What Are We Dragging Around?

The new human will cut the ropes from the things that we drag around. 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 living 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.

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 would 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 who we are.

This attachment to a job is merely the outcome of the importance we place on things in our daily lives. To obtain things we need to have money. To get money we need jobs. When we realize that things aren't important then our priorities and perspectives regarding jobs will shift along with them. This attachment to our job occupies a huge part of our psyche so to change our perspective on the accumulating of stuff will have a huge affect on our attachment to our jobs.

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 result 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.