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We've been exploring the centrality of self-kindness to the process of stopping overshopping. It's the all-important lubricant that keeps the engine of change running smoothly. To say it more directly, it's the stance that allows you to look clearly and non-judgmentally at your overshopping behavior and then choose healthier and more fulfilling alternatives.

Thus far, we've tried to match the underlying needs that drive three categories of shopping addiction-shopping for action, spontaneity, and relaxation-with alternative activities that more healthily fulfill those needs.

Today, we'll begin a look at the crucial fourth category, sensual joy. Our five senses offer us unlimited opportunities for pleasure. Sensuous self-kindness can soothe or celebrate the body, heart, mind, and soul. Touch, smell, taste, sight, and hearing each bring something unique and wonderful to life's table.

Look through the examples that follow, try them on in the light of your own overshopping behavior, and see if any of these shoes fit. As always, appropriate anything that looks interesting to you, and invent half a dozen other alternatives that light up your senses.

Touch: Do you love silky fabrics? Nubby tweeds? The feel of velvet? The texture of metal or wood? When you're out shopping, are you reaching for tactile delights? What else could offer you the comfort or joy of touch-and not break the bank?
o Play in the mud or in the garden.
o Take a bath with fragrant oils or get a massage.
o Pet a kitten, hold an infant, or stroke someone's hair.
o Sew or knit.
o Do some woodworking.
o Throw a pot.
o Bake some bread or make a pie crust.

Taste and Smell: Chocolates? Scented candles? Yellow roses? Perfume? Even if you don't actually seek out the sensuous pleasures of taste and smell while you're shopping christian louboutin, fantasies about future mouth and nose pleasure may drive overshopping-for kitchen equipment, backyard barbecues, even clothing to wear at expensive restaurants. What healthier ways can you think of to feed your craving for these experiences?
o Prepare food for yourself, and slow down and taste it.
o Enjoy coffee at home air jordan high heels, and grind the beans yourself.
o Smell the roses whenever and wherever you see them.
o Go for a walk in the rain; notice the freshness.
o Inhale the scent of newly cut grass.
o Breathe in the perfume of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.

Next time, we'll continue our look at self-kind alternatives to shopping, at healthier ways to fulfill the underlying need for sensual joys of sight and hearing.
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The most basic principle of positive thinking is - "whatever we think about expands", so if we're constantly thinking about "doom and gloom" we will get more of it. Having everyone be aware of "doom and gloom" has not made it go away. What will make it go away is a change in focus and taking positive action accordingly. And that change in focus begins with each of us as individuals. Even if you do have to listen to the merchants of doom and gloom at least keep it to a minimum!Here's a wonderful quote on courage by Mary Anne Radmacher, to finish this article (please use it and share with those who simply need some inspiration during the current challenges we face):"Courage does not always roar, Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow"