An Invitation to Explore your Attachments

As the polarisation between materialism and altruism becomes more stark, I invite you, today, to consider what attachments may be outstanding still in your life.

An attachment may be based on desire, fear, expectation, belief patterns, or emotional, or perceived, need. Whatever the source, an attachment blocks our connection with the divine and to our inner being, and confines us to the realm of form at great cost to our spirituality.

Attachments are always third dimensional. Obvious ones are a need for “things” - money, luxuries, an impressive house. They may be people or objects you love so much you feel you cannot live without them, in which case the love is not unconditional but based on emotional dependency. Some people are attached to pain, abuse, poverty, anxiety, and even though they say they wish to be free of them, they have become such a habitual pattern, re-created often over lifetimes, they are unable or unwilling to break away from them and would be lost without them.

Identity can be another attachment. How important to you is your self-image as parent, teacher, healer, businessman, community leader and so on, and to what extent do you play the part?  If you see yourself in terms of what you are rather than who you are, in your essence, then you have an attachment.

The key to life in its broadest sense is to find the core of us and to live as it, soul visible unencumbered by the trappings and distractions of an ego-driven material world. It does not mean we cannot enjoy the life we have, including its comforts, but it helps to do so from a position of objectivity and grace unburdened by the demands of mind, emotion or expectation.