Isn’t it exciting just to think about shopping? Doesn’t a pop up from your favourite shopping app/of an ongoing sale on your cell phone excite you? Well, if your answer is yes, then you are at the right place. Keep reading along to know more as to how this phenomenon has proved effective. It has proved to be a therapeutic getaway in times when you have no other resort, offering an escape from your daily knick-knacks.
The Guilt Trip
Do not ever go on a guilt trip about wanting to take a break for you. Stop feeling bitter about checking out these notifications. Trust me, we all have been there. And it’s not always bad surrendering to this urge. Sometimes, this method can help you tackle some of your repressions effectively.
This method extends your reaction time to any kind of dilemma, forcing you to calm down, reassess the situation, and then act accordingly. Additional, this saves you the guilt of acting impulsively. So, whenever in dilemma, go out on a short shopping spree or scroll through one of your favourite window shopping website in an effort to calm yourself down. Do try it once and feel the accomplishment of experiencing an extended control over you.
What is Shopping Therapy?
Reading above, have you actually ever have heard of retail therapy? If you have, let me guess, all of you have given it a try just to check whether this actually works or not. Also, let me bet some of you religiously believe in it. Well, just in case you have not heard of it, let me introduce you to one of the other fancy therapies you can go for i.e. the shopping therapy also known as the retail therapy.
It’s basically a relaxing mechanism that helps people distract themselves by engaging their mind into the leisure activity of shopping whether physically or online. Both ways have been proven equally therapeutic. This method helps you by shifting your attention onto other interesting things, so as to help you calm down. As the name itself suggest, shopping therapy can aid you in times of need just in exchange for a decent amount.
So guys keep shopping. Use it therapeutically, but don’t let it get a grip on you. Do try it for once, and test for yourself whether it actually works for you or not. Well, Happy Shopping!
