DETACHING

OCTOBER 2025

May we ask our readers in incarnation to let go.  Let it go, let it go. All the things that you no longer need, and that you know you no longer need.

The time has come. Whether it is an old refrain that goes round and round in your head, or guilt, or shame, or embarrassment, or disappointment. Feel the release now, and know that all is well, and all manner of things shall be well.

Letting go, letting go, letting go. See the burdens, the depressions, the cloudiness floating away – even the not knowing any more. That too can be fluffed off now.  And then you can feel there is something solid, something renewed, something fresh that is left in your being now.

And we re-iterate that it is in your own being now. It is not half attached to anyone else, despite their closeness to, or their distance, from you.  This newly refreshed, extraordinarily okay you, stands alone, in the now moment.

Test the waters around you. Feel that although you don’t have attachments, or chains, or bonds connecting you to anyone else, you feel strong, and stable, and without fear. Being detached can come without fear. Standing alone can be totally okay.

This has been the problem, we suggest.   These cords or bonds or chains that attach you, not only to your old stuff, but also to people. This is the most difficult one to recognise and release, so you don’t hang on, and are able to stand alone, here now.

And then, you reassess.  As you release those chains or cords, you can feel around, look around in this wholly detached way.  See who and what you would bring back. Not to attach, but to be near, to be in your orbit, around you, but not attached to you, and most of all, not in you.

You can take time to reflect. You can put someone nearby and feel whether the cords suddenly come back, or you might know immediately that you do not want them anywhere near you. And you order your life accordingly. According to how you feel inside, alone, unattached. But not lonely.

And as you begin to feel what you need – recognise how much you are holding on to:  an outdated creative pursuit, perhaps, or there is someone you are not sure about, or there is something tangible, like an old table, that you don’t really like or need. Anything that doesn’t feel right, in this moment of refreshed aloneness, can go. You can feel it is no longer needed as an attachment, as a safety valve, as a ‘just in case’. Or a connection to someone or something that you don’t need any more.

It is time to change. It is time to recognise that new feelings, new experiences, new recognitions can emerge, can present themselves. And as you reflect, and just when you are no longer attached to the old, in whatever way you perceive that to be, you are free to be fully present to the new you, and the new way ahead. Because you can see it ahead of you.

And it will come. No matter what.

Why not sit quietly now and listen to Annie’s latest audio meditation: