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		<title>Protected: Spiritual Attachments and Victims of Sexual Abuse (contact us for password)</title>
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		<title>What is a Spiritual Attachment?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spiritual attachment is the persistent interconnection of another&#8217;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. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmichaelroland.com%2Fspirituality%2F2008%2F12%2F03%2Fwhat-is-a-spiritual-attachment%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmichaelroland.com%2Fspirituality%2F2008%2F12%2F03%2Fwhat-is-a-spiritual-attachment%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Spiritual attachment is the persistent interconnection of another&#8217;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.<br />
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.</p>
<p><span id="more-10"></span>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&#8217;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 <a href="http://michaelroland.com/spirituality/2009/05/07/spiritual-attachments-victims-of-sexual-abuse/">sexual abuse</a> cognitively and emotionally and who&#8217;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.<br />
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.<br />
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.<br />
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.<br />
Deep concern about another person can cause an attachment to form.<br />
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.<br />
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.</p>
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		<title>Not Feeling &#8220;Yourself,&#8221; Lately?</title>
		<link>http://michaelroland.com/spirituality/2008/11/30/not-feeling-yourself-lately/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever had a sense of doom, fear, anxiety or other unpleasant emotions for seemingly no reason? Do you ever have feelings that just come over you out of the blue? It&#8217;s possible that you have a forgotten experience that has been triggered by a recent event. There may be a good reason for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmichaelroland.com%2Fspirituality%2F2008%2F11%2F30%2Fnot-feeling-yourself-lately%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmichaelroland.com%2Fspirituality%2F2008%2F11%2F30%2Fnot-feeling-yourself-lately%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Have you ever had a sense of doom, fear, anxiety or other unpleasant emotions for seemingly no reason? Do you ever have feelings that just come over you out of the blue? It&#8217;s possible that you have a forgotten experience that has been triggered by a recent event. There may be a good reason for those feelings that is hidden in your past&#8230;<em>or maybe not.</em></p>
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<p>Emotions are energetic patterns. I don&#8217;t mean this in the abstract, but literally. Emotions can be strong energetic patterns that are so dense and structured that they can maintain their form as they transfer from one person to another. This can be a wonderful experience when you are in love. It can be a valuable experience if you are a therapist. It can be an unpleasant or even dangerous experience if you receive a bad emotional pattern and you can&#8217;t shake it.</p>
<p>I encourage everyone to be responsible for their own emotions and not to lay blame on others for their own feelings, but sometimes those feelings are not actually yours. They are transplants!</p>
<p>It can be very liberating to finally get rid of them.</p>
<p>Michael</p>
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		<title>John of God Revelation.</title>
		<link>http://michaelroland.com/spirituality/2008/11/25/john-of-god-revelation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John of God is a famous spiritual healer in Brazil. He has been doing spiritual healing for over 50 years with astonishing results. I had the good fortune to visit him while traveling in South America. During that visit I had a profound and deeply moving experience, the details of which I have only shared [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmichaelroland.com%2Fspirituality%2F2008%2F11%2F25%2Fjohn-of-god-revelation%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmichaelroland.com%2Fspirituality%2F2008%2F11%2F25%2Fjohn-of-god-revelation%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>John of God is a famous spiritual healer in Brazil. He has been doing spiritual healing for over 50 years with astonishing results. I had the good fortune to visit him while traveling in South America. During that visit I had a profound and deeply moving experience, the details of which I have only shared with my closest confidants until now.</p>
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<p>Profound spiritual revelations are normally reserved for our own private contemplation, but adding this account to the web, I can communicate to those who would like to hear my experiences.</p>
<p>Casa de Dom Ignacio serves hundreds of people per day. I stood in line with people from all over the world some sick, some curious, even some healers like myself. As I approached John of God my body began to tremble slightly and I felt like sobbing. When I was finally in front of John of God I simply asked for help in continuing on my spiritual path.</p>
<p>&#8220;Sit and wait,&#8221; were his only words as he motioned toward a nearby chair. Trembling began to intensify as I sat down. I closed my eyes. As my body was shaking tears began to flow from my eyes. I felt the presence of a power so high and so beautiful that it defies explanation. It was in the presence of this beauty, that a new understanding of Chinese medicine and qigong was revealed to me. I was having a profound vision. It was made clear to me that I would now be able to remove <a href="http://www.michaelroland.com/FAQ.html"><span>emotional and spiritual blockages</span></a> from other people and that I would be able to do it from any distance, even thousands of miles.</p>
<p>It took two days of rest and contemplation to recover from the event. During my entire two week stay I was constantly receiving similar yet less intense interventions, all of them, in some way, preparing my body and spirit for future work.</p>
<p>Since that time I have been giving remote qigong treatments to people from all over the world. We simply make contact by phone or internet and then commence the session. As you may know, I have been a professional acupuncturist for over fifteen years. I&#8217;ve done scientific research and worked for Dr. Andrew Weil&#8217;s Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona.</p>
<p>With this new ability I hope to reach people in need without the necessity of proximity. If you have seen me before you will have a very similar experience to the treatments you received in my office as a patient. If you are new to me, then you may be surprised that you can actually feel the work as it&#8217;s happening from thousands of miles away.</p>
<p><span><a href="http://www.MichaelRoland.com/">www.MichaelRoland.com</a></span></p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>Best Regards,</p>
<p>Michael Roland, L.Ac., MTCM</p>
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