Detachment & Identity

Detachment Is Primary Skill for Sanity

• We’re All Insane! Second Edition will teach you how to think better and saner.

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“The essence of balance is detachment.” —Chinese proverb

“We have bound our souls to pleasure, whose service is the same of all evil.” —Seneca

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Must Be Able to Detach

• You must be able to detach from false identities.
• You must be able to detach from conflicts.
• You must be able to detach from persons, places, and things.
• The older you get, the more you need to detach from.

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Detachment & Attachment

• Detachment has nothing to do with not feeling or experiencing.
• Detachment has everything to do with feeling and experiencing without ego.
• You detach so that you can feel and experience.
• Attachment causes suppression and repression, not detachment.
• Attachment causes defensiveness and denial of feelings, not detachment.
• Attachment causes limited feelings and experience in order to protect your self-image.
• Attachment causes loss of contact with reality in order to protect your self-concepts.
• Detachment frees you from slavery to self-esteem, self-story, and ego.
• Attachment is the problem and detachment is the solution.

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8 Thinking Skills for Uprooting Thoughts

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Ask Yourself If You Can Exist Without—

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• Read and master the life skill of acceptance using the best combination of CBT, REBT, & Stoicism.

Related Pages of Free Information

1. 8 Thinking Skills for Detaching
2. Attachment & Detachment
3. Coping Skills: Free Help
4. Desire: Attachment to Desire Is the Problem, Not Desire
5. Deconstructivism: The Answer
6. Freedom—Psychological
7. Freedom—Spiritual
8. Quotations by Topic: Detachment & Attachment
9. Use Negation, Not Destruction

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