What Are You Attached To?

We very easily become attached to everything. We want to hold onto things the way they are. We cling, not wanting things to change, when life's very nature is change. You know the cliché: the only thing in life that doesn't change is change itself. However, that doesn't stop us from wanting and wishing it were different.

It is asking for the impossible - and what do we get for our trouble? Frustration and pain, and then because we're focused on the loss, our vibration is a magnet for more loss, more frustration and more pain. It's that Law of Attraction thing again.

Young people want to stay young forever don't they? And they grow old, and then instead of enjoying their age, the very peak of their lives, they suffer miserably, trying to hold onto that which is gone.

How about our bodies? One day the body itself has to go - so we can move on. But we are attached, forgetting it is only our temporary home. Many experience great pain trying to hold onto it when it's ready to go.
Meditation helps us to be less attached, for through it we experience that part of ourselves that is not the physical body. We may realize that we are just guests for awhile.

And Love? Oh my! We fall in love and immediately become attached. We become attached to what they do, what they don't do, and even what they might do. We become possessive, afraid they might fall in love with someone else, and the misery begins. We are out of our business and so into theirs, which is the cause of 90% of our troubles. In our attempts to control the other, what happens to love? It disappears. It cannot exist in a power struggle between two egos. Attachment is the number one killer of love.

Here is my prescription for Joy: Learn to love without possessiveness and control.
Love freely, deeply, and unconditionally. Don't base your love on external conditions over which you have no control. Allow what is - to be as it is. Stay centered, allowing life to come and go as it does. Trust that all that happens is for your well being - and you will not only be a lot happier - you will discover it is the truth.

Love, MaxWell

 

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