Day 176 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - The Person Who is Oversated...

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Lesson 176: The Person Who is Oversated...

“The person who is oversated stuffs him or herself in an attempt to feel more. The person who overindulges keeps trying to eat, drink, use drugs, smoke more—but after a certain point, it does not satisfy.”
— Sara Wiseman

Today we are to think about when we eat, drink, use drugs or take meds, to take notice of how it feels. Does it bring relief? We are not to judge and to just notice how we feel.

 

I’ll admit that sometimes when I eat, it’s like a chore. Like I’m doing it out of necessity and not getting any satisfaction from it. It’s like sometimes I wish we didn’t need to eat because then I wouldn’t have to worry about it. Then there are other times when I just want to eat all nice things and feel good because I’m indulging into food that is nice. My Monday consisted of eating 2 cookies for breakfast, going to a café and eating a twist on a bruschetta that had just way too much pesto on it, a soy hot chocolate, then in the afternoon I ate popcorn, had a really nice cocktail and ate some 2 minute noodles for dinner. Out of everything I ate and drank, I enjoyed my hot chocolate and cocktail. They were just creamy and yummy. They made me feel good. The food didn’t really bring me any relief – like I was hoping that the café food would be overly exceptional but it did not bring me joy.

So, taking in what this lesson is about, I guess there are times when we over indulge and things don’t have the same satisfaction as it used to. I guess I do sometimes eat and drink thinks to feel something to suppress another feeling. Like I might eat chocolate to feel better because I was previously sad or anxious, but it could only ever satisfy for a certain amount of time before the effects wear off. Maybe this is a lesson to be more mindful of the food and drink, or even smoke or drugs we consume and why we consume them?