In my experience, cultivating this fully engaged and human aspect of non-attachment requires, as you've recognized, being in the moment and staying in the present, joyfully and courageously, yet unbothered by what arises and beyond clinging.
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Replying to @NoaidiX @asunflowerjane
As you've likely noticed, when attachment arises, it might seem to have a fiery quality. This heat often leaves us feeling unpleasantly agitated and even burnt. As soon as we notice that sensation, which usually arises in the body itself, it can become a marker or cue.
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Replying to @NoaidiX @asunflowerjane
That fiery sensation, sometimes associated with elevated heart rate, also reflecting anger or aggression, alerts me to a habituated grasping tendency, informing me that I've become attached in some unhealthy way. Noticing these sensations, I begin to know my mind through my body.
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Replying to @NoaidiX @asunflowerjane
When an instance of attachment next arises, I practice recognizing it with greater precision and speed. Each time, with practice, I improve. I thus catch the fire early rather than let it violently spread throughout me and beyond me into shared, interpersonal terrain.
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Replying to @NoaidiX @asunflowerjane
As I practice catching the fire earlier, I'm cultivating a refined awareness of its markers or cues. The refined awareness that arises from this can either 1) dissolve and douse the flames or 2) transmute the associated heat.
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Replying to @NoaidiX @asunflowerjane
Breath practice has been the most helpful for me in terms of dissolving and dousing the flames of unhealthy attachment. When I feel the fire kindling and notice my heart rate rising, I cultivate an embodied awareness of the breath, slowing and lengthening it. The flames diminish.
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Replying to @NoaidiX @asunflowerjane
Compassion and other heart-based practices have been the most helpful for me in terms of transmuting heat. When I feel the fire kindling and notice my heart rate rising, I regulate and reroute this heat intentionally, like a controlled fire that warms rather than burns.
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Replying to @NoaidiX @asunflowerjane
I cultivate the heartfelt aspiration for all to become unshackled from what binds them, myself included, converting the binding aspect of attachment into a committed presence and unattached immersion in the world of beings mutually unbinding.
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Replying to @NoaidiX @asunflowerjane
Through practice, the hot (-) quality of attachment cools (+) into unattached equanimity but remains warm (+) with compassion rather than cold (-) with indifference. Inner heat has been transmuted from poison into medicine.
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Replying to @NoaidiX @asunflowerjane
Integrating the recognition that objects of attachment are impermanent yet meaningful enables an easeful unbinding. Like flowing water, vapor, air, or empty space. I still breathe air and drink water with full appreciation, but I don't cling to them, as there's nothing to grasp!
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Hopefully this helps in some way. 
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Replying to @NoaidiX
:) You're generous, my friend. Thank you so much! Actually I know very little about this but I feel blessed to be afflicted with boundless curiosity; and when I noticed you walking on this supreme path, thought of seeking your help.
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