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Have been looking at some of the threads on the main board and I thought about some stuff my sponsor said to me that I found helpful.
My sponsor said to me that if I change they way I talk to myself it does help to change how I think. For example when I was putting the drink down that instead of saying to myself I want to stop drinking to say I have stopped drinking. When others asked me if I wanted a drink instead of saying no I was trying to quit was to say I do not drink. Was funny by changing this sort of things I found others responded differently to me.
When I also applied this to my own thinking things changed also. For example instead of saying I can not do that to say to myself how can I do that, how can I change myself for that to happen.
G8
My sponsor said to me that if I change they way I talk to myself it does help to change how I think. For example when I was putting the drink down that instead of saying to myself I want to stop drinking to say I have stopped drinking. When others asked me if I wanted a drink instead of saying no I was trying to quit was to say I do not drink. Was funny by changing this sort of things I found others responded differently to me.
When I also applied this to my own thinking things changed also. For example instead of saying I can not do that to say to myself how can I do that, how can I change myself for that to happen.
G8
I've been pushing my comfort zone jumping my horse. When I say internally I'm going to give this horse a super positive ride...I can. I do. When I doubt and worry about the what ifs....it's less positive.
Same goes for sobriety so far. I do say I don't drink, not I can't. I just don't or I'm not.
Words we say to ourselves are important.....