Morning everyone!
What a difference a good night's sleep makes. I feel 100 times better today and the sun is out and the sky is blue! I am going to do a work out and then head down for breakfast.
I have just been reading the daily readings on the 12step suppprt thread. I would definitely recommend these readings, you do not have to be in AA to get something out of them and I wanted to share this one....
A.A. Thought For The Day
If alcoholism were just a physical allergy, like asthma
or hay fever, it would be easy for us, by taking a skin
test with alcohol, to find out whether or not we're
alcoholics. But alcoholism is not just a physical allergy.
It's also a mental allergy or obsession. After we've
become alcoholics, we can still tolerate alcohol physically
for quite a while, although we suffer a little more after
each binge and each time it takes a little longer to get
over our hangovers. Do I realize that since I have become
an alcoholic, I cannot tolerate alcohol mentally at all?
...... In the Big Book of AA they describe alcoholism as a 2 fold illness. A physical allergy of the body where one drink sets off the phenomenon of craving so we can't stop. And the mental obsession. If we do not put alcohol into our bodies then we will not set off the pheonoman of craving so that takes care of that. But we still have the mental obsession. Therefore alcoholism centres in the mind rather than the body. This is why changes are so necessary. I guess that's where we all have to find our own way of dealing with that mental obsession to ensure that we do not pick up a drink again.
I hope this may help anyone who may be struggling.
Ok snitch get up and work out!
catch up later x x