One must arrive at a complete separation of one’s consciousness from these feelings of the body and its acceptance of illness and from that separated consciousness act upon the body. It is only so that these things can be got rid of or at least neutralised. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p106</ref>
=Why Practice Detachment?=
To become indifferent to the attraction of outer objects is one of the first rules of Yoga, for this non-attachment liberates the inner being into peace and the true consciousness.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace#</ref>
To lead the spiritual life … the first point is to overcome, all the attachments, for all these are absolutely contrary to the spiritual life.
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/conditions-for-admission</ref>
Detachment is the ESSENTIAL condition for the establishment of true Harmony in the most material Matter—the most external, physical Matter
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/january-31-1961#p11</ref>
The initial advantage of this process of detachment is that one begins to understand one's own nature and all Nature. The detached Witness is able to see entirely without the least blinding by egoism the play of her modes of the Ignorance and to pursue it into all its ramifications, coverings and subtleties—for it is full of camouflage and disguise and snare and treachery and ruse.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-three-modes-of-nature#p12</ref>
=How to Practice Detachment?=