What is a Spiritual Attachment?
Spiritual attachment is the persistent interconnection of another’s spiritual or emotional energy to yours. A spiritual attachment has many forms that can only be described metaphorically. It can be like a hook or a barb that penetrates your spiritual material. It can be an energy form that is interwoven or lodged within your spiritual body. It can even be a situation where the attached spirit is obsessed with you and never or rarely leaves your presence.
There are infinite reasons why this might happen, but they often fall into one of several categories. Obsession is a common cause of spiritual attachment.
In fact in some way all attachments are a form of obsession. I usually find obsessive spiritual attachments arise from emotional or sexual relationships. Intimate partners often find it difficult to let go. They will hang on spiritually even when they cannot stay physically. The simplest case is an old flame that just won’t die. They try to hang on even when all chances of being together have past. The most severe tend to be incestuous. Especially where a parent is sexually obsessed with a child and refuses to let the child go. I have found this type of spiritual attachment in mature adults who have dealt with the sexual abuse cognitively and emotionally and who’s parents have long since past, yet the spiritual attachment remains. It can be the most tenacious variety and can sometimes take many sessions to resolve.
Karmic debt can cause spiritual attachment. There are situations where you owe a spiritual debt to another. This is usually from a past life where you treated another person unfairly and must make it up. Sometimes it is a form of spiritual contract where you have agreed to help another spirit in this lifetime and you are not fulfilling that agreement. So, the spirit stays attached in some way, asking for you to fulfill that obligation.
Injustice or perceived injustice can cause another spirit to attach itself to your spirit. The reasons are too numerous to consider here, but usually it happens when another person is angry or jealous because of some real or perceived slight. This can occur in the family, in the work place, or literally anywhere. These are easy to relieve in most cases.
Magic, shamanism, and other forms of energy and spiritual manipulation can cause attachments. These can be extremely difficult to remove and must be approached with utmost care, especially when the recipient was complaisant. A version of this can also occur in master/disciple teacher/student and other similar relationships.
Deep concern about another person can cause an attachment to form.
You can invite attachments or even attach yourself to another spirit. Obsessive thoughts about another person or holding grudges can cause your spirit to attach to theirs. Placing yourself in or remaining in or around unpleasant people or environments can also increase the likelihood of attachments.
Usually I consider attachments to be adverse to your spiritual health, even your physical health. It is rare that they actually need to be there. In most cases they should be resolved.
I have a person asking me for help, saying lots of people are wearing her down. very powerful people are attacking her spiritually.
Do you know how to help?
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