where we were being coldhearted to others, we may experience physical heart issues in this life because of that.

We may have problems with other organs for the same reason.  If we refuse to look at an issue in a past life, it may result in our having optical problems in this one.

As mentioned above in the Energy Cords section, energy cords are often attached to the emotional baggage of each layer.  These attachments can be the source of recurring, elusive problematic life patterns and medical issues that have no explanation.  We may have to actively look to find them.

Tying It All Together

The interaction of our subconscious, with all the elements within itself can be incredibly complex.  Altogether, the “wiring” of our subconscious beliefs and emotional baggage (software) with Aka and energy cords can look like a spaghetti maze, as their web also connects and intertwines with other people, places and things.

Cosmic Web

To amplify this situation, our subconscious has access to the “Cosmic Web” through our being’s connection to the etheric realm.  It knows about upcoming events in our life path.

When our subconscious sees that life path choice will effectively eliminate one of its embedded beliefs or conflict with programming contained in our negative energetic attachments (software), it will try to stop that from happening.  After all, that is its function (its job).

We have seen this occur time and time again.

Life Path Roadblocks Caused by the Subconscious

For example, let’s say we are invited to a spiritual retreat or we signed up for a meditation seminar.  The Universe and our Higher Guidance already know that if we participate in the retreat or seminar, some of our inhibiting subconscious belief’s will be cleared, released, then replace by those of our true self, our High Self.

Because our Low Self and subconscious have access to this information, the lesser self can and will create enormous roadblocks to our attending the spiritual activity.

We have seen where a person’s car, refrigerator, heat pump, etc., suddenly broke down, requiring a lot of money to repair.  Or, a friend or family member suddenly needed help on a project, which would preclude being able to attend.

It’s pretty incredible to watch.  It is a test, of sorts.

Really, it’s just a way for the Universe to see if we are committed to our spiritual path and growth.

Once we decide to remain committed to attending the seminar or retreat, over and over we have seen problems that initially looked insurmountable take care of themselves.

Poof!  They’re gone.

Or, at least, they rearrange themselves to allow the person (sometime us) to attend the retreat or seminar.

Closing Thoughts

As we conceptualize and digest the information about emotional baggage, we can use our inner knowing and intuition to help set us free from our own limiting beliefs, as well as the emotional baggage.

Upcoming Posts

Our last post on emotional baggage will show how all of these energetic phenomena work together as a system, by presenting a life experience of a spiritual seeker as her day unfolds.