[nofap] 25 Reasons To Do It

[Viking]

@ProblemSolving how does nofap help? I dont have problems with any of the things you suggested. one thing i do want to work on though is enlightenment. you have any idea how nofap may help?

[LaucherJunge]

@Ilya
Just research about Semen retention and how many inspiring personalities actually did that. Sexual energy is by far the strongest human energy, if you are able to transform it you will have the energy to achieve anything. You think you don't need to put energy and effort into enlightenment work? Then you are doing something wrong.

[ProblemSolving]

priorities change when you do nofap. you dont waste time on watching porn and masturbating so you can focus on other things. energy you have is used somewhere else. i dont know too much about enlightenment but for me it kinda was a synonym for the mind to become one with nothingness. so if you erase a certain dirty habit in your daily routine you might get closer to it.

[pluto]

You guys should learn about Injaculation and other sexual taoist teachings like the deer exercise and million dollar point. Great stuff

I read this book once called: The Tao of Sexology - The book of infinite wisdom talks about all this stuff and even surprises me i read this book maybe 8 years ago and now just skimmed through it and talks about all this stuff not sure how i had forgotten

[Monkey-man]

what do u guys think? 

[Edvard]

When googling this topic, I find the vast majority saying that musturbation is healthy, and several that says it prevents prostata cancer. Actually, I can't find a single article that does not say it's a good thing, and that one should do it often, expect for on some discussion forums.

Hard to be convinced to do nofap by that. Some mainstream medias actually present articles showing less masturbation by certain groups as a negative thing.

Wanna adress the points in theis video?

 

Edited December 12, 2017 by Edvard

[LaucherJunge]

@Edvard You should read the book Cupid's Poisoned Arrow.

[Edvard]

The thing about this is that it's just assertions from both sides, and the side against no-fap is so overwhelmingly larger, and seem to have more references to science.

[ProblemSolving]

Like everything in life it is all relative. When I fap everyday I kinda lose motivation to meet women in real life. When I completely abstain from fapping I will get so horny that it is just a matter of a few weeks till I get to know somebody.

I am not representing anyone, I just said how it works for me. Everyone has a unique mind and a unique fap habit. But in the end it all comes down to ones desire to change. There are people who are fine staying in their comfort zone and there are others who have a drive to discover new ways of living and theres nothing wrong about both ways of living. I used to be happy in my comfort zone but now I really want to see how I can change my relationship towards people, making a career in a field that is far from what I am doing now, change my self-perception etc. 

I am not saying that nofap is the way to go. I just think its a great way to change a small thing in order to have the confidence to change even bigger things. Right now I aim a little too high saying that I will not fap anymore. I will do someday, obviously, in 2-3 weeks. But for now I let my discipline show its warface. When I will have the habit that I fap like 1-2 times a week, I think thats fine. But first I want to discover a few new things by breaking an old habit. 

[Shin]

1 hour ago, Edvard said:

The thing about this is that it's just assertions from both sides, and the side against no-fap is so overwhelmingly larger, and seem to have more references to science.

Probably because the scientists themselves are biased and addicted to it, like 99% of our western "male" 

Edited December 12, 2017 by Shin

[Edvard]

19 minutes ago, Shin said:

Probably because the scientists themselves are biased and addicted to it, like 99% of our western "male" 

Hehe. Maybe. Maybe...

[pluto]

 

[Shroomdoctor]

3 hours ago, pluto said:

 

"It just works."

[Max_V]

I'm almost on midway on my second month. 42 days in 

[Alexo45]

I'm on day 10. Not really having a hard time so far.

[youngshinzen]

First try was 2 weeks, starting again: Day 2 now. 

[Shin]

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The Big List of Tips & Tricks

Displacement Activities

• Work out (squats seem popular with many nofappers).
• Do yoga or stretching.
• Groom yourself (shower, trim fingernails, shave, floss, brush teeth, use tongue scraper, wash your clothes, etc.).
• Get squeeze balls for your hands (squeeze the squeeze ball and not your genitals).
• Go for a walk.
• Read a book instead of surfing the web.
• Hang out with people.
• Join a club (or clubs).
• Clean the house/apartment/room.
• Fix something around the house.
• Start a chore that you have been putting off.
• learn something new (a language, a musical instrument, cooking, solve a Rubik's cube etc).
• 2 minute time out.

