The Magical Lure of Alcohol, How it Tricks You.

The Magical Lure of Alcohol, How it Tricks You and How Hypnosis for Alcohol Addiction is the Best Treatment Because It Gets to the Source of the Problem.

At Dallas Hypnosis Programs, we don’t offer alcohol addiction treatment or treatment for alcoholism what we do offer is support, encouragement, self-esteem building, trigger removal, and sobriety coaching.

Alcohol lures a person into thinking it is the answer to pain, but in the end causes more pain. This is an excerpt from my novel, ‘Licking Honey of A Razor Blade’ by Valerie Grimes.

He mumbled over the sound of the red neck alligator-hunting reality show, “I just have to get it out, then he paused, eyes fixated on two men in a metal fishing boat, cruising in a swamp, then he continued, “I’m tired, I can’t hold it any longer, please don’t judge me. I’m afraid of the dark, that was all I’m afraid of…nothing scared me…until now, I’m scared of the person I’ve become.”

What did he just say?

He was crying, “I’m tired, I can’t do this anymore,” he wiped tears away with the back of his hand, I moved closer and turned the volume down and took the beer from his hand. He joked for a quick second, “I’m not tired of that, give me that beer back,” I did.  He continued, “People were jealous of me, in my heart I was a helper and did so much for others, but it was always misinterpreted as being cocky, so I just kept to myself, I don’t need anyone.”

I realized, “So his self-centered attitude was just a way of protecting himself?”

He continued, through the sobs, “I’m a bad seed, a bad kid. My dad told me I was so he taught me I had to fight, so I’ve become used to fighten’.  I create problems, get thrown in jail, fired, and nearly loose you. Dad wired me to never back down.  Dad beat me when I didn’t win—so I’m afraid to loose, but now I’m tired. I’m so tired and he buried his head in my chest to rest a bit before he told a story that created a clear path to my really understanding of what this man had been through and why he drank so much.

“Once when I was 14 I rode my bike over to watch a softball game, but a gang of boys wanted to fight, I broke away and rode toward home, very fast through a field of high weeds, and was so relieved to get home safe.

“Dad was there on the porch with a beer, about a six pack of empties were here and there, some in the tall grass barely visible, my heart stopped, I told him what I was running from but the look on his face told me I was going back to face those boys, I was terrified, just wanted to be home and feel safe.  I went back and faced those boys they ganged up on me and beat me.

“He’s been like that my whole life, I had to play perfect ball, I was so little and he insisted I do it right and would beat me if I didn’t hit the ball far enough or fast enough or make the home run.  I learned I had to be perfect but was also terrified when I wasn’t it was a lot of pressure, and it hasn’t stopped, I’m just so tired. I’m afraid to rest and to sleep.”

He sobbed for nearly 10 minutes in my arms until he fell asleep.  It was the first time he slept through the night.

As I watched him sleep still sobbing like an infant that cried him self to sleep, I shifted, I felt compassion for him and I reflected on the compassion I was starting to have for my self and my personal journey.  My dad had wanted a son, but he had three girls.  He didn’t teach us to fight but that we would have a fight on our hands being women in a ‘man’s world’ (he was referring to the work world), this idea was woven throughout my upbringing, women were the underdog, we had to try harder. That created a self – defeating belief that made it difficult for me to desire more, to desire better, and because I was also taught to avoid conflict. I was screwed as far as being a successful business woman independent of a man. And that is why I drank. Fear was why we both drank.

If these two individuals were to merely go to a program designed around abstinence they would never be able to get to the source of the problem: why they drank.

Hypnosis examines the feeling state of a person and follows that back through a regression technique to the first time they felt that way. For the man in this story, it was clearly a lot of pain but under the pain was fear.  For the woman, it was lack of security and self doubt which was also fear.  They both choose to drink alcohol to escape that fear.  But neither of them consciously understood that, but were drawn together to work those issues out.

Why do you drink? Is alcohol luring you in with magical thinking that things will be better?  If so, hypnosis can take away your urge to drink, it can take away the lure by dealing with the causes.

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Note: At Dallas Hypnosis Programs, we don’t offer alcohol addiction treatment or treatment for alcoholism what we do offer is support, encouragement, self-esteem building, trigger removal, and sobriety coaching.

The Magical Lure of Alcohol, How it Tricks You and How Hypnosis for Alcohol Addiction is the Best Treatment Because It Gets to the Source of the Problem.