Danioover9000

Don't let anyone tell you differently with this path. It's like going to the gym, you won't get stronger by letting the coaches do the workouts for you, you do the workouts.

How does your workouts feel while retaining? Noticed any changes with muscle contractions and recovery before/after semen retention?

@Giancarlo How is this ridiculous?

"Appreciate that some people will seek retribution onto you for ruining their illusion." Yogic proverb.

It's an ok video. The problem I see is how he doesn't cover compulsion very well. Compulsion is a complex issue, not just because many hard and soft addictions types, but how each compulsive behavior can overlap, like over masturbation to porn(hard) can lead to procrastination (soft), which leads to drinking moderate or too much coffee(hard), which leads to masturbating that excess energy off, or eating too much to cause sleepiness and to cope with stress...the list can go on.

However, all this is relative to karmic baggage, the development of the psyche, and the needs of different people. You can only speak for yourself in your first post, but not about another woman's sexuality. In fact, women are more sexually powerful than men, as they can have multiple types and degrees of orgasms compared to men. I'd suggest to maybe explore more of your sexuality instead of resisting and suppressing it, because suppression will be very costly later to your life.

@Someone here There is a way to overcome suffering, but not without going classical. I'll do my best not to go down well travelled paths. Firstly, when a personhood is born after the physical body settles down into it's form, that's when suffering slightly increases. As a default, you only have one choice: continue life, gathering life experiences along with suffering that follows each life experience, like Pacman. From that, you eventually intuit, with enough experience from people, places and life, that you could improve your situation. This stage is when the mind becomes less dependent on body's mouth to feed itself, and starts developing a mental mouth for consuming ideas and concepts of people and the world. As soon as this happens, suffering increases as a consequence, because even though you now could think more deeply about a subject, in exchange for this articulation you must also give up more mental room and be more removed from being in the present moment at a young age. As time passes, your mind quickly develops mental maps of the body's sense organs, which alloys more complexity in figuring out life, but again suffering is also amplified, that even a concept about some situations that give raise to worry or fear are now taken seriously, as opposed to facing the problem directly. Also, there are tendencies to forget about the mind's development, because of how quickly it grew it's abilities in your blissful ignorance. In ignorance, attachments can occur right after direct experience of an object or situation, and your mind quickly wraps it with many more attachments, also meanings, to further solidify it as an 'important' idea, skipping over that the object or situation is impermanent. One way it masks impermanence is when it ties emotional signals with memories that stimulated the body or mind greater than normal, and makes the experience important by the fact it gave such strong emotions in you, and encourages more attention placed at emotionally charged memories versus any other type of memory it deems less useful to it. There are many ways of reducing or transcending suffering, but those tend to in general involve empowering yourself more and more until a point is reach when your entire being now wants to let go of the over accumulation of ideas and experiences and head to the reverse. There are various spiritual traditions and techniques that exercises the capacities of the reversing, but also there are other fields of interest besides spirituality that exercises the first half of this general cycle, the empowering accumulation, that strengthens your ego.

I've done some psyches but without going into social/dating situations. One of those psychedelics in some of those trips, I've destroyed some of my room. Microdosing was great, except I still feel a bit aggressive. I wouldn't try being high will dating/social context.

Donald Trump can take care of himself. Take care of, and vote, for yourself.

An hour a day keeps the devil at bay. Duration? As long as your body is still functioning, for the rest of your life.

You don't need spiral dynamics at all for unconditional love. Go send love, and if it's hard, work on that love. Love is not dependent on any human mind invention. That simple.

Semen retention is valuable, not just for spiritual growth, but for your energy, health, general mood, mental performance. I've experienced enough of Nofap, pornography, sex, and celibacy that this practice I can say is great for people with strong porn/sex addictions. I've experienced enough energy that I've more while being on Nofap than without. I had so much energy that I performed physical feats of strength and speed that I soon out fought many martial artists and fighters. I've experienced moderate levels of porn, porn/sex binges that I can say my body was hurting. My head and throat was hurting and felt strange, my heart, lower back and naval was hurting, and I lost most of my sensitivity in my penis while I was promiscuous. When I decided to try out Nofap, and forced myself to try out semen retention, most of my body began healing itself. While I was sexually over active, I felt more negative than positive emotions, while being on semen retention and Nofap, the ratio evened out and was more positive. I've felt actually more hate for women while sexually active than when I was forcing myself to take a break from dating, porn, and funnel that attention elsewhere. While I was not retaining my semen and over using myself, my mind wasn't as focused and disciplined. My mind did a 180 while on semen retention, and my mental performance and spiritual practices are far deeper than normal, my mind was able to stabilize faster than normal. What's dangerous about sexuality is when you're in the middle of the storm, it feels normal and like nothing isn't out of the ordinary. However, after I was able to force myself out of the eye, through the violent winds, and then exit it, I see the storm for what it is, and I was shocked. How is Nofap and semen retention not covered by more successful people fully and spiritual masters enough is disappointing, because the suffering I was going through would have been averted or minimized if I had someone clearly tell me about semen retention. Even if there was a possibility of me rejecting that advice, I'm actually weird enough to try out weird stuff just to experience it. It's a shame there isn't a detailed discussion about Nofap, semen retention, pornography and the healing effects of this practice.

The funny thing is, at the end of it all, what is a left ideology now, will centuries later be old and established, or not, ideology, just like the right.

