Comments on: Detaching Self from “My Things and My Story” http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/41/detaching-self-from-my-things-and-my-story/ Growing in Wisdom and Enlightenment to Awaken the Highest Version of Who We Are. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:20:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Evita http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/41/detaching-self-from-my-things-and-my-story/comment-page-1/#comment-842 Evita Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:20:13 +0000 http://blog.evolvingbeings.com/posts/41/detaching-self-from-my-things-and-my-story/#comment-842 @ APRIL - Thank you so much for your visit and comment! Indeed detaching can be seen as a loss but only when we are blinded by how much we are actually gaining. The freedom from fear, worry and anxiety is priceless. Same as you mentioned the freedom and light feeling from things that drain our energy is huge! Many people do not realize the amazing gain yet, and hence I would have to say many are not yet ready. But some are, and in fact more and more each day are realizing that we are not our things and we are not our stories and this is leading many to transformational changes of immense calibre. @ APRIL – Thank you so much for your visit and comment!

Indeed detaching can be seen as a loss but only when we are blinded by how much we are actually gaining. The freedom from fear, worry and anxiety is priceless. Same as you mentioned the freedom and light feeling from things that drain our energy is huge!

Many people do not realize the amazing gain yet, and hence I would have to say many are not yet ready. But some are, and in fact more and more each day are realizing that we are not our things and we are not our stories and this is leading many to transformational changes of immense calibre.

]]> By: April Moore http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/41/detaching-self-from-my-things-and-my-story/comment-page-1/#comment-838 April Moore Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:13:49 +0000 http://blog.evolvingbeings.com/posts/41/detaching-self-from-my-things-and-my-story/#comment-838 Great Article... Detaching sometimes can be seen as loss. Are we ready to detach from all things that drain our energy? Great Article… Detaching sometimes can be seen as loss. Are we ready to detach from all things that drain our energy?

]]> By: Liara Covert http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/41/detaching-self-from-my-things-and-my-story/comment-page-1/#comment-312 Liara Covert Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:56:32 +0000 http://blog.evolvingbeings.com/posts/41/detaching-self-from-my-things-and-my-story/#comment-312 Exploring the history and energy of your jewelery drawer will trigger all kinds of key revelations. You will find new meaning in the choices of objects given to you by certain people. It is a treasure trove of information that offers limitless information about yourself, your state of mind and evolving personality. Ingest what you choose to see. Exploring the history and energy of your jewelery drawer will trigger all kinds of key revelations. You will find new meaning in the choices of objects given to you by certain people. It is a treasure trove of information that offers limitless information about yourself, your state of mind and evolving personality. Ingest what you choose to see.

]]> By: Evita http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/41/detaching-self-from-my-things-and-my-story/comment-page-1/#comment-209 Evita Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:29:42 +0000 http://blog.evolvingbeings.com/posts/41/detaching-self-from-my-things-and-my-story/#comment-209 Yes exactly Seth...this is a common misconception among enlightened people and also those who observe enlightened people. This also plagues a lot of those in religious orders too. Many feel that if you are close to "God" then you should not have or need anything, and heaven forbid you are "rich" - then surely you must be a fake. When really we all chose to come to this experience to enjoy the physical in whatever way we choose and there is nothing wrong with that - again - as long as we do not identify with it and understand those "stories" and "items" are not who we really are. And just as you say, it really does make life so much easier. Yes exactly Seth…this is a common misconception among enlightened people and also those who observe enlightened people. This also plagues a lot of those in religious orders too. Many feel that if you are close to “God” then you should not have or need anything, and heaven forbid you are “rich” – then surely you must be a fake.

When really we all chose to come to this experience to enjoy the physical in whatever way we choose and there is nothing wrong with that – again – as long as we do not identify with it and understand those “stories” and “items” are not who we really are.

And just as you say, it really does make life so much easier.

]]> By: Seth Garrison http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/41/detaching-self-from-my-things-and-my-story/comment-page-1/#comment-208 Seth Garrison Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:58:06 +0000 http://blog.evolvingbeings.com/posts/41/detaching-self-from-my-things-and-my-story/#comment-208 Many "enlightened" people take the detachment from things to mean not having any things. The true test of whether the ego is using things to create the identity of who you are is to imagine losing them. What would that feel like? How would you react? Knowing that they are just "things" and not who you are makes life so much easier. Knowing that you are not made more or less by the amount or value of things around you eliminates any need to care if something happens to them. Loved your personal example, Evita. Many “enlightened” people take the detachment from things to mean not having any things.

The true test of whether the ego is using things to create the identity of who you are is to imagine losing them. What would that feel like? How would you react?

Knowing that they are just “things” and not who you are makes life so much easier. Knowing that you are not made more or less by the amount or value of things around you eliminates any need to care if something happens to them.

Loved your personal example, Evita.

]]> By: Turning Something “Bad” Into Something “Good” - Evolving Beings http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/41/detaching-self-from-my-things-and-my-story/comment-page-1/#comment-201 Turning Something “Bad” Into Something “Good” - Evolving Beings Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:20:08 +0000 http://blog.evolvingbeings.com/posts/41/detaching-self-from-my-things-and-my-story/#comment-201 [...] far as sentimentality goes, I wrote a post about this topic a while back entitled “Detaching Self from My Things and My Story” where I shared with you a situation that I chose to experience and how I dealt with the [...] [...] far as sentimentality goes, I wrote a post about this topic a while back entitled “Detaching Self from My Things and My Story” where I shared with you a situation that I chose to experience and how I dealt with the [...]

