Dear Captain, You made me laugh multpile times reading through your piece of work. Great words, truly intelligent words. You've made my day. I am glad to say that my inspiration has been reborn once again from the Success Stories. Thanks! And cheers to further growth in Mind, Body & Spirit.
This guy is literately Mind Over Matter. Congratulations my friend, the journey has made you a better man than ever before, and it is all thanks to you. Adieu - Jeves
Man I read your story again and again, and it gives more motivation to keep going and not looking back. Future is bright WE DO HARD THINGS!
Excellent and inspiring post. It's posts like these that really motivate me on my own journey, so thank you
Amazing stuff Captain B - you've shown us how to be a boss! Cold showers do work, and I really like what you said about the mind convincing you that you're weak. I'd love to hear your updates when you get a chance. I've gone nofap for more than a year in the past, and did lots of positive things in my life back then. I can imagine what you're going through right now, on cloud ninety nine!
Captain B - I've said this before - your post was very inspiring for me, and certainly for many of us here. Speaking for myself, I can't get enough. I want to know more about the issues that you dealt with during your 'ascent' to where you are now. For starters, did you have instances where your brain was telling you that you just had to PMO and you overrode it? How did you manage that? Also, it sounds like women are now throwing themselves as you. Did that mean you sat back and waited, or did you have to do some sort of dance for things to work out? Guessing it's the latter, if my experience is any indication.
Bro you gave me feels What changes have you noticed in your general health? skin, hair, eyes, weight, muscles ...etc?
Gotta say this hasn't happened to me really. It's never been like a voice telling me "You HAVE to PMO now!", it's always been more like a sneaky little whisper saying "Why not...? You could... Nobody would know..." - so I don't know which one is harder to argue with. However, the easiest way to win this argument is to not even argue with it in the first place. There's no point in it. You've made the reasons clear to yourself a dozen times before, you don't have to do that again. There's nothing to argue over anymore. Shake it off and keep going. I find this part very hard to explain myself. It's not like I can just sit back and wait for the girls to throw themselves at me but whatever it is I have to do to get their attention - hell, 90% of the time I have NO idea what I'm doing - it just flows naturally now. I don't cramp up, I don't think about what I'm doing, I feel balanced out on the inside and can just talk and be funny & flirtatious. Ever since my reboot I haven't been craving sex/orgasms so much anymore, so I think it's this lack of desperation that girls notice and this probably makes them feel more comfortable around me. So yes, I still have to do a dance but before NoFap, I was this and now I'm more like this I have noticed some changes about my physical apearance lately but I don't think NoFap can be held fully accountable for that since I've changed a few other things in my life as well. For example, I have definitely built up more muscles but that's probably mostly because I've been going to the gym more often. But then again, I went to the gym more often because I wanted to keep myself busy in order to stay away from PMO. Also, I've been losing less hair (had some trouble with that in the past) but I also changed my diet for the better about 2 months ago, so that could be a factor as well. So NoFap did improve my health condition but rather in a psychological way. It's a tool, not a cure for everything.
I see - so it appears that you're alert enough to not let the voice of addiction creep up on you. Okay, that's great to know. For me it takes plenty of meditation to get there, but I guess we're all wired differently. Thanks! It definitely helps to know that my future self will have the power, and that I don't need to obsess over knowing it all right now. Cheers!