Relapse

You can. Have a really good reason to stop. Find things to occupy your mind and hands, to fill the void porn left.
Find ways to not be home alone. Get out, around people. Engage people in activity, interests and conversation.
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This is how I stay porn free.



- Go to weekly SA meetings and find a sponsor there. To find one near you, go to https://www.sa.org/meetings/

- Do an internet search for CSAT office in your area (Certified Sexual Addiction Therapist)

- Find an accountability partner if you don't already have one.

- Look for help online; There are sexual addiction recovery books, workbooks, self-help books, Youtube videos and MANY other things to help.

- Start a journal about your recovery.

- Put safeguards in place to help you stay sober. Think of your weaknesses and eliminate them.

- Do you take your phone (or any other device) into the bathroom with you and relapse because of it? Then make a rule to never take any electronic device into the bathroom with you, ever. NO EXCEPTIONS.

- Do you read erotic literature and relapse because of it? Make a rule to never read anything that could ever be found in that section of any bookstore ever.

- If you struggle with looking at internet porn or any other addictive material on the internet, get an internet filter to block that category type of website as well as any specific site you know you’re vulnerable to and give someone else the password to it. Obviously, you should not have the password.

 

Try meditating. Sit down in a quiet place and close your eyes. Focus on taking slow, deep breaths. Once you're able to do that, visualize your sexual energy as energy that starts at your genitals, flows through your mid section and exits through the crown of your head. This is basically a way to eject your energy. When someone is horny, their heart rate increases because it's craving something desperately, but meditation is a way to slow down your bodily appetite for sex.

Only very recently has medical science come around and acknowledged that meditation can be helpful. Spiritual sages have known this for thousands of years, so that's one way in which religion was ahead of science. You don't have to be religious/spiritual to benefit from meditation, though.