Open and Clear, Academy | Rev. Devan Jesse Byrne

In energy work, cords and curses describe two ways your energy field can hold on to stories and relationships that are no longer natural for who you truly are. Your energy body is not just a vague aura floating around you. It is a dynamic field of living awareness, memory, emotion, and intention that extends beyond the physical body and moves through it. Within this field, every strong relationship, shock, vow, or belief can leave an imprint. Cords are like ongoing lines of connection. Curses are like dense programs written into that field. Both can be healed when you remember that all of it is occurring inside one unified consciousness, not outside of you as punishment.

Energetic cords are the connections that form whenever there is deep focus and emotional charge between you and another person, place, object, or even an idea. You can imagine them as strands of light or threads of attention that run between your field and something else. They often arise through intense love, trauma, resentment, guilt, admiration, or dependency. A cord is created when part of your life force reaches out and wraps around an experience, trying to hold it in place. It might be a former partner you cannot stop thinking about, a parent whose disappointment still tightens your chest, or a teacher whose approval you still chase. In each case, the energy of the relationship is not fully completed. It continues to stream back and forth through that cord.

These cords anchor into different frequencie centers in the body. A fear based bond might sit low, affecting your sense of safety and belonging. A romantic or sexual bond might anchor near the heart or pelvis, mixing love with attachment. A control based cord may sit around the head or solar plexus, keeping you entangled in power struggles, guilt, or obligation. Not all cords are heavy or harmful. Some are simply expressions of shared devotion and mutual support. Yet even loving cords can become distorted when they carry unspoken expectations, vows, or fear. Then they shift from being pathways of shared presence into hooks that drain energy and limit freedom.

From a deeper perspective, a cord is not evil. It is simply a frozen agreement. It says I will keep some part of myself wrapped around you so I can feel safe, needed, in control, or not alone. Over time, this can blur the boundaries of what is yours and what belongs to the other person. You may find yourself exhausted after seeing them, feeling emotions that do not match your day, or replaying old conversations as if you are still there. Cord work in energy healing is not about violently cutting ties or rejecting people. It is about acknowledging the agreement, blessing the lesson, and inviting both of you to stand in your own field again. When a cord clears, genuine love does not disappear. Instead, it no longer needs hooks to exist. It becomes a free, present connection or simply dissolves back into memory.

The word chords can also be used in a musical sense to describe how energies harmonize, much like notes in a song. In this way, your personal field is always playing a chord. Your thoughts, emotions, body sensations, and spiritual intent all combine into a vibrational pattern. When you join with others who share similar beliefs or wounds, your chords blend into a shared harmony. A family that lives in scarcity consciousness plays a chord of tightness and anxiety that every member can feel. A circle devoted to kindness plays a chord of safety and openness. An energy worker helps you hear the chord you are currently playing and gently retune it to match the truth of your being rather than the noise of old fear.

Curses are different. Where cords are ongoing connections, curses are compressed commands. A curse is any intense, repetitive intention that crystallizes into a limiting program within your energy body. It can come through another person who speaks words drenched in hatred or spite, through a family belief repeated for generations, or through your own inner voice when you declare over and over I am nothing I always fail nothing ever works for me. These patterns sink into the field and begin to act like invisible instructions, shaping what you notice, attract, and expect. Life then appears to confirm the curse, not because fate is against you, but because the field is constantly organizing itself around the program it carries.

Ancestral and cultural curses are simply curses stretched across time and many bodies. Statements like our family always suffers people like us never get ahead love always abandons us are spells disguised as casual comments. They sit in the collective field of a lineage or group and wait for someone receptive enough to pick them up. Even then, they function only where there is inner agreement. Two siblings can hear the same message. One lets it slide past. The other absorbs it as an identity. The difference is not in the curse itself but in the resonance within the one who receives it. Energetically, a curse often appears as dense, sticky, or stagnant zones where light does not flow easily and where the same type of experience repeats in different forms.

