You know, materialism. We know on one level is the wrong direction for spiritual peace, but we all have that urge to buy stuff we don't need.
2006-09-22 12:47:57 · 6 answers · asked by phillytocalifornia 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
IT'S NOT A PART OF THE BRAIN THAT WE SATISFY, BUT RATHER THE FEELING IT GIVES US. BUYING POWER RELEASES ENDORPHINS, AND GIVES US A FEELING OF CONTROL AND COMFORT WHEN WE FEEL ANXIETY AND STRESS. IT IS EXTREMELY ADDICTING.
TRY TO REMEMBER, BEFORE YOU BLOW A HUGE SUM, HOW LONG YOU WILL HAVE TO WORK TO PAY IT OFF.
2006-09-22 12:59:13 · answer #1 · answered by pandora the cat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When we go shopping, we end up getting something we want. Back when we were foraging for food, if we looked hard enough, we found what we wanted, or in this case, needed, as in food. Our brain relates these two activities the same, so on a primal level, it's not even thinking about materialism...just thinking about what will satisfy us, regardless of whether or not it's a want or a need.
2006-09-22 12:53:14 · answer #2 · answered by everfair 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is the emotion of desire. The problem with desire is that to manifest something, one has to spend a bit of ones Apapsyche [Operational Energy of the Soul]. And each expenditure is a lessening of ones Spirituality by one bit, and an attachment to the illusion by one bit.
2006-09-22 12:55:52 · answer #3 · answered by docjp 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if you use shopping as a form of therapy, you have a severe case of cranial rectal inversion.
2006-09-22 14:05:07 · answer #4 · answered by arkie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hope I spell it right-the pleasure center in your brain is called the"amygdala"
2006-09-22 12:52:22 · answer #5 · answered by traceyhinton1970 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, technically that would be the "consumeristic *****" part of your brain.
2006-09-22 12:54:06 · answer #6 · answered by igɳo★ 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