Please Share your tips, methods, mantra......The AV
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Please Share your tips, methods, mantra......The AV
I would like to know how different people deal or dealt with the AV in early sobriety. Some ignore, some talk back, some meditate when the AV comes calling.....Thanks for sharing what works for you!
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Ive been saying this to myself (or the universe, or God, whatever it is)
Turn UP the volume of the Spiritual Voice
Turn DOWN the volume of the Addicted Voice.
Allow me to learn which is which, so that I may never mistake the two.
Thats it.
Turn UP the volume of the Spiritual Voice
Turn DOWN the volume of the Addicted Voice.
Allow me to learn which is which, so that I may never mistake the two.
Thats it.
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I did stuff. Any stuff. Just to while away the time.
I read and posted on here a whole lot. I learned attitudes, techniques, good ways to reason with myself, and found a lot of support, warmth, and good humor.
Plus, being able to offer others help in turn really blesses me. When I see that something I say really encourages someone, it makes me thankful. It makes me grateful to be alive.
I read and posted on here a whole lot. I learned attitudes, techniques, good ways to reason with myself, and found a lot of support, warmth, and good humor.
Plus, being able to offer others help in turn really blesses me. When I see that something I say really encourages someone, it makes me thankful. It makes me grateful to be alive.
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Hi Wrandi 
If you want to go hardcore on the AV, Rational Recovery is the method that talks about the AV and AVRT (Addictive Voice Recognition Technique).
I recommend you visit the Secular Connections forum if you want to find out more about that approach.
for myself I just didn't engage with that voice - it had nothing good to tell me. I thought of it as a petulant toddler - it would kick and scream for a while, but it will always eventually drop off to 'sleep'
It has no arms or legs - it needs me to get what it wants - If I refuse to cooperate, it's left out in the cold.
The less I engaged with it the weaker it got.
There are some really good tips here for cravings. I recommend Urge Surfing
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...-cravings.html
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If you want to go hardcore on the AV, Rational Recovery is the method that talks about the AV and AVRT (Addictive Voice Recognition Technique).
I recommend you visit the Secular Connections forum if you want to find out more about that approach.
for myself I just didn't engage with that voice - it had nothing good to tell me. I thought of it as a petulant toddler - it would kick and scream for a while, but it will always eventually drop off to 'sleep'
It has no arms or legs - it needs me to get what it wants - If I refuse to cooperate, it's left out in the cold.
The less I engaged with it the weaker it got.
There are some really good tips here for cravings. I recommend Urge Surfing
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...-cravings.html
D
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