does the word 'desire' have negative overtones for you?

[xise]

Impulsive or fleeting surface-level desires are distractions that need not be explored (but exploration is, as always, acceptable); deep desires are important to explore.

I have a positive view of the word desire, but I think it's been given a "bad rap".

I think it's the surface level desires that can give desire a bad rap. But I think desire, which I define as deep desire as opposed to surface level impulses, overall, is a very important and very useful thing to explore. Deep desires come from often unrecognized deeply held beliefs, and thus it is a very useful way to explore the deep desire to directly access balancing and directly access the underlying core beliefs. Deep desire isn't to be overcome as Ra said; I think it is to be explored. Another tool, just like chakra-feedback, to use when balancing.

However, attachment is in general, not a useful thing. I think attachment to anything lacks acceptance of the present and having faith in the universe. But we're not ones to control that attachment; we're to accept it. Accept it, go deeper, and ask why the attachment exists. Once the cause of the attachment and not the symptom (the attachment itself) is identified, and subsequently balanced with new beliefs, the charge of the attachment dissipates and it ceases to exist.