Originally Posted by
Dee74 
I'm an Australian so I get the culture.
When I was a drinker all I saw was drinkers...when I quit I noticed a lot of other people who didn't drink either.
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I find this kind of stuff really interesting, I don’t read quitting books as for some reason I find them quite triggering, I do read a lot of self help books though and stumbled upon one about people’s Reticular activating system (RAS).. in short our brains can only process a fraction of the millions of bits of data we acquire throughout a day so our RAS filters out all the things we’re not interested in and focus on what we think is the most important..if our focus is alcohol all we will see is adverts about booze, people drinking, everyone having fun with a drink in their hand
it’s why things like affirmations and practising gratitude are so powerful.
video below explains it a lot better than I can😂
https://youtu.be/B3fiyEBP9cQ