An Attachment is something that I need emotionally.
I am attached to whatever gives me emotional energy.
We all need emotional energy whether we are aware of it or not. We sub-consciously attach our Self to whatever supplies our emotional energy.
In order to guarantee my supply of emotional energy, I seek to own and possess whatever gives me emotional energy.
Whatever I own or possess in my life, I need because it gives me emotional energy.
When I lose a possession, lose ownership of something, or lose contact with someone who meets my emotional needs, I will grieve for the emotional energy that I am no longer receiving.
The sense of attachment to material things and people is strong enough in some instancies to allow them to kill another rather than incur its loss. Especially in the case of an attachment to a home and a family.
It is their emotional need and attachment that makes people possessive and want to own people and material things.
Being unconditionally free of needing material possessions and being emotionally independent of other people allows us to attain the prime attribute of ‘Detachment’.
Being attached is not the same as Being ‘Connected’ to my True Source of Emotional Power.