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@Shin What‘s the solution?

I feel like the urge to buy stuff has increased during nofap. Anyone experienced the same?

@MM1988 You can use meditation to let go fully

@Highest I think it is infinite, but it could be “perfectly out of control“ (Leo in his live tripping video).

@Highest Why does consciousness have free will?

Damn that blew my mind. Exactly the jump I needed.

Congrats!?

@Vitamine Water ??

@Vitamine Water It will work out??

@Vitamine Water That‘s why I used past tense?

@Leonid He was just joking :-) @Vitamine Water You did it! Congrats <3 I'm grateful I was able to see your progress and be influenced by it.

What are additional ways to increase dopamine?

@Igor82 To me it feels like emotional purging. I get in tune with the emotional need and try to follow it without resistance and judgement. I also want to understand what it symbolizes for me. Same process as connecting to my inner child. You could say it‘s connecting to the inner wiener. As long as there is still an emotional desire, there will be a cognitive dissonance and a shadow. For example, I don‘t feel the desire to think about stuff with refined sugar anymore. I was able to see the direct connection between the consumption and lack of feelings the next day. But for now, I don‘t -fully- see a direct negative effect of fantasizing. You seem to have experienced it already.

@Vitamine Water Yes, but during meditation I force myself to sit down and not move. Also with thoughts it‘s not as intense as watching vids. If I think about it on purpose, there‘s not this kick I get when doing it in a forbidden context. And those thoughts will come either way.

@Vitamine Water What helps me is to take out a certain amount of time in my meditation to consciously think about the dirtiest stuff possible until the emotional desire and attachment to these visual thoughts is lessened. After that I'm much more able to focus on something I want. Like boobs for example.

@Vitamine Water Congrats on the presentation!

@daniel695 Yeah, I understand. But if you want to get off of them you have to be alert enough to recognize the symptoms early and jump back to the old amount of meds. It took me a long time to get off and I changed a lot as previously mentioned. If you just stop taking them there‘s a high chance that you won‘t be able to handle the difference. The three things you mentioned were exactly what caused mine too. And bad food.

Hey @daniel695 , I had a psychosis 3,5 years ago, took medication ever since, reduced it since the beginning of this year and now I‘m off. I‘m confronted with all the old emotions, but I‘m more aware of them through 2 years of daily meditation and know a few techniques to deal with stress. I also changed my diet completely and don‘t eat sugar anymore, which seems to be a huge cause of depressive episodes for me. I‘ll see how it turns out over time, as soon as I see critical sypmtoms of mania I will use meds again. But I think that my mindset of not wanting to be like every other bipolar guy who takes meds, even though it‘s purely egoic and could backfire, helps me to be determined about improving myself on all possible levels so that I‘m independent and sober. So there has to be an optimization on the physical level, which is doable in a few months. Improving the mind is a life long process.

@Vitamine Water Nothing lost, great work! What are you reading?

Has anybody tried visualizing the energy moving upwards without movement involved? Any effects?

@St Clair Crazy skills!❤️

@Vitamine Water Congrats to 40 days! And yeah, probably two of the most horrible things that can happen to a young man: blue screens and blue balls...good luck!?

@Igor82 You‘re welcome? I just imagined you sitting there, almost shitting yourself and laughing out loud in front of this hot girl?

@Igor82 Beautiful improv❤️

@MM1988 My bioenergetic therapist said that once she started, she kept on crying for 7 years... It could take a long time, but I don't think that it will always be as hard as now, just like no one can be happy for a few years straight.