Healing cords and dissolving curses both involve the same essential movement. You bring awareness into the pattern, recognize the story it serves, and choose again. With cords, you acknowledge the bond and any vows made in fear, control, or desperation. You affirm that every soul involved is already held in the Wholly Spiritual Universe and does not need hooks to stay connected to truth. You call your life force back from the past, the relationship, and the fantasy version of what might have been. With curses, you identify the underlying belief that gives the curse power. You speak it out loud, cancel the agreement, and declare a new statement that matches who you are now. Then you invite the living Presence of light to fill the space where the old pattern once lived.

From a oneness view, cords and curses are not proof that you are weak, doomed, or attacked by an outside force that is stronger than you. They are simply the ways a powerful creator being has used Its own energy without realizing it. Every cord shows where love tried to protect itself by clinging, instead of trusting its own permanence. Every curse shows where creativity turned against itself and wrote a painful story, forgetting it could write another. As you remember that all energy arises within a single, unified Field, the fear softens. The need for enemies drops away. You no longer see yourself as a victim of invisible forces, but as the one who can choose how those forces are arranged.

In that remembering, forgiveness becomes the key. Not the kind that tries to make wrong things right by effort, but the natural forgiveness that arises when you stop insisting that separation is real. Forgiveness is the surrender of the ability to discern differences, the gentle loosening of the belief that you and the other, you and your past, you and these patterns are truly separate. As that surrender deepens, cords untangle, curses lose their grip, and your energy body begins to reflect its original state. It becomes what it always was beneath the stories. A radiant, unified field of awareness, freely expressing itself as you.

Energetic cords and curses are always intertwined with the mind because they grow out of how you remember and interpret what has happened to you. Your energy body does not store events as neutral facts. It holds impressions wrapped in emotion and meaning. When something intense occurs you do not only walk away with a memory. You walk away with a pattern of expectation. A cord forms where a memory is still charged and unfinished. A curse forms where a memory has hardened into a fixed conclusion about yourself or about life.

Every time you think about someone who affected you strongly your mind lights up a cluster of memories. Along with the images and scenes comes the emotional tone. The body follows that tone with sensations. Tightness in the chest. Heat in the face. Emptiness in the stomach. Over time these repeated reactions solidify into a kind of path inside you. The cord is that path. Psychologically it is the way your system says this person equals this feeling equals this role I must keep playing. Energetically it appears as an ongoing connection yet it is held in place by the story and memories you continually replay.

Curses work in a similar way yet they sit deeper in the identity. A curse might begin as a moment where someone said something with strong emotional force. You are useless. You ruin everything. You will never be loved. The moment passes yet the words echo. The mind remembers not only the phrase but the shock and pain around it. If you repeat that phrase in your own head enough times it becomes a scaffold around your sense of self. The original event becomes the proof that your curse story is true and the memory is used as evidence every time life feels hard. In this way a curse is always tethered to remembered moments where you decided this is who I am or this is how life is.

Even so called ancestral curses are made of memory. They are the stories a family or culture tells about itself again and again until they feel like destiny. We have always struggled. People like us never get a break. Love never lasts here. Those sentences are pointers to remembered hardship that no one has fully reinterpreted. The emotional memories are handed down through words, attitudes, and subtle behaviors. When you take them on as your own you are not inheriting a mystical doom from nowhere. You are inheriting an unexamined pile of memories and meanings that your energy field then organizes itself around.

In healing work this is good news. It means that cords and curses are not mysterious punishments dropped on you from beyond. They are memory based agreements that can be revisited. When you bring awareness to the experiences that gave birth to a cord you can feel how much of your attention is still living in those scenes and roles. When you trace a curse back to the first times you felt or heard it you often find a younger version of yourself drawing a conclusion with limited understanding. As you meet those memories with compassion and a wider view the emotional charge softens. The story begins to change. When the story changes the cord loosens and the curse loses authority because the mind no longer uses the past as proof that you must stay the same.