27 You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Matthew 5:27-28
19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 1 Corinthians 6:19
8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Galatians 6:8
Post your NoFap successes/woes/prayer requests/ etc.
Failed again, feel like just quitting and waiting to get dragged into Hell when I’ll die.
Luke Reed
You should absolutely not be distracting yourself from evil by turning to another form of evil. Not only will it not fix your original problem, it will stack more problems on top of it.
Turn to prayer and scripture when you are feeling temptation. God will help you through this if you accept it.
Jeremiah Jones
How accurate is the chart?
Samuel Robinson
Don't use a computer, fam
I'm convinced internet addiction is the main root of my problems.
Ryan Evans
Very, but faith makes the urge waves less common.
Easton Richardson
Day 23. Probably the second longest I've ever managed to go. I try to learn from my mistakes every time I fail, and as long as I don't see any explicit videos or images I'm fine (so I avoid them like the plague, even when the urge is great). Together with sincere prayer and the help of God, listening to this chant really helps: youtu.be/h-MSLN5bXyU
Guys, stay strong and don't allow yourself to make excuses for sin. God will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. Face life one day at a time, and do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Literally three weeks in and woke up in the middle of a nocturnal emission while dreaming of nothing sexual. Does this break nofap and negate the "super powers?"
just failed again I feel like at this point I need to be locked in a room like in Trainspotting to get rid of this addiction
Tyler Wood
Failed after a bit over two weeks. Did good for a while. Had a small bit of backsliding last week but the Lord found me strength to keep it under control, with the help of tips from this thread. The weekend was where things went to hell, it was like my willpower had suddenly run completely dry.
I started this thing for Lent; rather than just give up any one particular thing, I give up one of my hobbies or something I really enjoy for a week if I view porn, and I increase the severity if I fall. It only worked for so long, but it did something, at least. This next week is going to suck, but I hope it'll help drive the point home.
Wyatt James
Partially.
Justin Thompson
Just got baptized today, gonna try to give up jerking it finally
Oliver Harris
It will not ruin your streak. Some feel better after wet dream, some a little bit worse. Even if you do feel a little bit worse it will take just one day to recover back to no fap superpower levels.
Kind of. I thought it was mainly a meme. But once I passed 60 days limit recently 3 girls(independently) told me I am 'somehow different' 'look more confident' 'look happier' All said the basically the same stuff so when I heard the 2nd and 3rd I was like: the meme becomes real. I do feel great and people do notice that.
Kayden Mitchell
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Jeremiah Hughes
Proverbs 24:16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Matthew Wilson
Thanks
Julian Lee
Since I stopped fapping, I am having dreams of middle schooler girls flashing their privates at me. They are usually brunettes with short fluffly hair. I am gonna explote!!!
How do you feel? Is the "I have superpowers" part of nofap atleast partly true?
Aaron Murphy
Chastity gives you something much better than superpowers. It gives you God's grace and friendship.
Jason Reed
Why hasn't God just tossed me in the fire yet? Its been over a year of weekly confession and relapse, never made it past two weeks. I'm getting worried at some point God's infinite justice is gonna kick in and send me straight into the furnace I belong.
Trust me. If you read and understand each paragraph as you go through it, you'll be free forever.
No willpower needed. No withdrawal or deprived feelings. No temptations. Pure freedom.
Nolan Ross
Well I think we all came to expect that, but more specifically he probably was reffering to more material effects. Like has your pysiology gone through any noticable changes?
Dylan Clark
So whats the trigger? Is it porn? Were you just bored. What happened?
Been waiting for baptism for almost 10 months now, nofap the entire time. The temptations have come back and they bring depression with them every time, like clockwork, every 2-3 months. This time it feels much worse. Is this the Devil trying to stop me from getting baptized or something, or am I trying to rationalize impure thoughts?
Jeremiah Moore
It goes without saying that if you quit masturbating, looking at porn and regarding women as sex objects, you start to act differently around them. You will care much less to impress them, as you're not going to have sex with them anyway. You'll come across as more confident.
Ryder Thompson
This tbh. I think girls did notice me before no fap but I was so insecure I failed every single time. Going no fap felt exactly as 'the virgin fapper X the chad no fap' meme
Hope to get there too. A long way to go still.
John Harris
What age is middle schooler girls?
Dominic Jackson
204 days of strong temptation and I broke. I couldn't stand this anymore, it was too much. I feel ashamed for losing after a longer period
CATHOLICS: i wake up every morning with an erection becuase i have high test
sometimes i just touch myself without thinking of anything. dont really climax or anything. i also tend to think about girls and i do get aroused but i try not to think about the act of sex with them in my imagination. is any of this a mortal sin? i know its gotta be at least a venial sin. lord jesus christ, son of god, have mercy on me, a sinner.
Woah, that book is quite something. I disagree with many things in it but I advise everyone to give it a try. I'm sure it will help those who can relate to the author's point of view. I didn't even realize how horrible it must feel for some people.
