Relasped after my longest streak

Don't focus on the loss. It was one day! Focus on the 5 months of sobriety!!! That is a huge win. Now, man up and get back on your horse.

 

STOP RIGHT THERE! FREEZE!
You went a full five months without porn or masterbation. That's a MASSIVE improvement. This shitty feeling is ALL in your head. That ONE relapse, even if you binged for a week, didn't even put a scratch on your streak. Just get right back on track, and after a week, you will see that you are right back to where you were before you relapse. TRUST ME. I cannot stress it enough: PERSEVERANCE PERSEVERANCE PERSEVERANCE! It's gonna take a whole lot more than that for those inner "demons" to "take you back in" so to speak. Get back to it!

 

Did I mention perseverance?

 

I'm only 2 months into this thing with one relapse in the middle I felt horrible and ashamed. You have done awesome work and make sure to lean on your support systems. The mind is a powerful thing keep pushing!!!!

 

You did well ok. Five months of progress was made. It wasn't all flushed down in a few seconds. Just don't binge. You did well, you should be proud of your recovery.

 

He did VERY well. He just needs to realize that he is at cross roads right now, a very slippery slope. The sooner he can get back on the wagon, the better off he'll be. In my professional opinion, and I know that sounds boastfull, but I'm not trying to, just saying I KNOW a thing or two about nofap, is that if he stops NOW, he'll be back to himself in two weeks TOPS, more like one week. Everyone is different though. Just preserve through it all.

 

Look at your counter as a ratio, not the number of days of complete abstinence.

 

The obsession with time is part of the problem. It creates anxiety, and we know where that leads...

 

If there's one thing I cannot recommend enough, it's meditation. That shit does WONDERS. Like today, just after 20 days of meditation, plus more nofap rebooting of course, yes, I'm still rebooting, I discovered some deep reasoning as to why I have such bitterness and resentment. I'm glad to say that it's now past me and a lead weight has been lifted off my shoulders. They say 60 days of meditation gives you an entirely different brain. I can't even begin to imagine what my 100-day meditation challenge, plus nofap, will lead me to. It'll be one hell of a ride for sure. People pay thousands of dollars for this kind of therapy, yet meditation is free.

Just don't expect to learn overnight what took me seven years of practice, on and off of course, with a majority being off. I'd day after a week, one will get the hang of it. I'm to the point where I can meditate just about anywhere in any position.

 

Meditation is actually really easy. It's like riding a bike. Once you learn, you'll never forget. My technique is very simple:
1. Lay in a comfortable position with eyes closed.
2. Perform deep breathing, with your diaphragm of course, not chest.
3. Focus on both your breathing and the black void in front of you to the best of your ability. Try to love the black void as much as possible, as if you are going to die an it'll be the only thing you'll experience forever and forever. Learn to become at peace with it.

You will see that you have a million thoughts flowing through your mind, but don't fight them. Fighting them only makes them strong, just let go, focus and love that black void, along with your deep breathing of course, like it's the only thing you'll experience for eternity. Even five minutes of meditation has been found to make a huge difference in the brain. Whatever you do, keep focusing on the black void in front of you. Let everything else come and go.

If I learned it by myself, so can you people. This technique is very simple and fool proof. It'll work for astral projection as well, but that's a whole other ball game in itself, essentially a much higher level of meditation, one that's far beyond even my best meditation sessions in my life time. The closest I've come to astral travel was this weird feeling of "falling out of my body." It scared the hell out of me and I jolted awake.

 

5 months is quite amazing. Whats the problem. Just go running, take cold shower and get some rest.