]]> By: Debra http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/41/detaching-self-from-my-things-and-my-story/comment-page-1/#comment-189 Debra Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:07:48 +0000 http://blog.evolvingbeings.com/posts/41/detaching-self-from-my-things-and-my-story/#comment-189 I can so relate to the letting go. I started letting my house go last year. it took me a full year to release and clear out. I was in financial difficulty and ended up having to let the house go back to the bank. the house was killing me, my health and my soul. I would stand in my kitchen and talk to the house telling it 'thank you' for keeping my kids and i safe and dry but that it was time for me to let it go to someone who could take care of it. i blessed it. It took me the first 4 months of this year to sort and box 30+ years of stuff.(I even found birthday cards from when i turned 21 lol) I didn't have any help from my kids and I was blessed that a woman from church gave me 4 saturdays-what a slave driver but that is what i needed-someone to push me so that i wouldn't get bogged down in the memories. i probably still kept too much and that is my next project-to really decrease what i am holding onto. However, the freedom and clearing has been amazing. I am now ready to bring in all that is for my greater good, i have made space for Spirit to act. Blessings I can so relate to the letting go. I started letting my house go last year. it took me a full year to release and clear out. I was in financial difficulty and ended up having to let the house go back to the bank. the house was killing me, my health and my soul. I would stand in my kitchen and talk to the house telling it ‘thank you’ for keeping my kids and i safe and dry but that it was time for me to let it go to someone who could take care of it. i blessed it. It took me the first 4 months of this year to sort and box 30+ years of stuff.(I even found birthday cards from when i turned 21 lol) I didn’t have any help from my kids and I was blessed that a woman from church gave me 4 saturdays-what a slave driver but that is what i needed-someone to push me so that i wouldn’t get bogged down in the memories.
i probably still kept too much and that is my next project-to really decrease what i am holding onto. However, the freedom and clearing has been amazing. I am now ready to bring in all that is for my greater good, i have made space for Spirit to act.
Blessings

]]> By: Evita http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/41/detaching-self-from-my-things-and-my-story/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Evita Tue, 27 May 2008 21:15:04 +0000 http://blog.evolvingbeings.com/posts/41/detaching-self-from-my-things-and-my-story/#comment-105 Sister Wolf - thanks for your feedback and to answer your question, at that moment my only thought was to detach from the items and the stories that I had given them. Your suggestion of how to dispose of them is definitely valid as an alternate way. Yes I could have donated them or sold them personally or heck even thrown them right into the garbage, BUT that is not the point of this message or of this article. It is not about doing charity work but about detachment in whatever form - and for me at that moment that was the form I chose. And it is not only about jewelery, it could have been about photographs, clothes, furtniture or car for that matter. As for the attachement to money, in terms of donations it is actually easier to give the needy money where people can buy their own necessities. But I hope you are also not misunderstanding that being spiritual or enlightened DOES NOT mean living in poverty as people used to think in the past. I am detaching myself from items and stories but I still need to buy my own food, pay my own bills, etc. so that I do not need to become one of the needy and rely on others. It would have been a whole other story if I took the money and bought myself some new jewelery, etc. but as I wrote in the article above a few bucks for some of my own necessities like food and gas is what I got out of it. I am glad you were able to contribute your thoughts. Sister Wolf – thanks for your feedback and to answer your question, at that moment my only thought was to detach from the items and the stories that I had given them. Your suggestion of how to dispose of them is definitely valid as an alternate way.

Yes I could have donated them or sold them personally or heck even thrown them right into the garbage, BUT that is not the point of this message or of this article. It is not about doing charity work but about detachment in whatever form – and for me at that moment that was the form I chose.

And it is not only about jewelery, it could have been about photographs, clothes, furtniture or car for that matter.

As for the attachement to money, in terms of donations it is actually easier to give the needy money where people can buy their own necessities.

But I hope you are also not misunderstanding that being spiritual or enlightened DOES NOT mean living in poverty as people used to think in the past. I am detaching myself from items and stories but I still need to buy my own food, pay my own bills, etc. so that I do not need to become one of the needy and rely on others. It would have been a whole other story if I took the money and bought myself some new jewelery, etc. but as I wrote in the article above a few bucks for some of my own necessities like food and gas is what I got out of it.

I am glad you were able to contribute your thoughts.

]]> By: Sister Wolf http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/41/detaching-self-from-my-things-and-my-story/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Sister Wolf Tue, 27 May 2008 03:14:30 +0000 http://blog.evolvingbeings.com/posts/41/detaching-self-from-my-things-and-my-story/#comment-101 But, why did you sell your jewelry to a pawn shop?? This shows your attachment to money, does it not? You could have given the jewlery to any charity thriftshop, where its sale could benefit the needy. What a wasted opportunity to do some good. But, why did you sell your jewelry to a pawn shop?? This shows your attachment to money, does it not?

You could have given the jewlery to any charity thriftshop, where its sale could benefit the needy.

What a wasted opportunity to do some good.

]]> By: earthlingorgeous http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/41/detaching-self-from-my-things-and-my-story/comment-page-1/#comment-67 earthlingorgeous Sat, 03 May 2008 20:36:59 +0000 http://blog.evolvingbeings.com/posts/41/detaching-self-from-my-things-and-my-story/#comment-67 just dropping by ! happy weekend! just dropping by ! happy weekend!

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