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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Stop Drinking Podcast, where we help
you make stopping drinking asimple, logical and easy
decision.
We help you with tips, toolsand strategies to start living
your best life when alcohol-free.
If you want to learn more aboutstop drinking coaching, then
head over to wwwsoberclearcom.

(00:21):
I drank alcohol for almost 10years and I suffered with so
many alcohol cravings I lostcount.
And every single time that Iwould stop and start drinking,
or every single time that I wasdrinking, it would always be a
craving that would make me drink.
I would very rarely just openup a beer out of just you know
the habit.
I would always want to do it.

(00:41):
There'd be this desire insideof me that was almost
uncontrollable, like thismonster, like this beast.
And when I stopped drinkingalcohol with willpower, with AA
meetings, again I would sufferwith these cravings.
But these cravings disappearedtotally seven years ago, Like
that was it.
I just stopped craving alcohol.
Now I'm here today to tell yousome pretty strange stuff about

(01:04):
alcohol and cravings, becausethey're not what you think, and
I mean there's probably amedical doctor out there that
will watch this video and thinkthis guy's a lunatic.
He's off his head.
Of course people are going tosuffer with alcohol cravings, no
matter what.
But I'm telling you, it's notjust me.
I've had many clients gothrough this process and they
feel the exact same way.
I don't feel like I'm missingout on anything.

(01:24):
So it's become so easy, it's sodifferent that I don't think
about it.
Well, I do think about it.
Twice a day.
I think about when I go to bedat night, how great I feel and
how I'm sleepy, naturally, andthat's the first thought I have
in the morning is oh my gosh,what a good night's sleep I have
and how good I feel.
It's just zero obsession.
I don't have those mad cravings, it's just not there.

(01:47):
It's a mindset shift and that'sbeen huge.
So what I'm doing now issharing what worked for me, what
worked for the people that Iwork with.
I'm not claiming that this issome medical cure and I'm not
promising you that this is goingto fix your alcohol craving
issue forever, but I am going toshow you an alternative way to
look at things, a way thatyou've never heard before.
No chance, because alcoholcravings are not what you think,
and I'm hoping that this videogives you the shift that you

(02:10):
need.
It might be unconventional, butI think you're going to like it
If we haven't met yet.
My name is Leon Sylvester.
I'm the founder ofSoberClearcom, which is a
coaching company that helpspeople stop drinking alcohol
without AA meetings, withoutwillpower, without therapy and
without cravings and I reallywant to dive deep into the topic
of cravings today.
But if you want information onhow I can help you, on how we
can work together, on how I cantake you through my totally new

(02:31):
system that has had results inunder 24 hours I know it sounds
hard to believe.
If you want information on it,you can either go to the website
at SoberClearcom.
You can read a bit more aboutthe program.
There'll be some videos onthere or, if you want to go and
click the link down below in thedescription, you'll be able to
watch a video that explains themethod, how it works and so on.
So what did I do to get rid ofthese alcohol cravings and why

(02:52):
am I saying that they're notwhat you think?
So I have to go back a littlebit in time.
So I struggled to stop drinkingfor 10 years, but I stopped and
started all the time.
I would have periods when Ididn't drink, I'd have periods
when I did drink and I'd haveperiods where I'd binge drink,
I'd daily drink.
You know it was just thisabsolute roller coaster.
I wasn't one of those chronicdrinkers that drank every single
day for 20, 30, 40, 50 years.

(03:14):
I've worked with plenty ofpeople like that, but that
wasn't my experience.
But there was one thing for sureI wanted to change.
I didn't want alcohol to bepart of my life.
I knew that pretty early on andI also knew that if I kept
drinking bad things were goingto happen.
So I really tried to change myrelationship with alcohol very
early on.
But I just couldn't stop.
I tried going to AA meetingsfor a period and I went for

(03:35):
about 90 days and I did stopdrinking.
I stopped everything.
I didn't touch a singlesubstance.
But it wasn't easy.
It was still a challenge and Ifelt like every time I went to
these meetings I had toreconfirm that I was this
alcoholic right, that I had someproblem.
And I believe so many of us dothis.
If we get an alcohol craving,we think that there's maybe
something wrong with us.
We've got less willpower thanother people, especially if you

