913 days of no porn

Strangely enough, a lot of mental things has happened the last couple of months, especially this last month. I have felt strong urges and it has felt like I was beginning to lose it. Instead of falling victim to my own emotions, I started to read about things like addiction, and so on. The day before yesterday, I suddenly found a text that I thought was very interesting:

Quoted from https://publicism.info/self_help/feelings/1.html

What this text helped me to realise was that I was feeling strong urges all the time because I said to myself I was feeling strong urges all the time. It felt like I was loosing it because I said to myself I was loosing it! When I read that text, I realised my brain just played tricks on me. I felt what I said to myself I was feeling, like a big, positive feedback loop.

After this huge aha moment I realised I was being a slave to my own emotions and that I actually could do something about it. If I only try to sense what I am feeling and then confirming this mentally, I'm just feeding that positive feedback loop, making the feelings stronger and stronger. What I should do instead is to hack my brain by injecting the feelings I want to feel by telling myself I am feeling this. Then I will start feeling these emotions and I can create a positive feedback loop around these feelings instead.

I think this is really interesting because this could be the only thing you need to know about self-improvement in order to achieve success. Hack your brain by hacking your feelings!

This whole thing brought me to an end of the mentally low state I have been in the last couple of months, which feels great.

I created a meme for it and put on the wall (I hope I've got the grammar right, I'm not a native english speaker <-- feedback welcome).