Aparigraha: a lesson in non-attachment

I have been on a 15-year journey of non-attachment or as we refer to it in yoga, “aparigraha.” It is probably one of the most difficult concepts from my yoga teacher training to put into practice. 

As humans, we like certainty. To guarantee certainty, we tend to cling to or attach to people, to places, or to things that provide us with the comfort of knowing. And so we grasp and hold on so tightly to all that we want to be “ours.”