HOW TO BUILD NEW WAYS OF THINKING

CHANGE YOUR STORY, CHANGE YOUR LIFE

With ‘Go Sober This October’ well under way here is some advice for those aiming to complete the whole month of October and, for some, beyond.

When I saw this pathway emerge over the last few days it reminded me of how you can change your beliefs.

The secret to stopping drinking, which I detail in my book WALKING BACK TO HAPPINESS, is about changing your belief system. I learnt that to change my life, it is critical to change my story. To do this, you need to change your beliefs.

But how do you do this?

A quote written over 170 years ago by US philosopher Henry David Thoreau is at the heart of the process.

‘As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.’ This is the basis of what is today called neuroplasticity.

To make a pathway in the forest, we walk again and again. Similarly, to make a deep mental path, we must think again and again the thoughts that we want to dominate our lives. I told myself many times each day that I was a non-drinker and supported it with hard evidence on how bad alcohol was for my well-being. I made alcohol the enemy. I saw if for what it really was – poison.

In the early days of going AF, I had to fight myself, my ego. I had to un-brainwash myself. For 35 years, I had sung the same song.

The way I successfully changed my belief about alcohol was to wage a war on my belief that alcohol was part of my life; it was too hard to live my life and be happy without it. I would be boring if I did not drink. I would be an outcast – a social pariah.

I relabeled myself. I got rid of the old Post-it notes that were stuck on me. I was not dependent on alcohol. I did not need alcohol to be successful in my job entertaining my clients. I did not need alcohol to relax. I did not need alcohol to have fun.

MY BOOK

WALKING BACK TO HAPPINESS – THE SECRET TO ALCOHOL-FREE LIVING & WELL-BEING, now available on Amazon, sets out the life changing experiences I encountered during my first year of going alcohol-free.

It is the story of how Nigel Jones, a 50-something-year-old, who had been locked into the habit of drinking alcohol for over 35 years, finally woke up and said, ‘I want a different life’; how he found his purpose and in doing so transformed his mind and body; how he lost 30% of his body weight and made anxiety and sleepless nights a thing of the past.

The book reveals the secret of how to free yourself from alcohol’s control. Where the standard willpower method fails, this unique and easy-to-follow approach is proven to succeed. It shows how by quitting drinking you can transform your body, mind and life.

© Copyright Nigel Jones 2022. The moral right of the author has been asserted. All rights reserved.

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