Revised
Is poverty thinking synonymous with Low/No Impact Living?
The psychological effects of Low/No Impact Living deserves attention.
One of the most uncomfortable consequences of Low/No Impact Living is how it triggers negative peer pressure; drawing out defensiveness BIG time. Low/No Impact Living downright provokes a lot of people because it challenges eons of conditioning.
Raising my conscious awareness of the psychological implications of Low/No Impact Living, broadens my understanding of it.
Anat Baniel, author of “Move Into Life” said, “When we move with Attention, the brain re-maps.” I am lowering my impact by remapping my brain with conscious awareness of Low/No Impact Living.
This post was submitted by Eileen Balint.
Very intriguing post. When people look at my lifestyle from outside, they all tend to think that I am “suffering”. I live on less than half of what most around me would consider a minimum, I have a 20 year old car, avocado green shag carpenting from the neolithic era, I never buy new clothes, I compost everything, grow my own food, do all of my own cooking, don’t use toilet paper, the list goes on…
People seem to think that I’m taking on needless hardships. But I don’t see it that way at all. I feel like I’ve freed myself from the great marketing machine and the corporate treadmill.
I think society is just brainwashed to think that more is always better. To me “more” just means that you’ve got less time to yourself. Everytime someone gives me some “thing” I think to myself… “great”… “now I’ve gotta find some place to put it”.
I heartily support you in your brain re-mapping! And while you’re reading, check out “Your Money or Your Life” by Joe Dominguez. It’s dated, but it’s still the low-impact bible as far as I’m concerned. Plus you can probably check it out from your local library!
Comment by Rebecca — January 26, 2010 @ 5:03 pm