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Saturday, June 14, 2014
You are reading from the book Food for Thought
Positive Addiction
Since we seem to have addictive types of personalities, we can make this characteristic work for us, rather than against us. We can develop life-enhancing habits - positive addictions.
The OA program is an example of positive addiction. We become habituated to writing down a food plan, attending meetings, making phone calls, and working the program. We replace the negative addiction to compulsive overeating with a positive commitment to abstinence.
Other activities, which we perform regularly take on the character of positive habits. Exercise is a healthy routine. Hobbies and creative self-expression can be habitual parts of our daily schedule. Whenever we choose a life-enhancing activity and perform it regularly until it becomes an ingrained habit, we are using our addictive tendency to build ourselves up rather than tear ourselves down.
Thank You, Lord, for positive addictions.
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They can be healthy, and yet they too can become an unhealthy addiction, if there isn't any balance. I had to turn my thinking about my computer and bridge over to my Higher Power. When the hobbies and interests take up all your thinking, and you become obsessive compulsive, you are acting out in your disease.
The same thing with food, when I find something that is healthy to eat, if it takes over my thinking and is followed by action, like instead of having once or twice a day, it becomes to be more. Whenever my mind starts thinking more, I know I am in my disease and I need to turn things over to my Higher Power.