No PMO War V

I sometimes say, "brain fuck off" out loud.

I guess I am reprimanding myself and putting my thoughts back on track after all I'm the only one who can do that.

Sounds silly but works for me hope that helps.

Music is also good something to sing along to you haven't listened to in a while. Bust out some of the old cd's to avoid phone use.

Get a crossword, sudoku, word search book to give the mind something to solve we all love puzzles. And a book instead of an app gets you off the phone.

Speaking of puzzles get a good looking jigsaw puzzle and plan to hang it on the wall when you are done, they glue easy to poster board. This is hours of time used and you get a cool decoration after. I suggest a cool dragon jigsaw but that's just me. Oh or a world map jigsaw.

I'd also suggest lifting weights, walks, runs and such but the body needs to rest and over working your body is easy to do when you're using excersize as a distraction. Then you are forced to rest and that can lead to falling back into addiction ouy of boredom.

Excersize the mind and the body and rest both appropriately.

Go to Bunnings or somewhere similar and get some wooden pallets for free they usually give them away.

Grab a tape measure, builders pencil, hammer and some nails. They prefer you pay for these.

Pull the pallets apart and make yourself a step stool as a starting project, then a shoe shelf for the front door and move onto bigger things you might need.

Youtube is good for tutorials or buy a wood working book for beginners at Bunnings to avoid using your phone and getting distracted.

After your confident in your wood working I'd suggest building a chicken coop then you'll be getting eggs everyday.

We are having an egg shortage here so my chickens are working a treat.

Caution who you tell about your chickens, as you'll have family and friends wanting your spare eggs.

Have been fighting this thing for 7 years but these things sometimes help me

1) Running away, seriously this addiction is relentless and chases you at your weakest. So run away from it. Get out of bed, force your door open, take a walk, go to a cafe

2) Reflect on your "whys" - the most abstract and hardest but it grows with time

These are all awesome, thanks!

All of those are great things to distract and "fight" the temptation of lustful thought, but nobody is saying that the best thing to do is just plan out a time for 23 minutes and just get through it.
This tip is very helpful to me, watch the whole video if you wish:

We are programmed to use people in this capitalist world; we are not taught to look beyond appearances. Remind yourself that the woman you lust after is merely human—even if she is beautiful, you never truly know what her soul is like. In my view, lust is animalistic; whenever I maintain control over it without trying to suppress it, I experience inner peace, which is the most important value in my life. However, do not fall into the mistake of viewing women as objects to avoid or as inherently evil—such misconceptions are a product of capitalist thinking. Women are among the most beautiful beings on earth for men, yet to lust after them without respect is to disregard nature itself.

Most of these videos, and the posters are thinking the porn addiction is due to sexual desires, and so they're expending their energies to controlling lust.
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A human's lust is no different from the waves of the sea. Just like how the waves can never be stopped, so too controlling the lust is an almost impossible task. Very few humans have actually controlled it, and today we call them Gods. In every culture, these are the select few who are considered the enlightened.
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But fear not, porn addiction has nothing to do with sexual desires at all, so you don't need to become "The Buddha" to escape from that addiction.
Porn addiction is due to stress. So stop wasting time watching online videos about "beating temptations" - if it were that simple, the whole world will be filled with enlightened men, and we would have colonized all the far flung planets, including Pluto.
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Read my story, and the system which I developed (by God's grace) to escape_from_porn:
https://www.conqueredself.com/wars/no-pmo-war-xliii/topics/an-unexpected-ejaculation-after-so-many-days-can-t-remember-how-long-ago
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https://www.conqueredself.com/wars/no-pmo-war-xli/topics/true-timeline-of-preaddict-addict-post-freedom
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https://www.conqueredself.com/wars/no-pmo-war-xxxviii/topics/good-luck-and-read-my-system-to-escape_from_porn
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https://www.conqueredself.com/wars/no-pmo-war-xxxviii/topics/my-system-the-only-one-that-works

Kill it at the first instance you become aware of it. Do anything else "physical".