Lesson 6: Managing Cravings And Urges - Slide  17

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Learning To Relabel

  • It is more than shrugging and saying, “It’s not real, it’s my brain”
  • Mindful awareness is essential and requires you to:
  • Consciously recognize the feeling, “I feel a strong craving and urge to drink”
  • Make a mental note of the unpleasant feeling of a craving or urge, “I dislike the uncomfortable feeling that I must drink right now”
  • Actively relabel it as a false message from your brain, “This is not a real need, it is a faulty message from my brain. I do not need a drink”
Notes:

Pg. 10, Schwartz, Jeffrey, M., 1996, “Brain Lock, Free Yourself From Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior, A Four-Step Self-Treatment Method To Change Your Brain Chemistry,” Regan Books/Harper Collins Publishers, New York.

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