How can I motivate myself to stop masturbating?

[Jannes]

On 30.10.2022 at 2:22 PM, mr_engineer said:

Quit porn. Avoid it as much as you can. Masturbation without external stimuli is not too detrimental. 

That’s good advice. I think porn is unhealthy, masturbating not really. 

I once went from porn addiction and fapping 3 times a day to not fap at all and no porn for 400 days straight. I was so invested in it that I even stopped my first wet dreams. And the urge to watch porn was bigger then the urge to masturbate for sure. 

Edited November 4, 2022 by Jannes

[Jannes]

@flowboy But what about the people that haven’t found a greater meaning for their life. Your standard semi depressed drifting through life doomer? Would you say he should focus only on finding his life purpose asap or should he also focus on eliminating distractions like porn addiction so that both efforts benefit each other? 

[flowboy]

@Jannes There's no such thing as "also focus on"

Focus is singular.

[Jannes]

7 hours ago, Tahuti said:

Absolute fanaticism. You guys need to rethink your mental models...Seriously.

yep I was obsessed.

7 hours ago, Tahuti said:

"Quit"..Hahahahh Realize you will always come back to it. Unless you are sadhguru and grew up with no phone to watch porn on.

After 3 months you pretty much loose all desire. It wasn’t really hard after that. I could have gone on for longer, it’s just that my life situation was still shit and it all felt pretty dumb. I didn’t know why I was even doing it anymore, it didn’t give me crazy energy or self confidence and I realized that all the people that talk about the insane benefits are just overhyping something that might have small benefits and sell it as a magic pill. 

[FourCrossedWands]

You have to work slowly:

1. You have to get rid of any other addictions like smoking, drinking and eating junk food. Without this it's impossible to stop your porn addiction.

2. Your subconscious mind needs to see that porn/masturbation is actually bad for you. You need to REALLY want to stop masturbating. This is the same as with every other addiction.

3. You need to realize that reality is an ilusion and the characters you are fapping to actually never existed. They are all inside your mind. Porn addiction doesn't exist as there is no porn to begin with.

You are welcome ?

Edited November 9, 2022 by FourCrossedWands