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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.
######ROSIE.......oh yeah, after i began to give UP my compulsive behaviours.....eating...drinking...shopping....fantasy....i was even compulsive about this program, in that i was pushing instead of trusting that it would work.....so for me, i think more sleep is needed cuz i am discharging a TON of anger/grief...soooo much emotional pain....my sponser said the more intense the abuse??? the more intense the emotions....i believe it....i don't know HOW, i got hit with SOO much w/out going totally nuts or dying....my mother, couldn't take his evil.....she deliberately drank herself to death to get out.......so now, i do sleep more bcuz of the draining demanding energy of all this recovery work......the deeper the pain??? the deeper the recovery.....but i DO see BIG gains....i truly believe the worst is over with....now its practicing my wonderful program tools.....teaching myself new and healthy behaviours......rewriting my inner beliefs to those of the TRUTH!!! God's truth........so yeah, i have been exhausted......B4 all this??? i slept to escape the pain of my life......i guess it was another of my compulsions to cope with my life/ my pain/ my hoplessness.......i DID escape the realitys of life/ living....i couldn't stand it otherwise........i could not cope!!!!! this program is teaching me how to cope in a healthy manner......my rest B4 was running away/ escapism......my rest now is recharging my body from the mentally exhausting job of recovering from this....i work a full time job....than i do my recovery work.....my prayer work......my chores in the house..............i love my daytime naps...in summer, i cam out with tennis/ garage saling, swimming...but in winter i am more quiet.....i enjoy long daytime naps....but now i ASK my body.....R we tired???? or can we do something else????? also ptss takes energy from you.....so perhaps for the rest of my life, i am gonna need more sleep/rest.....but AS i feel better, i pray i know the diference between needed rest and escape........
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.
#######ROSIE.....right now i am doing INTENSE prayer/surrender/ "God work" so i hope AS i learn surrender/ practice surrender, my hp will prompt me as to what i am supposed to do to live my fulfilled life.......i am still in the , i HOPE, the last stages of my grief work, as far as past is concerned.....that when i do my meditations, i ask my HP...."guide my recovery......prompt me as to what do i do"..............no i don't want to sleep it away......i do want to face my issues, and be dispensed of them....facing them is the ONLY way to being free, and i am learning to deal........i don't believe i am indolent for a minute......when i do stuff, i put my "all* into it.....i "go for the gusto" i think i am naturally a passionate and intense person.........that means when i get through the *intense* grief, i shall enjoy *intense* joy....the pendulum i is always equal...........thank you ROSIE
