My history again?

Amazing. Well done!

 

Truly, I am so happy for you! Great milestone and you now have the confidence to know you can keep this going. Well done and may God bless you with sustaining grace.

 

Awesome, congrats!

 

Good! A little reward to yourself can be a nice encouragement for the next milestone.

 

I am sorry to hear about your fall and I hope you can sense the healing I am asking the Lord to send you through my prayers.

Shortly before my rehabilitation, it struck me that most of my decisions to commit this sin were so incredibly impulsive. As you say, not necessarily a hurricane or a tsunami (although I have those from time to time) but really just a brief impulse. When I realized I fell victim to such a brief instant of temptation, I realized it also wasn't that hard to interrupt the sequence of sin in those cases. The realization of this sequence turned out to be a very important step in my rehabilitation.

 

Proverbs 24:16 "for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again;
but the wicked are overthrown by calamity."

Get back up and keep trying. You are not defined by this sin, you are defined by your love of God and your work to love Him more dearly through obedience. May God bless you with His healing, strengthening grace.

 

If you KEEP TRYING you haven't committed a grave sin ( and you can even receive Holy Communion - it's enough the general confession at the beginning of the mass) but if you give up keeping to try you'll commit a grave sin. What do you usually choose?

In the state of half sleep or being half awake we haven't got full reason and full will that's why in such a state we don't commit a grave sin. it's a common church teaching.

That's why every addict has to learn to delay their reaction (to do pmo) to sudden temptation impulse. Even non-believers are taught to learn how to delay longer and longer. Resistance ..., we can't react as animals - that is - an impulse and after some fractions of a second, reaction.
The delay, resistance must be longer and longer gradually. for example - today's delay - 3 minutes after a sudden pmo impulse. Tomorrow's reaction 4 minutes.
if one is very consistent they can delay the reaction after a year to 365 minutes, that is up to 6 hours. And after 6 hours most temptations cease. But let's continue counting - after 2 years the delay reaction could be 12 hours .... and so on.

Without patience and small steps the war is not to win.

 

By keep trying I meant rather that after giving in (pmo act) one continues fighting without any delay and after the second fall there will be fighting at once and so on. Without any time of being passive after a fall. It's like a boxer - he was knocked down 40 times during a fight but he didn't give up and in the last round he knocked down his opponent and won the whole fight.

 

Hi to all!
I'm Mara43, I lost the access to my account and to my associated email and I've been unable to recover them. Due to this I created this new account.

God bless you all!

 

Welcome back! Your presence here is helpful to all of us and helpful to yourself too. Stay in touch!