detachment
I haven't posted here for a while. My journey has been interesting and I feel a whole new dimension within me recently. My attachment to material things has decreased. This hasn't happened all at once, but has been a process of several years. I am now aiming to find a way to live in a house with three young children with books and toys and papers and pencils and general 'stuff' strewed about. My inner self has wanted to purge it all, but I recognise that my children need some of this for their own development. In order to live in harmony in this situation, I have found it helpful to remain detached from the 'stuff'. In this way, it does not bother me. We do keep any stray bits 'n pieces fairly tidy and the kids are free to get their rooms as messy as they want. I have also cut back on the amount of my own clutter. I used to surround myself with posters, signs I'd made, stickers, badges, many things that had positive messages on them. Perhaps after the c