It’s Scary To Let Them Go.
As much as you think you want the freedom, a significant part of you doesn’t.
You have all kinds of unconscious beliefs (programming) that regard the cords, the overlay as necessary for your safety or to maintain your image of yourself or the world.
Cords and overlays have two main functions: to feed off your life force and to influence you.
When you consider the word influence in this context, what does it mean to you? To me, it means that a force acts upon you to change your shape. The shape of You. We’re always influenced by people and the world around us. We interact with a person or an environment or even a set of ideas — we temporarily change shape, as a way to connect or play — then we pop back, we return and restore ourselves.
But when you have a cord or overlay, the force is acting upon you all the time and so you eventually conform to that altered shape — you stiffen and mold yourself into that shape without really being aware of it.
You forget yourself, and even begin to shape your self image to include this adaptation, or in some cases, outright deformity of your true nature.
You’re used to it, even though it’s restrictive and it’s not your true form. Like a body brace, you grow used to it. On some level you grow to believe this is necessary, or unavoidable, or providing some kind of stability or security.
We don’t easily relinquish these artifacts.