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Cultivating Detachment - Page 3
Cultivating Detachment: Seven Strategies
1) How does one learn to work with detachment? The answer to this question is the same as the
punchline to the old joke, "How
do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice!" Begin by practicing detachment with the small things in life, then
gradually apply the same mindset to larger issues.
2) Adopt the premise that working with
detachment is realistic and possible. The ability to work with divine indifference might look like an inborn personality trait,
but it is actually a mental skill, one that can be learned, practiced and eventually mastered.
If you find this principle hard to grasp, try this exercise. Think back over the
last decade of your life and make a list of all the people, places, plans, ideas and outcomes you thought you absolutely couldn't
live without. How many of these did you eventually learn to let go of, or simply outgrow your
need for? What this exercise will reveal is that you are already engaged in the process of learning
nonattachment. The difference is, now you're going to work with it consciously.
3) Be patient with yourself. When you make a conscious choice to practice nonattachment, you become aware of
the subtle currents of energy that feed into your learning process. It takes time to sort through and fine tune all the
various layers of perception involved.
4) Learn to keep a constant vigil over your thoughts and to
redirect and focus them whenever they stray.
5) Use your imagination to invent ways to approach life in a less detached way. The imagination is one of the most powerful
yet under-utilized faculties of the human mind.
6) Realize that you are not alone, there are people all over the world who strive every day to transcend their attachments:
Christians who practice divine indifference: Jews who seek to please God, Buddhists who tread "the Way," Hindus who practice
dispassion, and those who serve humanity under highly strenuous conditions. Realize too that those around you will benefit from
the light that radiates from your own consciousness through practicing nonattachment and that in doing so you
set a good example for others.
7) Work with affirmations, like those below. Choose the one you like and rewrite it
to suit your own personal style:
I hold my mind steady in Divine Mother's Light.
The dramas of daily events have no power to sway me.
I release all emotional attachment to outcomes.
Involvement yes, attachment no.
I enjoy living in the strength of nonattachment.
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