The True Steps to Freedom

  1. Decision

    Make your decision that, after the final drink, you will never drink alcohol again. I have explained just how powerful a genuine decision really is. It cuts off all other possibilities; it gives certainty that literally destroys any doubts. You must realise that you can easily achieve it. There is nothing different about you because the only person that can make you drink is you.

  2. Nothing to give up

    Keep it clear in your mind that there is nothing to give up. I can understand that stopping drinking seems difficult if you think you are giving up a genuine pleasure or crutch but, once you realise there is nothing to give up, it’s easy. I don’t mean that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages; I mean that there are no advantages. All the apparent advantages, were just that – apparent. The courage, confidence, relaxation, pleasure, etc. were simply illusions based on the removal of our natural fears. The advantages never actually existed. That is why you would feel just as stupid moping around wanting an alcoholic drink after you stopped as you would searching for Santa Claus or fairies, because they do not exist. I have illustrated over and over again that alcohol will

exist for a long time but that all the things we were conditioned to believe alcohol did for us, do not exist. That was all you were hooked on – the illusions. So remember, there is nothing to give up and you are not making any sacrifice. It is the people who drink who make all the sacrifices.

  1. Never say ‘I can’t’

    Constant And Never-ending Torture is precisely what ‘recovery’ is. Do you want to be in recovery, just surviving from day to day, or do you want to be fully liberated and living every day? Never say ‘I can’t have a drink’ when you know full well that you can physically pick one up if you wanted to as there is nothing stopping you. You can inject yourself with heroin too, you just do not want to. You do not want to be a slave to alcohol any more, so don’t torture yourself by saying ‘can’t.’ Remove the T from the word and you have immediately removed the self-imposed torture, replacing it with Constant And Never-ending happiness.

  2. Think drink

    Do not try not to think about alcohol or worry if you are thinking about it a lot of the time. It is impossible to try not to think of something. Just make sure, whenever you think about it, whether it is today, tomorrow, next week or for the rest of your life, that you think ‘I don’t have to do that any more, isn’t it great, I’m free, I’m a non-drinker!’ That way you can think about

drinking every minute of the day and you will still be happy. It is what you think that makes the difference.

  1. There is no such thing as an alcoholic (as society understands it)

    You must get it clear in your mind that there is no such thing as an alcoholic. Whether you thought you were one or not, your common sense should help you realise that there is no such thing. You are just a normal person who fell for a very clever confidence trick, just like millions of others all over the world but, unlike many others still stuck in this psychological trap, you are breaking free. Having made that decision to break free, never begin to torture yourself by doubting it. The disease only exists for the people who need to drink, not for those who don’t.

  2. Do not feel down – Rejoice in your feedom

    There is nothing to feel down about. Start off with a happy frame of mind. The second you finish your final drink, it’s over. Rejoice from the start, because you are free from the start. Do not turn into a whinging ex-drinker, there is nothing worse. There is nothing to pine for and everything to feel happy about.

  3. Do not count days

    What is the point? What are you going to do, count the days since you stopped for the rest of

your life? How pathetic would that be? Almost as sad, as the poor souls in AA who celebrate every year with a cake. The more candles you have on your cake the longer you have survived. You don’t want to survive or hang on in there for the rest of your life, you want to live. So just do it – live. Leave alcohol behind, it’s something that you used to do. Now you don’t have to.

  1. Do not avoid any situations

    You have stopped drinking, not living. Enjoy social gatherings from the start; they are so much more enjoyable when you are the real you.

  2. Never say ‘Just the one’

    Drinking alcohol is drug addiction and causes a chain reaction. See the whole business of drink for what it is, drug addiction and peddling on a massive scale. If you think there is genuine pleasure in one drink, you will think there is a genuine pleasure in a million. Face the fact that, whether you like it or not, you have a disease. It will not go away simply because you put your head in the sand. Like all crippling diseases, it not only lasts for life but gets worse and worse. The easiest time to cure it is now.

  3. Do not use any replacements

    Avoid non-alcoholic beers or wines. These simply perpetuate the illusion that you have made a sacrifice.

  4. Do not envy drinkers – Feel sorry for them

    Do not envy people who need to drink alcohol as there is absolutely nothing to envy. See drinkers as objects of pity, not envy. Most of them are not even aware that they are trapped. They have a progressive disease and feel dependent on a drug and most do not even know it. Is that something to envy? Once they realise that you are free and happy about stopping, they will probably envy you.

  5. This is not a safety net

    Never think for one second that this method is a safety net. I will explain this in more detail in the final chapter – Final Warning.

Finally: Do follow all these steps. They are your guaranteed ‘twelve steps’ to freedom.

If you have understood all I have said and realised how simple the alcohol trap is and if you actually follow all the instructions then, in no time at all, you will receive the …