How to deal with sexual urges?

[Vivaldo]

I am a guy. I get sexual urges all the time. How do I avoid falling for it? And channelize the energy of the urge to something else? Satisfy myself by turning it into something useful.

Any techniques? 

[Raze]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD1ny_Q8sKo

 

Edited September 13, 2021 by Raze

[Nahm]

Don’t frame it as something you have to deal with. Just experience it, while relaxing the body & feeling breathing from your stomach. See that the impulse arises, and then passes, and that you’re totally fine. The mind says ‘do x, y or z to feel better’, but the absolute goodness right there within you would think that’s funny. Inevitably, you’ll get insight as to what makes this whole merry go round go round, and you’ll liberate of the cycles & see reality as it is. 

[zazen]

Exercise and meditation. Exercise releases and moves the energy around the body and gets you good at feeling your body or being 'embodied' which will help in your meditation. Meditation helps to feel that circulating energy and move it up towards the upper body away from the base chakra (balls). You also learn to just observe this energy and create a distance to it, so when the urge arises in daily life you can sit back and watch it come and go away without needing to act on it. Having a quieter mind (through meditation) helps as sexual thoughts leads the body towards a sexual state. 

Also be wary of your environment.  Don't expose yourself to porn, insta babes too much if that is what your doing. Society is hyper sexualised yet under sexed at the same time for a lot of people. No fap can be frustrating if that pent up energy isn't being used. Release but without porn if you have to.