From the moment we are born, we are bonding with things that we enjoy or depend upon, and resisting things that we dislike. As a new-born, between the life-giving nourishment and security of our mother’s breast, and the contrasting frustration when this is not available to us, we are already forming an attachment to something that gives us a sense of security, and resistance to something that makes us feel insecure. And so it goes as we move forward through life. The soul relates to the material realm through attachment, whether by excess or by lack. And when attachment moves beyond our control, it becomes an addiction and starts to control us. But always underpinning our lives is this one constant, conscious principle, there from birth, and simply re-shaping itself to accommodate each new experience, positive or negative, falling into and out of balance according to the minutiae of our nature and that of the things to which we become more or less attached.