(03:58):
give in to the cravings.
Maybe we think that we're analcoholic, We've got a disease.
A lot of people that I talk to,they say that they're
high-functioning alcoholics.
But these cravings, I'm notdenying that they exist, but I'm
going to tell you a way aroundthem, a way that you've not
heard of yet.
So what's the problem here?
Well, it all lies in one thingand it all lies in your paradigm
.
If you see alcohol as a goodthing and if you see yourself as

(04:20):
the problem, I promise you onething no matter what you do in
life, whether you stop drinkingor not, you will suffer with
cravings at some point.
If you stop drinking with thesame paradigm that you drank
with, it is going to be anightmare, I promise you,
Because the paradigm that leadsyou to drink and the worldview
that you have when it comes, Ifthat doesn't change, then of
course it's going to be hard tonot drink, Because you still see

(04:43):
alcohol the same way that yousaw it when you drank.
I don't know how more peopledon't realise this.
Let me give you an example.
So I have this new client, thislady.
She's awesome, awesome humanand she's a Catholic, and she
had a bit of a stumbling blockduring the work that we've been
doing together.
And I'm not going to getreligious, don't worry, but I
think that the example that shemade was amazing.
So, as a Catholic, the Bible isa big part of her life and

(05:04):
there's a part of the Biblewhere Jesus turns water into
wine and it was a massivestumbling block for her Because,
as a Christian, you use Christas the ultimate example.
That's being a Christian right.
It's trying to imitate Christ.
Now, that is a very deepparadigm that would be very
difficult to fix.
If she held on to that, that'sgoing to be hard because when
she started the process, that'show she felt.

(05:26):
And if she's held on to thatstory, with that current
paradigm and that currentworldview, when she goes to a
church, when they offer wine,she's probably going to feel a
craving.
Because she still has that kindof positive association with
alcohol and because there's thelink in the Bible to alcohol and
Jesus, it became a problem.
And then she told me somethingthat I thought was awesome and

(05:47):
it fixed her paradigm.
She told me that later on inlife, as an adult, she developed
this severe allergy tomushrooms.
And this happened later on inlife and it was all of a sudden
I can't eat mushrooms anymore.
Now does she have a desire toeat mushrooms?
Of course not.
But she said that I'm not amushroomaholic.
I don't label myself as thisperson that needs, you know, to
pray to not eat mushrooms.

(06:08):
It's just that, was it?
And then the big epiphany hither.
Where?
Then she realised okay, well,hang on, Mushrooms aren't
necessarily a bad thing.
There are plenty of people outthere that eat mushrooms and it
doesn't cause problems in theirlife.
And we can also have thatparadigm with alcohol.
Okay, you know what?
Maybe alcohol for some peopleis fine, but the same way that
mushrooms aren't fine for me isthe same way that alcohol isn't

(06:29):
fine with me as well.
So she was evolving herworldview and her paradigm and
starting to create a newparadigm.
Now listen, I know that was abit of a crazy example, but if
she had held on to thatworldview and tried to stop
drinking alcohol, it would havebeen brutal.
And until she was able tochange her worldview and to
change that understanding, whoknows what would have happened?

(06:50):
See, the worldview that peoplehave when they stop drinking
alcohol is everything, and untilyou fix that, you're going to
get cravings.
So what I say to do is we don'tthink of ourselves as the
problem.
We don't have a lack ofwillpower.
We're not alcoholics.
There's nothing wrong with us.
We don't need to go to the pastand dig up all the bad things
that have happened in our life.
Sure, do you know what?
If you want to do these things,I'm not here to tell you not to
do them.
But the most important thingthat you can do if you want to

(07:11):
eliminate cravings is to fixyour paradigm.
That is what I've been tryingto help.
But you need to start seeingalcohol for what it truly is.
See, we've been conditionedthrough sheer repetition, from
day one of being born, to seealcohol as something that's
beneficial.
Even that story in the Bible itsounds like it was a good thing

(07:33):
.
The problem is is that therehave been billions and billions
of dollars spent on manipulatingyour worldview and how you see
alcohol and how it's linked toyou in your life.
Billions, Some of the smartestminds in the world, are behind
these campaigns, and they havebeen happening in the background
from day one of you being born.
We see it in TV shows rightwhen we're kids, we see the

(07:54):
grownups around us drinking it.
We think that it's a totallynormal thing to do, but if you
actually seriously look at itfrom a purely logical standpoint
, if you could almost zoom outof earth and just look down at
earth with no emotion, right?
Just pure logic, and you sawpeople drinking alcohol.
From a logical standpoint, itis madness.

