Why I am officially leaving alcohol behind me forever

#33 - My greatest potential can only be achieved by becoming my greatest self.

"There is no success without sacrifice.”
—Tonic Motihala

Each week on the Hue-Man Experience we offer conceptual ideas about how to live an enriched life, coupled with a call-to-action to put them into practice by building individualized direct experience of these ideas in action.

Last week’s practice involved the action of letting go of something which does not serve our greatest potential. Since I write these articles as a guidebook for me to use to rise to my own highest potential, I practice each week alongside you.

This past week has offered many realizations, the biggest of which is that in order for me to move forward on my highest path, to reach my greatest potential as a hue-man BEing, I must put the usage of alcohol behind me forever.

The idea to make this sacrifice is not something that suddenly bloomed in my mind overnight, rather, it is something that has been brewing for a number of years.

I resisted the knowing feeling that I should say goodbye to alcohol for a very long time, but now I am done resisting.

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During my darkest years I was a habitual daily drinker. I crushed at least a 6 pack of high ABV beer per day, and my waistline showed it. It made me gassy, bloated, irritable, forgetful, even more depressed than I already was, and it fostered inflammation in various areas of my body.

Overall, I knew I was slowly killing myself, so back in 2019 I decided I wanted to make some changes to improve the normal resting baseline of how I felt on a day-to-day basis.

I first reduced my habit to only drinking on weekends. After doing that for quite some time, I decided to only drink on one weekend per month. I felt wonderful when I did not drink, but I still tended to over serve myself on the nights I allowed myself to partake.

Over the past year the habit was reduced to one weekend every several months. I even switched to cheap light beer to avoid getting super wasted, but mixing it with whiskey on some nights did not help that effort.

Over the years, the main lesson that drinking alcohol has repeatedly taught me is that whether you are drinking in celebration or in sadness, you will feel exactly the same way the morning after if you overdo it. If you have ever gotten too drunk, you well know the day-after feeling I am speaking of.

Thoughts can easily get in the way of what we each know in our hearts to be best for us. The brain speaks much louder and more intensely than the soft whispers of the heart.

Our feelings are what guide us through life when the answers to our questions are ambiguous. People pay top dollar to create temporary feelings they desire to be enlivened by but don’t want to earn through dedicated hard work and sacrifice.

And drinking alcohol dulls our ability to feel and discern what is best for us. It negates our ability to see what the light of our Sun has been showing us all along.

It suppresses the best intentions and most potent inspirations offered by the Great Will of Consciousness, and leaves the life-changing work that is most worth doing for tomorrow. Yet, when tomorrow is a day of continued thirst, our goals slip farther and farther away into the abyss of a caramel colored glass.

The day of this publication, 8/24, happens to be my birthday. The gift I am giving myself this year is the commitment to do something I have been putting off for far too long. I am removing alcohol from my diet for good.

That’s all folks, I am putting the cork back in the bottle. I am done.

I don’t like being drunk. I don’t like the after affects of drinking. And these realizations alone are more than enough evidence for me to make this life-changing decision once and for all.

No more Holiday beers. No more “I’m on vacation” libations. No more celebratory drinks. No more waking up the next day feeling like my brain was electrically short circuiting all night long, with legs that feel as if they’d been trampled by a herd of cattle as I slept.

I would much rather wake up each day feeling energized and grateful to be alive than hungover spending my precious energy recovering from addictive decisions made the night before.

That said, with heartfelt gratitude, I must give thanks to alcohol for the repeated lessons it has offered that have driven me to finally say goodbye to it.

I am immensely grateful that the highly tempting and highly addictive substance exists because it offers me yet another chance to believe even more deeply in myself by following my heart’s guidance to make another sacrifice that I know will only do wonderful things for my spirit over time.

This sacrifice is yet another step in my commitment to living in the highest possible love that I can. A love that remains aspirational when I drink alcohol.

My heart knows exactly what it wants, and exactly how to get it. So I will continue to follow its guidance, trusting that it will never lead me astray.

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This week’s practice is entirely up to you, my dear friend. I trust that however you feel about your own path through life, you will do exactly the right thing needed to foster your own progress toward your true goals at all times.

This article is in no way a judgement of you and whatever decisions you make on a day-to-day basis. It is simply my way of being transparently honest about my own addictive behavior, and a way to publicly hold myself accountable to do what I know needs to be done.

I love you, and I love me. Let’s have an amazing week.

🌈 Hue-Man 🌈

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A quick note about this week’s article, and those moving forward:
This publication has always been about the writing and the ideas it conveys. I originally thought that adding a podcast style recording of me reading each article would be a nice way to share how I intend each of these pieces to come across, but I have decided that I am no longer going to do that.

Due to the nature of this writing, I have been feeling that it is important for each reader to take the information in using their own voice, so for the time being I will no longer be reading these writings to you.

I can not and do not wish to attempt to control how you receive and perceive these ideas. My job is simply to write about how my heart guides me. What you do with the information is entirely up to you.

Perhaps in the future we will record interviews with people that have unique perspectives on life, or people who study Consciousness, to share those via an attached podcast. Or maybe I’ll create an entirely different podcast if that ever feels right to work on again.

Either way, I am going to keep writing here each week to share what inspires me with you.

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If you are asking yourself, “Who the heck is this guy and why am I sitting here reading what he has to say”, then start at post #1.
And please remember, I am not your guru, you are :)