My 21 day challenge. Connecting with god and letting go.

Hi
I have recently completed the 14 day nofap challenge. Today I start the the 21 day nofap challenge.
At the same time I have decided to start another challenge for myself. I want to try to make more connection with god. Also I want to let go of the self-talking and useless thoughts and worries.

So, in these 21 days, I want to pause my mind and talk to god instead.
At least 50 times a day, I want to stop myself in the middle of useless thoughts and say something like "god, at this moment I want to do the thing that you may want me to do. I will let go of every fear or judgement and do the right action for this moment."

I will count every time I do this, so that at the end of the day I can report the number of times I have connected myself to god and freed my mind.
Hopefully I reach more than 1000 times at the end of 21 days.
I hope this kind if experiment leads to a calmer and more meaningful life.

So lets start. Day0.
Best wishes to all.

 

Thanks Issah for your support. I really appreciate that.

 

Day 1.
Yesterday: 64 time I puased my mind as described above.

It was a good experience. The main benefit was that I knew why I am working hard during the day. It makes my life more meaningful and keeps me in right direction.
Also I realised that maybe letting go of worries may not be enough but it would be more helpful if I add a positive thought or say something positive to myself.
I think the start point of such experiment might be easy because I have the motivation but keeping it up until 21st day might be hard. Anyway I will update the situation here.

 

Day 2
Yesterday: 54 time pausing and connecting to god.
Total: 118 time.

So far I have reached my daily targets. I like to try and keep myself relax and mindful after each of these pausing moments as much as I can.
I should remind myself that outside world situation is never that much important to lose my self-centre and lose my trust to god. Sometimes instead of finding solution for unnecessary issues, it is better to trust and accept whatever it is.

 

Day 3
Yesterday: 20 time pausing and connecting to god
Total: 138

Not good enough for yesterday. But still trying.

 

Thank you very much make_change.

 

Day 6

Last few days I was on a business trip and did not have time to post here. Also I could not reach my 50 times goal. I could not count it. I think I paused my overthinking about 15 times a day. So 45 times in last 3 days.
So

Total: 183 time pausing and connecting to god and letting go of judgements, expectations, fears and over thinking.

I think maybe if I change my target to smaller one (20 times a day), I can reach my daily target and become motivated for higher targets.

So the target is 20 time daily pause and 420 times in 21 days. At least this is doable. Keeping up until the end of challenge is more important to me than aiming very high.

 

Thanks davidx.

 

Day 7: 17 times
Day 8: about 30 times
Day 9: about 21 times

Total: 251 times pausing and connecting to god.

 

Day 10: 17 times

Total: 268 times pausing and connecting to god

 

Day 11: about 20 times.
Tot: 288 times pausing and connecting to god.

 

Day 12: 18 times
Total: 306 times pausing and connecting to god

 

Day 13: 12 times
Total: 318 times pausing and connecting to god.

 

Day 14: about 10 times

Total:328 times pausing and connecting to god.

 

Dayb15: about 5 times pausing and connecting to god.
Total: 333 times.
These days I am not taking this seriously. Somehow I am not that much motivated like the first days and I am not sure if it is the right method or not. These recent days because of not pausing my thoughts, somehow negative thoughts have become stronger. So I should try better in these few days to the end of my person challenge. Just sticking to it to the end of 21 day and evaluate myself at the end.

 

Day 16: about 15 times.

Total: 348 times pausing and connecting to god.

 

Day 17. About 10 times pausing and connecting to god.

Total: 358 times.
Yesterday I was worried and angry about something related to my job. Maybe if I could take this pausing and connecting to god more seriously I could reduce the self talking and negative thought.