In the state of being drunk... (Page 1 of 2)

How would you describe sobriety?

I..hich..like a wee drink...hich..now and then....hich but then I am Irish..............buuurrp.

I have noticed that some of my most connected and meditative peaceful moments are in the day following drinking way too much.  I have that tired feeling where I can lay around doing nothing and feel great.  For some reason it seems that when I am in the hungover, or prehungover state I am much more relaxed, and my visioning and awakening seems to work a lot more easily.  I think this is because when I get really drunk I just let go and all my emotions flood out and I just have a really good time.  This emotional flood I am guessing gives me a lot of positive energy and the next day is like riding the crest of a beautiful wave that is soon to come crashing back to reality, and bring me way down as the wave passes by.  I have been trying to find ways to loosen up, but like with most things I don't seem to be motivated enough to do the necessarily work on my own and instead rely on this crutch.

Hmmm....well I wouldn't advocate drinking a lot regularly either.  But here's something for your experiment.     Do a test meditation before drinking, while drunk, and while hung over and compare experiences.    It could be something really simple like focusing on labeling the "in" and "out" breath for ten minutes.    Tolle says that being drunk slips one below regular awareness while meditation shifts you above it and the appeal of drunkenness is that you get out of being in the normally aware state but it isn't going in the right direction.   Seemed on the money to me.    And please take some milk thistle to help out your poor liver.

I don't either

The observations I have made over the years in the ER is that alcohol tends to be a magnifier of what is really on the inside. If you are a mouthy, belligerent putz, your are even more obnoxious when drunk. If you are philosophical you spew it out, if your're laid back you chill even more, if you are emotional that to gets exaggerated, if you are insecure then suddenly nobody likes you and your significant other is cheating on you.

For me I do goof ball things sober, so I did even more ridiculous things drunk...but couldn't remember a lot of them, so I quit getting drunk like that.

I don't drink often anymore, once I realized that alcohol's main effect (at least to me) is to suppress my intuition, my connection to Source.  Even with only a couple drinks in me, I notice the effect significantly now, even if my outward behavior isn't all that different.

It feels like it puts my mind and body on autopilot.  Like T-Ren said, it acts like a magnifier, but to me it's more than that.  It's like whatever personality your spiritual path has caused to be imprinted on your 3D mind, under the influence of alcohol that personality is entirely in control.  So even if your true self is positively oriented, and with alcohol you act positive and happy, ultimately it's still artificial because you're running off a 3D imprint.  To me, alcohol takes away the steering wheel of my life, and I just coast for a while, which on rare occasion may be desirable but most of the time it's just an escape that doesn't feel appropriate.