Creative Detachment

If we find that the answers to some of our problems seem to defy solution, how can we ever solve them? One approach might be: think of our problems differently, so differently that they bear no resemblance to how we thought of them before. Let’s for the moment, not get sidetracked into asking how that approach could possibly work.  The truth is: if we have persistent problems that do not submit to a satisfactory solution, perhaps it may be because of rigid thinking that never varies because of a consistent context, justification or character that we have become attached to out of sentiment, anger or resentment. 

Sometimes opening ourselves up to a different perspective may help to shed some light on how the problems can become opportunities to adopt different attitudes about who we are, why we are, and how we are responsible for our situation and whether we want to let go of them, and why we don’t.

Our problems are temporary, just as we pass away, they will also pass away. That’s a clue, our problems are attached to or symbiotically dependent on who we think we are. So if we were to think that we no longer existed, then our most cherished issues or problems would no longer exist. Perhaps we could imagine a new life or identity for ourselves. This alternate self, would embody all the strong, positive traits, behaviors and attitudes that we admire in others. We must feel that we deserve to have the best, be the best, and exhibit the best. Fake it until we make it.