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Overcome Addiction Through R.A.R.E. Process

We use drugs and alcohol to escape reality. If we learn to control how we view reality, we wouldn’t need escape mechanisms. Many of us have not yet recognized the energy around us and how it contributes to our feelings of discomfort. Alcohol is mislabeled as spirit when it actually diminishes our connection to the higher planes of existence. Our motor skills and thought processes decline, coordination suffers, and the list goes on.

What are the positives? Alcohol gives us a false sense of control. It allows us to believe that we’ve changed our reality. This is not the case. If alcohol had the ability to change reality, we would be able to spray it in the air and “poof” presto change “O.” Of course, this doesn’t work.

We put alcohol into our system and let it alter our mental faculties, thereby changing our perception of reality. We won’t feel the need to change our reality once we learn how to change the way we view reality without the use of drugs and alcohol.

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What Alcohol Does to Your Brain

Alcohol dries up the fluids in the brain. You may notice that when you don’t get enough sleep after drinking, you have a hangover. This is because when you sleep, your body goes into repair mode. The air you breathe in during sleep converts inside the body and replaces the fluids absorbed by alcohol consumption. When you wake up before sufficient amounts of fluids are replaced, you will have what is known as a hangover. You are actually feeling the process of fluids being replaced in the brain.

The body is still in healing mode. Only now you are conscious and thinking while brain fluids are being replaced. Just the act of thinking disrupts the healing process and this disruption in the brain is that feeling we call a “hangover”. The only ways to stop this feeling is to go back to sleep: Wait painfully until proper fluids are replaced or drink more alcohol. When you drink alcohol during a hangover, the body will snap out of repair mode and go back into drunk party mode. Drinking at least a half-gallon of water after excessive alcohol consumption and before sleep, gives the alcohol something to feed on beside brain fluids.

This is not meant to be a tutorial on how to be a successful drinker. In order to ditch a habit, it is best to know what you’re dealing with. Alcohol diminishes the thought process by taking fluids from the brain. In this diminished state of awareness, we believe reality has changed because the way we view reality has been altered. We all have the ability to change the way we view reality without the use of drugs and alcohol by practicing R.A.R.E. Energy. Recognize, Accept, Respect and Embrace energy. We may attempt to escape the energy around us by use of drugs and alcohol if we don’t recognize surrounding energy and our personal energy were meant to harmonize as one.

How Trigger Dynamics Influence Behavior

Triggers in addiction refer to anything in physical reality which arouses our human senses, causing us to associate a sensation with a memorable moment in our addiction. It can be a smell, a certain feel, and something we see, taste, or hear. Anything that arouses one or more of the five physical senses can become a trigger.

The smell of Pine-Sol cannot be a trigger on its own until it first causes a certain sensation in a person. Secondly, the sensation must be associated with one or more events occurring during the use of our drug of choice.

We must physically ignite addictive behavior. There are at least three opportunities for us to catch a potential trigger before we act on it. By learning how to Recognize, Accept, Respect and Embrace (R.A.R.E.) energy, we can nip the trigger effect in the bud before it blossoms into physical substance use.

Let us first examine a trigger. Pine-Sol is just a liquid cleaner. But what happens once the mind takes its aroma and associates it with a memory of a pleasurable moment experienced while being intoxicated? A person may then take that association and turn it into a desire to experience that moment again. When the desire to relive that moment becomes overwhelming, the action is then taken to duplicate the moment by getting intoxicated once again.

Trigger associations are not limited to moments of pleasure. The smell of Pine-Sol can be associated with a traumatic experience. For instance, if someone had something terribly traumatizing happen to them in the past while a strong smell of Pine-Sol was in the air, its smell could trigger that person into using a substance to escape the thought of the traumatic experience.

Not only does Pine-Sol have a distinct aroma that can serve as a trigger, but its bottle has a certain shape that can be felt by a person and serve as a trigger through the sense of touch. The letters used to spell Pine-Sol are in a unique order that can be seen by a person and serve as a trigger through the sense of sight. Saying Pine-Sol out loud can serve as a trigger through the sense of hearing. If someone accidentally swallowed Pine-Sol in the past, the next time it happened could serve as a trigger through the sense of taste.

We know Pine-Sol is just a disinfectant. But our minds can take any part of anything and attribute it to any given moment in our life, whether it is painful or pleasurable. Upon learning R.A.R.E. energy, we are able to create good triggers. Like the benefits of aromatherapy, we can use all of our senses to make good associations in our lives.

How to Break the ICE-olation

Isolation

Abstaining from substances won’t automatically make our social interactions more comfortable. We tend to isolate once we stop using because quitting the substance is only part of the solution. Getting rid of the need for the substance is the focus of Alcoholics Not Anonymous. This group is for everyone who wants to learn about addiction and solutions to dependency.

Isolation is an important topic when dealing with addiction to substances. We have established that the need for substances arises from the desire to change our reality. Without the aid of alcohol or other substances, those in addiction do not know how to cope with reality as it is: Hence, isolation.

The reason isolation is such a vital topic is because it usually occurs when those in addiction are not using drugs and alcohol. When people abstain from using substances, they are working on a solution to their dependency. In order to find a permanent solution to dependency, we have to find out why we are dependent on mind altering substances.

On the surface, we recognize that the substances change the way we view reality. The next step is to find out what parts of reality we are unable to deal with. Upon close examination of the exact parts of reality we are unable to cope with, we will see that they all share a common source: Uncomfortable energy. Since energy is everywhere, when we make attempts to avoid unfamiliar energy frequencies, we tend to isolate from life.

Continued isolation is a pathway back to using substances because the root cause of dependency has not been addressed. Isolation is a symptom of energy denial. The real elephant in the room is energy. So the first step in overcoming isolation is to learn how to synchronize our personal energy with surrounding energy. By doing this, we create a new reality without the use of drugs and alcohol.

In one reality, we deny the existence of surrounding energy and attempt to fight it off when we feel it. This battle begins within, causing a change in breathing pattern which causes tension within our circulatory system leading to stress in the body. In another reality, we embrace surrounding energy, inducing harmony within us and around us.

By denying energy, we take ourselves out of sync from the reality around us. This can cause us to turn to substances to numb us from the feeling of being out of place. In a state of numbness, we gain the confidence to not care about being out of place but we are still out of place. We may be loud and even entertaining to a certain degree but if you feel the need to be the loudest one in the room, you are not in sync with the energy in your reality. Practice R.A.R.E. Energy: Recognize, Accept, Respect and Embrace energy and learn how to soberly create new realities.