I totally agree with you about that. I Relapsed yesterday and suddenly everything seemed meaningless to me. Even things I'm thrilled and passionate about looked like a total waste of time. Now I'm better, but the most important thing here is that even though I'm fully aware of that it doesn't change the fact that I relapse many times. I know I should learn how to not let my mind dictate me what to do in that matter, but it's hard. I think I haven't given my best yet. I should try harder!
The more I relapse (When on a binge) the more I feel a weakness in my chest that goes down to my belly. This weakness causes me to be vulnerable and makes me want to avoid any conversation or altercation.
So guys it's day 14 and now I have started to feel like a real man. And I think that I have started to live.....
It's not about sin, actually I have been noticing these things since my childhood I was badly addicted to porn for around 8 years I have literally screwed my past. I have social anxiety. I used to hate to get out of my house I wanted to have least human interaction I never really knew why I was like that. The moment I started my Nofap journey my social anxiety issues has started to reduce, I won't say that I am recovered from it, but it's lot better than before. This is the first time I have controlled myself for 15 days and max streak was around 5 days. So my experience says that "More semen you retain more brave and manly you become". And it's truth and fact and it's nothing to do with negative thinking.
Thanks dude, actually 15 days is not a very big achievement but still I have progressed myself since my max streak was for 5 days since 1 year and I aim for 90 days and I leave it to god. And I wish you the luck for same lets beat this addiction.
Yes and it can make us become slaves of other people too. If we are just going through life masturbating to porn, wasting our life force into a tissue, no goals, passions, no self care.. We are just like a boat floating on the water with no direction. Someone somewhere will control this floating boat and will make it go in a direction they want it to go in. If we don't have control of our life then someone else will. Nofap is the ultimate way we can control our lives. Personally I have given my life to God. Semen retention also gives us a fighting spirit, some boxers retain before a fight because having the life force inside of them gives them the edge they need to win.
Same here man. I have given my life to God and nofap is a build in feature in the Bible. Also, I never masturbated before boxing match. I mean I never had a boxing match after jerking off.
So guys it's day 16 and I have observed a benefit of nofap and that is ability to bounce back. Yesterday I wasn't in the mood to study (actually I'm an engineering student) I was feeling very restless and I was thinking to give myself a rest but I don't know what kind of magic happened my brain forced me to get into studies. So I studied for around 2 hours as planned and I completed my daily task I was feeling like a winner, it's like winning a lost game. I even had a workout session afterwards. I had a good time yesterday. Ability to bounce back no matter what's the situation, this is a power that I got in 16 days of nopmo. But my main motive is not benefits but it's about improving myself I want myself to be clean and pure from inside.
That doesn't make sense. It implies that anyone who masturbates is a coward, which is obviously not the case. You're manufacturing a believe to aid your goal in no pmo. Don't manufacture beliefs, try and find real rational.
No it's a fact, I was an addict and my experience says it. I was facing social anxiety now I'm lot better. I felt ashamed when I looked at other people especially women. And semen is the thing that makes you a man, without that a person is a as good as a puss. I don't know about you but those who were addicts can surely relate to me. Rational thinking is not always good. Many people have screwed themselves due to rational thinking. Listen to your mind and all experiences you had that would surely guide you.
No, it is not a fact. You were self conscious about a behavior and that made you feel cowardly, there were probably a series of other mental gymnastics going on that contributed. If you want facts, we can go down the rabbit hole of how semen retention has been shown to do virtually nothing, that semen reabsorbtion is infinitely minute, that your body maintains semen production levels regardless of masturbation frequency, that nocturnal emissions are *because* your body can't reabsorb your semen/sperm like so many people here think. Rational thinking is not what screws people over, it is irrational thinking that does so. Masturbation is not at all directly linked to cowardliness dude. Next time you want to make claims like that, seriously consider doing research.
Stop masturbating guys. Then you won't have to argue. Have at least 90 days of hard mode before thinking that you know better. It doesn't takes any courage to argue on the internet. You can tell that to girls you date - that masturbation doesn't make you or makes you a coward.
Obviously if you do something you believe is not right then you will feel ashamed of yourself or ever withdrawn. Having said that, people have different opinions about M so what makes one person a coward won't make a coward of someone else. And should someone believe that M is what makes them brave because reasons, they would literally feel great about themselves and have even more courage than before. The thing about PMO addicts is that many of them would spend so much time on it, they would just feel bad about it if they consider this to be a waste of time that they wish they spent on doing something else. A PMO addict will feel better and better the more days without it he can go, so obviously, a PMO addict doing 20 days of NoFap will feel great about himself. If he can do an extra 20 days, even better. After all, that is literally an achievement, and yes, you can and should be proud of yourself when you accomplish something important, even if it's only important to you.