The Lord of the Rings Challenge

The reason to feeling alone is the wrong association-belief, it is the identifying yourself with your body not with who we really are -soul-consciousness in this temporary body and to fix it there is no other way but Prayer and Meditation.

 

Day 4! All good here.

 

Congrats! I'm right behind you.

 

Day 312 no PMO. Had a good day yesterday with no temptation. Last night I got into a bit of an argument with my wife so that wasn’t fun but in the end I do feel like we made some progress. Today is college football playoffs and I’m pumped! Have a great day everyone.

 

Day 610 semen retention

 

Master Miyagi your teachings are so hard to grasp for a feeble mind like me. But I hope I will understand your wisdom one day

 

ListenPaul, I'm glad we have companions like you on the journey.

 

God, I thought 9 months will be enough to cure me forever. I guess it's more complicated.

 

It's really not the length of time but the belief you have that cures...but for most of us of little faith it's a long way to strengthen the little that we have.For if we hadn't had a tiny speck of belief( a hope that maybe we are good enough) in us in finishing what we started we would have never moved a finger.

 

Check in day 95

 

Day 7 today

 

Checking in Fellowship,

Day 416 free of porn and Day 344 free of MO.

My brothers, we reach the end of 2021 (for some of you it's already 2022, depending on where you are in the world) For me personally, this has been a long and challenging year. I look back and see a lot of suffering, especially in the first 7-8 months of that year. Insomnia, extreme fatigue, anger, anxiety, dark periods of depression, feelings of hopelessness and amongst many other things. I considered everything I went through in withdrawal (and continue to go through on certain flare up days) a toll, a toll that I had to pay for my years of mindless addiction, my years of running from myself , my emotions and certain situations.


With all that being said, I look back in pride on my achievements this year and the progress that I have made. As you can see from my counters, I MOed 1 time in early 2021 without porn. I remember how angry I was that I did it. The insomnia was so unbearable that my temptation demon snuck in, and tricked me into thinking that 1 MO session and a handful of edging sessions prior to that day, would release me from my torment. Spoiler, it wasn't. 344 days later, I realize that it was an important lesson along my journey. That 1 moment, pushed me to stay away from both MO and any form of edging, on top of porn. I learned that we are the seeds we water in our garden, meaning the more you engage in sexual fantasy, the more it will arise in your mind. I learned that abstinence, is only a piece of the puzzle. We must also cultivate positive habits, continue to study success stories and the harms, engage and observe our emotions, challenge persistent negative thoughts, expose ourselves to what we fear, look into our nutrition, exercise and look into the harms of excess/artificial amounts of dopamine hits.


I look back at 2021 and I'm also extremely grateful, to be apart of this community. To share with the Fellowship brotherhood and to learn from all of you. A debt of gratitude I will always feel for our brother @RiseToGreatness, for forming this wonderful community.


There is a lot more work to be done in 2022 and I look forward to fighting onwards with all of you, my friends.

Happy New Year, I wish you all the best to you , your friends and families.


Stay Strong!

 

Day 0! Again.

 

46-Elf
In recent days had some ups and downs but maintained streak. Need to hurry, also hoping that from now on my Perfect Streak will also be increasing!
Happy New Years Eve!
—Side Quests—
NoAlcohol - Check
Workout - Check
ColdShower - Check
HealthyDiet - Check
Learning - Check
SideProject - Check
Gratitude - Check
Meditation - Check
NoYoutube - Check
PhoneLimit - Check
—Perfect_Streak: 1

 

2021... what a year.

I've been through ups and downs, mostly downs if i'm being honest, but one thing is for certain: all those sad and depressing moments helped me to forge a stronger character than i had before.

Happy new year! May 2022 challenges us in every way, may 2022 makes us stronger than before.

God bless us all fellowship!

And before i go:

 

New change of seasons, staff and cycles which we call time. When we wish happy hew year what do we really mean? ..or do we just say it out of habit at this time? Is it a point in time we think something begins other than on the calendar? If we do then it's not calendar but our own thoughts and expectations make it so. Why not happy life until our body gets useless?
Hope you realize that you can celebrate New Year on every day of it just start 365days count and have faith. It is not the New Year or any other holiday that makes it special , but the hope and faith in something better that does. So don't think that today we gonna do shit but tomorrow we gonna be living good happy life for tomorrow never comes it's a never ending present. Be what you want to be now and live accordingly.

 

@ListenPaul, Happy New Year too. You're not alone. The forum is still working 24/7. I wish I could ever score 44 days. Tomorrow is gonna be my day 3 and I'm grateful for that. This year I scored only 70 nights without PMO, in total. It has been the worst year for 3 years now but fourth best score in seven years since I've kept track of this addiciton. I'm so glad I joined this forum. I'm not feeling that pathetic and alone as I used to. I wish you all to stay strong and next year be even stronger.

 

Ups and downs, Luffystop. I also used to think that life would be less complicated.

 

Day 1

Hey all. I'm about 36 hours clean. Was having a pretty good day that day, and then Bam. I made the mistake of staying up too late while being alone.

I've just written down some New Years Resolutions, as well as some reading. I read (in a foreign language) for probably about three or four hours today, which feels really good and rewarding.

2022 is almost upon is and it's as good a time as any to start anew. I want to become excellent again, and this is the year.