Withdrawal symptoms: Tightness in belly / solarplexus area

As foreword, I have already experience with "hard mode", in the last 2 years made several streaks up to 35 days, no PMO, no sex, no orgasm.

But this time I decided to go one more step: "no escapism at all", which means absolutely no kind of activity which distracts me or which I do with hidden thoughts. I try to be as straight as possible.

And now I'm on day 3 and since 10 hours, I have the most heavy withdrawal symptoms, it's a feeling of tightness in the belly and solarplexus area. Somewhere inside under the the navel.

It's clearly the area where you normaly feel fear or "butterflies" when you are in love. It feels like a belt tied up around my belly, taking me breath.

There is no doubt a connection to inner fears which I now face front-up.

It's unbearable, I cannot sleep in the moment, tried to do autogenous training which helps a little bit, but I still cannot sleep

Well, I continue to work on this.

But anyone else knows that, and has an advice, maybe ? Thank you!

 

Thank you a lot, Phyzik, it's really good to hear from someone who has experience and knows what's going on.
You are of course totally right, and in fact I know this myself since almost 2 years now.
I had already learned to let urges and emotions pass away, and to get in peace with them.

However, in the past, even when I went to "hard mode", I still allowed myself certain other kinds of "loop holes" and "distractions" and I was not 100% honest. This time I closed them all, and - bam! - bad emotions ramp up massively.

It's fascinating to see how the neural network is operating. How it reacts, when it does not get the usual "sedative dose" it is accustomed to.
I will continue! Thank you!

Thanks a lot too, Dogwood, - well I know it's extreme, but on the other side, I want it that way.
I want to face everything upfront - pure, no excuses, no extras
Only that way, I think, we can ever know what's really going on.

PMO and also other (non-sexual) distractions are only a way to cover up various fears. Once you remove the cover, you get the fears direct into your face. That hurts of course. It's even almost unbearable. It's really crazy - you are in a totally safe area, still you have fears!

You are very right that socialicing is a key fact where I really need to improve. But for me, that does not mean to go into a bar and hang around, it means to pursuit those goals which I want to get into life, to set up projects and to network and organize with people to make it become real.

I am working on that all thetime, but it is too slow, it's cleat that the intensity is a key.

Meditation, sports, nature, offline are good advices, with them I am already quite good. I do it regularily and it works fine!

 

Thank you Phyzik a 2nd time, it's really totally true! The next day it was already much better!
Still, tightness was there, but I accepted it, and I pushed myself forward.

My current "ultra hard mode" is really adding the icing on all I did before.
I disallow myself the tiniest distraction - nothing! No escape!

And as a consequence, I'm so centered and forward-boosting as never before!

Whenever I recognize a distraction or urge, I give a tiny push forward!
As a reaction, immediatedly the tightness comes - brain firing old patterns! - but it's almost a childish joy in me to overcome that!
It's like playing cats and mouse with your own brain!

I have truly added a new dimension to it, that's the way to go! Wow! It's a chill running over my back!

BTW, it's now almost 2 years since I began to seriously work on the reboot. I have since experienced many steps forward, but this seems now to be the best one ever. I'm now really seeing true light after the tunnel, something which tells me I reached true stability. Thank you man !!