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Old 08-01-2014, 05:45 AM
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Cool Understanding your emotions

I just want to share something I have discovered in the past three weeks of soberty, my first three weeks of soberty in almost 9 years.

Understanding and dealing with your own emotions is essential, it's impossivel to be happy or in confort all the time, life is never an easy ride, bad moments come and go and that's a natural law, there's nothing we can do about it other than deal with it and getting stronger from experiences.

Alcohol offers an escapism to that, instead of knowing and understanding yourself and the way you feel you get drunk and numb yourself from reality, of course you can't scape from next day so in the moring after drinking you get far more depressed than you were in the first place. Only soberty offers a real path to happines, walking through the hard times and learning from it.

Being sober is the ultimate drug, because you deal with reality just as it is and since life is already a rollercoaster you can't get any more drunk or high than that.
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Old 08-01-2014, 07:55 AM
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Loved this - Thanks for sharing!
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Old 08-01-2014, 09:07 AM
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Sobriety is a drug without side effects or hangovers as well!
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Old 08-01-2014, 09:38 AM
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This is great - thanks, MrPhilDuck! I do enjoy "getting high" on sober life

The one thing I would add is that, in my view at least, it's also a good idea to NOT get overly caught up on and introspect on emotions all the time. Many feelings are very volatile and if we grasp on every single moment too much, it can also cloud our view and hinder progress. This is one of the areas where I really like to apply a healthy, balanced non-attachment in sobriety. Understand ourselves and how we feel about things with a clear mind, but also don't cling to this understanding and feelings too much.

Congrats on 3 weeks sober!
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Old 08-01-2014, 12:43 PM
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This is great - thanks, MrPhilDuck! I do enjoy "getting high" on sober life

The one thing I would add is that, in my view at least, it's also a good idea to NOT get overly caught up on and introspect on emotions all the time. Many feelings are very volatile and if we grasp on every single moment too much, it can also cloud our view and hinder progress. This is one of the areas where I really like to apply a healthy, balanced non-attachment in sobriety. Understand ourselves and how we feel about things with a clear mind, but also don't cling to this understanding and feelings too much.

Congrats on 3 weeks sober!
Totally agree with that.
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Old 09-09-2014, 05:34 PM
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Thank you for this post. Being willing to sit with my feelings is something I struggle with and I think has a lot to do with why I drank.
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Love this ! Thanks!

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Thank you!! I needed this today!! Congrats on 3 weeks!!!
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