Question of No-P challenge

Hey man,

Yes. My gut feeling says it's not as bad as actually receiving artificial stimuli through your senses. But it's considered stimuli since you're remembering P or substitutes shen you're fantasizing. If you want to MO (that's your choice, although the first few weeks it's recommended not to) do it just focusing on the sensation. It depends on you. I couldn't get hard just with the sensation at first, so I avoided it altogether.

Watch this video:

[video=youtube_share;EHHyt6z0osA]http://youtu.be/EHHyt6z0osA[/video]

I also made a list in my journal

1. Porn is NOT real sex.
2. Porn can keep you from having real sex.
3. Porn withdrawal sucks.
4. Having an addiction sucks and I don't want to go through this again.
5. Porn addiction will demotivate you in other areas (and it's pretty easy to become addicted).
6. Porn addiction will desensitize you to normal pleasures in life.
7. Watching porn is time consuming.
8. F*ing porn has kept me edging like a monkey for hundreds or maybe thousands of hours during the years, and I could have dedicated that time to much more satisfying things.
9. PIED has kept me from even trying to escalate with gorgeous girls.
10. Porn desensitizes my dick over time.
11. Porn desensitization leads you to more hardcore sexual preferences that healthy girls won't normally accept.
12. Porn desensitization leads you to more hardcore sexual preferences that make healthy girls feel degraded.
13. Porn addiction has kept me from having sex for more time than I'd like to admit...
14. PIED wouldn't allow me to have satisfying sex even with the same girls who appear in those videos/movies.
15. Porn addiction has led me to avoid social activities some times, and a lot of times overall since my lifestyle changed.
16. When I was 15 I had a tremendous erection just because a girlfriend massaged my arm... Porn addiction has made that impossible today... and it sucks. Go to hell, PORN.
17. When I was 18 I got an erection while driving on a bumpy paving... it's not desirable lol, but that wouldn't happen today.
18. Porn addiction/desensitization has made me lose that giggling rush of excitement I remember of my first sexual adventures, seeing girls half-naked, etc.
19. Being addicted to mundane pleasures keeps people away from achieving higher levels of consciousness, spirituality and wisdom.
20. Porn has made me unfocused.
21. Porn has degraded my motivation.
22. Porn has made me dumber (hello, frontal lobe).
23. Porn has made me an addict, and whether we like it or not, whether we care about it or not, whether we are open about it or not, that has negative connotations to people who aren't (or don't know they are).
24. Time is the most precious thing, and porn has made me waste it both in porn, and not achieving success I could have achieved earlier.
25. And I thought about the lightning thing... and quality really improved over the years lol. So instead I'll say they use a lot of fisheye lenses to exaggerate female body parts
26. Porn videos took too many GBs in several hard-drives that I can now use for other stuff!
27. Porn videos and pics were a shame and I had to plan the situation whenever I plugged some of my external drives in front of people!
28. My porn CD's and DVD's quantity is shameful to have and to bee seen by others!
29. My CD's and DVD's of P are taking a lot of space and made me waste countless hours to compile.
30. Porn and oversexualization is not compatible with a life of growth and awarness. Seeing that now more than ever!
31. Porn destroys self-discipline!

That little thing that you put between parenthesis is actually the biggest problem you'll face. If you read my journal, you'll see that my longest streak (now I'm 7 days in but before I reached 115 days) was a constant search for willpower and self-discipline.

I'll save you all the work, but you must do this: read the book that I recommend in my signature (Self-Discipline in 10 days).

Don't hesitate to ask anything.

 

When i kept failing at NoFap from september 2013 to december 2014 i kept telling myself i don't have the will-power and would fall back to my vices and the addiction got worse each time.. When i tried to fap without P it was a lot harder for me to O without P but i could do it.. Eventually i'd get bored and beginwatching P again and it would get worse from there...

We all have to start from some where and the best place to start is NoFap, which would include all forms of stimulus with or without P, you have to give your body and mind a period to reboot.. Its going to be extremely difficult because the withdrawal doesn't fade after an hour or a day or even a week.. But eventually it will subside to the extent when you get triggered to pmo you know already in advance how to subside it and your mind & body go into auto-pilot in awareness and begin preventing a disaster such as destroying your success so far.

What life changer posted is amazing, i learned a lot from his post and that's the thing - its awesome that you learn so much by just discussing the issue with others.. I always learn something new and the more i interact with the fapsternauts the more their wisdom and knowledge rub off on me (as well as my english improves gradually).

NEver give up and never give in