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Monday, September 15, 2014
You are reading from the book Food for Thought
Peace
Our mental obsession with food gave us little peace. The refined sugars and carbohydrates, which we craved, left us jangled and over stimulated. Our guilt and self-hate kept us in a state of fear and turmoil. We raced about frantically in our minds trying to think of a way out of our misery.
Abstaining from refined sugar and carbohydrates gives us physical peace. Our body is no longer in an uproar; it is functioning calmly and efficiently. The Twelve Steps of recovery free us from the mental obsession with food and bring about emotional and spiritual peace. The more control we relinquish to our Higher Power, the more peace He gives us.
The peace, which comes through working our program, is not stagnant - it is rich and creative. It is the peace, which results from an ordered life and confidence in God. Instead of going in circles, both physically and mentally, we move in measured progress along the path, which our Higher Power shows us step by step each day.
Thank You for peace.
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It is nice to find peace after living a life where you have been bouncing off the wall and searching for that emotional high, only to find that when you got there, you couldn't stop there, you had to have more. And that more, stopped being fun but we couldn't stop. There was no mental, emotional, spiritual or physical rest. There was always hope after the next bite, or we would eat and purge, only to start again in a big round vicious circle.