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If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

—Henry Miller

A perennial dieting tip is to eat something and then wait twenty minutes before

deciding to eat something again. The reason is that your body needs that much

time to register that it is full. If you keep eating without pausing, you will not

realize that your body is full, and therefore you may overeat.

Giving thanks for what we have in our lives is like that pause when eating. It

allows us to feel full, to register on the emotional and spiritual level that we have,

in fact, been given “enough.” If we don’t practice gratitude on a daily basis, it’s

easy to overconsume, to feel a lack and to try to fill that lack through possessions,

because on a psychological level we haven’t registered that we already have what

we need.

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