 wildcat says: Fortunately, there are ways to go about PROOFING YOUR BRAIN. 1. Change your mindset to “postmore” by challenging culture’s ingrained assumption that “more” of everything is automatically better. 2. Grow your gratitude. Our poor, starved, frozen ancestors would cry tears of joy if they suddenly landed in our culture of abundance. Fostering our appreciation of this bounty can also block the consumerist “cool” pressure to deride so many of our fine, workable possessions as “so last year”. 3. Be enough. We’re constantly told that we aren’t rich enough, glam enough, cool enough, networked enough, etc. This has a powerful insidious effect on our primitive, socially competitive brain circuits. It’s like a toxic substance that turns rational brains into needy toddlers wanting “more, more, more! Grow your gratitude.Poppity pop pop pop, Wildcat! 1.great clip. 10x wildcat. 2. well done bignose. 3.we may start by acknowledging that at least sometimes more is less. facto. 4.we may clean out what some call the visual pollution as (clipped here) done in the Brazilian city of Sao Paolo. MOST EXCELLENT WILDCAT! I agree! Don't we have enough? It IS better to purchase on your own, rather than be forced to comply. I'm happy to be enough, it's toeing that mark that is the challenge. I hate the feeling of being "bogged down" by stuff and I hate having to clean it all and de-clutter and ugh!! In fact, I have always gotten a thrill out of NOT buying stuff. When I see an ad, I chuckle to my self and think yeah right, nice try, but you're not ripping ME off!! My money is not made to give to the "corporations". They have enough. I see folks struggle with credit card debt. Buying stuff, then worrying someone will come and take their stuff away, so they have to insure that stuff. Then they have to buy a bigger house to hold all the stuff they have, while they go to work to pay off all the stuff they never get to enjoy, because they have to go to work all the time! Is that a lif... I have zero credit cards (or credit) no bank acct., no debt, few possessions (TV, computer, radio/cd player, microwave, space heater cuz i'm in Alaska, bicycle, limited wardrobe, books that i recycle often and like dat). I could pack and move in one day easy, I see my son and his wife collect stuff and go into debt and get caught up in that jazz until recently when they sold their house and moved and learned a big lesson. Hah! Now they're keepin' it simple! Now all i need is a migration Soth to the Oregon Coast and a beach to play on! Happiness is in the simple life and inner clarity. STUFF is over rated. Never quit aspiring to make more money - financial freedom should be everyone's goal. To buy what you want and live how you want. Who wrote this? A Communist? hahahahahahahahahaha, Luv your one comment frenchy. Yeah, good one. Erich Fromm once wrote a book called 'To Have or To Be', haven't read it, but I've always thought the difference between the two perspectives was pretty wide. The havers are the ones that look somewhere else for purpose and enjoyment. The be-ers (not beers) are those that live more for today, as being in the now is enough (sometimes abundantly so), instead of doing crap work now for benefits later (be they possessions, heaven, whatnot). And not to forget, there were times (not all that long ago) when advertising wasn't around to tell people about all that awesome shit they absolutely need that'll increase happiness x-fold. |
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