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"The reabsorption of semen by the blood is the strongest nourishment and, perhaps more than any other factor, it prompts the stimulus of power, the unrest of all forces toward the overcoming of resistances, the thirst for contradiction and resistance."
The self-mastery challenge is a short to-do and to-not-do list. The purpose of this challenge is to boost your clarity, drive, and confidence to the highest peak ahead of the next year. It comes with free printable goal worksheets, over 100 introspective questions, 200+ mind-shifting affirmations, and dozens of enlightening articles like this one. This challenge is the only long-term solution to your cheap addictions. It’s free. You can Join here.
But first, this blog will arm you with the mental models you need to win this battle…
Dangers of Porn Addiction
Listen up - Pornography, that seemingly harmless 5-minute escape, is wreaking tremendous havoc on your mind, relationships, and future.
1. Ruins real relationships: Your obsession with pixels on a screen is poisoning your connections with real people. What you see isn't real, but the damage it's doing to your relationships is painfully authentic. You risk ruining genuine intimacy for distorted fantasy. With time you will forget what real beauty, connection, and love look like.
2. Mental warfare: Pornography messes with your mind, planting seeds of dissatisfaction, anxiety, and self-loathing. The longer you're in its grip, the harder it becomes to break free from the mental shackles it creates.
3. Waste of potential: You're bartering your potential, your dreams, and your success for a few fleeting moments of pleasure. You are literally sacrificing your creative and productive energy for a few strokes.
4. Desensitization: Every click, every view, dulls your senses a bit more. What used to shock and excite you becomes mundane, pushing you to seek more extreme content just to feel something, leading you further astray into degeneracy.
5. Guilt and shame: Do you like living in a constant state of guilt and shame? Because that's the price of your terrible habit. It places a great burden on your conscience and consciousness.
6. Isolation: Porn addiction can lead to social isolation, turning you into the outcast you never wanted to be.
7. Self-betrayal: Porn chips away at your integrity, making you compromise the very principles that define who you are.
8. Negative: Porn corrupts your thinking and strengthens the demons within you. If you are not careful, you could end up doing something illegal that will jeopardize your future.
Do you want to look back on your life and realize you traded the best version of yourself for a pixelated illusion?
Wake up. Your life, your happiness, and your very soul are on the line. It’s time to break free from the cycle of self-torture disguised as self-pleasure…
Address Your Concessions
One of the tricks of the mind is to bring up concessions that make sense to you. The frontal brain shuts down, and the limbic brain takes over. The frontal brain is rational. The limbic brain is impulsive. In the moments leading up to a release, the limbic brain suppresses your mental models and manipulates you to compromise your resolve. It is damn near impossible to outsmart a trickster that literally knows everything about you.
You need an unbreakable resolve to get through this challenge.
The truth is you aren't serious about overcoming this addiction. You console yourself with half-baked repentance. Stop this facade.
Make a genuine repentance for once. Let it come from the core of your soul.
I included the pledge of oath for this very reason.
No force of nature can deter a determined man.
The moment you make a TOTAL repentance, there is no going back.
It won't be easy.
Adopt a do-or-die mindset. Whatever happens, whatever your mind says, NEVER give in.
Be Mentally Prepared.
The seminal energy is a powerful one. It is one of the strongest biological compulsions.
The degree of compulsion shows the level of your addiction.
There are four levels of compulsion:
Mild: Occasional cravings or urges, not constant or overwhelming.
Moderate: Increasing difficulty resisting urges, more frequent cravings.
Severe: Constant and intense need, disruptions in daily life.
Overwhelming: Entire focus on addiction and loss of control.
If you are between 3-4, you need complete abstinence.
If you are under 2, opt out before you get in too deep.
This challenge is a self-mastery training. You are only self-mastered when you can go through a long stretch of self-denial. Break the cycle of accumulating and dispensing. Don't be a slave to your impulses. It's time to alchemize your sexual exergy into greater creativity and enlightenment.
Nutting through self-pleasure is prohibited.
Preparing for the traps:
Identify your most common emotional trigger.
The common culprits are boredom, loneliness, and insomnia.
Be careful what you click on. Sometimes the battle is lost during the small slip-ups you make during the day. Those sexual conversations or content that seem harmless will haunt you at night. They immediately plant the idea of relapse into your subconscious mind.
Guard your heart. Guard your thoughts. Guard your eyes.
Techniques for Dealing with Temptation:
Imagine your mom sleeping in the same room as you.
Isolation is a trigger for relapse. If the urge is coming up, just imagine your mom and other relatives in the same room with you until you fall asleep.Meditate when you feel the urge to masturbate.
Energy always flows. Horniness is your energy moving downwards. Awareness is your energy moving upwards. Instead of seeing your horniness as a trigger to masturbate, see it as a reminder to meditate. Your body wants to dissipate the energy. Your spirit wants to accumulate energy. Obey your higher self.Shake it off
The overwhelming energy gathering in your sacral chakra can be dissipated through physical movement. Do some stretches or dynamic shaking. Swing it until you feel light below your legs.Journal
Write down your feelings as they are happening. Write as if you are talking to a deeper part of yourself. Write exactly how you feel without shame or pretense. Write with a pen and paper. Write until you start to feel sleepy.Reread this blog
Everything the urge to relapse gets strong, summon enough willpower to come back to this blog. Save it in your bookmarks so it’s only a few clicks away. When you are back here, do some box breathing for one minute. Inhale for four seconds, hold for four seconds, exhale for seconds, wait for four seconds, and then restart the cycle. Do this until you regain consciousness. Imagine the joy of ticking off another day on your sheet. Let that motivate you. Don't give in.Reach out to the group
Isolation is the root cause of weakness. No man was made to be an island. Whenever you feel weak-willed, reach out to the brothers in the accountability group for support. There is great power in camaraderie. You will receive the link to the inner circle when you join the challenge.
Here’s the link to join the challenge once again:
If you prefer to talk to me directly, DM me on Telegram. Get straight to the point and let me know how I can help. I want to see you tick all 30 days of the challenge. Don't let me down.
Stay Mastered 🖤 your