One Key to Stop Drinking Alcohol
Posted on | April 18, 2010 | No Comments
Many alcoholics struggle with the fight to overcome their addiction to alcohol. One of the biggest keys to do so in early recovery is the concept of massive action. Most people in recovery seriously underestimate how much effort it is going to take at first in order to stay sober.
The fact is that in order to stop drinking alcohol, a huge disruption has to occur. The tendency of the alcoholic is to continue to self medicate with alcohol. Their tendency is to sabotage their sobriety and revert back to what they know best: getting drunk. Every alcoholic is more comfortable when they are drinking than when they are sober. Really think about this for a moment. The natural state of an alcoholic is to be drunk. This is what they are most used to. It is as natural as breathing for them.
So the amount of chang
e necessary to overcome such drinking problems is tremendous. Most people expect to have to make minor changes in their lives, and simply shift a few things around and maybe hit a meeting or two each week. This is not going to cut it. That level of dedication and change is not going to produce meaningful sobriety. What needs to happen instead is that the alcoholic must dedicate their life to changing in recovery.
Massive action is the key to early recovery, but holistic growth is the key to long term sobriety. Why is this? Because in order to overcome complacency, the alcoholic has to keep growing continuously as a person in their journey. If they do not, then they will tend to stagnate, and run the risk of relapsing.
Holistic growth just means that the person is open to personal growth in many different areas of their life. Of course the key to pursuing such growth and doing well with it involves taking massive action as well.
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Tags: addiction > alcohol treatment > detox > recovery
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