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People are constantly changing. Clearly, you are not the same person as before if you feel guilty about what you did. The person who hurt someone's feelings is gone, replaced by someone who would forgo such an action.

That's very odd that you went 3 months without doing it and feel so bad about doing it now. Are you sure you're not projecting your beliefs about masturbation onto the experience itself? Or maybe abstinence acted as some sort of placebo effect? I would investigate these ideas. You shouldn't feel bad after masturbating when you've abstained for 3 months. I haven't had a very good experience with no-fap either. I went through what is called a "flatline" in the no-fap community, and it basically gave me a bunch of erection and libido problems. Maybe try a dopamine-detox or start exercising, or both.

I mean, this isn't anything new. 90% of religious people misunderstand their religion.

The weirdest part about it IME is that the thoughts feel so natural and logical when you're in them. They feel like actual memories you should know about at certain points, but when you try to focus on them you realize they don't make much sense.

Nostalgia. People add sentimental value on top of what was before.

I think the key is to focus on sleep quality, not amount of sleep. It's really not as simple as more sleep = better rested. I have had times where I felt better rested with less sleep, and way more tired waking up with more sleep. It might be something to do with interrupting the sleep cycles, I'm not sure. But, I know sleep is way more nuanced than most people think.

I would recommend still drinking water. The only benefit of not drinking water I can see is purely spiritual, like being more grateful or whatever. Otherwise, I'm not sure if it's that good for you. That's smart. The best time to go into a water fast is probably when your withdrawal period is over and you're in ketosis, so after about 4 days usually. Your body will have adapted to that sort of diet by then, so the water fast will be easier. It's good to start slowly with intermittent just to see how your body responds. Once you're comfortable with intermittent, you can probably go for a longer fast. Although, I personally have never done a water fast

Muslims go for a month, it just depends on how committed you are. Try not to get malnourished, get a good meal in. Maybe take multivitamins if you want Hunger becomes much more tame once withdrawals are over. Initially, lots of hunger is normal because your body is used to eating 24/7. BTW, the headaches most likely happen because your body is not ready to use ketones as fuel, and it starts having low blood sugar, which causes headaches. It's basically just a withdrawal symptom. It should go away once you get into ketosis. IME, only about 4 days. Your body will start to adapt and it will become easy. don't think so Best foods are the ones that are high in fat and protein, the worst ones are high in carbs. (BTW, you can subtract fiber from total carbohydrates because your body does not digest fiber) I generally do a 16/8 intermittent fast, I eat at 8pm and stop eating at 4am. I'm not sure if there is a best time. You can have coffee, just cut the carbs/sugar. Coffee could even speed up the process because it boosts your metabolism Although, it wouldn't hurt to try and take a break from it

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There are quite a few benefits, you can look them up pretty easily Generally speaking, I would say once every week or more is the sweet spot I think it could be worth going 30 days just to see what happens. In the end, you gotta test it out for yourself and see what works for you. Ironically, when I went 30 days it actually helped me become more intimate with my sexuality instead of distancing me from it.

dopamine detox, maybe through intermittent fasting

it's time to summon the legendary cartoon

What I meant is that it only exists as an illusion Acknowledging self-deception is against self-deception. The entire game of self-deception is that you are unaware of it.

It's accurate to say it died, since change is against survival It's more accurate to say that part of survival is copying what other people identify with, because identity isn't something that actually exists. Once you identify with something, that identification now has to be maintained through methods such as self-deception. What do you think self-deception has to do with copying?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221444201930453X Could be low testosterone according to this. Time to weed out potential causes

Copying others is just one method for survival, albeit a pretty significant one This is true, I was only talking about copying others

Not true, most of your survival is unconscious. You're right in saying that copying others is unconscious to a large degree, but copying others is also a survival mechanism. A lot of your survival is based around self-deception actually. If you were conscious of how some of your survival strategies work, you would probably stop doing them. But, the ego prevents that of course. From an outside perspective, smoking seems stupid. But, the smoker has completely self-deceived himself to the point where he does it daily without even thinking about it. To him, smoking makes perfect sense. After a while, a lot of your survival gets shoved in the background and becomes habits you don't even think twice about. For example, when someone smokes, they don't often tell themselves: "I am smoking as an unhealthy coping mechanism to fill in the void left by my depression." In order for survival to work, the ego must hide this fact from you. So instead, the ego turns it into something like: "Smoking is just a small enjoyable activity I do when I feel like taking a break." Now, this sort of thinking is much more palatable and it will allow you to smoke without feeling guilty.

Maybe they were depressed and sought to cope with it by smoking. Could be anything tbh. Apparently peer pressure also plays a big part.

Runescape also taught me how to type extremely fast lol Although I'm not sure if I'd recommend it to anyone, I would only play for nostalgia I think

It's actually a virtual identity which is trying to survive, AKA the ego. The ego does not have to pertain itself to just the physical body, people can identify with anything. The body is just a very common and primitive identification. Since the human mind is so complex, our identity can become heavily entangled with our environment and daily activities. For example, smoking keeps the ego comfortable and satisfied, and so it will do its best to perpetuate the cycle of smoking. The perpetuation of that cycle is survival. In this case, smoking is prioritized over the health of the body, and so the habit of smoking will be perpetuated by the ego. Ultimately, survival is just the maintenance of a specific form. Leo has a really good 2 part series on survival which explains this stuff in detail

@Space damn that's really good

I think it's just ego backlash Leo also responded to this before:

It's a relative perspective, not a materialistic one

@fridjonk Damn where was this during my no-fap streak? Would have prevented me from "self-raping" my "dangerous sin zone".

You mentioned Light without thinking about L? lol