Desire less. How to overcome the craving for shopping

Many of us do not even notice how often buy in the store unnecessary things. Extra wardrobe items or interior, cute little things that are pleasing to the eye. Unfortunately, the pleasure of shopping is illusory. And this phenomenon can and must be fought.

The modern world brings us to pull in consumption. We constantly want to buy. Whether to heal wounds, or to calm the instinct of a hunter, or to cool the desire of new emotions. I would like to have more, in order to feel greater.

If you think you have the desire to buy it is impossible to overcome, we are ready to argue with you. This problem is quite difficult to visualize. We are well-learned to carefully put all their things, to inscribe them in the interior, beautifully put on the shelves... It seems that everything is in order. But there is an effective way by which you can literally feel that you have too many things. Let's imagine that you will be a serious move. For example, in another city or country.

How many suitcases you need to pack all your belongings? How many items you can not take with you? How many things you leave the "overboard", thrown in the trash in front of a theoretical move?

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You see, it is one thing when everything is neatly arranged around and sort of creates an atmosphere of well-being and full life, and quite another when you're trying to physically lift, load and carry everything that was on the shelves recently shops.

What would life be like if we did not feel the need to buy?

Suppose it happened. In place of unrestrained consumption came the joy of simple pleasures and free. Walk in nature, Meditation, reading a book or work. Buying less we free ourselves from debt, nervous feelings and commitments. If things a bit, and then a large apartment is not needed and will not have to wrestle with where to store all earned back-breaking labor.

Of course, it is a utopia. We can not give up all of our desires. At least human visual examples that it could not. But what if we learn to recognize their own intentions and be able to control them? Instead of feeling sad about what we do not, it would be necessary to rejoice, that is.

• SecureWhen you feel the impulse to buy, or the desire to do the same as other people. Recognize the desire to solve problems with the help of shopping. Learn to see this moment, and mentally pronounce each time: "Oh, I again want to buy something."
• understandThat the momentum is not required to perform, it's just a desire that awakens in you. Accordingly, it is temporary. Feel, feel it, but do not succumb to the entreaties of the internal "hamster".
• Limit the number of their belongings. independently set boundaries. How many items is in your bag, how many shelves takes your clothes, how many personal items on your dresser. This must be done not to feel clamped in the frame. But in order to take a short break before the new purchase.
• appreciate every moment. The desire to buy things there because we seek new emotions, and therefore do not appreciate the present. We are not satisfied with what we have, we do not see how beautiful life is all around us, and spend their time in an endless race for ephemeral happiness. But in fact, for the joy enough for that particular moment. Just need to understand.
• rejoice detail. This phrase is uttered by all and sundry, but now you really should listen to her. If you learn to appreciate the morning sip of coffee, the warmth of the sun in November, a moment of inspiration or joy, your life will be filled with emotion. And you do not want to buy everything. Be interested in what is happening around. As much as it is banal sounds, but the coolest thing is usually free.

Finally, understand that all of the above rules - a long-standing practice. Of course, you do not get rid of the desire to buy something for one month. But a few weeks, you can cool pacify this desire to control it and learn how to get the right emotions and feelings of every minute. Do not reproach yourself for failure: the desire to consume aggressively bring to us through advertising, packaging, magazines and news. Succumb to temptations - this is normal. But we must not give up and fight them.