How do you deal with your wants and desire for something whether it is materialistic or spiritual??

Question

like if you want something really bad and you know you should not buy it what do you tell yourself...basically learning to live within your means in all areas of your life!!!!

Answer 1

Let God's will be done.

If I feel that it is for my better good... no problem, I just buy it.

However, if I am in doubt... I just ask my constant companion, dearest friend, mentor, fellow traveler, sole provider and protector, God.

From the Holy Bible..."ask and you shall receive".

If I ever feel that He would not like it, then we would not like it.

If He is pleased, we am pleased.

Over the years God and I, through trial and error, have developed a good working relationship.  

Answer 2

lol

Wants & Desires ARE life.

I deal with them by living.   By using such power as I have to gain what I desire.

If I logically decide one of my desires will lead to tragedy.    I use my imagination to make the tragedy so real, the my desire to avoid the tragedy replaces the desire that leads to it.

If you desire the pleasure of the cake you will be fat.

If the cake make you instantly FEEL the pain of being fat, you won't eat it.

See you can't logically tell yourself not to do something because you run on emotion, not logic.   The heart desires, the mind acquires.

Desire can only be fought with desire.  Emotion with emotion.

You cannot break up with a psycho gf if you emotionally fixate on how great she is in bed.   The logic of how bad she is can't overcome this. (Fat people logically know cake makes them fat)   But if you emotionally connect with the pain of spending 20 years with a nut job.  If you focus on the emotional pain of having your heart in a blender, it's easy to break up.

You cannot stop buying something you desire by LOGICALLY knowing you can't afford it.   You must emotionally fixate on the pain of being broke.  On the pleasure denied you by being unable to afford the other things you desire.

Consult the works of Tony Robbins.