 

Avoidance Techniques

• Delete your porn folder, delete your porn links.
• Install a porn blocker (no more looking at sexy pics).
• No edging, period. Touch yourself only when cleaning your body or urinating (see squeeze ball above).
• Stay in public places.
• Stay off the computer or phone except for a dedicated task like banking, work, school work, email, texting, checking nofap, checking the news, etc. and then log out.
• If you are surging stay off the computer or phone completely.
• Do not mindlessly surf the web because you will eventually click on a trigger.
• Wear thick pants with a belt.
• Go to bed only when you are about to sleep.
• Get out of bed immediately after waking.
• Beer, wine, liquor and pot: avoid these until you have solid control of your fappy impulses.

 

Mental Motivation

• Remember why you are doing this.
• Acquiring that strong sense of self-pride and being able to look people in the eye.
• There will never be a day when fapping to porn will leave you happy and fulfilled.
• Remember how shitty you feel right after you fap.
• Remember that as your pleasure centres rewire you will start enjoying the experiences of your life more vividly.
• If you fap then you are training yourself to be mediocre.
• If you fap then prepare to lose your manliness.
• When you fap then your sex life is watching other people have sex. This trains your brain to be a beta male.
• If you fap you will numb yourself to your life and you will never have a hope of completing yourself.
• A fraction of the women in porn are leading abused lives. You don 't want to contribute to the harm of another person.
• Porn and fapping makes you look at woman in the wrong ways. You don't want to be that guy.
• People can sense you are a beta male when you fap. They know.
• When you don't fap you will become more alpha. Alpha doesn't mean aggressive douchebag, I know buddhist monks and lay meditators who are very alpha and very good people at the same time.
• Don't do nofap to get a women in your bed, do it for yourself.
• Remember that if if you don't have ED you will eventually get it.
• Remember that if you have ED then nofap will cure it (if there are no underlying medical issues).
• You will have the freedom of not worrying about your browser history.
• You will have the freedom of not having that second, hidden, fappy personality.
• You will have a more sensitive and normal genital response (i.e. no more death grip/death schlick syndrome).

 

Improve Your Commitment

• Acknowledge to yourself that you have a problem, an addiction even.
• Make a public commitment to stop fapping (for most of us this is an anonymous but public commitment like here on nofap, for some it could be a trusted buddy or your SO).
• if you have an accountability partner, call or text them when you are surging.
• Mark out your nofap days on a calendar ('x' out each day with a coloured marker, if you relapse then 'x' out each subsequent day of your new streak using a different coloured marker). It doesn't have to be paper, I use my iPad calendar for example.
• ... but remember that every day is Day 1 no matter how high your counter is.
• Also post your progress on nofap every so often. Post daily if you are going through a rough patch.
• "Low fap" does not work, cold turkey is the best way to go.
• Go to nofap and help others.
• Meditation.
• Identify your triggers (stress, anxiety, boredom, some kind of perceived failure) and realize that a fap session will not help.
  
   

Trick Of Last Resort

• Cold showers.
• For some, cold showers are too traumatic. If so, then wash your unit with a cold face cloth until the urge passes. Some fapstronauts have suggested that washing your face in cold water may also work.
• If you are not doing hard mode then get your woman or man to "relieve" your tension.
• This post is only about Phase I of nofap. Phase II of nofap is about living for purpose, not pleasure.

 

Finally

• Fall down. Get up.
• Fall down. Get up.
• Fall down. Get up.
• Fall down. Get up.
• Fall down. Get up. Stay up. Help others.
• Stay strong

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap/comments/1tejif/the_big_list_of_tips_tricks/

[ADD]

What about the proven health benefits of ejaculating to prevent prostate cancer?

I'm gonna try this out. This is my day 1 of nofap

Edited December 14, 2017 by ADD
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[Alexo45]

On 13/12/2017 at 7:42 PM, Alexo45 said:

I'm on day 10. Not really having a hard time so far.

Relapsed after 14 days. I'm really at a loss with this one. Been addicted since i was 12, still haven't kicked it. Max was 50+ days about a year ago. Still haven't watched porn in 16 days though. 

[LaucherJunge]

@Alexo45
Im curious is it very different from day 14 onward? Because I heard that is the time it needs to completely get rid of the aftereffects of orgasm.
So far I did 13 days last month and am now on day 10 but this time I felt all troughout like I can keep it going for ever, like I can stay celibate forever the book Cupids Poisoned Arrow really helped me alot too see how bad orgasm actually is in general.