I've just started my first streak yesterday and I'm already having trouble overcoming urges.

Welcome to the community.

I use music a lot. YouTube is not always a good idea because a lot of videos are filthy. I use Spotify a lot and they make playlists for you based on what you listen to. I also have a massive music collection. It is good to have a distraction. If I am finding urges especially hard to deal with, I go to a lyric site and read along (or sing along) with the track. It takes more concentration and therefore blocks intrusive thoughts and images of porn etc. So yeah, keep busy buddy.

 

when you feel your hand reaching or grabbing places it should you shake it off and say NO BAD just change your impulses, impulse control is the biggest obstacle and if you have the GUTS to put some limits on your behavior you will feel MAGIC BENEFITS

 

It's hard and yeah there are different responses to different elements of the urges you need to think holistically

There are mental exercises to let intrusive thoughts flow away you can not block them or fight them they must just be and then begone
However the behavioral element is within your control, but this requires a different part of your brain, it's called executive function, and it's the big boss upstairs

Nobody (other brain regions) really listens unless he FORCES them to listen ya feel me. Impulse control is seated in the executive region, and impulses are different from obsessions or compulsive acts. Impulses are just short-circuited fast track junk food type things that you actually do have control over you just don't want to because it's a war with your brain yeah

 

One thing that helps me is "of course you're having trouble overcoming urges" it can lead to acceptance. Why do you need to make your urges go away?

 

That's a very good answer, what were taking about is similar to some helpful stuff from above.
I hear she people are able to make the urges go away, it does not seem to be the case for all of us and not importantly as you've noticed it is not required for a satisfactory solution . It would make things easier but if it might not be in the cards and there is a solution that doesn't require urges to go away that would be a good place to focus, that's what I do. Often for me wanting urges to go away (which I still feel just less often) is mostly about pride: I shouldn't have these thoughts because they're bad and I'm a good guy. What if I'm just a guy? Free me up to focus on not hurting people through pm+ and being more helpful to people in general throughout the world.