The subject of attachment has come up a lot with me this week. My lovely friend Natasha sent me feedback on Nutritional Eating and said that as well as eating from the heart and being mindful, she has learnt, through yoga, to let go of attachments to food such as being being obsessed with what she eats and being aware of veering towards attachments to particular types of foods.
She says that letting go of food attachment is very liberating and food can once again become what it was always supposed to be...a fuel for our bodies, rather than putting it on some sort of pedestal, giving it all importance and obsessing about what food we are going to eat next.
Of course the attachments we have with food are emotional. Food is a very powerful tool in changing how we feel so it's no wonder we can be come so attached to it when it can make us feel so good..and so bad!!
So, today, two further conversations have led me to want to explore attachment further, especially when it comes to goal setting. I found this article (link above) and thought it dealt with the subject very well. My thoughts are now directed to "being connected with yourself" and how we can do this.
I have never liked setting goals and until recently, I could not understand why this was. I now recognsie that if I set a goal I would become attached to it! This would then lead to pressure, stress, feel of failure and ultimately I would give up! I now think that all of the things I have achieved are because they were my missions, my purpose. When I learnt to drive, my goal wasn't to drive, my mission was to be independant! When I trained as a Fitness Instructor my goal wasn't to be a Fitness Instructor it was to do something where I could use my skills and passion and help people! I think the difference with focusing on my mission rather than on a goal was that I was did the work I needed (learnt to drive, learnt fitness)while being connected (not attached) with myself and with my inner(spiritual) Guidance - my mission. Talking today to someone who has set a goal and now feeling the attachement to it, the fear, the pressure etc and someone else who has achieved her mission through learning, curiosity, enjoyment, exploration and passion I can see a big difference to each of their self belief and self worth.
The great news is that the "goal setter" has recognised that working for the goal was not bringing her the happiness she had thought it would bring and has identified her mission and purpose instead. She has now connected with herself and her spiritual guidance and has nothing to fear as she continues to be true to herself and her hearts desire. x x
Excellent comments Sue and I so agree about goals. I have set goals in the past and because they are so exact...SMART - specific, measured, achieveable, realistic and time bounded...if I didn't get reach them I felt a failure and if I did I felt lost as I had nothing left to achieve. Following your mission seems a much better idea and allows us a much wider scope. Also...and this is the yogi in me!.. never forget that true happiness can only be found within and can never be gained from outside sources. And we can find it, it's there! Really!! We just have to believe it and to reawaken it. xx
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The subject of attachment has come up a lot with me this week. My lovely friend Natasha sent me feedback on Nutritional Eating and said that as well as eating from the heart and being mindful, she has learnt, through yoga, to let go of attachments to food such as being being obsessed with what she eats and being aware of veering towards attachments to particular types of foods.
She says that letting go of food attachment is very liberating and food can once again become what it was always supposed to be...a fuel for our bodies, rather than putting it on some sort of pedestal, giving it all importance and obsessing about what food we are going to eat next.
Of course the attachments we have with food are emotional. Food is a very powerful tool in changing how we feel so it's no wonder we can be come so attached to it when it can make us feel so good..and so bad!!
So, today, two further conversations have led me to want to explore attachment further, especially when it comes to goal setting. I found this article (link above) and thought it dealt with the subject very well. My thoughts are now directed to "being connected with yourself" and how we can do this.
I have never liked setting goals and until recently, I could not understand why this was. I now recognsie that if I set a goal I would become attached to it! This would then lead to pressure, stress, feel of failure and ultimately I would give up! I now think that all of the things I have achieved are because they were my missions, my purpose. When I learnt to drive, my goal wasn't to drive, my mission was to be independant! When I trained as a Fitness Instructor my goal wasn't to be a Fitness Instructor it was to do something where I could use my skills and passion and help people! I think the difference with focusing on my mission rather than on a goal was that I was did the work I needed (learnt to drive, learnt fitness)while being connected (not attached) with myself and with my inner(spiritual) Guidance - my mission.
Talking today to someone who has set a goal and now feeling the attachement to it, the fear, the pressure etc and someone else who has achieved her mission through learning, curiosity, enjoyment, exploration and passion I can see a big difference to each of their self belief and self worth.
The great news is that the "goal setter" has recognised that working for the goal was not bringing her the happiness she had thought it would bring and has identified her mission and purpose instead. She has now connected with herself and her spiritual guidance and has nothing to fear as she continues to be true to herself and her hearts desire. x x
Excellent comments Sue and I so agree about goals. I have set goals in the past and because they are so exact...SMART - specific, measured, achieveable, realistic and time bounded...if I didn't get reach them I felt a failure and if I did I felt lost as I had nothing left to achieve. Following your mission seems a much better idea and allows us a much wider scope. Also...and this is the yogi in me!.. never forget that true happiness can only be found within and can never be gained from outside sources. And we can find it, it's there! Really!! We just have to believe it and to reawaken it. xx
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