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.
You can find more about spiritual attachments and spiritual development in my book Soulbaby: A Spiritual Odyssey
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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I used to have a lot of attachments and ones that were passed on to me by others. But here recently I can see them and communicate with them and I see them on other people. Not all the time but quite often. No joke. I don’t do drugs and lead a fairly normal life. not religious but beleve in God. Not sure what to do about it …
Any thoughts?
Comment by Josh — August 30, 2010 @ 11:01 pm
That is really bizarre. I have never heard of something like this before. I didn’t know that spirits could attach themselves to other people simply because of an obsession. That is scary.
Comment by Jacob Woods — September 25, 2010 @ 6:15 am
I myself have experienced spiritual attachments and they are not always pleasant. All of the above statements have been true throughout my past. It depends on the spiritual energy that we have within ourselves and what we are doing or how we are feeling at the time. I have had many people pass on and I find that they can attach themselves to you if you are sensitive to that. Other people’s energies can attach themselves to you as well. Just learn how to release them … however, they do and will come back. Just keep up a good and positive inner light and know how to deal with them when they do.
Comment by Jessica — June 30, 2011 @ 10:39 am
can anyone explain to me the following?
I have told that i have an attachment and that i have a ora that has firework?
The attachment is evil and if i go to a spirtual church no reading happen and i have tried to have reading done but no one is able to do them
thanks
Comment by steve — July 3, 2011 @ 3:34 pm
I am experiencing this all the time not – i believe i have spiritual attacments – some have been not so good in the past – its as though some are showing me incidents in their lives when they lived on earth.
I dont see them as dreams as some of them are quite vivid,whe i havent been completley asleep i have opened my eyes and can see a very blck dark mist – sometimes i blow them away but at other times they have entered my body.
I do believe in God,but from other religious sites it says i have these experiences because i have sinned in my life and that i continue to do so.
Some of the spirits i feel are not bad,not all are evil they just need guidance too the light and attach to me because we have lived similar paths in life,others i feel are relating memorys of how they died and left this life,it is difficult for me to elplain,why would i dream about a woman in woods with a man following her,she was trying to get away,i woke up before i found what happens – can spiritual attachments control what you dream about?
This did not make sense,i am in 2 minds if to go to a spiritual church as the bible says it is wrong even though i am not religious – any help would be appreciated!
Comment by Mark Randell — July 20, 2011 @ 10:24 am
I have a spiritual attachment to an old partner. Mine is the first one talked about, obsessive thoughts, an intimate partner that can’t let go. We were together for three years, and have been apart for a year, he has another long-term girlfriend and he didn’t feel the same way about me anymore, which I also ‘knew’ spiritually. I have felt an inner knowing that we were connected by a golden thread, and shortly after we broke up I saw that thread cut. But I just have not been able to let go. I can feel my spirit still aching for theirs, still feeling theirs (though not the extent that it was). I don’t know what to do, I want it to stop. It used to control my thoughts, and my dreams and sleep. He would appear to me in the background. I never saw his face in dreams when we were together, only when we broke up. We were very connected, but haven’t spoken in a year and I don’t know whether he can still feel it or not, but something deep within me is still holding very tightly and no matter how I think or feel about the situation, it won’t let go.
I think my spirit feels that he was the ‘one’, but I have been told by an established psychic/medium that he is not. And I want to move on but sub-consciously I can’t.
Comment by Tara — November 16, 2011 @ 6:20 pm
Removing these kinds of attachments is the work I do everyday. I’m here to help, if you like. Just check my booking page. Best, Michael
Comment by admin — November 17, 2011 @ 3:51 am
Michael, Thankyou very clear on explination, as has answered alot of questions for me but also created more-? looks like ill check your book out, as i have to know a how as to not let it happen again.! once again thankyou an bless ur a star
tanya x
Comment by tanya — December 31, 2011 @ 2:00 am
ps there are truly a few beautiful souls on this page- an i hope you all find the answers to your questions. especialy steve
Comment by tanya — December 31, 2011 @ 2:18 am