How To Release Attachments

 Written by Jafree Ozwald

http://www.manifestingvibration.com/manifesting/charles

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Remember. Concentrate on the moment. Feel.
Don' think. Use your instincts. May the force be with you.
~Star Wars: Episode I. The Phantom Menace

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There is something magical about releasing thoughts we are overly attached to. Think about those thoughts/feelings you cannot get rid of, the ones that seem to dominate your entire life, creating internal (and external) chaos. Notice whatever it is that you are attached to (or avoiding) is what's causing you the most suffering in your life right now.

Letting go of feelings or judgments that impede on our energy can actually change our entire understanding of reality. Check it out, you'll see. Maybe it's an idea of what's going to happen in your future, or perhaps an event that occurred in the past. If you wish to experiment with this and begin to release it, first look at what the mind is actually attached to (or avoiding) then take full responsibility for creating it. Watch the thoughts closely every time they come up, yet choose to remain undisturbed at your core...by being aware of your attachment and avoidance of it.

Can you think of anything in the world worth staying attached to? Maybe a good marriage, a solid income, a beautiful home and/or your children? Perhaps these seem good, yet notice what happens to you if those good things go away or change? We start clinging in quiet desperation.

Non-attachment doesn't mean indifference, rather its a state of total freedom in which you are the ultimate choice-maker in your life. Yet the mind has this nasty habit of clinging to everything it thinks gives you pleasure and consistently is getting attached to ideas of "the way it was" OR "the way it will be" and thus missing out on "the way it is right now".

So exactly what is YOUR mind attached to?

If you could release all of your attachments, you could actually find inner peace and happiness in ANY situation you'd get into. Imagine that. What if your life depended on being able to find inner peace and happiness in EVERY situation you are in. Doesn't it already? What would be the first thing you would practice releasing from your thinking tomorrow morning? Be aware...sometimes if you think TOO hard, its difficult to know what we're really attached to or avoiding in our life.

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"Ah! Hard to see the dark side is." ~Yoda (Star Wars)

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The Universe in all its majesty, has devised an amazing plan for us. Everyday it makes sure that we are constantly reminded through various degrees and levels of suffering the things we are overly-attached to. So thank God for suffering! If pain didn't exist at all, we really wouldn't know what true pleasure would be. And without suffering, we'd all be an ignorant unconscious mess! The body's suffering tells us when to loosen up and relax more about life. It also can show us what to let go of and even how. If you get headaches, its saying you may need to chill out that over-worked thinking machine and spend 20 minutes in a deeper quiet and peaceful space inside you.

There is an art to enjoying suffering. The secret is to not be attached to ANY suffering as it occurs. Thinking about whatever you don't have, or what you want to have yet don't have yet, creates this tension in the body. You notice it? The more aware you become of it the more you'll begin to understand the thinking program that is creating it. Pain has a reason for being there, to awaken the mind from it's delusions. It really is a good thing, without ANY tension we would be lost, no compass to guide the map. Stress and suffering give us direction and dimension to our existence. They make life more real and even extraordinary.

You'll see, when you're not avoiding or attached to anything, your life will flow amazingly free and easy. Using your body as the suffering-indicator, you can practice releasing your attachment to the future/past thought and see how your relaxation level changes. Yet I must warn you, the mind is in a very deep habit. It will continue to seek the external world for happiness and forget where it truly resides (in the now) until it deeply unlearns what it's already learned.

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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is
everything. What we think, we become." ~Buddha

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Eventually after enough releasing of your mind's attachments, you will come to this deeper "knowing" that you are not your mind. Then your mind immediately stops being the one creating suffering in your life, and you become the master of your reality. What a great deal eh? That's enlightenment! Our minds however, being the amazingly smart machines that they are, want to be in charge and be right about EVERYTHING. Which simply means more attachments for you to release, yet also more enlightenment to come into your life.

As you may realize by now, there is extremely powerful quality about our mind. If you notice everything around you is something that was man-made and came from someone's mind, you might agree that it's the most powerful thing in the world. It is a wild thing. I see it as this 3D holographic movie, detailed in 360 degrees of 5 sense perception and pure imagination that is our tool for manifesting our dreams.

However many hours, days, years or lifetimes the mind tries to understand the truth, it will always be somehow limiting itself. Who we really are (a spirit) is much too vast for the mind to grasp. Infinite is way beyond its comprehension. Yet as spiritual beings we are truly limitless and our minds cannot fathom the degree of freedom and fulfillment our souls contain. So naturally it creates attachments to things it thinks will result in pleasure. Ice cream, rollercoaster rides, sexual fantasies, extreme financial abundance and even more adrenaline to spend it with. Our Mind/Ego wants it ALL. And shouldn't be afraid to settle for anything less.

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"Fear is the path to dark side side.
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate,
hate leads to suffering." ~Yoda (Star Wars)

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So HOW do I practice releasing this attachment and suffering? Simple. There's a meditation exercise below that will help you to focus on releasing those overly addicted thoughts, desires and sufferings instantaneously. I'm convinced that after 3 days of this exercise you will experience a considerable difference in feeling a new sense of personal freedom. Before doing this exercise, be aware however of what your mind is expecting to happen. Another attachment. Just have fun and become engaged in the experience, and practice accepting whatever your experience is, as it occurs.

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"The purpose of your life is to outgrow your dependence
on the external world for happiness, and continuously discover within you
an infinite source of awareness connected to deeper peace and higher power." ~Jafree

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