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You know the best way to describe being a drinker being hooked on alcohol , being addicted to alcohol , is like being in a prison , a prison of your own creation . I'm not talking about a prison where you do something wrong and you get a trial and you get a judgement . You know you spend the next 10 years of your life incarcerated .
Alcohol is a different kind of prison because it's a prison of your own mind . But you feel just as trapped . You feel like there's no escape . And that was my life for the best part of 10 years Feeling trapped , feeling like there was no way out , feeling like I was actually doomed for the best of my life .
There have been points in my life where I just thought F this , it's never going to change . What a sad place to be . What a sad place to be .
And you know , I just wanted to quickly make a short video because it might feel like a prison for you right now you might feel that you're in a place where there is no escape , where you could be doing this for the rest of your life . You could be stuck in this trap , stuck in this cycle forever .
And I wanted to jump on quickly because if I can change , you can change . I felt like there was no way out . I just felt like giving up . I've just , you know , I've had times where I've just been so depressed , so sad , so just fed up of it all . I just thought there was no way out . But this is the great thing If I can change , why can't you ?
I've seen people drink bottles of vodka every day for 20 years and still change . Can you imagine the level of feeling trapped that they felt , the level of intensity , the level of there is just no escape . I might as well just kill myself for alcohol . Imagine the feeling that they had . I mean , I'm blessed .
I saw this problem when I was young , but imagine doing it for 20 , 30 , 40 years . That might be you , I don't know , but we all feel trapped . Every single person that drinks alcohol and struggles to stop drinking alcohol feels a level of entrapment . Do you know why ? Because it's drug addiction .
It's drug addiction and drug addiction is the best way to describe it is like being in a prison . But here's the great thing there is a way for you to escape that prison . There is a way for you to escape that prison and never look back . And it all starts by changing your world view .
If you knew that there was a prison out there that literally had like a ladder for you to escape from , and you knew you were never going to get caught and you could escape , and you knew that you were wrongfully imprisoned in that place , you'd take the ladder . You wouldn't even think twice .
Yeah , it might be a bit dangerous and you might be a bit scared , but you'd be climbing that ladder instantly . That ladder exists without alcohol . It's the easiest prison to escape ever Easy . But you first need to acknowledge that you are actually trapped . You first need to acknowledge that you're in a place where you're addicted to a drug .
You're doing something that isn't helping , that's hurting . You need to first acknowledge that , because without actually being honest enough with yourself to know that there's a problem , then you're never going to change right . We're not going to argue about that . You first need to acknowledge that .
But then what you need to do is just change your understanding of alcohol . It's the easiest prison to escape ever , because think about every step that you take on that ladder to escape the prison that I was talking about earlier . Every single step that you take is just another belief . With alcohol , you know , you change your beliefs one by one .
You stop seeing it as something that has a good you know , that gives you a good time , that is fun to use when you're socializing . You stop seeing it this way and you change your perception . Because once you've kind of knocked down all of the beliefs of alcohol , what's left ? Poison , straight poison , straight poison that will kill you .
That's all that it is . And listen , do you know what's on the other side of escaping that prison ? Once you climb that ladder , once you get over that wall , do you know what's there ? Freedom , absolute and utter freedom , the best feeling ever .
Listen , there are benefits of not drinking , right , but I've said this in previous videos the benefits kind of normalise . You know , after 30 days , 60 days , 90 days , the baseline increases and being a non-drinker just feels 100% normal .
But you know , one feeling that never goes away Is the feeling of freedom , is the feeling of not having to wake up and think where am I going to get a you know a drink tonight ?
The feeling of going out with a friend and socialising and not having to order a bottle of wine , the feeling of just not even thinking about this stuff , right , going to a bar , going into an area , going to a place that serves alcohol , and it just doesn't even cross your mind . That never goes away . That feeling of freedom is there forever .
But that's only there if you're able to change your worldview and able to change your understanding . Oh , I thought that woman was going to talk to me . Oh , yesterday I'll quickly tell you this I was in this area of Seoul and they had tarot reading everywhere .
So I went into one of the shops I wasn't going to do it and but yes , yes , you started trying to sell me tarot reading , and that's a bit of a strange thing about Seoul . Anyway , you climb that wall , sorry , you climb that wall . You get over the other side , and on the other side of that wall is pure freedom . It's the best feeling ever .
The best feeling ever . You know . Imagine waking up and never thinking about that stuff again , and that reality is 100% possible for you . But you need to take the first step . You need to take the first step , and for some of you guys , that first step is I don't know reading a book . For some of you it's watching this channel .
For some of you it's clicking the link in the description . It's booking a call and seeing if the Sobercular Program is a good match for you . Other people it might just be an AA meeting . I don't know what it looks like for you .
Everybody's journey is slightly different , but I promise you it's easy to not drink , it's easy to escape the prison and there is a lifetime of freedom that is waiting just around the corner . You've got this . Thanks for checking out the Stop Drinking podcast by SoberClear .
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