Never give up. Even if you fail and relapse just keep on trying. Even if you fail so much keep trying and take a break to get better in your fight. This war is really hard and we must keep our minds out of it and stay focused. Try not to think about it by removing all those triggers.
Even if you fail 1000 times keep trying. You should never get back to those old bad habits. You need to live life, and you got it, when those urges strike try to forget it. If they are too much do something else exercise, listen to music, let the urges go away, use the app for the help.
You can do all you want, but you should never give up. If you give up forever and get back to that habit then you have joined the industry team and made us your enemies, and we are not proud. So stay with us here donโt give up, keep on trying we are here to help you.
I realised that i have free time in night and thats when the urges come . I think i should avoid mobile phone at night becouse my mind try to convince me to watch porn , i think the root of all these is my phone โฆ By the way bro thanku for this advice .
I have another question , do you think meditation really helps in controlling your thoughts becouse i am trying meditation from past 3 days before going to sleep and it doesnโt seem to be working or is it too early to judge meditational benefits???
What worked for me was just not to touch myself. This advice sounds poopy, but there is no easy way. It requires time and dealing with uneasy feelings.
What else I can advice you is to do cardio until you are dead tired. Urges wonโt bother you until you regenerate. But you might not be very productive due to the fatigue.
VERY IMPORTANT POST REWARD YOURSELF ON OVERCOMING URGES. THE MISSING KEY TO A SUCCESSFUL RECOVERY.
Day 25
Yesterday I again faced intense urges to break my vow of no movies. I now know for a fact that these urges are triggered by stress of fasting and my desire to end my fast by eating fast food while watching movie and perusing dopamine.
The battle was very intense. First I observed the urges with positive perspective. But I was very close to giving in. What helped me in addition was delebrately taking a nap instead of using mobile. Then after an hour of fighting and delaying watching movies, I changed my strategy. And it worked.
I said to myself that you are a good boy. You havenโt give in to urges. You deserve a reward if you donโt give in. Then I went to market and bought salted peanuts and masala nimko and enjoyed that after breaking my fast while watching Islamic videos in yt.
It became very easy to not give in by putting a reward infront of myself, a distraction and alternate pathway to focus on and persue healthy dopamine. Maybe this is the missing key.
I know this challenge only starts 1 January 2023 but Im gonna take it seriously starting now. That way by the time the challenge starts i will already have the momentum to keep on going since the first few weeks of nofap are the hardest