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| Is anyone else using yoga and meditation in an effort to cool it on the drinking? |
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| I don't see how yoga could even help with that? Ask yourself why you drink and then see what the root problem is. The drinking is a symptom, not the problem. |
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| Any subustance that gives you a HIGH is only temporary..We all crave that feeling,but by getting there by subtances only lasts for a long as the drug is active in our bodies.What ever go,s up must come down...By practicing yoga and meditation you can turn on that light for ever ...Yoga can bring you that high you crave ,without the crash.....Namaste.....dor |
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| Yes, I know several people who have used yoga to quit drinking or smoking. Yoga is a great way to become more in touch with your body and it's needs. |
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| SSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Yoga works great on persons who want to cut drinking. It increases mental control over drinking. It brings in discipline to the practitioner. I was drinking very frequently before. I srarted Hatha Yoga > Now I am still practicing yoga and not drinks. I am a teacher in yoga teaching in a girls college in my city. But this tremendous transformation was fuelled by practicing BHAKTHI YOGA.  . One has to practice hatha, karma, gnana,and importantly BHAKTHI AND JAPA yoga TO COMPLETE THE SEQUENCE. Chanting the gods name with beads removes many impurities in our system. KNOW YOGA KNOW PEACE .  |
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| D'ont despair. It is okay to start yoga and meditation for whatever which reason. It doesn't take an eternity to discover changes from within and without to occur. Six months of practise gives you a good indication of where you are heading. At least of some kind of change. With yoga, don'y hurt yourself. Go easy but do push yourself. When it hurts look at it by feeling it with your body. Don't bother asking where it came from. Same with meditation, d'ont identify with what comes up in your mind. Even gurus are trying to master that one. As far as drinking goes.there are, I have heard of one, zen masters who use alcool aspart of their practise. I am not saying booze is a holy practise. When you drink, don't condemn yourself. Put your effort and conscience in really, really enjoying your drink. After 20 years of toga and meditation the road ahead seems just as long as in the past. Difference being you are more patient and accepting. |
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| Bill,
Yoga and meditation are essentially about balance, and finding the place in yourself where you can reach this. This inward focus helps create an awareness of where you are in the present moment and inner motivations. Often one begins to carry this awareness off the mat to several areas of life - this would include understanding situations in which one is likely to drink to excess and the reasons that one overindulges. My guess is that this tendency is not solely related to drinking but to other aspects of life as well. Greater balance, along with less time for drinking by virtue of a yoga practice, can help gradually replace nearly any addiction. It's a matter of willingness and dedication. |
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| Accupuncture is another option that has also been shown to help with addictions, including alcohol addiction. |
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| LoraB
you r right. spare time and not using it in constructive manner, leads to alcohlism or any other not so useful activities. actually one should exercise great caution in utilising the spare time. this is also a matter of priority and practice. believe me, i started meditation at the very time of drinking or socialising. and within a less of a month i m almost in control. in the evening i meditate for about half an hour and inclination towads drink is on the decreasing side.by way of exercising a little bit of will power one can easily control the habit of drinking. |
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| i totally agree with bill...........find out what ur problem is why is it that u are drinking.........
good luck |
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| Do Yoga Exercise 1 hour a day and Meditation 1 hour a day for 6 months with NO break and you shall find the solution to your drinking. Do not discuss this problem much.
neel kulkarni www.authenticyoga.org |
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| We alcoholics are liars, we are cheats and we are thieves. We will tell you anything we think you will buy in order to maintain our access to alcohol.
In the end, it is the only thing we care about.
We will tell you that we will cut back, only drink on weekends, anything we can think about that will placate you and then we will drink.
We don’t drink because we want to, we drink because we have to. We are in the grip of an obsession that we cannot control.
The school of thought that I adhere to states that we alcoholics are obsessed with the though of when can we start drinking, how much can we drink, and how can we make it work (get away with it). These thoughts occupy our thoughts every waking moment. And once we start drinking, something happens inside us that demands that we keep drinking. There is no human power that can change that sad chain of events, the bitter fog of alcoholism.
The only thing I have ever found that will cut through the fog and get an alcoholic's attention is pain. Deep, pervasive and unrelenting spiritual pain. Over time it only gets worse, It never gets better on it’s own. Never deny an alcoholic the opportunity to suffer, it may be their only hope.
All the recovery programs I know anything about put good long-term recovery at less than 50%.
The truth to be known, a lot less than that.
Legions of people who have watched loved ones throw their lives down the crapper. Some small fraction of them have seen their loved ones pick up their beds and walk again, but most just watch the people they love go to jails, institutions or just die
Richard S.
p.s.
There is always hope.
I showed up in my first AA meeting in the fall of 1998, I haven’t had to drink from that date on.
Edited by shadowalker164 2005-05-12 3:39 PM
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| Neel's advice is so good and so inexpensive and free of any bad side-effects. Why isn't this part of school curriculum (sp?)? I know young kids don't need to be taught this since it comes naturally to them but why isn't is reinforced in K-12? Think of how many problems people wouldn't have!
I especially like group meditation for increased energy but let's see what Neel thinks of this - fifi |
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| *Clapping* A very honest and open answer Richard. I admire your courage and determination in being dry since 1998.
Alcoholic dependence is a very difficult one to overcome due to the social acceptablilty and free availability of the substance being abused (second only to the dreaded cigarette in my opinion).
Fee
shadowalker164 - 2005-05-13 8:12 PM
Richard S.
p.s.
There is always hope.
I showed up in my first AA meeting in the fall of 1998, I haven’t had to drink from that date on.
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