A helpful way to figure out the reasons behind your desires is to imagine your own funeral (while this is a morbid thing to do, it really does help!) Who would be in attendance?
I must question the choices and motives behind your desire: the opportunism to weaken a body that has grown strong; the desire to climb hill after hill on a fat-burn setting; the wish to listen to Lady Gaga remixes while softly peddling a machine that is neither bike nor stair.
Recognizing the fundamental reasons behind your desire to diet will help you move forward to a gentler, more compassionate approach around food.
Have you remembered the practice every time you turn on a light to shower yourself with the feelings behind your desire?
Understand what may be behind your desire to have a different gender.
In many cases, choosing your battles may be as simple as identifying the reason behind your desire to argue in order to recognize the futility of pursuing the argument.
SA: In your letter, you speak of the pain your parents have caused you, and of your desire to leave all that behind.
There is this fantastic story of a benevolent man who travels to your house and brings your hearts' desires for the cookies you left behind as an offering.
This analysis provides an understanding of the socio-culturally specific rationales and desires behind technology design and adoption in the South Korean context.
Equally good was Will Keen's Pastor Manders, who hides doubts and desires behind turgid certainty in a way recognisable in the figureheads of many religions present and past and also several non-clerical institutions.
