The Lord of the Rings Challenge

Checkin in Day 2

 

Day 332 no PMO. Got outside on a beautiful day yesterday. Walked almost 7 miles. I was alone last night for a few hours but had zero temptations. I’ve been listening to the book Every Man’s Battle and it’s pretty good. Have you guys read it? What did you think?

 

Seems like an interesting book, could you tell me more about it?

 

The number of posts seems to have gone down over the last 48 hours. I wonder if this is because this is the time of the year when everyone gives up on their New Year’s Resolution. Remember fellowship… this is not some dumb New Year’s Resolution… this is taking back control of your life. This is important!!! We can do this!!!

 

It’s a Christian book about PMO. I think it was written a good many years back so some of the content/examples are out of date but overall I think it is a good book. Talked a lot about starving your eyes from all temptation.

 

Day 20

 

Starting this challenge!! Day 3 - Orc

I have a doubt about cold showers. When you are talking about cold showers it includes countries with 4 seasons in winter? Where the water temperature can be 5ºC?

 

I deleted the Instagram app for the same reason, avoid temptations

 

Go for it!!

 

day check
A hobbit
Reaching the 365 days this year.

 

Day 19, checking in.

 

Thanks man for the advice, and yeah, that what exaclty how I relapsed, playing video games at nigth. I will follow your advice and I will regulate the play of them, specially at nigth.

 

Day 1! an Orc, keeping strogh!

 

Day 75, trod on

 

@Kairose great tip, you also have a great streak to prove it works!

 

Day 68 checking in. All good,had a good day.!

 

Check in day 115

 

Day 18 today. Major urges at the moment but staying strong!

 

Checking in Fellowship Friends!

Day 437 free of Porn and Day 365 free MO,

I have reached a year since the last time I MOed. I'm grateful for everything I've experienced over the last year. I am grateful for this community, upon which we share a common path.

I want to return to a topic I bring up fairly regularly, awareness of emotional turmoil, potential or even perceived trauma and any level of discomfort. We have access to such a wide variety of on demand, effortless distractions today. Each of which hacks an aspect of regular human interaction. Why work on yourself, whether that be socially, physically or mentally to attract a partner when you have access to a never ending selection online? Why take the time to learn a new skill, study, better yourself when you have access to an easy level up in a video game? Why work on your in person socials skills when you can spend your day in the sphere of social media, where you can portray a fake persona and be loved for it?

Our brain gets accustom to gratification without effort, accustomed turns to dependent and dependent turns to self-destructive. In this matter we can say our brain can be quite silly, when left to its own devices. It's also intelligent, because deep down it knows that this form of gratification is empty and over long periods very harmful. All of the above habits, have been ingrained in us for a long time. Some of us are worse off than others (by that I mean some started at much younger ages and some on many more habits). I feel for the kids who will grow up with "meta world" being mainstream. It's going to be absolute mental health mayhem.

Now I don't want people to get the wrong impression, I'm not trying advocate you all become luddites. I'm simply advocating for awareness, intent, caution and simplicity. If you are to use the internet, go on with intent beforehand. I mentioned emotional awareness before, notice when your brain pulls you towards any of the mediums above. Pay close attention in that moment, what is it that your brain wants you to stay clear from. It may be something as simple as boredom, or as complex as a traumatic trigger. This is something your brain has learned to escape from, rather than tackle. We can only escape for so long, at certain point these emotions overflow as no medium is strong enough to hold them at bay. This is where you work comes in, taking the reins of your brain back and staring at whatever that may be. This is where your healing truly begins.

Stay strong my friends