Richard, This is useful information and I am sending it on to my friend. Thank you for the good info. Robert Hi Robert >> Is their any of the Bardon material that is directed towards healing addictions that you can refer me to ? << I have no experience with alcoholism either directly or indirectly, so any pointers I suggest are second-hand info, but as I've been studying compulsive/addictive habit patterns in myself as part of Bardon and how to get to the root cause and overcome them, the following are been leant in my studies indirectly: 1. Alcoholism is a chemical dependency not just psychological so more than a single line of attack is perhaps needed. A few rare individuals seem to be genetically predisposed to alcoholism, biochemistry playing a larger role with these people than most. 2. The psychological cause is (as a fundamental trait of Bardon) the real problem for many. To add to Alex's suggestions it is perhaps necessary to not just affirm being sober, but tackle the emotional component that lead to excessive drinking in the first place. What emotional pain, etc is being denied. Also a good idea to affirm the positive not deny the negative. The subconscious has a real problem with affirmations phrased as negatives, ie I don't, I'm not,etc. 3. Blood sugar swings can lead to a desire to drink. Levelling out the blood sugar fluctuations can help lessen the desire/need to drink. The Amino acid free-form supplement L-glutamine, has in some cases been found useful for this. Also, the subject may which to investigate Chromium Picolinate (not sure about the spelling) - also a supplement to treat blood sugar swings. 4. CES (cranial electro stimulation) via instruments like Alpha-stim, have been found to exercise a profound influence on addictive patterns. Clinical trials show that after only 20 sessions some types of addictive habits were removed. 5. Habits generally - although the habit of alcoholism is self-destructive, it is still serving a psychological need, otherwise it's hold wouldn't be so strong. Unless gifted with amazing will-power, seek to replace a bad habit with a good habit in its place rather than just trying to remove the bad habit (otherwise you end up with an emotional vacuum of sorts, the need is still there, the addiction will remain, and it will seek an alternative expression, perhaps even more self-destructive, if the first choice is denied rather than consciously replaced with something better) Don't know how useful this will be, but I hope it helps. regards Richard [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis/ b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: BardonPraxis-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]