Advice and ideas in one place

[SebD6]

I thought it would be good to centralize some ideas and remedies people find are working.

In one place, where everyone could share their success or attempts and other to aid 'waying ourself out' from the problem we all here share.

Hope this thread will allow to find all opportunities to find the 'cure' allevation and reduction in intake or even thinking.

I shall start with one.....

[SebD6]

Advice and ideas in one place

Visualisations are so powerful. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and in a sense NLP ( which are similar in terms of rewiring the bran to think differently ) are powerful tools. Ha, I know theory, bit practical application of things is a lit of discipline and devotion. I dare to say that predominant number of alcoholics are thought related cravings. So body does not need it, but brain generates the substance desire through thinking and cognitive trigger that deprives us of pleasure ( in spite of having one while not drinking for few days) and getting sudden boost in cravings that occur through linkage between alcohol intake and pleasure.

Pain and pleasure. The most known oppositions, and through your imagination by creating intesnse sick feeling can sever the connection between like and dislike in yor brain.

A lot of people dismiss that and think that medication is only solution, also dismissing of being negative about therapy.

I would give a simple task. For one day, for one bright and ordinary day, I would ask someone to think that every alcohol there is is a poison and kills your internal organs. With massive visualisations of destruction and pain related to the damage to your body.

The feeling of cells being destroyed, shattered and you being eaten away every time you drink. For one day. And day by day, even alternating days, as long as one day of the week, is focused on that sensation.

It's all about a focus and in a sense having OCD with this one thought for one day.

It is a starting point in rewiring your brain.

Urine and sickness mentioned on other thread ( whee alcohol is associated with urine like liquid) are simply alternative options to the same method.

This is something that can help millions, not cure, but be a monitorable point where cravings are diverted to the other side of us.

It works, with other approaches this can make miracles.......Discipline and at the same time easiness of doing so. At the end of the day it's just like......Do not think about a pink elephant, please.......What do you do, you think about pink elephant.......but you have to get onto obsession level to keep thinking about it until your linkage between pleasure and self created cognitively pain makes its own highway and not just a little forest path that can be easily overgrown.

Amazingly this can be applied to every moment of your life and you can even make your errands and then realize, 'Oh I forgot about something , of yes, alcohol is a poison that destroys my cells, stay away from it'.

It's a tool, one of many, but it requires repetition, repetition and reinforcement. It may make you feel sick physically, but it will be a different way than a craving for booze....it will be a healthy sick feeling......

Hope that will give some guidance to some who cannot or find it difficult to go through multiple processes of quitting and layers of attempts......I't an easy rescue pattern and combined with other methods will do magic.

Hope to hear other oprnions and corections to this way, and plenty more other ideas.....Please write, we are all here to help one another and oneselves.