69: Believing New Things

Take a Break from Drinking

Rachel Hart

Alcohol, Lifecoach, Alcoholicsanonymous, Self-improvement, Hungover, Society & Culture, Smartrecovery, Drinking, Cognitivebehavioraltherapy, Education, Cbt, 12steps, Sobriety, Drunk, Recovery, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Today, I show you how to create new evidence when it comes to your relationship to alcohol and your ability to successfully take a break. This work will require you to challenge your thoughts, but it's vital to successfully changing the habit.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 69.
0:05.0	Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit
0:11.8	from the inside out. We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation.
0:19.8	No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking.
0:27.8	Now here's your host, Rachel Hart.
0:34.8	Hey everybody, what is happening? What are you doing? What are you thinking about? Are you drinking?
0:41.8	Listen, today we are going to talk about the fact that if you are going to change a habit like drinking, but frankly, any habit,
0:52.8	why you need to create new evidence to support new beliefs. This is so important, this evidence piece, because not having evidence will hold you back.
1:09.8	This can be around anything, right? New beliefs like, I don't need to be drinking to go out on the dance floor and have fun.
1:18.8	I don't need to have a drink when everyone else is. I am someone who can have fun without alcohol.
1:25.8	Now I know for a lot of you hearing me say those ideas, like I don't know Rachel, I'm not so sure those apply to me,
1:33.8	but it's because you don't yet have evidence in support of them.
1:39.8	Now listen, your brain is always looking for evidence to prove your thoughts true. Always, why is this?
1:49.8	Because that is how the brain keeps believing the thoughts that it already thinks.
1:58.8	It scans the environment for evidence to support the thoughts that are already there.
2:06.8	And this can be with anything, right? A thought like mankind is inherently evil. Your brain will find tons of evidence for that.
2:14.8	It will look to war, it will look to strife, it will look to murder, it will look for the capacity to hate.
2:20.8	We'll find lots of evidence to support that. Now on the other hand, if you have a thought like mankind is inherently good,
2:27.8	your brain will also scan for evidence to prove this thought true. It will look to random acts of kindness,
2:36.8	how people respond when natural disasters occur, the capacity to love, the capacity to forgive.
2:44.8	Whatever the belief is, your brain will look for evidence to prove it true. And the same is true for all of your thoughts about drinking.
2:54.8	My friends want me to drink. I'm more fun with a drink. I can't meet guys if I'm not drinking.
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