Sober October: Halfway There!
If we have been drinking habitually for years, we think our constantly cruddy feeling state is normal. Hopefully, this Sober October is letting you remember how great you can feel emotionally and physically.
Countdown to Sober October 2022!
Taking a break from booze allows you to focus the light of awareness on your previously unexamined thoughts, feelings, and resulting actions. You start to notice what triggers and thoughts lead you to pour a drink. Or how you feel before you even open the bottle. Or which cultural norms influenced your decision to drink. This simple act of awareness, even of the smallest thoughts, gives you your power back and begins to shift your subconscious.
Benefits and Methods of Mindfulness
As for tangible results, I have tested my blood pressure readings numerous times. After a twenty-minute meditation session, I have recorded anywhere from a 3 to 10-point drop in the ‘before’ reading numbers. This stuff really works!
Mindfulness and the Alcohol-Free Journey
The point of mindfulness is not to completely silence our minds or enter some bliss-like, nirvana state. It’s more about sitting just to sit and being aware.
Urge Surfing, or Defense Against the 4-Finger Death Punch.
It’s like a hijacked part of our brain is doing all it can to get what it wants. It is important to remember that the craving is all bark and no bite in these intense and uncomfortable moments. It can’t actually make you do anything.