Your Conscious, Friendly Mind – Day 12
1. In a compassionate meditation observe how attachment manifests in your life. What upsets you? What makes you anxious? When do you behave other than in ways you aspire to? Ask yourself what attachments and expectations are underlying your upsets and behaviors.
2. Notice how you are being affected by your attachments. How do they affect others? What tolerance and resignation, what unconsciousness misery has accumulated in your life as a result of these attachments?
3. Include time in your prayers each day to sit quietly, holding those attachments in the light of God’s mercy and love, asking God to show you the path to liberation, to ever-deeper devotion and conscious commitment to your Spirit. Offer your attachments to the Divine, your Instructor in the University of Life, resting in your trust that the transformation has begun.
4. Cultivate conscious awareness of the play between the opposite poles of attraction and aversion in your life. Become the impartial witness to this fundamental play of your mind.
5. Practice releasing whatever attachment, aversion or repulsion that arises as you go about your day. Over time, your expanded awareness will make it difficult for the thieves of lower mind to break into your house and rob you of the precious treasures of peace and harmony.
When you love someone with conditions and expectations, your love is limited, rooted in attachment, which is the root of all miseries. Love is not meant to bring miseries; it is meant to expand our life to infinite joy.
