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When it comes to stopping or reducing your drinking , beating cravings is the most important thing , and in this video , I'm going to show you a three second technique to beating any craving that you're ever going to get .
This is how I've not drank for over six years and I have no desire to drink , and because this three second technique is so powerful , I have not had a single alcohol craving .
Now , I know that sounds a little bit crazy and you might have never heard anybody talk about it like this before , but I promise you , if you watch this video in full , cravings will be a thing of the past . So we first need to understand where cravings come from .
So it all starts with a thought and because we live in a world that is dominated by alcohol , it's in every supermarket we go down , it's in every restaurant we walk into , it's at a concert , a sports game , it's every time we turn on the TV in a movie . It's everywhere .
So no matter how long you've not drank for , no matter what method you use , it makes no difference . Everybody thinks about alcohol , including me . Why ? Because we're reminded by it all the time . It's pushed on us 24-7 . It's pushed on you , it's pushed on your children and there's nothing we can do about it .
There isn't going to be another prohibition or anything like that . There's too much money in it . And even me , living in the Middle East , living in Dubai , I go to restaurants . There's alcohol there , even in a place where alcohol is not as widely available as other countries .
But we need to understand that every single craving starts with a thought and it will go something like oh beer , oh wine , oh , look at that person having a cocktail on the beach . But what happens next will either make or break you , because a craving is all based on a feeling , and that feeling is a feeling of missing out .
I've not thought about alcohol for probably a year , but I have sporadic thoughts that just pop into my head . The first year of not drinking it was a lot more frequent , but after not drinking for six years it becomes fewer and far between . But the last time it happened to me I was in Dubai .
I was walking down the beach and I saw a Stella Artois logo and then a beer garden and people had this very specific glass that I actually used to drink like water out of when I was a kid . But it was like this Stella Artois glass and I smelled the beer and I was like , oh , beer . But what I did next made the difference .
What I didn't do , and what most people do , is I didn't look at those drinkers and feel this feeling of whoa , doesn't that look nice , being able to have a sit down and having a joke around with your friends . Doesn't that look fun ? No , I didn't think that way . I didn't look at it and think , if I drink , that my life's going to be better .
The 10 years that I struggled to stop drinking for that's exactly how I would have felt . I would have walked past those people and I would have felt extreme FOMO . I would have felt like , oh , why am I even doing this ? Why am I stopping drinking when they're able to have a good time ?
And then I'd have this battle in my mind and , before you know it , the craving's there . It hits me , and I'm not very good at dealing with cravings , right , if I get a craving .
The likelihood is is I'm going to follow it through , which is why I need to show you what , with a thought , then went to that feeling of missing out , and then , before you know it , I've got a craving , and then it's almost like I'm possessed . There's nothing I can do about it .
It happened to me on a New Year's Eve party where everybody was drinking , having a good time , and I started thinking the reason why they're having a good time is because they're drinking , and it's just totally not true . So what's the difference ? Why do I not get cravings now ? Well , I have fixed my paradigm when it comes to alcohol .
For 10 years , I saw alcohol as something that made life better , something enjoyable , something fun and relaxing , and that has just completely switched . You know , when I walked past those people drinking , when they were sat in the beer garden , I didn't feel like , wow , look at them having a good time .
I thought , man , I just wish you could see how good your life could be if you didn't drink . Like I've genuinely felt sorry for them . I looked at them and I thought , man , like don't you understand ? You're going to wake up tomorrow , even if you only have two pints . You're going to wake up tomorrow . You're not going to feel 100% .
You know you're not going to be there the same way that you would be for your family . Your workout might suffer a little bit , you might eat a bit more junk food and that couple of drinks is going . Wish they could get a taste of how my life has been for the past six years . That's how I felt .
I felt genuinely sorry for them , because I don't see alcohol as something that makes my life better . I've totally reframed my worldview . So the three-second technique that I was talking about earlier is I'll get that thought and within a split second I'm feeling this feeling of I don't need to do that anymore , I'm done . Do you see the difference ?
Now , whilst that's a three-second technique that works 100% of the time , it only works because that's built on a foundation of education , of understanding , of changing my belief systems . That took a lot more work . Now , if you want help doing that , there are two options .
The first option is you can click the link in the description to watch a free video training that shows you how to reframe the way you view alcohol , and the other option is to head over to the website SoberClearcom to read about the program , the reframing , how we actually do it , and then , if you think it's a good match , you can click one of the links on
the website to book a call . But just remember this one thing you're not missing out on anything . Alcohol is a poison . It does nothing for you . It never has , it never will , it can't . It's a drink . Thanks for checking Stop Drinking . Podcast by Sober Clear . If you want to learn more about how we work with people to