Food for Thought - Stretching

[MajestyJo]

Tuesday, December 6, 2011
You are reading from the book Food for Thought

Stretching

If we do only what feels good and what is comfortable, we do not grow. If we do not stretch our minds, we vegetate intellectually. If we do not discipline our bodies, we become physically flabby and weak. If we do not exercise our goodwill, we stay emotionally immature.

To settle for minimum achievement is to miss the satisfaction of accomplishing more than we once thought possible. It is trite but true that we never know what we can do until we try. Abstaining from all refined sugars and carbohydrates may have seemed impossible to us at one time. Accomplishing this, through the help of our Higher Power and OA, makes possible other achievements that we formerly may have considered to be beyond our reach.

In this program, the only way we can fail is by not continuing to try. By abstaining from compulsive overeating and working the Twelve Steps, we can stretch ourselves to a fuller extent of our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual potential.

May I not be too lazy to stretch as far as I can.

[MajestyJo]

May aplogy everyone, I keep meaning to post these every day, but I just don't seem to be able to remember.

When I looked at this, I thought stretching, hmmmmmmmm, I am suppose to do stretches for my fibromyalgia, I was told to work through the pain.

The same can be said for mental and emotional, our minds need to get stretched also. Our spirit can certainly use some exercise and put into practice on a regular basis.

One of the best stretches and exercises I can do is to push away from the table. It also helps not to carry food from one place to the other in my apartment, Like to the fridge, to my chair, to the fridge to my computer, to my ridge, to my bed, to my fridge, to my couch, .....

Dont' do exercises well, but I do know that if I don't move, some day I might not be able to get back up. I want to live, not just exist in that void isolated from people, places and things, block off from my God, and instead of living, just marking time and taking up space. Recovery gave me the freedom for a second chance at life.