Day 0. It's been a while, it's good to see that so many of the people I am familiar with are still on this challenge
Day 22/154 (Days Clean Before Return Home) Anyone else ever find that establishing a routine helps take away the urges?
Day 78 "I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center." – Kurt Vonnegut
52 days combine a clear intention with an uncompromising trust in possibility, then you’ll step into the unknown, and that’s when the supernatural starts to unfold. I think that you and I are at our best when we’re in this state of being. Joe Dispenza, You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter You could say they were more in love with their future than they were with their past. Joe Dispenza, Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon Stress is one of the biggest causes of epigenetic change, because it knocks your body out of balance. It comes in three forms: physical stress (trauma), chemical stress (toxins), and emotional stress (fear, worry, being overwhelmed, and so on). Each type can set off more than 1,400 chemical reactions and produce more than 30 hormones and neurotransmitters. When that chemical cascade of stress hormones is triggered, your mind influences your body through the autonomic nervous system and you experience the ultimate Joe Dispenza, You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter They grew and changed their brain just by thinking. With the proper mental effort, the brain does not know the difference between mental or physical effort. Joe Dispenza, Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind how do you and I become supernatural? We have to begin to do what’s unnatural—that is, to give in the midst of crisis, when everyone is feeling lack and poverty; to love when everyone is angry and judging others; to demonstrate courage and peace when everyone else is in fear; to show kindness when others are displaying hostility and aggression; to surrender to possibility when the rest of the world is aggressively pushing to be first, trying to control outcomes, and fiercely competing in an endless drive to get to the top; to knowingly smile in the face of adversity; and to cultivate the feeling of wholeness when we’re diagnosed as sick. Joe Dispenza, You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter Meditation takes us from survival to creation; from separation to connection; from imbalance to balance; from emergency mode to growth-and-repair mode; and from the limiting emotions of fear, anger, and sadness to the expansive emotions of joy, freedom, and love. Joe Dispenza, You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter if you were to start investing your attention and energy into the unknown, your body would then be able to follow your mind into the unknown—a new experience in your future. Joe Dispenza, Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon
Okay. Now my counter and my actual days that I am participating in this challenge are actually equal I had a strong desire to watch porn yesterday, and today too, but I didn't do it. I am almost relapsed 5-15 minutes ago. But I saw random pictures about sexual expluatation... and it's just... horrible. What we see on our screens, and what are really happen in the world, where girls and woman becoming objects of sexual expluatation - is totally different pictures. And by the hand of God my desire have gone. But I still don't know really (I mean inside myself) do I actually want never watch pornography again in my life? But on the meetings of Anonymous Narcotics and Anonymous Alcoholics they saying: "We have only one clean day. So be clean only for Today"... I will try to cope with that. Thank you very much. Hello I found that too.
Yes - I can't recommend it highly enough, although when the routine gets disrupted I often end up fumbling a bit. The pre-sleep routine is something I have to work on, probably the most vulnerable spot in the day.
Day 79 "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
That's all you can do, right? If you get too caught up in needing the process to be a certain way then it's easy to get back to square one. Keep it up.