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Urge to masturbate? Do this!

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by EndlessRollercoaster, Jun 22, 2016.

  1. EndlessRollercoaster

    EndlessRollercoaster Fapstronaut

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    When you have an urge to masturbate it is important to do something that allows your mind to not think about anything. Overthinking is ussually what causes relapse: an urge is often followed by a "fuck it" set of mind where you trick yourself it is oké to masturbate. Here is what you should do immediatly when you have an urge:

    Do something that puts your mind in a meditative state. There are many ways in which you can do this:

    -Do the dishes
    -Create a nice and fresh music playlist
    -Read an interesting book
    -Hang out with friends or family
    -Write a motivational post for the nofap subreddit
    -Watch a good movie (without arousing sex scenes!)
    -Text that one girl you've been thinking about all day
    -Clean your pc (deleting files etc, however in situations like this i advice avoiding pc's and other things that could provide you with porn)
    -Learn a music piece
    -Start working on a school/work project
    -Go for a walk, or find a reason to visit your local supermarket
    -Clean your bike/car
    -Clean your room, or switch furniture around a bit, always nice!
    -Make a nice meal (even invite people over to join)
    -Workout
    -Meditate
    -Draw a cartoon
    -Start outlining a book

    I know it is hard to activate yourself doing something like this when experiencing urges, but if you manage, you didn't fap and relapse: instead, you did something very useful that day and you feel great. 1 hour after your urge, you thank yourself for not relapsing and you will be proud of yourself, and you have every right to!

    I hope this helps! I hope you all have a great fap-free day!
     
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  2. AW23

    AW23 Guest

    Writing a motivational post works because I did it last night on here under the rebooting forum and the urge went away! And the rest of that works too especially exercise.
     
  3. kkarma25

    kkarma25 New Fapstronaut

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    I needed this post. Thank you. The urge was enormous and I almost tricked myself into thinking 'it's okay if I masturbate just this one time'...
    Today is day 3 of my reboot. It's been TOUGH!!!
     
  4. Shekhar95

    Shekhar95 Guest

    I intuitively knew this. While motivating others we're motivating ourselves also. :)
     
  5. renamedbymod01

    renamedbymod01 Fapstronaut

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    If you can keep your eyes and mind off girls bums and boobs, you will control the urge to masturbate
     
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  6. Floyd Paul

    Floyd Paul New Fapstronaut

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    I'm feeling the urge .What to do .
     
  7. NoblessOblige

    NoblessOblige New Fapstronaut

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    Yes, I find that what works amazingly well is when you take the surge of energy from arousal and do some hardcore exercise. Like several sets of push-ups and/or several sets of sit-ups and even a quick powerful sprint and then a nice long jog around the block.
    You'll be so exhausted, your arms so tired and your core will burn so much that you couldn't possibly muster any remaining strength or energy to masturbate. And by then the urge is usually gone too because the activity and fresh air from the jog clears the mind and allows you to refocus your priorities and even if not gives you time to meditate and dispel the aroused state.
     
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  8. NoblessOblige

    NoblessOblige New Fapstronaut

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    Try exercising. Burn off as much energy as possible
     
  9. RealWinner

    RealWinner Fapstronaut

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    The question then becomes, what if your urges come while your sleeping?
     
  10. AnAddictedDad

    AnAddictedDad Fapstronaut

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    Hey guys. I am just picking up this thread now. Great advice, thank you. I've only been without PM for 24 days, and it is difficult. But I find the knowledge that the PM Tracker is ticking very, very powerful to distract myself using a distraction technique. These will help provide more options. Thanks
     
  11. MarinoBigFan1984

    MarinoBigFan1984 Fapstronaut

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