The
New Planet Earth Series
By Seth Garrison
Part
6 - Attachment - Our Need For Things
Attachment to people and things
plays a big part in our lives. Examples of what attachments
are and how they affect us will be discussed with the intention
to help people examine their insatiable need for "stuff."
The human on the new planet earth will be free from all
the things that, in duality consciousness, tie us down.
Humans on the new planet earth
will be free from attachments. We will not be carrying around
all the things that weigh us down. Our minds will be quiet.
We will have inner peace, free from worrying about all the
things that tie us down now. With the shift to Christ consciousness
we will be free to experience life in the moment without
having our experiences in the past or future. To explain
this concept, first there needs to be a definition of what
attachments are and how they play a role in inhibiting us
from the freedom that will be an attribute of humans on
the new earth.
There are so many aspects to
the description of what attachments are and how they affect
us in duality consciousness that it may take more than one
article to do it. Some of the examples of attachment will
be controversial and tread on some deep seated beliefs.
but as I have previously stated, the new consciousness will
be a complete overhaul of our perspective and how we interact
with each other. We attach our selves to things, to jobs,
to spouses, to our children, to expectations and outcomes.
I will start with the most obvious
example of attachment first and possibly the most talked
about aspect of our society. The attachment to things.
Stuff
In present day society the attachment
to things is a huge factor in how we live our lives. We
love to accumulate stuff. We protect our stuff. We worry
about whether our stuff is OK and whether someone will take
our stuff. We spend a third of our lives working to have
the money to buy stuff. Countless hours are spent looking
for stuff to buy. Our happiness sometimes hinges on whether
we can buy more stuff. Our home, our cars, our things become
a part of us. They are attached to us. We take them with
us wherever we go either by literally taking them or by
thinking about them when we are away from them. A huge amount
of our lives is spent on obtaining, thinking about, worrying
and taking care of our stuff. We seem to love to amass it,
store it and have to get a large truck to move it. What
does our stuff do for us?
Does it make any real difference
in our lives? Does it bring us happiness? Does it give us
status in society? Does it make others love us more? Does
it merit the importance we seem to give it?
Does it ties us down? Is it hard
to leave our stuff from fear of something happening to it?
Our stuff is attached to us. It can almost rule our lives
if we allow it.
This practice of looking outside
ourselves for things to bring us happiness has grown into
an albatross that just hangs around our necks making us
do many things that we probably wouldn't do if we didn't
have the intense desire for accumulating stuff. What would
our lives be like if we didn't have this stuff? What would
we think about? What we buy with the money from our hour
intensive jobs? I like to look at poor cultures in our world
that don't have the access and ability to buy the stuff
that we have in our so-called modern society. Are these
people happy without a lot of stuff? They sure seem happy
to me.
Jobs
To gives us the ability to buy
stuff we need jobs. We need to earn an ever increasing amount
of money to be able to keep buying and storing this stuff.
These jobs become so important that we get attached to them.
We carry them around with us also. They define who we are.
They define our status. We worry about losing them just
like we do with our stuff. They also occupy a huge chunk
of our thoughts and time in our days. The next question
that is usually asked after meeting someone after name is
"what do you do?" They are attached to us like
a badge that tells all who we are. They can also take over
as the highest priority in our lives. Is what job we have
really who we are. Is what we do more important than what
we are. This attachment to a job is merely the outcome of
the importance we place on things in our daily lives. When
we realize that things aren't important then our priorities
and perspectives will shift along with them.
Now the controversial examples
of attachment. The attachment to people.
Spouses
Many words and cliches are used
to describe our relationships to our spouses. We enter into
wedlock. We tie the knot. Our better half. Marriage. The
union of two people.
These words all denote an attaching
of two people together. The prevalent belief is that we
are not whole without the joining with another. This concept
is deeply rooted in duality consciousness where there is
two separate opposite things. Male-female, good-bad, right-wrong.
With this belief we look to join with another to attain
this feeling of wholeness.
With that union there comes the
feeling of ownership of the other. My wife or my husband.
They are expectations of how the other should act. It can
create feelings of possessiveness and jealousy. It can cause
thoughts of fear of losing them or feelings of inadequacy
or standards that are not lived up to. A myriad of negative
emotions can result when we attach to another person. The
same things as my description of attachment to things can
also apply with people. This example of attachment may be
hard to understand but all attachment is the same. Attaching
or trying to own another can cause disagreements as to which
way each one chooses to go. If the other person doesn't
live up to your expectations of how you think things should
be then arguments often follow. The results can be a separation
from each other both figuratively and literally. Freeing
each other, untying the knot that comes from this form of
attachment. Seems the most successful relationships between
two people is when they both recognize that they are whole
unto themselves.
With the next step in human evolution,
we know that we are god. That we are whole. That we have
all we would ever need inside our selves. That we do not
need anything or anyone outside of our selves to feel complete.
That each person is an entity unto his or her own. Enjoying
the time together but allowing each other to grow and experience
things of their choosing. Accepting each other's choices
in all things knowing that being and feeling free to follow
one's desires is paramount to inner peace and contentment.
There are more examples of attachment
that I will have to extend to another article for this topic.
As I have said, this subject is long and possibly painful
to examine. It touches areas of our beliefs that some may
label as unthinkable for us to ever change to. The next
article will discuss the attachment that we have to our
children and how this attachment causes us endless grief
and worry and prevents us from being truly free. To experience
the freedom that we will have with the attributes of the
human being on the new planet earth.
Seth Garrison is a certified
Overlight Facilitator and creator of the energy healing
system called "Back to Perfection". Overlight
is a spiritual psychology that is designed to identify the
root source of their dis-ease, be it mental or physical,
and create a space for them to feel comfortable enough to
heal themselves. More topics from Seth can be found at http://www.thesourceishere.com
or his blog at http://www.thesourceishere.com/blog/
Seth
Garrison is a certified Overlight Facilitator and creator
of the energy healing system called "Back to Perfection".
Overlight is a spiritual psychology that is designed to
identify the root source of their dis-ease, be it mental
or physical, and create a space for them to feel comfortable
enough to heal themselves. More topics from Seth can be
found at www.thesourceishere.com
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