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Old 10-08-2017, 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Tatsy View Post
.... the (principally) autonomous (due to conditioning, learning, reward feed back pathways etc.) operates slightly FASTER than the conscious awareness. As in the drink could be raised and swallowed almost before YOU realised, IF you were on auto-pilot or following a non-AVRT/Mindfulness path. But with AVRT that can never happen, because if it did, you'd have consciously decided to reverse your Big Plan.
Taking a drink is a conscious, volitional act, no different than copulation. It is an attempt to obtain the sensate signature (the feelings) produced by alcohol. Those feelings are interpreted sub-cortically by the Beast as necessary for survival, but all the structural model does is attempt to place things in context.

It takes a conscious person grasping this fact -- that no one pours drinks down one's throat -- to quit an addiction once and for all, or to perpetually wallow in the purgatory of indecision. AVRT identifies that unfortunate, ambivalent state as the state of addiction.

In other words, we don't do Freud with AVRT.

Originally Posted by Tatsy View Post
Therefore learning AVRT or Mindfulness ensures that there's a sentry/bouncer on the door of the sub-conscious, filtering and rejecting automatic thought (AV) when it arises and tries to pass through the conscious door and instigate action - drinking.
The Beast screens our thinking for anything that might violate its cardinal rule of addiction -- never say never -- and then tries to intervene by 'barking' AV at us.

All we are doing with AVRT is emulating the Beast itself.

Originally Posted by Tatsy View Post
The beauty of AVRT, in my experience, is that the Big Plan seemed to strengthen those thought sentrys/bouncers, to the point where they're akin to bulked up Mr. Universe.
The Big Plan is a new cardinal rule that brings the Addictive Voice into consciousness, and allows for easy recognition. The 'nature' of the Addictive Voice is simply anything that contradicts the Big Plan, although the AV does have several auxiliary functions.

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