Overcoming Alcohol Addiction – Six Steps to a Happy Life
I understand, you’re an alcoholic, and you feel like there’s no way to get past it. You feel like you’re right to be depressed and negative and pessimistic, because you’re addicted, and there’s nothing you can really do. Right?
Wrong. This may be how you feel, but it doesn’t have to represent reality. The reality is: you are addicted to alcohol. This is because it’s a pattern and your actions reinforce your pattern of drinking, feeling good for a short time then feeling bad.
It can be helped. You’re not a hopeless case. You can change how you are.
- Get Information. They say that “knowledge is power”, and that’s partly true. Having an academic knowledge is one thing, but actually making that knowledge work is the key thing. So to get empowered knowledge, you need the info (check out the link) and then you need to follow the other 5 principles here.
- Change who you spend time with. Some people are just a bad influence. If you’re spending time with people who drag you back into your addiction, you must know that they don’t have your best interests at heart! You can choose your friends. Choose people who empower you to move away from your addiction
- Change your state. You have the power to change your state. You can train your body and your mind to be at peak states. You may never have been told this before, you may never have heard it, but the truth is you can discipline yourself to have any kind of state you really want. If you don’t know how, then consult a professional – as in point 4…
- Your team of 3 people. Look, if you’re trying to come off alcohol addiction, you need 3 people – at a bare minimum. You need yourself – your most productive self. You need a therapist (click the link to choose an expert), and you need to consult a physician. Your physician can help you deal with the medical and physical aspects of your detoxification and recovery, but you really need a therapist to help you deal with the emotional and psychological aspect of your recovery.
- Start slowly. Don’t expect to get rid of your addiction right away. You will not be free from your addiction in 2 minutes, but think of it this way, anything that’s worth doing, is worth the time it takes to do. Getting free from your addiction is worth the time it takes to achieve the goal.
- Know how to pick yourself up when you fall! You are always going to fall down, but what I find a lot of people do is … they are progressing well, they’ve stopped drinking, then WHAM, they have a drink and they feel bad so they start drinking again!
Please do realize that you will have this experience again, but it doesn’t need to be this way for you – you can choose to pick yourself up every time you fall. Forgive yourself for your past, and move on to your bright future!
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