BARNACLES OF LIFE

© 2009 Howard McQueen

We attach ourselves to people, objects in the world, beliefs, …
Attachments, as we learn to feel into them, begin to reveal
An ability for us to honestly appraise the energetic reactions and responses that encouraged our “attaching to” these relationships.

Then, we can also feel into and surrender to our choice for continuing to sustain and the quality of these habitual patterns.

Attributes like “how tightly we hold” an attachment or what is the nature of the psychic “cement” that forms the bond begin to illuminate and warm our awareness. We are well advised to bring loving-kindness to this work, else we can be harsh on ourselves and this can lead to denial and ascetic withdrawal.

What a wonderful way to play and feel into what we are attached to and how we use our attachments to create a sense of security, or senses of [fill in the blank here]. What an amazing experience, this becoming self-aware through feeling into the quality of what and who we are attaching to ...