Anthony Ortiz
see
Kayden Cruz
If it's encouraging to anyone the super powers are real. Nofap definitely makes you more disciplined and closer to God, I'll be praying for you.
Owen Flores
I started Ash Wednesday, failed today. I now discovered that Lent isn't the best period to stop fapping for me (though I try and commit myself anytime). The stress of school combined with fasting and NoFap made me into a very passive aggressive person (I'm normally not like this) and it suddenly became too much. Good thing is, I really noticed the rehab working since I was physically shaking out of excitement when looking for pr0n. This is good, it's an indicator that everything is feeling new and vanilla again.
Please pray for me guys, I really need it right now. The NoFap is working and although I failed tonight 1-2 times won't completely destroy my progress.
Definitely a sin, but depending on how much you allow it either venial or grave.
Purify the soul, dreams are just a small trip into the subconscious, and a collection of the unconscious. It shows what's there, however it got there. Submit it to Christ.
Jaxson Davis
How? Fasting? I have been feeling attracted to those girls lately. I am the only person like that?
Alexander Sullivan
AHHHHHHHHHHHH I NEED TO CONFESS AND I TOOK COMMUNION THJNKING IT PROBABLY WASNT A MORTAL SIN BUT NOW I DONT KNOW I STILL THINK IT MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN AHHHHHHHH
Testosterone plays a role. But once you normalize the testosterone levels by no fap and your thoughts become clearer by abstaining from porn and fapping, you will not experience this. Yes, it is a sin. Those are basically still echoes of the addiction. You have to go through it. It will not completely disappear but it will get better.
Nicholas Garcia
Prayer, fasting, confession
Jackson Rivera
It is a mortal sin. Just keep praying. Try Saint Maria Goretti. She kept herself pure.
Parker Diaz
How willing are priests to accommodate reconciliation outside of set times? My parish has been doing reconciliation after saturday mass during lent but I have to work.
My experience has been that you can call them and try to make arrangements. I'm in a spot right now where I have a similar problem, and did likewise.
Elijah Rogers
no you don't
Landon Walker
It's only a mortal sin if you're deliberately looking at girls to get these impure thoughts. If that's the case then yeah…
Aiden Young
Made a 14 day streak no fap or porn but broke it falling into a porn hole. I had finally managed to deprogram most of the gross fetish shit and now I'm starting all over. On the bright side, at least this sin can be a reminder of how shameful that stuff is.
Jose Phillips
It happens so quick, you think it won't be too bad and you get fixed on how turned on you are You finish and you fell like shit Then you swear that you would never do it again, then a few hours happen
The only thing that has work for me is to keep myself occupied, work hard and get tired, that way I get to my bed and just sleep, I have gone 3 days like this. The problem is waking up early.
Posting my waifu won't help
William Evans
I've identified two main factors in my addiction: Suffering and boredom.
Zachary Garcia
day 0 again
Wyatt Edwards
anytime you have an urge just immediately do as many push ups as you can. haven't cummed in forever and i'm starting to get big. you can do it too
Joseph Lee
same
Isaac Gutierrez
Day 3 here.
Protip: Don't count the days. I just checked my browser history instead.
Aiden Richardson
Not counting, but I estimate a month, maybe longer. Definitely the longest I've gone since I started years ago.
I think I'm going to have my first wet dream soon. I've been waking up around 4am for the past few nights with penis in hand going at it. Surprised I didn't break this morning. For the first time I experienced a true 'blue balls'. Ached for a few minutes after I woke up, but nothing unbearable.
I'll give you all some advice. Anyone who claims wet dreams are beyond your control is lying. Wet dreams are a result of unhandled subconscious lust.
This is easily solved by spending some time every day to meditate. Pray the Lord's Prayer while you do this.
The next technique is optional as it will probably startle some of you. While meditating, start to hold your breath for 20+ seconds. As you do this, imagine the energy from your balls rising up your spinal column and moving into your brain. It becomes pure willpower.
Christopher Lee
Yes. Higher confidence combined with the genuine desire to get to know the girl makes me more successful when talking to them. Also since I regained my self esteem I carry myself more confidently, the girls notice me more. Those two have been like the most obvious ones even after just 2 weeks. right now: week 9, it gets better only as much as I am growing more confident in myself thanks to trial/error. The nofap works.
Christopher Wood
Have anyone noticed 'anormal' anything different after some time without fapping?
I relapsed this week, but after some certain time without fapping, I started having these strange visions before sleeping like there were visions - I was conscious of it and was very different from a dream. It even gave me directions for something I was worried about.
Related experiences?
Justin Sanders
I wasn't Christian growing up so I've had a life of sin and falling to temptation. I am a massive creep and pervert, I am doing nofap and doing quite well, especially after going to mass. But I still can't help but feel like a pervert and like I'm only pretending to be be any different.
