No PMO War XLV

The highest leverage habit you can choose to increase your ability to quit PMO is social media absence. In fact, some of them have even the same owners as XXX sites, so they could be a part of funnel, as you see half-naked girls on insta and then go straight to more extreme stuff.

The Mechanism: The rats learned to press a lever to receive a tiny electrical shock directly to this area of the brain, causing massive, repeated dopamine releases. The Addiction: The stimulation was so rewarding that the rats abandoned all other behaviors. They stopped eating, drinking, and sleeping. The Result: The rats would press the lever continuously—sometimes up to 7,000 times an hour—until they collapsed from exhaustion or died of starvation and dehydration. ^^^This is what my life feels like. Please: Don’t give up. Do what you have to do, do the hard work. Do it now.

I read this today- even though we all have made mistakes and can’t turn back, we can use this to grow. Rather than being born perfect and always righteous, isn’t there something admirable about being born imperfect and flawed and through great effort overcoming one’s nature to seek more virtue and benevolence? What do you think?

It's not finished till the end

“An old proverb. Meaning— The past exists to guide and warn you, not to trap you. Learn from it, but do not live there; growth requires moving forward, not anchoring in what is over.” I also like to think of this as a way to appreciate fond memories, accepting the present is what is now but we can cherish moments from the past that helped shape us in the good ways, too. Stay strong!

all you need is 2004 Honda Civic to make videos in it, baseball cap, expired gym memebership (talking about gym is important), a verse on how you don't need modern western woman (and then rest of the video talk about female attraction on SR), then you need to tell something about matrix, chakras, demons or at least give some Bible quotes :)

Due to fatigue, lost sleep and overall tension in body induced by sitting in front of screens for too long, I've began a low-screen challenge. The rules are: 1. No porn 2. No social media except finding information or connecting real people (actually use FB as a forum and SMS, no scrolling, shorts or ragebait memes). 3. Blocking the meme websites- they made my mind rubbish. 4. Using screens for work, informational use, learning and actually no "junk screentime" where you spin around different forums out of boredeom. 5. 90's kid challenge - try few old school hobbies, like drawing, musical instument (it's been a while, huh?), reading paperback books, nature walks. 6. There's some limited time you can play videogames or watch TV series, mine is 60 mins/day. It's not too scrict but it's realisti. 7. The challenge lasts 21 days, you can journal during it or set your own time limit.

https://youtu.be/klrycQ9Tqm8?si=IDeLzvDPZULRicHM

I clicked on 'check in' and marked the daily quests. But I still get the option to 'check in'. Am I all set for today?

I really wish I got my pmo addiction under control a long time ago. Still working at it. But something that has helped me a lot, in case anyone needs to hear it, is to stop living in an all or nothing mindset in regards to sobriety- things I’d say to myself like “If I have x days under my belt, I’ll be able to do this or feel good doing that.” Or “I relapsed this morning, so today is going to suck or I am not going to appear as someone people respect.” In my experience those stories we tell ourselves do not help, and it’s setting us up to have everything rely on something that can very quickly become an excuse or obsession.. try to just be involved in life and let sobriety help you be more present and more fulfilled, and more whole and better for yourself and others- but do those things anyway, no matter what, and you’ll become someone more apt to succeed in sobriety and other things. Allowing yourself to just be you and figure out who that is, is important.