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Your most welcome for the list, Becky, and congratulations on your success!

Thank you for sharing with us this excellent resource. I’ve bookmarked it – there’s a wealth of information there!

Steph @ Live Lighter.org

Great list! I just took your advice and decided to brush my teeth rather than eat another muffin! It really did help.

There is a great book that you might be interested in that covers the topic of emotional eating. The book is titled, “Obesity Free Forever:
Losing Weight from the Inside Out” by Georgene Collins. This book helped me get my life back.

If this is a material world, though, is it really so bad to want material items? I believe that it’s all about balance and focusing on the positive.

When we want things just to make us feel a certain way about ourselves, then it becomes a self-defeating exercise. We will never feel fulfilled if we’re trying to attain it through material means.

But being motivated to acquire things (as long as it’s not determined by greed or ingratitude for things we already have) and to raise the bar for oneself, fail (so we can learn and find a way around the challenges) and succeed are all necessary driving forces for humans.

We feel fulfilled when we challenge ourselves, overcome defeat and achieve our goals. We couldn’t or wouldn’t do this if there wasn’t some sort of reward at the end. The question is, however, what does the reward really do for you? Does it help you be the person you want to be, or contribute to the lives of others? Or does it drive you deeper into a person that you don’t really love and respect?

‘Tolle also suggests that we abuse our `things’ when we use them as a means to self-enhancement.’ Another way of putting this is that we don’t really want the things. Instead, we are really after the the self-image or state of being that we think the possession of those things will give us. Of course, that doesn’t happen, so we think having we just didn’t get enough and try harder.