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They are definitely tough days. The doctors claimed I'm healthy and couldn't figure out what's wrong with me. NoFap somehow lead to me getting insomnia. I hope it goes away on its own. I'm going to give it some time. I'm also feeling asexual.
Hey Simon, I'm back in double figures but it's been tough. I'm home alone at my dad's apartment and since Day 5-7 have had some pretty strong urges to watch porn and fap. But I just kept taking deep breaths to calm myself down and stop the rationalizing, and keep tell myself to get over my last streak which was day 15.
Hey Mike!!!!! Haven't talked you in a while. How've you been buddy?!!!
Yeah, I have a sleep problem where I can't fall alseep till 1am... I've talked to a friend about it and he says that it's apparently called delayed sleep syndrome and common among teens because we stay up late on the computer and phone.
Hey Yibo! I've been great aside from the sleeping issue. It definitely hinders my cognitive performance. I'm going to stop using devices 3 hours prior to sleeping. Hopefully that will lead to better sleep.
Hey Mike, I've been doing the same thing. I set my iphone alarm to 10pm to remind myself to close the computer/phone after that. However, it's tempting to watch porn with the phone so close to my bed...
I've been doing this the past 3 days but would just lay in bed and not be able to fall asleep till 1-3am... which is frustrating. It helps to get up, journal and meditate to get past the boredom.
I also set another alarm to 9am so that I don't sleep in till 11am or later. But it's hard to get up once the phone alarm rings since my body is used to sleeping at 2am and waking up around noon(12pm).
Every night, I visualize myself getting up at the sound at the alarm at 9am and feeling great and this has helped me get up at the sound of the alarm at 9am for the past 2 days.
Meditation before trying to sleep is a hassle for me. My mind just goes into an overload thinking about stuff. Makes it hard for me to keep my eyes shut. I took your advice with the 5 breaths thing. I try doing that at night before going to sleep and in the morning before starting my day.
Yeah, I have trouble with meditation too. Like last night, I told myself to just focus on my breath but my mind started randomly thinking about stuff. Meditation really is a discipline. Just telling myself to take five deep breaths was really helpful to get me started.
Although I have to say I've been trying to meditate on and off for a year now. It's still very tough but I found myself a lot calmer, aware of my thoughts/emotions, and better at dealing with loneliness and boredom. So it's honestly the most helpful habit I've done.
The biggest thing meditation has taught me was just to forgive and accept myself. There were many times I told myself to simply focus on my breathing but got distracted. I eventually learned that it was okay to mess up. Boredom/frustration is going to come up over and over in life so we might as well get used to it.
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