Just hang in there. I don't think the dreams can go on forever.
Jayden Ortiz
Careful when working that kundalini, some people tend to climax when peaking which could be considered a choice for masturbation which would defeat nofap.
Fake it till you make it. You know you are still that creep somewhere inside so accept that guilt. Just keep following his will and words eventually you will come to realise you are no longer pretending but actually being one of his humble faithful.
Jonathan Peterson
You have to hold on. I had like 4 wet dreams per week around days 30-60 or so. Your brain has been damaged by watching porn. It cannot repair, especially the subconscious part, over night by you abstaining from it. It takes months to get you off it. Those dreams are a good sign - Devil has not succeeded in breaking your will during the day so he tries it through dreams hoping you will give up. Go through it. The dreams will eventually go away. After 70+ days I have one wet dream a week at most, sometimes not even one. I cannot even recall the last time I had a strong urge to fap during the day. I do get aroused from time to time but the desire to relive it through masturbation seems to be gone.
Benjamin Morales
*relieve
Xavier Bailey
I always saw wet dreams as a biological necessity and a reward from God: we held tight (no pun intended) and our bodies are rewarded with a fresh new batch of spermatozoa.
Levi Martin
Thank you Lord, I have not stopped like this pretty much ever. Once I open the browser it's game over, thank you for your strength lord.
I'm at 21 months of no-fap, and in my experience you only need to get through the first few weeks. At my weakest, I am never tempted. It's absolutely effortless.
It was made effortless by a solemn vow to God with my whole self and soul – a decision in perpetuity: No Fap for life, not for a month, a year or a decade. I never doubted for a moment that I would succeed. Had it been something with the force of a New Year's resolution, I'd have surrendered mastery of my domain inside 3 days.
The first few weeks involved torturous self-denial. There were days and nights that I would go with nothing on my mind but sex, and I had a few bouts of insomnia. I would physically tremble from the build-up of sexual energy that I had hitherto been squandering for an hour or two every day from age 11. When that fever passed, I never felt so charged with life. I didn't need porn, and women were as walking works of art.
Without sex, I go three or four weeks before the pressure builds to the point where I - invariably - have a sexy dream with nocturnal emission, but that doesn't relieve the pressure much, since to be fully empty seems to require a lot of physical stimulation. (If you're in your teens or early twenties, that period might be a week or two.) At this point, it is certainly possible for me to mentally stimulate myself to release. It's a bit of a gray area, but I would only classify it as fapping if there were actual release. Repressing my mental imagery doesn't seem healthy, so I let it happen. I might google a bit of ankle or neck for 10 minutes, and that releases the pressure enough for me to get through the day. (Ejaculate is excreted, and usually leaks out after urination.)
I think to remain sane on no-fap you need a wife and the option of sex, otherwise your life will be one continual sexual emergency.
Are you okay, user? I might need to recalculate this thread. It seems that some anons have more unusual problems with lust.
Lincoln Long
have you tried asking your guardian angel to block nocturnal demonic oppression ?
it works.
Juan Adams
Day 1. On a side note, the word "girl" is enough to make me horny now. Im almost 21 but feel like Im going thru puberty again.
Grayson Powell
I know that feel. I must get a gf now or it wont stop bothering me. I hope some romantic love stop my lust
Gavin Lopez
i dont think God will allow me to have the cute, virgin gf that I want. Since I am such a lusty person I will no doubt try to do something causing me, or worse her, to sin.
Jayden Edwards
It is healthy, do it. Evil thoughts are the root of sins. Matthew 5:28 Matthew 15:19 James 1:14-15 Colassians 3:5-6
Asher Jones
3 weeks in and fell this morning, lads. Getting up again.
Luis Young
30 days in, and same boat. When I climaxed it physically hurt and I felt no carnal pleasure from it at all though, not to mention the spiritual pain, so that's a good sign. I'm determined to last even longer this time. I've noticed this past week I was getting into the habit of deliberating looking at lewd photos, but not pleasuring my self, convincing myself it wasn't sinning. It's very clear now that was unhealthy and I was only lying to myself.
Ethan Johnson
OR! You know that could happen and would do anything to prevent messing up such a wonderful gift and seek to busy yourself to keep occupied. Hobbies, job and self development skyrockets as you become a powerhouse of industry making her woozy wondering how she could have landed with a great guy.
Knowing that you wanted her and not just her body, she'd probably end up asking to marry you instead of vise versa.
Just a thought.
Dominic Rodriguez
no fap AND no porn. at this rate you're basically fucked dude. just drop it all together
Austin Sanchez
First day is always the worst one, NoFap since two days here
Adam Sanchez
Not yet. Will try. Thanks
Levi Wood
Eh, not much further myself…but like many said here, the first weeks are the worst ones. But we do not rely on ourselves alone: our great luck. Si Deus pro nobis, qui contra nos!
