Actually there is a very direct answer to the bulk of the questions and concerns people raise here, the problem is getting more people to hear it and practice it. Yet there is great freedom and power over your own life once you embrace it.

This has been around for quite some time and every once in a while I find I have to remind people it exists. The website is useful, the PBS show/tape even more so for many.

The biggest point for many is: The POWER is YOURS.

affluenza.org/

Af-flu-en-za n. 1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2. An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit of the American Dream. 3. An unsustainable addiction to economic growth.

This is so important I think I will post it as a separate thread and in other related tribes.