great post, we often make these connection to object that you speak of inanimate or animate like you speak. Yet even if we let go of these object or entities we still have made a neural connection to it. What ever emotion we connected with that thing the first time or the second will immediately come back again if we happen to reconnect to that certain thing.

I have trouble of letting go of thing because of feeling like I might not be able to connect with that memory, emotion or certain feeling if i dont have that physical object easily accessible. This is false thinking since these energies come from within, yet i still catch myself thinking this way.