Need help with Drinking!!

Guys i cant stop drinking
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How can vaheguru help me please
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Try Alcoholics Anonymous. It has helped many hundreds of Sikhs I know.

http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/

Satbinder Singh ji

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Sikhs cannot help you, you must help yourself. And you are. You have started. Have you not taken some early steps. You admit you are helpless and you have turned to a higher power. Randip has given wholesome advice. So start over. We all fall more than once in our lives, on our own individual paths. There is no shame there. Pick yourself up. Resume your journey.

First of all mark out stuff:

-Mark out places where you might end up getting drinking (e.g. bars, pubs or bachelor pads)
-Avoid friends who force you to much to drink
-Mark out situations which give you the drinking impulse

If you show your friends you mean it, they will step back. And you will step ahead. No one stopping you.

Learn to say NO. Close your eyes when you have an inclination for drinking and repeat Waheguru to kill it. The choice is in your hands.

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(If things go too out of hand, and someone hands you a bottle or glass filled with alcohol, throw it down, smash on floor!)

My wake up call happened when a 38 y/o colleague of mine got sick (her liver got sick) and died within 3 weeks.
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That proved to me that your liver is really, REALLY important, and every sip of alcohol wastes it away. Why sacrifice your life and your health for something with no positive aspects.
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Good luck with your recovery!

satbinderji,
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If I may ask , why do you drink?

If you are just 'drinking too much' then dealing with that is perhaps easier than for other reasons,

If you are drinking to reach oblivion, due to external pressures or life problems, you may find that dealing with the problems makes life easier to bear, and the need to run to oblivion is lessened. Also, if this is the reason, you will find yourself in no position to deal with the problems if you are constantly hungover.

Although I as a Sikh, of course accept the power of prayer and remembering the creator, try and focus as well on the very real consequences of your drinking with regards to you and your family, and the effect it may have on compounding any problems that are making you drink.

I really dont know why is drink to excess. Once i start i cant stop. very rarely in can. I dont have any particular problems at the moment, my problems arise when I drink and the consequnces after this.
I have been try to do Japji Sahib in the morning maybe i need something at night aswell ( any advice? )
Also If i have eaten meat in the day should i not read the bani in the evening???

Look forget meat, that has nothing to do with reading Japji. You can read Japji any time.

Your main problem sounds like Alcohol and it sounds like you are an Alcoholic. It is a common problem amongst Sikhs.

The only thing I have seen work for Sikhs has been Alcoholics Anonymous. There are many Sikhs who are members there. Many Sikhs I know who have become Amritdhari as a result of going to AA.

Go to AA and stop drinking. Then worry about Sikhi.

I think your right.
time to make a decision and change my life.
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