An Adult Guide To Detachment

ScottCDunn
5 min readJun 23, 2019

How to let go long enough to get a grip.

Some time ago, I had a sort of epiphany. Most people think of epiphanies as this sort of quick realization that life is somehow better than it seemed before an epiphany. But I submit that most epiphanies are a result of a slow process of awareness finally coming to fruition.

My epiphany was about detachment, and it was the result of years of work, study and practice. I realized at that time, that I can detach from anything, like other people’s anger, outcomes, and mistakes.