September/October 1999
Articles on the theme "Attachment & Detachment"
Life's Parade
by Bob Gonzalez
Of death, meditation, possessions and
true detachment.
Responding Resourcefully to Criticism
Cydné Battreall
Learning to detach or disassociate
to create new ways of responding to criticism.
The Ultimate Release
by Constance Felos
Forgiveness: the conscious, energetic
release of debilitating attachment. Death of the body: the ultimate release
of physical attachment.
You and Your Thoughts
by Patrick Plaskett
The problems of identifying ourselves
with our thoughts and emotional responses.
Cultivating Detachment
by Dr. Neil Cooper
Detachment as part of a spiritual practice.
Its role in connecting us with Source, Spirit, Energy, Qi, Consciousness.
In The Heart of God
by Ron Graham
How attachment and detachment can be
good or bad. Sorting out which is which.
Attachment & Detachment - Their Hidden Meaning
by Magzcha Westerman
The numerological significance of the
words Attachment and Detachment.
The Rewards of Release
by Dr. Audrey Craft Davis
The rewards of releasing losses to
the universe. Releasing others from the bondage of our thoughts.
Transcending Attachment
by Rev. Pat Cross
Using attachment and detachment to
help us reach a higher spiritual level - a connection with our true Source.
Detachment Brings Joy
by Rev. Nancy L. Buchanan
Of going with the flow to achieve a
positive lifestyle.
Other Feature Articles
Natural Health Q & A
by Dolores Puterbaugh
A discussion of some of the physical
and emotional changes and challenges women face going through menopause.
2000 and Beyond!
by David Findlay/ Patricia Diane Cota-Robles
What is . . . Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)?
by Sam Jarcynski and Greg Stanek
Mineral Kingdom
by Judy Power
Featured stones for September and October:
Peridot and Natrolite.
Transcending Attachment
by Rev. Pat Cross
Getting stuck between attachment and detachment is an uncomfortable, unhealthy, and unproductive place to be. It's like sitting on the fence waiting for something to happen.
Attachment denotes hanging on to or holding on to someone or something. Detachment denotes setting oneself free from attachment to someone or something. There's a fine line between knowing when to hold on and when to let go. And this comes through personal experience.
The Serenity Prayer says: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." But what is this wisdom? And how do we get it?
Wisdom is the intuitive feeling and inner knowing that comes to each of us in its own special way. It generally arrives in our life through much human trial, error and experience.
As we learn from our spiritual teachings - whatever our core beliefs, disciplines and practices are - thoughts become things: the law of cause and effect. So, in essence, it's our own thoughts and feelings about anyone, beginning with ourselves, that creates and determines the nature of our experience and reality. The mind is a powerfelt tool and can be used constructively or destructively. As the Course in Miracles declares, illness is anger taken out on the body. In truth, our body is an outpicturing and a reflection of our mind or consciousness and the nature of our thoughts. So it behooves us to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative and don't fence with Mr. in-between.
It is necessary for each of us to discover and examine the wherefores, foundations and origins of both our attachments and detachments.
As spiritual beings living human experiences in this plane of life, each of us has acquired many human attitudes, thoughts, feelings, opinions and beliefs that make us who and what we are. Many of the factors of our human identity are grounded in core beliefs of our childhood and, in many cases, are actually core beliefs of others that were passed on to us and which we became attached to and accepted as true for ourselves.
Spirit is ageless, so age is no hindrance or barrier to growing spiritually and growing up to your Higher Self. The point of power for change is always in this Now Moment. NOW IS THE APPOINTED TIME!
Spirit recognizes and knows nothing about attachment or detachment as they are only human concepts, beliefs and opinions.
When we take a spiritual approach to life and living and see all life in the light of spiritual truth, we realize that we are all on an individual path of spiritual enlightenment unfoldment and growth. And though our paths may be different and lead us in varied directions, we do have a common bond of spirit: the spirit of God's love as the core and center of our being. In him we live, move and have our being.
The greatest source of life and resource for living life abundantly is found within ourselves when we make this divine connection.
When we know and accept our true spiritual identity, feel and experience this oneness with the One and live in the reality of this truth, we become aware of judging, criticizing, complaining, condemning, comparing, competing, resisting and any other culprit human traits and characteristics that are best for us to detach from. Likewise it's vital, life-giving and life-supporting that we humans attach ourselves to the fruits of the spirit: unconditional love, forgiveness, patience, mercy, compassion, understanding, appreciation, praise, kindness, acceptance, release and other qualities of divine origin.
The process of attachment and detachment is an internal cleansing, purification and renewal of our own consciousness . . . a surrendering of the human to the divine.
Equally important and essential for our wellness and vitality of being is detaching ourselves from other people's responsibilities, and not allowing ourselves to attach or make real for us the human traits, habits, and process of growth of others. This kind of behavior fringes on addictiveness and can create much havoc, unhappiness and suffering. This is an infringement, condemnation or a sin . . . self-inflicted nonsense against our own essence and true beingness.
Life is too precious to allow ourselves to get upset or disturbed by anyone or anything. It's a waste of energy and causes egregious moments of life and living.
The utmost gift we have to offer to ourselves and to each other is being a living example of unconditional love in action by practicing being the spirit of God's love and almighty presence and power in, as and through the life that we are.
Through the grace of God, irrelevant of the facts surrounding our human birth, each of us was conceived in God's Love . . . and born to be! To live in God's Love is our birthright and is befitting and enhancing to the progression of the soul. It's the spiritual essence of our beingness that transcends all else. Namasté.
Rev. Pat Cross is a Science of Mind minister, lecturer,
author of "Spiritual Awakenings", counselor, teacher and workshop
facilitator. Holiday, FL. (727) 934-6730. patcross@hotmail.com.
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