) and your first/second chakra. When a relationship ends, we need time to "let go". This letting go is the time we need to "untie" or cut the cords that united us to this person. It must be dealt with in order to heal and move on.The same happens when someone whe hold dear dies, be it a person or a family pet. We must cut the cords that connected us to them, and that is what the period of mourning is for. If we think that death is a further step on the long, winding road of a soul's travel, we will be able to accept it more easily and the time we need will be much less.
And what about things? Have you ever kept with you some souvenir of the past and then all of a sudden you have felt the need to get rid of it? Well, this means you have cut the emotional/affective cord (after all, we also use the woed "ties") that connected you to it, and you now feel ready to forgo that part of the past and move on. This is why moving house or tidying up a deceased relative's belongings can be so traumatic... we are cutting ties and there is no going back. It can be painful, but then we will heal and be ready for what the future has in store for us - a new slate. We will have renewed or regenerated a part of our soul.