Let’s imagine that your mind is a giant store, the kind with multiple departments and all kinds of merchandise from practical and essential right through to the luxurious and high end. Since this store is your mind, you’re the only customer. Oh, and you also have a pretty generous shopping budget! All the merchandise in the store symbolize your thoughts, emotions, memories, urges, etc.—everything that goes on in your mind is right here on the shelves and in the aisles of this department store. Some of the merchandise you really like, some you don’t. Some of it seems really important to you, and other items are trivial. Some products are useful, or fun, or trendy, or straight up unhealthy. Just like in real life, you probably have positive or negative judgments about lots of the items in the store, and others you just feel neutral about. As a customer of this store, you don’t really have direct control over what merchandise the store stocks, but you have control over what you buy, what you invest in, and what you go into debt for! Your purchases will probably influence the store’s future inventory. For example, if you buy lots and lots […]
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