spirituality

Before I begin, I am not trying to convince, convert or persuade anyone into any religion, spiritual teaching, cult etc. I just want to offer a spiritual perspective to addiction. I had a porn addiction that was literally crippling me. I was into fetishes that were shameful and disgusting...

I've been journaling recently, and the idea of a spiritual discipline has been interesting to me. I wanted to reflect on my self-improvement and my life as a whole. Here are some of the consistent problems in my life. My Spiritual Poisons Hating myself. If I can't have a base level of being...

So I have become pretty fat during last couple of years. Mainly due to depression—me using food to sedate and distract myself when I feel like shit. I haven't weighted myself recently but I am approximating I am close to 300 pounds right now (maybe 285 or so), cos I was 275 last time I weighted...

Hi guys, I’m looking to quit porn completely and get to a point where I can masturbate without it. Whenever I try and quit I get fairly far but there’s no real considerable change in my life and after about a month I’ll slip up and fall head first into addiction again. I don’t do it out of...

I feel this topic is not talked about enough, but here is a little about my story. Clean on alcohol and drugs after joining the Alcoholics Anonymous on May 20th. At the same time, I have stopped masturbating. In the Alcoholics Anonymous, a considerable part of their program is related to...

this thread is about posting quotes, teachings related to sex sublimation,tantra, taoism, celibacy, lust, desire from any spiritual perspective post your quote here

"So addiction then, rather than being a disease as such or a human choice, is an attempt to escape suffering temporarily" - Gabor Maté The philosopher Schopenhauer believed that the inner essence of everything was an underlying persistent craving, which he called the will, or the will to life...

Mine are Rick and morty And I just discovered some weeks ago the midnight gospel is about a guy who lives in space and has a universe simulator and travels to different universes and talks about meditation, spirituality, magic and things like that. He always changes his form and the worlds he...

Current streak: 384 days no PMO, semen retention. The first time I watched porn I was 15 y.o my father had some VHS movies and he gave them to me. I watched them, it was regular boy and girl porn. I PMO 10 times with them. Then I never watched porn again until I was 25 years old and started to...

I will not talk here about the benefits of recovery only, but I will also try to tackle the fundamental issues of self-perception and the distorted sense of reality which I suffered before and after I came across this challenge, I can tell that some of my views here may offend some brothers and...

Good day! I wrote a free eBook "Simple Truths of Life" (by Evgeny Meshkov. The .pdf of the book i attached to this post) about everything that I have experienced and learned in my life - masturbation included. The acquired knowledge includes, but is not limited to, topics such as the meaning...

Purity I once was young and innocent, A child who knew no lust. Naive, I was, and ignorant, And full of misplaced trust-- For soon the world of hedonists Despoiled my pristine mind... Their self-pollutions and their trysts, Prepared for me to find. Pandora's box invited me, And I, in innocence...

Hello, guys. I hope you’re doing well. I am a 26-year-old guy and I am a porn addict. What I am trying to say here might come across as a stream of consciousness rather than a well-thought-out post. Be that as it may, I ask you to be patient and see it through. Thank you! I’ve been here since...

I have been slowly weening off sex. It creating problematic behavior. It was a get away. I stopped having casual sex last February. I find myself very attractive. It was not hard to pull men. I was using men for sex because I had back/neck pain. I actually like back massages as much as sex. It...

Hi everyone, A while ago, the thought of posting my story on a "NoFap" forum absolutely terrified me, but ever since I have been at university, I am probably less ashamed and more open about this topic (I now realise that addiction is an aspect of my mind which is malleable and in a process of...

Hey Guys I wish all of you are ok These days i am passing with very difficult days First of all i am always horny and always want to touch myself and anything can arouse me and turn me on which us very wierd and embarrasing especially because i am very shy I aalways have sexual invoulantary...

Hi all, I am a 60 year old male who has started a new life without porn. I've been watching Mantak Chia and read about Tantra and Dao and Life Energy they call Chi and decided I want more of that Life Energy. I have been leading a life without porn now since October 12th 2018. My goal is to have...

This is an idea I've been entertaining for a while. I have noticed that after overcoming strong urges, not only I feel relief but I feel like I have made some massive progress. Sometimes while going through I rough patch, certain triggers will come up as if some omnipotent asshole was trying to...

Self-improvement can be great. Eating healthy, exercising, and learning new skills are good things. Trying to be a better person is valuable. However, there is a slippery-slope where many seem to fall. There is a place where the quest for self-improvement turns sour. And I have been at that...

I always get into the trap of gazing into things that I suppose to get done in next 6 hours, or in next 6 years!. My mind is always thinking of huge mammoth like task, ironically it prevents me get things done with completeness. so please guys suggest the techniques that you all been using (if...

Dear members, I would like to share my story with all of you, and I hope that someone will find it helpful and encouraging to start your NoFap journey - it's definitely worth it! About me: I'm a 29 years old healthy individual. Always positive and with a smile on my face. I have a foot fetish...

Hi everyone ! I want to share my experience about that,so,like a lot of young mens,masturbation and pornography caught us in their nets,it wasn't a lot in my case but enough to ask myself a serious question : "What's the problem? How can something that feels good and makes me relaxed can at...

Does anyone have any views or opinions on how you can be secular when it comes to religions (agnostic or atheist) but also adopting a spiritual approach to life? Any thoughts/opinions are welcome! Thank you for sharing.

