We often hear that we shall learn to enjoy our life.

We often hear that we shall learn to enjoy our life. It means we shall get out of the world around us some elements that may influence our reward system even a little. Running ahead of the story, I tell you that such dullness and natural deficiency of positive emotion can cause people fighting the consequences of alcohol addiction have a relapse. On the other hand, such automation has advantages. Routine saves us from stress. In this regard, we can give an example of an inclination to a compulsive behavior when a person repeats habitual actions many times because he or she suffers from anxiety. Thus, this person tries to get rid of an uncontrolled stress by a ritual of routine automated actions. The alcohol addiction is sometimes described with a similar type of compulsion within the disease model framework concept. There’s another point of view on the alcohol consumption through the routine actions system. The alcohol pattern of behavior come to one’s life gradually and takes its place by insensible degrees. It means some situations (even those we can’t classify or specify) cause an alcohol episode. Sometimes they call it a system of triggers. Self Management for Addiction Recovery (SMART recovery) techniques include teaching customers find these triggers themselves and transcode their reactions to other more useful consequences. I’m somewhat skeptical about any techniques of interventions to life routines because the recovery from alcoholism isn’t about changing some elements of everyday life, but it’s about switching one’s life to the manual control mode for quite a long while. Respecting the daily routine, we’ve two alternatives.  Humility and patience on one hand. On the other hand, it’s a constant (and probably unrealizable to much extend) desire to change one’s life to the most suitable system where the reward center will work under the most convenient conditions for us.