30 days of abstinence

[Christownsme]

Is there really something to the notion that the brain chemistry life-way that's been hard wired into our brains by masturbating to pornography can be altered and stopped by 30 days of abstinence? I know that I haven't been able to go 30 days in a row, but the most I've been able to go is about just over a week, maybe 2 or 3 times during a month. I hope to get better.

 

[Johnnz]

There is no silver bullet or magical number. That will be just hopeful thinking for most people.

John
NZ

 

[Fortress]

There is no silver bullet or magical number. That will be just hopeful thinking for most people.

John
NZ

If there is no silver bullet then make the silver bullet.

If you told someone who masturbates once a week, to touch once a day for 30 days straight, do you not think their subsequent behavior will be affected by this? We live life moment by moment, and we build our habits brick by brick, and we destroy them hack by hack. Many fight the same battle, and an active mind aids them. Avoid temptation, run it off in physical activity, and keep your mind active with other things. If we throw our thoughts in another direction, backed by total concentration and energy, we can prevail. We must be the light in our life, and wherever there is not light, darkness fills. If our mind is being a light with knowledge and learning, there is no room for the darkness of sin. If we are idle in mind, sin will come, and if we are idle in body at this part, it will move us to its will.

At the core of such things is desire, it must be curbed. If we wake up everyday trying to please ourselves, we will not leave enough room for God's will. Relinquishing personal desire is hard, but it too, is part of the path to victory. I do not know where you are in this battle, I have made some progress, but there is still much to be done before the final victory. Do not look to others, jealousy can lead to downfall. Do we all not see or know of others around us who satisfy their desires? No, we do not see others satisfy their desires, we only see slaves satisfy their masters. We have only one God whom we must serve, and his beauty and purity has no use for this.

Good luck and God bless.