(08:14):
They are literally putting apoison in their body.
What the heck is going on?
It makes no sense logically.
But the problem is is that wecan't do it unemotionally.
We can't remove ourselves andlook down at alcohol logically,
and that's often why we needhelp.
You need some lunatic like methat spent the past six and a
half seven years just learningabout this stuff and trying to
teach people.
Because once you do see it thatway, it's like why would I

(08:37):
drink it?
See, here's what I'm getting atwith the cravings.
If you see alcohol as a goodthing, here's what happens in
your mind.
Here's how the craving starts.
You get a thought, right, youget a thought of alcohol, and
this happens whether you'vechanged your paradigm or not.
We live in a world that'sdominated by alcohol and you
will get thoughts of drinking.
If you've read any popular stopdrinking book Alan Carr's book,

(08:58):
whatever they'll always talkabout this, Whether you stop
drinking or not, is you will getthoughts of drinking.
Now here's the problem that Ifaced during the 10 years of
trying to stop, and here's howthe cravings happened.
I would get this thought oh,beer.
And that thought would leadinto another thought that's
built around my current paradigmand understanding of alcohol oh
, wouldn't a beer be nice?

(09:18):
And then another thought wouldhappen yeah, a beer would really
relax me, A beer would reallyde-stress me, whatever.
And because of my paradigm andI'd attached all of these
beliefs to alcohol and how itwould enhance my life.
Of course, before you know it,those beliefs have led into a
craving.
See, once I'd fixed my paradigmand I could see alcohol from a

(09:39):
purely logical standpoint, withno emotional attachment
whatsoever, and I could see like.
It was almost like taking thered pill in the matrix.
I could see the advertising forwhat it was.
I could see the lies.
Taking the red pill in thematrix, I could see the
advertising for what it was.
I could see the lies.
I could just like almost zoomout in third person and just
look down at earth and think whyam I doing this?
What the heck is going on?
Now I get a thought aboutdrinking and because listen, I'm

(10:01):
telling you, no one's immune toit I get a thought about
drinking now and I think oh,alcohol, and I'm so grateful
that I don't drink, and that'sit.
The thought's gone.
It's like this poof it's justdisappeared.
See, the trick here is you needto reframe the way that you view
alcohol and not reframe the wayyou view yourself.
You have nothing wrong with youat all.

(10:21):
The fact that you drink toomuch has got nothing to do with
you.
And the fact that you've gotcravings and you succumb to
cravings isn't some moralfailing or anything like that.
It all boils down to paradigms.
I promise you one thing if youcan change your paradigm and see
alcohol exactly for what it isand completely ignore all the
conditioning, all the marketing,all of the lies that you've

(10:42):
been fed for years, stoppingdrinking will be the easiest
thing you've ever done, becausethere's nothing to do.
There is nothing hard about notdoing something.
Do you think it was hard forthat lady to give up mushrooms?
No, Because now she linkedmushrooms to pain, Mushrooms to
no, thank you.
So how can you fix yourparadigm?
Well, there's so many ways,Because what I'm saying right
now has been said a thousandtimes already.

(11:03):
There's only so many ways youcan say don't drink, alcohol is
poison.
But you need to study.
You really need to have otherpeople who have other opinions,
and you need to find somebodythat you can buy into.
For the people I work with, Iwas that person, but I might not
be for you.
Maybe for you you find somebodyelse.
This might be some other coach,there might be some other
person, some expert on thistopic.
You might find somebody totallydifferent with a totally

(11:25):
different angle and for youthat's it.
Maybe for you you find it in abook.
You read a book and then youread some scientific literature
and you're like oh, I don't wantto drink.
If you want to see if workingtogether is a good fit, you can
click the link down below.
You can apply to join the SoberClear program.
Thanks for checking out theStop Drinking podcast by Sober
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