@Consilience There are good benefits to doing Nofap, but if you outgrew them, that's fine. Here, with successful people, depends on which ones, because there are some that abstain far from normal than average males and females. As long as you be mindful of the process, you'll catch yourself demonizing aspects of sexuality and people, and that too is valuable. There are energetic, emotional, hormonal, mental, and spiritual benefits to this practice when tried long enough. Just be careful throwing the water with the baby in it, unless it's intentional. While I agree there are unhealthy aspects of porn, there are healthy aspects of porn too. Depending on life situations, there might be no available real sex partner to gratify yourself, and you might be at an unfamiliar part of the world, and your visualizations still are weak. Even you'll find ways to spice up sex with GF or wife, getting inspirations from armature porn, to sexual exploration, and so on.

@integral While we're at it, better to do some check ups of neurology, immune systems, and endocrine systems. Not all, but a majority of human diseases come from imbalances between these three systems of the human body. When I tried Nofap. I became more resilient to colds, cold spots and phantom shivers. Not just for Leo, but for anyone reading.

@wwhy It's actually possible to be an entirely new person. The catch, though, is death of the older you, for the newer you. Enlightenment aside, another plus is the vision of your life, and that ultimate version of yourself that handles each part of that life better. That does inspire, and re-inspires you to bounce back into the practices.

@Meta-Man Well, deliberately try now. This isn't the time and place for no-free will, because stuff still happens without a free-will. Similar with concentration, it seems you're willing yourself to put attention to an object and struggle with keeping focus, but later on you'll find out non of it is you willing into putting attention to an object and you struggling to keep putting attention, it's instead just happens to be a you, a willpower, an attention on an object, a sensation of struggle and an occurring, continues stream of focus. However, being deliberate works on discipline more. No matter how many days you're in Nofap, relapses can happen, so instead of whipping yourself for the failure, enjoy it and let whatever positive and negative emotions/thoughts occur. This could last for days or weeks, but eventually you'll come back and re-try Nofap. This cycle of relapsing, inner conflict, re-integration and re-committing makes you more stronger and last much longer with streaks. It sounds like your releases happen around night more than mornings, so the trick here is to just let yourself observe those sexual thoughts, while not touching or rubbing your wood. You let your wood be, while you let the mind mingle with that thought while it lasts, which most often can't sustain itself long enough, unless that thought morphs into a similar/different sex thought, so either distract or continue observing.

@Rasheed Monk mode Nofap, which basically means you put far more restriction on yourself, like not fapping to any type of pornography, not thinking about porn/sex. Also, dating and real sex is avoided. The benefit of this harsher mode is massive energy, motivation, thinking power and vitality that makes you feel really powerful and healthier. Hard mode Nofap still has same restrictions on porn/sex, except you can choose to date and/or think short intervals of sexual thoughts. Not as harsh as monk mode, but the greater danger is blue balls from edging too long, teasing a woman, or peeking, either mentally or physically.

@Evil Raccoon Sorry, correction: I'm in the middle of the hardest version of Nofap. It's quite nice really, there's this constant buzz. The only real danger I've experienced are hyper aggression, manic levels of energy and blue balls from cheating. I suffered them before, and found ways around it. The peace is great.

@Lyubov I remember maybe a year ago there was a user named shin, he's the official originator of the thread about Nofap on this site, one of the first users to start that topic here. I'm actuallly one of the users that recommended Nofap on Leo's videos, and ended up here. Theses accounts vary depending on who you talk to, because back then we were rivals: we couldn't settle on various issues about pornography, I was more lenient on porn while he went all out against it, and I insist I was the first one to bring up this issue here while he begs to differ. We had debates on pm more so than out here. I think he's one of the few that left the forums to pursue hard core spirituality. My position on the porn issues changed slightly, but I'll still say if you haven't burnt through your sex karma, burn it all first beforehand.

@Evil Raccoon Exactly, with the exception of being on the actual porn video. Pun aside, don't underestimate how perverted humanity was, and somewhat is still today. It seems to me that celibacy, to some degree, is the greater good for now. Don't mind me, I'm going for the hardest version of Nofap possible

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@Evil Raccoon A bit about my journey with this practice: I don't necessarily put myself as a sex addict, but I've watch porn, read porn comics, read erotica, had real sex and fapped to my imaginations. The frequency was anywhere from once a day, sometimes 2-3 times a day or a few times a week. As time progressed, I became more picky with what I fap to, and most times I fap around night time. I'm healthy enough to fap at least once a week. My reasons for doing this practice is, if I'm honest, the sex god statue lol! However, it mainly is for health and energy issues I kept having at slight degrees of intensity. I almost had a heart attack with one of my fap sessions, and that really put more motivation into doing this practice. Also, I workout sometimes, and the sometimes mainly comes from limited energy reserves I had for exercises. Not a problem after walking this path, in fact I did so much it hurts and I can still keep going. About social awkwardness, I don't care as much for, especially around women because it's not a priority. I've had minor problems around women during my fap days, but during Nofap the only key issue is my mind wondering around fuck land long enough for blue balls to set in, which a few times happened to me during this journey. However, I have meditation, yoga and chi gong to funnel the soreness down a bit, also exercises. Even after a full year of Nofap, with 3 90 day challenges and some 30 day challenges I think it's worth the cost for the benefits you might get. And great on you for doing this practice for 3 years! Mind telling me if it's a cluster of 30-90 day challenges, or was it 3 years straight of not fapping?

The only way Nofap and semen retention works is if you actually put that extra energy to use! The most common mistake with this practice is making the practice number one, and not treating it as the fuel for your other priorities, for example like working out, hobbies, creative actions, meditations and so on. About pornography, it depends on your health, physic, psychology, energy system, and many other factors that determines whether you want to continue or stop doing pornography. Ideally, stop using porn and use your imagination/real women instead, but if you have other higher priorities in life, funnel that extra energy into it and it will make this practice very useful. Also, geniuses and legends practiced some form of sexual abstinence and achieved staggering feats of human intellect and strength unrivaled by average humans. Worth it to continue this practice!

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