Remember. Concentrate on the moment. Feel. Don' think. Use your instincts. May the force be with you. ~Star Wars: Episode I. The Phantom Menace

There is something magical about releasing thoughts we are overly attached to. Think about those thoughts/feelings you cannot get rid of, the ones that seem to dominate your entire life, creating internal (and external) chaos. Notice whatever it is that you are attached to (or avoiding) is what's causing you the most suffering in your life right now.

Letting go of feelings or judgments that impede on our energy can actually change our entire understanding of reality. Check it out, you'll see. Maybe it's an idea of what's going to happen in your future, or perhaps an event that occurred in the past. If you wish to experiment with this and begin to release it, first look at what the mind is actually attached to (or avoiding) then take full responsibility for creating it. Watch the thoughts closely every time they come up, yet choose to remain undisturbed at your core...by being aware of your attachment and avoidance of it.

Can you think of anything in the world worth staying attached to? Maybe a good marriage, a solid income, a beautiful home and/or your children? Perhaps these seem good, yet notice what happens to you if those good things go away or change? We start clinging in quiet desperation.

Non-attachment doesn't mean indifference, rather its a state of total freedom in which you are the ultimate choice-maker in your life. Yet the mind has this nasty habit of clinging to everything it thinks gives you pleasure and consistently is getting attached to ideas of "the way it was" OR "the way it will be" and thus missing out on "the way it is right now".

So exactly what is YOUR mind attached to?

If you could release all of your attachments, you could actually find inner peace and happiness in ANY situation you'd get into. Imagine that. What if your life depended on being able to find inner peace and happiness in EVERY situation you are in. Doesn't it already? What would be the first thing you would practice releasing from your thinking tomorrow morning? Be aware...sometimes if you think TOO hard, its difficult to know what we're really attached to or avoiding in our life.