overcoming masterbation

a guide to self control: overcoming masterbation.

1. Pray daily, ask for the gifts of the Spirit, that which will strengthen you against temptation. Pray fervently and out loud when the temptations are the strongest.

2. Follow a program of vigorous daily exercise. These exercises reduce emotional tensions and depression and are absolutely basic to the solution of this problem. Double your physical activity when you feel stress increasing.

3. When the temptation to masturbate is strong, yell stop to those thoughts as loudly as you can in your mind and then recite a pre-chosen scripture or sing an inspirational hymn. It is important to turn your thoughts away from the selfish need to indulge.

4. Set goals of abstinence, begin with a day, then a week, month, year, and finally commit to never doing it again. Until you commit yourself to never again you will always be open to temptation.

5. Change in behavior and attitude is most easily achieved through a changed self-image. Spend time every day imagining yourself strong and in control, easily overcoming tempting situations.

6. Begin to work daily on a self-improvement program. Relate this plan to improving your church service, to improving your relationships with your family, God and others. Strive to enhance your strengths and talents.

7. Be outgoing and friendly. Force yourself to be with others and learn to enjoy working and talking with them. Use principles of developing friendships found in books such as How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.

8. Be aware of situations that depress you or that cause you to feel lonely, bored, frustrated, or discouraged. These emotional states can trigger the desire to masturbate as a way of escape. Plan in advance to counter these low periods through various activities, such as reading a book, visiting a friend, doing something athletic, etc.

9. Make a pocket calendar for a month on a small card. Carry it with you, but show it to no one. If you have a lapse of self-control color that day black. Your goal will be to have no black days. The calendar becomes a strong visual reminder of self-control and should be looked at when you are tempted to add another black day. Keep your calendar up until you have at least three clear months.

10. A careful study will indicate you have had the problem at certain times and under certain conditions. Try and recall, in detail, what your particular times and conditions were. Now that you understand how it happens, plan to break the pattern through counter-activities.

11. In the field of psychotherapy there is a very effective technique called aversion therapy. When we associate or think of something very distasteful with something which has been pleasurable, but undesirable, the distasteful thought and feeling will begin to cancel out that which was pleasurable. If you associate something very distasteful with your loss of self-control it will help you stop the act. For example, if you are tempted to masturbate think of having to bathe in a tub of worms, and eat several of them as you do the act.

12. During your toilet and shower activities leave the bathroom door or shower curtain partly open, to discourage being along in total privacy. Take cool brief showers.

13. Arise immediately in the mornings. Do not lie in bed awake, no matter what time of day it is. Get up and do something. Start each day with an enthusiastic activity.

14. Keep your bladder empty. Refrain from drinking large amounts of fluids before retiring.

15. Reduce the amount of spices and condiments in your food. Eat as lightly as possible at night.

16. Wear pajamas that are difficult to open, yet loose and not binding.

17. Avoid people, situations, pictures or reading materials that might create sexual excitement.

18. It is sometimes helpful to have a physical object to use in overcoming this problem. A Book of Mormon, firmly held in hand, even in bed at night has proven helpful in extreme cases.

19. In very severe cases it may be necessary to tie a hand to the bed frame with a tie in order that the habit of masturbating in a semi-sleep condition can be broken. This can also be accomplished by wearing several layers of clothing which would be difficult to remove while half-asleep.

20. Set up a reward system for your successes. It does not have to be a big reward. A quarter in a receptacle each time you overcome or reach a goal. Spend it on something which delights you and will be a continuing reminder of your progress.

21. Do not let yourself return to any past habit or attitude patterns which were part of your problem. Satan never gives up. Be calmly and confidently on guard. Keep a positive mental attitude. You can win this fight! The joy and strength you will feel when you do will give your whole life a radiant and spiritual glow of satisfaction and fulfillment.


overcoming

i am scared.

your thoughts? comments? concerns?

nope can't do it... sorry.

-X

I love that it recommends a cool shower...

I was just thinking about this today, because I was reading about the kid who was kicked out of the
Boy Scouts for refusing to say he believed in God... then the hot water ran out in the middle of my shower.

The bit about a cold shower cooling down libido has no basis in fact. The guy who started the Boy Scouts just made it up-- pulled it out of his ass! If you get horny, take a cold shower! The myth has infiltrated our culture to such an extent that nobody stops to think:

A cold shower wakes me up, gets my heart beating, stimulates me, gets my blood flowing (to all areas of my body)...

In fact, I've heard that in some European countries, men take a cold bath to prepare for a hot date!

and what crack has been smoking you?

masterbation is just too fun...why would i wanna stop? im doing it right now!?!

When I went to a Christian school they said masterbation was ok...as long as you didn't think about having sex with another person while doing it! When they told us this, I would roll my eyes and crack up in the back row with my friends, then make yanking motions with my hand yelling, "I'm not thinking about Angelina Jolie! I'm NOT thinking about Angelina Jolie!!!!!!!"

this is one of my favorite sites.
hilarious.

Americans For Purity

oh, weeee willlll

13. Arise immediately in the mornings. Do not lie in bed awake, no matter what time of day it is. Get up and do something. Start each day with an enthusiastic activity....

like masterbation... no better way to start my day. well... other than the real thing...

18. It is sometimes helpful to have a physical object to use in overcoming this problem. A Book of Mormon, firmly held in hand, even in bed at night has proven helpful in extreme cases....

or your dildo, turn it on... but don't use it..

20. Set up a reward system for your successes. It does not have to be a big reward. A quarter in a receptacle each time you overcome or reach a goal. Spend it on something which delights you and will be a continuing reminder of your progress....

my reward would be an orgasm.
*she says in ralph wiggum's voice*

reading that just gave me a boner

hahaha.. thats so funny.. i just feel out of my chair

I know how to stop masturbating. Every time you start feeling horny, have sex with one or more other people. Problem solved.

so then *fornication* prevents *masturbation*?

This just gets better and better.

amen brother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is fucking insane. Especially coming from a group whose founder enjoyed polygamy. Hypocrites. And don't they also own the state of Utah?

You know i think that mass murderes dont masturbate enough, thats thier problem. I dot it 10 times a day and i'm the mellowest guy you'll meet, smoking out doesnt hurt either.

I just overcame masturbation...

someone find me a tissue...

i didnt even bother reading all that.... if overcomming masturbation is that hard, count me out... id rather yank it than deliberate with like 40 different instructions on how not to yank it...

ill be in better health for it too...

Masturbation: the one thing you never let go of.

i DON'T masterbate.



i mastUrbate!

I heard that you'll go blind if you don't masterbate every once in a while.

I say if we weren't supposed to do it, our arms wouldn't be long enough to reach our goodies.