The ACT Technique

Taken from This Naked Mind

"The ACT Technique is a process I’ve developed through many of my teachers (Dave Gray, Byron Katie, and many others) to harness and change your thoughts, your emotions and desire, and ultimately your behavior and habits. To make true and lasting change we have to change our feelings about the behavior we want to achieve. When you change your thoughts, your feelings, your behaviors, and your habits. You can change your entire life......" 


Awareness: 

I drink because I want to get away from the pain the withdrawals create. I drink because it has become a habit. I use alcohol to escape from feelings I don’t manage to deal with and to quiet my brain. I get drunk to make the rest of the day go away. I keep on drinking after the first drink, and I can not stop.

Clearety:

Alcohol relieves stress by slowing down your brain. Alcohol is a depressant, and our brain contra-act this by releasing adrenaline and cortisol. This is what gives us the feeling of a boost or fuzz shortly after the first drink. This will only last for about 20 minutes, and is replaced by lower mood and the start of a much longer craving cycle. To avoid the shift in feelings, my unconscious mind reaches for another drink as soon as I finish the first. In fact, my mind is looking for the next drink and making sure it’s available before I finish the first one.

Turnaround:

Alcohol takes away the true me. It will make sure I need more than one drink, and a drink and more the next day. It will increase the stress overall, and it will make me feel sick. It can cause more harm, and more of the same feelings, that makes me drink in the first place.

Noted: (Not part of the ACT, from This Naked Mind)

Alcohol is a drug that will cause you great bodily harm, reducing your overall life expectancy and the ability to enjoy life in full. Cancer, memory, physical performance, sex, coordination, cognitive functioning and many more. Loss of friendships. Inability to act in an emergency. Taking risk and unwanted choices.


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