Hey guys. Hope you are all doing well ! So heres the deal i want to know your opinion on this. The thing ls ive been battling this "addiction" for 2 years now. For me its not porn its cybersex. Most of the time i felt like an addict and blamed myself about it but recently i started working...

Hello fellow Fapstronaut! My name is Sam, as you can see below my avatar (hopefully it's updated by now to the cool quote I found, I really would like that to be there as it's inspiring and actually really weird that I found it...) and I am doing something rare on here for me: Although I am...

Whilst in a meditative process of scanning my mental and emotional environments with the intent to purge, detoxify and wash my spirit of all the chaotic, conflict-producing energy, I discovered quite abruptly in a spontaneous slap-in-the-face-with-a-wet-kipper type of insight that watching...

Whilst in a meditative process of scanning my mental and emotional environments with the intent to purge, detoxify and wash my spirit of all the chaotic, conflict-producing energy, I discovered quite abruptly in a spontaneous slap-in-the-face-with-a-wet-kipper type of insight that watching...

I came to know about porn and masturbation from my friends. I started to getting addicted to porn when I was 14 years older. When I came to know the bad effect porn haves on our lives I started to try to quite it. At First it was difficult to quite. I started to do research on porn addiction...

So recently, I have started to listen to a lot of podcasts, especially the ones with Russell Brand. To those of you who don't know him, he is someone who has struggled a lot with cocaine- and sex-addiction, and thus he has a lot of experience with how to cope with addictions, which he details in...

Greetings fellow fapstronauts! I'm surely on my way to becoming a monk it seems. I have long discerned between two voices in my head: the “little voice” and the “big yeller.” The little voice is the voice of reason, your inner center of truth and higher self that wishes for you to grow...

Leads to peace. Peace is every step. My soul i.e. mind is scorching with a soul toxin that burns worse than the flesh. In the end that is. Anyways a book called Peace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh is encouraged as a topic for beginning this talk.

Hi all, I am posting a link here that deals with not just PMO tips but beyond that, dealing various aspects. Hope you will find it extremely useful. Just check out the sub topics and read whatever suits you. Happy NOFAP.... :) Excerpt from the link here " So, earth, air, water, ether—all...

Hello! I am 22 and have been masterbating since about 12. I would generally fantasize about some hot girl from school or something and would go on porn maybe once a week or once every 2-3 weeks (would that be considered addiction??). About a year and a half ago I read a book by Swami Sivananda...

Hello everyone My name's Cory and I'm currently abstaining from porn and masturbation. Porn was something I found at age 13 and developed a relationship with which continued till about 21. I am now 23. Even before I found this site I'd understood the harmful effects of porn and so over about a...

I'm planning to edit and post the messages I sent to fapstronaut groups at different stages of my Nofap Journey. It's loaded with religious content. So those who are not religious, please excuse me. You can also read my Journal Here WHY I WANT TO QUIT PMO? Because, I want myself back in my...

Hello guys! I am going to share some quick advice for anyone out there battling PMO! I have been struggling for years now, but I would definitely be in a worse state than I am in if it wasn't for my religious attitude on life. I've been involved in this terrible addiction of PMO, but up until...

Ok, I´m seeing the end of day 6 without PMO. I have read about the flatline and now im trying to understand what it really is. My understanding so far is that the flatline is beeing totally disconnected from your sexual self (which have been harmed from PMO) and that this experience is very...

Hi, iam newbee. And i want to know any spiritual persons here trying NoFap challenge

I originally posted this on Reddit, but it didn't gain much traction. Still, I thought people would benefit and post it here as well. Here it goes. I have been battling PMO for about 2 years. My biggest streak was 3 months. Other than that I very rarely stayed clean for more than a week. So...

Hello. My name is Iván Suárez. I am 25, currently studying arts at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, in Bogotá, where Iv'e lived all my life. Actually, I have only one semester left to finish this undergraduate program, the one in which I'm going to make my thesis. It is a project that...

AFFIRMATIONS: Beginners: Speak out loud and repeat 3X (w/ enthusiasm): -"I am enough. I am enough. I have always been and will always be enough. Now that I know I am enough, everyone else knows it too." -"I am enough. I am enough. I have always been and will always be enough. Now that I know I...

Hello. I have been feeling weird for almost 20 years now. At first it was using drugs that I guess messed my chemistry a bit, in the beginning weed suited me quite well but after a couple years I started getting way too mental, disconnected from my feelings, and afraid. I stopped using drugs...

Hello fellow Fapstronauts, I would like to introduce myself and the reason I have approached this community. Firstly, I am male of 44 years. I have been using porn on and off since 2000, but heavily (for me) over the last 5 years perhaps as a coping mechanism from feeling lost and without...

I do not call this mission of abstinence from masturbation and Uncontrolled detrimental self gratification as 'NoFap' , but ब्रह्मचर्य(brahmacharya). What is brahmacharya? Brahmacharya is acharan(behaviour) in brahma(the omnipresent, the omniscient, the omnipotent, the witness of all...

Hi Everyone from NoFap, I'm writing this because I needed somewhere to write all of the things that I have been going through over the past few months, if not years and perhaps the majority of my life. I have looked into this phenomenon generally categorized under sex addiction. Today, I...