No Beer In The Brain
Feelings, thoughts and emotions. They drive our mood, our motivation our wellbeing and so much more. Since I am sober for over three month now, I experienced a big change with handling my emotions. We produce 40.000–50.000 thoughts a day and 70–80% of them are negative. This statistic shows, we cant take them all to heart. When I was drinking, I used to wallow in negative thoughts way to long.
What if something bad happens ? Why did he say that ? I thought about stuff like that in the morning, in the afternoon and before falling asleep. This carusell of bullshit had the power to drain me down and victimize me.
Being dry and having more confidence, I still get thoughts like this, but I handle them differently. If something negative comes up, I will accept it, but not take it to heart or dramatize it. I look at this thought, I can change it, I can push it away, I can laugh about it or just sit with it.
At the end of the day its just a thought out of 40.000 . Me and the (often madeup) problems are not the centre of the universe.
Why should I think about something negative that happend 1 year ago, while enjoying a tea in the now ? It makes absolutely no sense.
The brain is a random, crazy and powerful machine. Imagine your brain would be a screen and you are working on a positive task. From time to time there are notifications popping up.
“This is to hard” , “What if you go broke? “ , “ Will I stay healthy“ ? You would try to delete this program or at least close the popups really fast. That’s how I try to deal with this emotions.
Its not like I don’t have bad days and bad thought patterns. My ability to deal with them and willingness to attack improved a lot. Thanks to sobriety.
More of my stories:
- How I Quit Alcohol / The Point I Decided To Quit (My first story)
- 6 Month Of Sobriety
- Beer Got Me Again
- I Will Never Drink Again
- Replacing Alcohol
