Originally Posted by
fini 
...this is why i appreciated Rob's explanation: that the Big Plan is the tool that results in a recognition of anything whispering or shouting against it can be firmly and immediately relegated to the AV. it helped me understand how someone can use this method. helped me understand how it is very different from a commitment.
fini, (and RobbyRobot, you'll remember this)
Last year I said I was going to try and explain how someone could succeed at never drinking again by using everything AVRT had to offer including thinking about the Big Plan, EXCEPT not actually making the Big Plan. Well, it seems, fini, that you may be on the way to doing just that. There's is no proof you will not succeed. I wish you the best.
As to my own experience, when I understood AVRT and contemplated what it was like to be so close to permanent abstinence without actually making the decision to BE permanently abstinent, I chose to make that high dive off the diving board and burst out of the past, forever. I made the Big Plan (for alcohol/drugs).
FYI, here's a link to when I made the Big Plan for sugary foods:
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...ml#post3434356
GT