I M Perfect lady

An Old Friend I outgrew.

I went and did yoga this morning, and it felt sooo good.  My body yearns to be stretched, my neck and jaw are so tight, that I could stay much longer in the postures that are pulling on those muscles.  My arms also are sorely in need of being put in awkward positions as to stretch the bunched up overworked muscles always going in one direction.

 As I work sorting mail my left arm is bent to hold a pile of mail, this arm was painfully stretched out and that felt so good.

Towards the end of my hour and a half routine, it came to me that my programmed self needs a body that is sluggish and asleep, in order to pull a quick one on me time and time again. 

So, there has been a struggle within me, as my awareness becomes more aware, the odd twist between my ‘treats’ and how they feel are coming to light, and their gig is up. 

I believe that the more brainwashed you are and the more confused you are about what feels good and what is bad…the more you need to have a shut down body.

Perhaps a clear mind starts to crave foods that will help the body be a clear signal reader too. 

I just feel that the mindset I had matched the shutdown foods that I ate.  They swayed in harmony together, holding each other up. 

Yoga is a health food in my day; and I don’t like the way my body feels when it misses this.

It also came to me while mowing the grass…We never ‘miss’ a sweet treat, or short ourselves on chocolate, or cheat and only eat a half a candy, but when doing yoga, I am tempted to stop early or doing anything that is truly good, we tend to slough off…but the old reliable bad stuff we are faithful to.

Just interesting to notice where we cut corners and when we take more than our fair share.

Perhaps soon I will be a yoga hog and glutton when it comes to fresh fruits and veggies and my old sweet treats will become an old friend I outgrew.

 

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  1. Judy Avatar
    Judy

    Sweets tend to slow the mind down, making it feel sluggish. We have put sugar back into our bodies after having gotten it out of our system. I know we can do it again…believe me when I say, you are going to feel so much better.

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    Joanie

    Oh how well I know this routine. I learned a lot about the sugar in OA HOW, and at first I didn’t know why I had to also give up alcohol to be abstinent in this program. I found out that there is only one molecule different in the physical makeup of sugar and alcohol. So it is no wonder that a lot of AA people seek ice cream or sugar in their abstinence from alcohol. They can maintain their sobriety from alcohol and sugar can maintain the “holds” on some of their body pains & emotional pains. In OA HOW, however, food is the main addiction so there is no room for the alcohol which would only make the demand for food/sugar greater, thus setting yourself up for failure. I am still abstinent from alcohol after 5 years, but the sugar culprit is pulling at my strings because of the emotional hold in my mind and my body. Beth, you expressed it so well in words how we are stingy with ourselves because of old cellular memory of how to comfort ourselves…shutting down and putting up walls…and yes, sugar is a quick fix to automatically get there. Then, the saddest part is the self-disgust, self-criticism that begins in our mind about ourselves. It is no wonder we ever have the courage to start over again. Your yoga is the way out, your body/mind already knows that now and every time you choose it, those memories get stronger. It is just so darn hard to go forward and so insidiously easy to slide back. You are giving me lots of reasons to dig in and remember the awareness of life without sugar. A lot of my depression was due to the sugar drug, too. It is very powerful and I wish there were warnings on the labels of every food item…this may be and will be hazardous to your physical health as well as mental health!

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    I M Perfect

    I have cut back, but not totally out, but my old sweet treat eating habits have been greatly reduced.
    I will have to research some wonderful alternatives.
    The sweetness of the sugar doesn’t deliver sweet results to the body. perhaps we need to define it from the body toward the food, instead of taste to body.

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