Early Healing of Desire for Alcohol

In my very early days of studying Christian Science, I gave up drinking alcohol. This was not a conscious decision on my part. I did not set out to give it up, though as I had an alcoholic mother you might have thought I would.  But in fact in our family, the response to any kind of crisis, anxiety, boredom, waiting, social situations of any kind, was alcohol.

I was studying away in the caravan we lived in at the time.  As I began to read S&H and do the Lesson, I was gradually coming to value clarity of thought over the fuzziness which alcohol offers and which I thought I liked. I didn't even realize this change was going on, either until the following event:

One evening we went out for dinner at a friend's house and were given a delicious cocktail of grapefruit juice and some alcohol. This drink had a really nice flavour. I accepted one and started to feel the sense of relaxation and the slightly blurry feeling that I was used to and thought I enjoyed. Then I had a second drink, and suddenly became aware that I no longer enjoyed this woozy feeling, that I preferred sharpness and clarity of thought. I wanted to be more conscious, not less conscious.  I also felt I did not like myself when I was in this state. In previous times, I would have drunk too much and suffered from serious self-loathing the next day. This had gone on for years, and was what I considered to be an inescapable "norm."

The amazing thing was how I was being healed when I was really still groping along in the dark myself. I was being helped – though I knew it not!  I have never drunk alcohol, nor even been tempted to drink alcohol at any time since then.  Nor, interestingly, have I been pressurized to drink it.  It has simply ceased to be an issue for me personally.  No willpower, nothing but the effect of Science!  This is about 10 years ago, now - at least.