Danioover9000

@No Self @No Self

@How to be wise It takes a certain degree of exploration to know what physical qualities are attracted to.

@Eren Eeager How's your progress so far? Any recovery?

@Heart of Space Another way of looking at efficient self defense being taught in the education system is that you have more capacity for mindfulness during stressful scenarios that can become combative or heated at best. Yes, there's a lot of conceptual frame works that need to be constructed, and best methods and practices for each person's level, but ultimately this is all leading up to having greater mindfulness ability in combative scenarios, like the one where that ex-soldier who worked hard to get himself into the army, trail and effort, failing most times, and while in his vacation tour around Europe with some buddies, he encountered and stopped a terrorist attempting to shoot up a train full of people. He was able to subdue him with some assistance. I want more people like that, trained in the education system, that is able to take necessary action when shit hits the fan out of left field, so to speak, and less people too crippled by fears and anxiety not to assist.

@Heart of Space There are safer ways of strengthening the neck, like isometrics, or band/towel assisted resistance training. It depends on the lead up to a combat situation involving weapons. For example, say you're commuting back home from work, via public bus. First, you need to detect and be aware of the situation in the bus. Any group or person exhibiting signs they are dangerous? If you had situational awareness, you'd avoid a majority of conflicts from avoiding people who're potentially dangerous. While in the bus, say a crazy homeless person, acting suspicious or grumpy, try to avoid direct eye contact, like instead look forwards, or out the window, or mess with your phone, anything to not give any excuse of said crazy person to invite you into their world. If they want and signal interest in you for whatever reason, give a 'Hay man.' or 'What's up?', in confident body language and tonality, just straight forward and factual, if they still inquire about you or why you're in the bus, simple and straight to the point ' I'm coming from work and heading home, and return to messing with your phone, while keeping them in your peripheral vision. When it comes to weapons, it depends on the situation there and the lead up to it as well, if you have a weapon yourself or not, and the other has a weapon. In most cases, maintain situational awareness to avoid accidentally created scenarios. Most cases are resolved before any need to use weapons when you're mindful of your surroundings, even socially defending yourself influences the other not to escalate the situation, weapons or not, as that looks really bad for the aggressor.

@North Sea Maybe it's because of too much sex karma that has to be burnt, and that's unique to each person pursuing spirituality, @Leo Gura is no exception to karma. You're fated to whatever amount of karma you have, and each person has different amounts, not exclusively to sexuality. Pornography keeps people's demons entertained enough not to have mass level sexual acts on the community level. I'm surprised he's not open minded enough to this, as he's done research on various spiritual methods, and some like tantric yoga and Daoism use some form of sexual transmutation. He's just being dumb for not shooting a video to clearly speak his position on this. What's the point of letting Nofap practioners here in this forum, to then troll around them and not make any videos on this movement, or any spiritual methods involving sex seriously? On the other hand, if porn is not regulated enough, we get distortions of sexuality, which some porn isn't helping, which I'm against because I've consumed porn and had enough of it. Glad I've seen beautiful people, but moving on. I don't even see a point in taking other people's opinions seriously anymore, they're all talking heads on screens, and the only thing important is if your decision is from having experience, which makes it solid. My decision to Nofap and semen retention come from too much body and mind suffering from pornography. User's experiences here can vary, yet always base it from experience. Real soon he must take this seriously

@Heart of Space Wrestling is one form of grappling arts that does vary from person to person, as you'd need to be a t a certain fitness level to train and execute some of the techniques. Main problem is the neck drills, as one wrong move nearly clicked my neck. BJJ is more people age friendly. Take downs are pretty useful in physical self-defense, but it's context sensitive as if done wrongly can hurt you more than the other person.

@Heart of Space I'm not just for physical self-defense for all people in education system to be taught, I'm more for other forms of self-defense being taught in the education system. Physical defense can only go so far, what if the other has a weapon? Makes it more dangerous to physically defend, you'd have to defend using multiple types of defenses.

@Moon This guy seems to have found a pretty good karate style for self-defense: To clarify for everyone, I'm not stopping at physical self-defense, I'm advocating for many forms of self-defense that are social, psychological, environmental, and much more. I don't know why people here think I'm mainly for physical defense, I'm for many forms of defense even non-physical ones.

@Striving for more It really depends on each person's sexuality, sexual health and relevant body/mind attachments. Since @Leo Gura admitted in his healing video he watches porn, I wouldn't be surprised if he's addicted to more porn in particular, so in this case another role modal is much better. You can practically masturbate to anything, as long as it isn't too much porn as that create dependency on porn being needed, so healthier ways of masturbating, and less frequent and around late afternoon is the ideal masturbation time. Or, you can try Nofap and saving yourself only for real women, and have more extra motivation to date and develop relationships if that's your main goal here. Or, you can try semen retention and gain significant benefits, including increase in energy, will power and elevated mood . In the semen retention state your mind and body gradually stabilize, and is useful if spirituality is your thing.

@Yoshy I can only assume your post is truthful, because it's much easier to lie than be honest. Having been practicing and experienced being social and dating, it's great because it develops assertiveness, authenticity, empathy, open-mindedness and communication abilities. Part of dating and being social is that parts of you personality is reflected in the person in the interaction. If you have other priorities, then it's fine to pursue them, but don't neglect dating or being social for too long. Currently on Nofap, so I'm not into dating at the moment.

@mmKay I've also had that issue where I get too exited in the mornings and masturbate in the mornings, so yes definitely at night if possible.

