Since many people have difficulty recognizing the various forms that the Addictive Voice can take, here is a more comprehensive list taken from "The Art of AVRT®" by Jack Trimpey. Remember the definitions.
Beast :- The desire to get high, to drink or use drugs.
- Addictive desire. Often used synonymously with "Addictive Voice," but more accurately, the appetite or desire for substance-induced pleasure.
- Addictive Voice is to Beast as bark is to dog. (AV —> Beast = Bark —> Dog)
Addictive Voice (AV) :- Any thinking or feeling that supports, or even suggests, your future use of alcohol or drugs.
- The voice of the Beast in your thoughts and perceptions.
- Your thinking, in words and images, which directs, supports, or suggests the possible future use of alcohol and other drugs.
- Your AV is the sole cause of your addiction.
Originally Posted by The Art of AVRT®, Pages 124-125
Functions of the Addictive Voice - Conceal its existence by using the pronoun, "I."
- Conceal addiction's primal, pleasure motive.
- Justify continued self-intoxication.
- Deny the moral dimension of self-intoxication.
- Minimize the bad effects of self-intoxication.
- Maximize, romanticize positive effects.
- Character assassination, global — self and others.
- Dignify use of the substance; absolve guilt, responsibility.
- Undermine confidence to abstain.
- Build socal tolerance for self-intoxication.
- Siege, wear you down.
- Identify opposition, narcs, moralists as enemies.
- Create a support network of other addicted people to act as a safe harbor, provide primary social needs, and to legitimize addiction.
- Guarantee perpetual supply of the substance and opportunities to use it.
- Manipulate all situations to serve itself.
- Organize all thoughts, values, and policies in its own interests.
- Emulation of human affairs, of human roles, of human attitudes, of mature human functioning.
Excerpted from "The Art of AVRT®" by Jack Trimpey
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