Bringing Awareness To Your Attachments
Most of the things we desperately try to hold on to, as if they’re real, solid, everlasting fixtures in our lives, aren’t really there. Or if they are there in some form, they’re changing, fluid, impermanent, or simply imagined in our minds.
Life gets a lot easier to deal with when we understand this.
On a daily basis, I challenge you to consciously ask yourself:
- What are you desperately trying to hold on to in your life right now?
- How is it affecting you?
- Then imagine the thing you’re trying to hold on to doesn’t really exist.
- Envision yourself letting go… and floating.
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