How to Tell If You Are Drinking Too Much
From The Recovery Self Help Project
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Have you ever asked yourself, "Am I drinking too much?"
If you asked the question in the first place then you know the answer. You are.
It is so easy for us to live in a state of denial, not admitting to ourselves our weaknesses and faults. The reason why we live in denial is because we don't want to believe there is something wrong with us. And do you know why we don't want to believe there is something wrong with us? Because there isn't! Is that too radical a thought for you. The Twelve Step program proposes (preaches) that it is your character flaws that keep you from being sober. Well, what if instead you were to find it within yourself to see your essential beauty, to recognize that you are perfectly imperfect, to experience self-love? These are terms associated with New Age philosophy and are easily dismissed by the rational, pragmatic, skeptical types. But when we see a person with natural self-cønfidence what is it that person has that gives him that natural confidence? It's his sense of himself. The truly confident person does not blame or shame himself. It wouldn't occur to him. Nor does he feel guilty. Nor is he afraid of what others think of him. He has a sense of himself that says, "I am okay. There are things I can improve upon and will, but I am okay." These are people, and they are few and far between, that we admire. They are authentic; they tell themselves the truth because they're not hiding from themselves because they're not beating up on themselves. They know who they are and they like what they see.
So if you want to know if you're drinking too much sit still for about twenty minutes and silently ask yourself, "Am I drinking too much? And if so, why am I drinking too much?" Wait for the answer. Don't make up an answer, or force an answer. Wait for you inner self to give you the answers. And when the come, take them to heart. And then go back inside yourself and ask this question, "What is there to love about me?" Wait for the answer. They will come flooding out. And after you've listened to all the reasons, take a deep breath and own those reasons. Dwell on them every day and while you're at it, ask yourself what you have to be grateful for, and listen for the answers.. If you do those three things every day, (it only takes twenty minutes)you won't ever again ask yourself if you drink too much. Because you won't.
