MajestyJo
11-18-2011, 02:21 AM
Thursday, November 17, 2011
You are reading from the book Food for Thought
Escape into Sleep
After we stop eating compulsively, we may be tempted to use sleep as a form of escape. Though not as detrimental as excess food, too much sleep can also make us lethargic and dull. The danger lies in allowing ourselves to escape the realities of living, rather than coping with them.
We all need adequate rest in order to feel good and function efficiently. Sleep becomes an escape, however, if we take long daytime naps instead of finding worthwhile and enjoyable activities. Just as we may have overeaten because of boredom, we may oversleep because we have nothing better to do.
Our Higher Power has a plan for the time and talents He gives us. It is our job to discover how and where we can best serve God and each other. With the new life we are given in OA goes the responsibility to use it productively. Since this is the only life we have, we do not choose to sleep it away. By facing our problems with the help of this program, we learn how to deal with them.
Deliver me from indolence.
There should be a Sleep Anonymous and maybe there is. My bed was a place I escaped to for many years starting way back when I was 14. That was when I was consciously aware, but could have happened long before that. If I couldn't get or have what I wanted, I went to my bed.
You are reading from the book Food for Thought
Escape into Sleep
After we stop eating compulsively, we may be tempted to use sleep as a form of escape. Though not as detrimental as excess food, too much sleep can also make us lethargic and dull. The danger lies in allowing ourselves to escape the realities of living, rather than coping with them.
We all need adequate rest in order to feel good and function efficiently. Sleep becomes an escape, however, if we take long daytime naps instead of finding worthwhile and enjoyable activities. Just as we may have overeaten because of boredom, we may oversleep because we have nothing better to do.
Our Higher Power has a plan for the time and talents He gives us. It is our job to discover how and where we can best serve God and each other. With the new life we are given in OA goes the responsibility to use it productively. Since this is the only life we have, we do not choose to sleep it away. By facing our problems with the help of this program, we learn how to deal with them.
Deliver me from indolence.
There should be a Sleep Anonymous and maybe there is. My bed was a place I escaped to for many years starting way back when I was 14. That was when I was consciously aware, but could have happened long before that. If I couldn't get or have what I wanted, I went to my bed.