Day 2- What a difference two days make! Already feeling much better. I will attribute this to meditating for about 2 hours at the park yesterday. It's a good day today.
Thanks brother for the encouragement! We are on the same streak now. Let's make it count this time. No excuses! All the best!
Yeah..it is a good reminder for me. I read it from Empowering Your Sober Self book which is specifically for recovering alcoholics though as you mentioned the same principles can be used in porn recovery.
Thanks for the advice brother. I love reading though I think sometimes I glance over things in a rush and don't actually internalize lessons. I've seen you read widely on subjects such as stoicism and other philosophies. Is this what you are referring to about learning?
I need to start regular meditating. I've gone on and off with it for years a nd am always better when I'm doing it. Thanks for the reminder.
I'm getting set to go to bed . I was up all nightdoing work getting my place in order. Anyway it seems like since I've been off the pmo that I have been getting up more at night. I'll wake up and lay there for a minute or 2 before getting up to go pee. I'll do it about 4 or 5 times at least. Has anyone else out there experienced something like this? Good night
Thank you @Suhail22 ! The transformation into a healthier and better person continues everyday - every day is a better day with better routines, better sleep and better focus on life goals. Congratulations to your 20 days! Just stay on track and you will realise you have done the 20 hardest days!
Day 1 complete. Great motivation on here,but I need to turn to what helped me during the 90 day challenge now and read back what I wrote and what others wrote that helped me get through the 90 day challenge. So here is a video that I saw during that challenge,that really helped open my eyes to the time wasted and dangers of being addicted to this that inhibits our true potential and which destroys relationships.
Could be an enlarged prostate, something that tends to happen as men get older. My prostate health seems to have improved since starting nofap... at least my PSA test returned to a normal range.
Checkin' in; day 13. Need some opinions if somebody is reading this please. Had a wet dream today. The worst part was that it was a lucid dream, so my wet dream might be considered masturbation, cos I intentionally induced it by starting to have sex during wet dream. Masturbation is defined as stimulating one's genitals for pleasure, which did happen, just not with my hands but through my mind only. But also it was sex in a dream and not MO in a dream, so technically it was sex. But then again dream is MO cos I am having sex with myself in my head. I'm confused. Does intentionally induced wet dream via having sex during lucid dream is considered masturbation? I did not touch myself once I woke up, in fact I tried to stop it by flexing PC, didn't work tho. I know that generally wet dreams are not considered relapse in this community because they are out of one's control. The thing though is that it was lucid dream. I am not sure how much control I had, maybe not 100%, but I did had a lot, due to me being lucid during a dream. So that's what I am thinking of. If it would be just a normal wet dream I would not be worried. Anyhow, still day 13 without masturbating to porn or watching porn, so challenge continues in some form at least...
180 days guys, half a year already, what a feeling ! I'm thinking less and less about Nofap, which is a good sign because it's getting easier and we realize after we're through that other things to think and focus about are more important. I can say that getting through this addiction was probably the hardest thing in my life. I'm still here because relapse is always something that can happen! I've reached 220 days before and relapse so I definitely will stay here for a while. This time I'll erase the word relapse from my dictionnary for good! I know my weakness, which is Anxiety, which is hereditary in my family. I get anxious when insomnia comes, it comes from periods in my case, I can have 2 months of really good sleep and then 2-3 weeks where I don't have one excellent night of sleep. The Doc prescribed me pills that are not really strong but tried it since a week ago and I've been able to sleep like a baby each night. I won't take it long term though as I don't wanna be addicted to anything but it definitely helps in the short term. Have a great weekend guys, blessings!
