To my mind the benefit of HSM can only really be assessed some months after your have completed your ‘course’. Has it really changed your relationship with alcohol in the long term? Or have you lapsed back into your old habits and re-engaged with regular hangovers. I started a 3 month HSM on Jan 1st this year. To be honest I had been drinking less and less over the preceeding few months but would still over indulge on occasion. Just habit really. Having said that, the step to no drinking at all was not a huge one to take. Before and during HSM I have relished the extra time, energy and money that a lack of drinking has provided. Multiple runs every week, more time and energy with my wife and kids, reading books in the evening, doing more private work and earning more money, playing my guitar, getting a promotion at work and generally being calmer, more considered, and with a much improved clarity of thought can all be attributed, in part, to the benefits of HSM. In short, it has given me control and the ability to do more things that I love doing. During HSM doing all of these things became habitual. To not do them now would actually take quite a lot of effort.
The only alcohol I really missed was really good quality beer (not that that will mean much to you Aussies!)So, two months on from HSM I have taken to really enjoying and savouring a limited amount of really good beer about once a week. Not enough to give me a hangover or in any way affect the next morning, but enough that I feel that I am not missing out. HSM has, in effect done its job. It has assisted in changing my relationship with alcohol and opened up a new world of mental and physical well being and achievement.
HSM – Fantastic idea. I really hope the launch in London goes well.
PS – When I started HSM I did intend to submit regular posts. Problem was, I was busy doing all the things that HSM had facilitated so I didn’t have time to write my Blog.