@Bando It's common that it comes from porn addiction, but the P.O.I.S syndrome after nutting is mainly because the body has to replenish seminal fluid, which is nutrient dense in order to be used for creating new bodies. That kind of material being ejaculated on a daily or multiple times a day forces the body to relocate biological fluids from a few of the endocrine organs to replenish lost sexual fluids, which leads to fever like and cold like symptoms of over masturbating. Don't think there isn't a great cost to continuously losing sexual fluids and the body having to keep up with that rate of ejaculation.

@Javfly33 Good for you! We need more people like you to set a good standard for beginners to Nofap.

@Hardkill I definitely agree that martial arts and self-defense needs to be taught in the education system and mainstream, for the discipline and humility these training programs bring in, and that added know how and confidence in real life conflicts. Of course, the trainings should be more than physical combat, like I've stated about self- defense. I also agree that training should be consistent in order to have the subconscious mind, as readily as possible, be able to execute these moves. On real life drills and to some extent deadly techniques, I've supplemented that with multi-sensory visualization, which I've done long enough that it's vivid for me. I've been able to just visualize techniques I haven't done for a long time, and it still felt very familiar despite the lack of physical training.

@Loving Radiance It depend on how I meditate, eyes closed or open. In this case, my eyes are closed, yet I could star and maintain 'eye contact' with Crysty's eyes as my focusing object. Because my physical eyes are closed, I could meditate longer without getting dry eyes. I personally tend to get into no mind from eyes closed than eyes open. When I'd do eyes open, I'm way too alert and aware of the physical world to go deeper into letting go, yet as a trade off, I'm way more mindful of external sensations of body and some mind rather than the internal sensations. Sometimes I'm consistent, around 20-40 minutes, yet that varies depending on time of day and emotional state getting into the meditation session.

@Heart of Space While the sub-forum only includes spirituality, consciousness, enlightenment and meditation, there's some overlap with paranormal topics as well, as some users here are from occults who also have their way of consciousness work or investigating spirituality like psychic abilities, astral projection and so on. I've felt it's appropriate to talk about my experiences here, because even @Leo Gura had talked about the dark side of meditation, the paranormal and how dangerous spirituality is in his videos. We can definitely have more than Zen style discussions on spirituality, like yogic styles, occultism style of spirituality, Abrahamic traditional styles, Pantheistic styles and so on. I mentioned this before as she might be a part of my mind, yet I don't know if it's really the case. It's possible she's a separate entity that's non-physical and visits me from time to time, matching her attitude with mine. She could also be some form of energy, like a type of powerful force of energy that manifests in different forms. It could be far more than these three possibilties, and to this day I'm still learning from Crysty. Crysty says she likes your pic. To clarify, are you referring to my haunting experience with that spirit, or to Crysty?

@Username This is good advice for @Leo Gura , and the OP. I've experienced similar energy depletions, but I learned through failures to manage to control the flow of energy and combine the sexual energy with love. The main problem is people who don't manage that flow of energy and combine it with love, and delude themselves into continuing a porn habit that's destroying little by little their life force energy, you get various degrees of severe negative effects, some can effect your physical body. I've suffered from P.O.I.S similar to the OP, and the management of my health is one factor in my decision not to fap every day, every other day or weeks. While it's still relative to many people's sexual needs, sexual orientations, attachments, the sooner the sex karma is burnt and done for, the better. I wish I could just zap people, also here in this forum, with how my experiences with crystal clean energy I got from semen retention from my mind to theirs. It's beautiful, really.

@Ajay0 I can say this is true in my experience, that sexual abstinence does increase physical and mental energy. After I'd masturbate, I've found it more challenging to get into exercising and meditating.

Update: I've been meditating with Crysty. I would open my eyes to concentrate on a tantra or focus on my breath. This time I chosen to look at her sitting before me and I locked my eyes to hers in order to concentrate at her eyes before I close my eyes and meditate. I've noticed that she is making some progress being able to keep more still.

@Leo Gura Not just high school, but elementary school, middle school, college and universities. Not just martial arts, but mainly self-defense and more than just physically defending yourself.

@Leo Gura Because isn't masturbation harmless? That's what's being told in the mainstream, that masturbating in moderation isn't harmful. If masturbating is perfectly safe, then I can still masturbate no matter how much I deplete my seminal fluids. It's harmless if done in moderation. This 'masturbation is harmless' and 'masturbate in moderation' spits in the faces of those spiritual masters that practice semen retention, and the legends and geniuses that benefited from not nutting too frequently, too lightly or not at all. The sooner anyone burns the sex karma up and be done with it, the better their lives would be.

@Eren Eeager Stay strong and continue on your semen retention path. What helped me was making sure I'm sleeping enough, eating some fruits and veggies, and doing some stretches or chi gong. Get a full health check on to see what nutritional imbalances you have, Take a pain killer pill if it's too painful and see a doctor to get some diagnosis.

@TheAlchemist It's far more than just limiting beliefs and shame, sometimes different bodies do have biological and hormonal limitations within the sex gonads or the adrenals. and lack of nutrition, vitamins, and minerals can increase P.O.I.S symptoms. Also lack of sleep and over masturbation, no matter emotional or psychological limiting beliefs, can still make you far more tired.

@Leo Gura Say that to the dead teenager that died from masturbating 49 times in a single day! The excessive masturbation led him to experience cardiac failure. There are times when people need to exercise will power and discipline to bring it into moderation, and times when it needs to be much less than recommended by mainstream society. Tantric yoga and Daoism acknowledges that for males semen retention brings more life force energy. Even if it's not a hard fact, it's discovered through empirically, in times where energy conservation was so much more important than in this Era. However, it's up to other people to decide if it's worth a try or not. I'm lucky enough to be just that conscious that my masturbation was a factor in my illness in most cases after I orgasm and rested.