{"id":8002,"date":"2016-02-16T18:59:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T23:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=8002"},"modified":"2016-02-16T18:59:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T23:59:59","slug":"attached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2016\/02\/16\/attached\/","title":{"rendered":"Attached to Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Nobody.png\" alt=\"Nobody\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Nobody.png 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Nobody-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have you noticed \u2014 when you are living for the moment \u2014 you&#8217;re not attached to some fixed idea of who you are? In those moments of presence, you are you \u2014 you are nobody. There is no attachment to any idea of who you are.<\/p>\n<p>In those moments, you experience ultimate freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Our ego holds a powerful hold over us \u2014 and it causes us a lot of trouble. Situated in our lower mind, our ego is the part of our mental construct that needs for us to be a fixed thing, and one which is desirable and knowledgeable. Whereas our higher mind understands the freedom of being nobody, of needing no sense of fixed self. It knows the value of letting go of the desire to be desirable, and it accepts that our ignorance is our path to freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Despite what our ego tells us, what we need is to be open and learn. What we do not need is to give into our desire to be seen as special. Only when we&#8217;re not attached to who we are, can we allow ourselves to be \u2014 and be seen.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zoonabar\/2476225163\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Brown<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed \u2014 when you are living for the moment \u2014 you&#8217;re not attached to some fixed idea of who you are? In those moments of presence, you are you \u2014 you are nobody. There is no attachment to any idea of who you are. In those moments, you experience ultimate freedom. Our ego [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[202,6],"tags":[250,461,60,364,535,410,434,508,156],"class_list":["post-8002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-branding-2","category-growing","tag-attachment","tag-being","tag-ego","tag-freedom","tag-ignorance","tag-mental-concepts","tag-nobody","tag-perception","tag-presence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}