Im religious and addicted to self pleasure, how do I stop

For starters, look at the tips linked in my signature. I would point out that your thoughts, which you mentioned, saying "all I can think about," are what lead you to their inevitable conclusion. If you truly want to stop, you must choose to put any thought of "doing it" out of your mind immediately. As soon as the unwelcome thought is recognized, you must reject it. It will likely take some time, a matter of a few weeks or more, until your mind has become more hardened against entertaining such ignoble thoughts, but once your thought habit is changed, your battle will get easier. Even when the battle eases up, do not let down your guard. Most people find that their greatest moments of weakness are those moments of carelessness in which they had not been on guard.

It will be awfully hard to do something you do not even allow yourself to think about. This is the only way to stop--to stop it cold in the thoughts, before it has a chance to create a desire in your mind and body.

 

My first bit of advice would be - try not to be too hard on yourself for what you’ve done.
Two things that lead me back to masturbation over and over again are shame for what I have done and, when the urge hits, imagining the shame I will feel if I go through with it - and that very shame makes it hard to resist! (It’s called a shame spiral).
Obviously you’ve found NoFap, and you’ll find a lot of help here.
Maybe consider getting an accountability partner? We all benefit from finding one or two people to be honest with and to help us stay accountable to our goals.
If you really want to stop giving into lustful thoughts and touching yourself then you are in the right place!

 

wow. Only two weeks and you are already here!! Count yourself lucky bro! I wish you get out of this very quickly. Also keep in mind urges will never go away on their own. You have to constantly ignore them.

 

Ask God. Persistently. Patiently. Relentlessly.

 

You will get it, you almost don't have any too much time with this.
The most important thing is that, no matter what, DON'T END IN PMO SPIRAL.

If you notice to start looking at P, please stop now.
If you are to the point of starting M, please please stop now.
I know it is too difficult, but as far as I know is the only way to deal with this.

And if you are religious, try to praise a bit in the moments you think you can relapse. For example, if you do this when you are alone at home, if you find yourself alone, start praying. Start listening to music, or reading, or watching netflix, or something similar.

Another way is to find yourself a hobby. Maybe to do lego buildings, or learning a new programming language... Anything you can think that motivates to you.

But the important thing is that, no matter what, DON'T END IN PMO SPIRAL.

 

Congratulations, you are among the luckiest, reaching this site so early.your pmo history is less than a month.

Study this equation
PmO=PIED,PE,DE,social anxiety, depression, anhedonea,etc


Pmo makes men regret coming to the world,most are hopeless, suicidal.
So I urge you cut out it now,don't be like me,I lose everything to pmo.

 

It can be hard when you have these thoughts. I was the same, being religious as well and itching to go home to do it after school.

One thing I can say is to not feel guilty about which thoughts you have. We all have thoughts but we tend to label if they are good and bad.

Religion isn't so helpful either to understand that since lust can be an issue. Not saying being religious is bad, but its more about making it work for yourself not by someone else's standard. Sexual urges is a part of yourself and you can have a healthy relationship with it.

This video made me think about this, and I wish I understood this earlier.

 

Beating yourself up is a killer and I would say it's worse than porn/masturbation. You might find the book Emotional Agility by Susan David helpful. It isn't about masturbation per se but about handling emotions in a healthy way. And since you're religious you might want to listen to this episode of You Have Permission in it they talk about how religious people are encouraged by the church to see emotions as a bad thing but Jesus embraced his emotions.

 

Dude! The OP is a woman.

 

Hope things are working out well for you.

 

How old are you? If you are a young man, maybe a teenager and just discovered masturbation then it has to be difficult to stop do to your hormones and curiosity. Masturbation by itself is not necessarily bad unless it takes over your life. But for now what would be wrong with just exploring your sexuality? The biggest thing would be to avoid pornography. That is the problem

 

Do you masterbate to p0rn or just use your imagination?