Are you sick of feeling grey? Does life often feel just a little bit mediocre? Do you often think: there must be more to life than this!?
Alcohol is a crude anaesthetic that is turning down the technicolour on your life and making it grey scale. The truth is that if you are drinking alcohol regularly, it is stealing your joy and taking away your birth right- the right to feel good. The right to feel really really good all of the time.
We are Vibrational Beings
Everything- I mean absolutely everything on this planet and beyond is made up of vibrating matter and you are no different. Don’t believe me? Google it- you will find that this is a fact rooted in physics and not something that belongs entirely to the realms of the hippy. You have an electromagnetic field emitting from your body and its vibrations change depending on your mood. You feel joy and you start vibrating on a high frequency, you feel sadness, anger, jealousy etc. and you move into the realms of low vibrations.
Now it is totally normal to move through different emotions throughout the day. In fact, I would even go so far as to say that there is no such thing as a ‘bad’ emotion. All of our emotions are helpful signposts from The Universe and must be honoured, listened to and responded to. However, if we are truly showing up for our emotions and honouring them, we find that our natural state is that of joy and that just a floating cork, we are able to bob right back up to a high vibrational state once we have allowed a lower vibrational emotion to work through us and nudge us back on to our path.
Why do we want to come back to our high vibrational state?
Apart from the obvious: that feeling good just feels, well…good, when we are operating from a place of high vibrations, we turn up the decibels on our manifestation powers. Have you ever noticed that when you feel joy that things just come to you? That when you feel happy and in flow that life just feels effortless and that you start to feel…lucky?! That is because when your vibrations are high you have turned yourself into a magnet for what you want. If you emit joyful vibrations, you make everything around you vibrate at a joyful frequency and you attract more joy towards you. This also works the other way. Think back to a day when you have been in a terrible mood and one bad thing seems to happen after another- what you emit comes back to you.
How alcohol works on the brain and body
So where does alcohol fit into all of this then? Well, it doesn’t really but we will get to that part shortly- let us first examine what happens to the body and brain when we consume alcohol.
When we drink alcohol our body releases dopamine which is a feel-good chemical and it is designed to reward us for doing the things that we need to do to survive- like eating for example. It also releases serotonin another chemical that makes us feel great.
However, it is not long before our brain registers that we have unnaturally high levels of these feel good chemicals and it decides that we need to be balanced out again (our body does everything it can to stay balanced). Therefore, it releases cortisol and adrenaline (stress hormones) and dynorphin (a depressant!) to bring us back down again. This is why, when the initial effects of a drink start to wear off, we crave another one- we have been brought back down from our high and we want to get back up again. And so the cycle of addiction begins.
When we drink regularly, we get used to having extra stress hormones and dynorphin in our bodies and we start to forget what our natural feed good state feels like and start to accept this grey feeling as ‘normal’.
How alcohol works on your vibrations
As you have probably already worked out, as your mood plummets due to the release of stress and depressant hormones, so do your vibrations. The more regularly we drink, the more and more we are being trapped in a low vibrational state. When we start to look at it this way, alcohol really does start to seem like a massive con right? It does the opposite of what we were hoping it would, our feel good moments are fleeting and then we end up feeling worse than before and once we get trapped in this cycle we get used to living in a low vibrational state, and what happens when we are in a low vibrational state? We attract things that match our vibrations. Alcohol literally steals your super power- your innate power to attract exactly what you want into your life. Alcohol is a trick of The Matrix, it keeps you small and it keeps you in box. It stifles your creativity and keeps you trapped in a reality where you believe you are not good enough and cannot accomplish your dreams.
It is your birthright to feel good
You know that feeling of pure joy when you bounce out of bed feeling excited for the day? The feeling you get when your stomouch flips are even small pleasures like your first coffee, eating a delicious breakfast? You know that feeling when you feel so happy that things just don’t annoy you? Maybe you don’t? I promise you, this is our natural state of being- this is how we are meant to feel all of the time. Any addictive patterns that we can get trapped in and unresolved trauma can take us away from this state but often social programming tells us that the things that are keeping us trapped are the things that we need to feel better. We need to break away from these so that we can feel truly ourselves again.
What are you hiding from?
Alcohol is an anesthetic and sometimes (often for some), people use this anesthetic to numb feelings that they don’t want to feel. When you look at this from a vibrational standpoint, you could say that people are reaching for alcohol because they actually want to raise their vibrations. Unfortunately, many people don’t know that they are doing the opposite and trapping themselves in a low vibrational state.
Every human on this planet experiences traumas whether big or small throughout their lives and alcohol can often be used as a way of repressing these. However, the irony is that if we don’t repress these and work through them properly, we can release them forever and truly stand in our power.
It is time to show up for yourself
It is time to show up for yourself, clean out your closet and raise your vibrations to live the life that you truly want to live! If you would like support on this journey, please reach out to me for one to one or group coaching via this link https://coachingbyanneka.co.uk/coaching/ Or alternatively you can download my free e-book by signing up to my newsletter below.
