An Incredible Benefit of NoFap Very Few Talk About
It isn’t higher energy, motivation, or attractiveness.
“Get the hell out of my room!” I scream as I slam shut the door and massage my temples.
A mounting headache. A mood-messing work-related issue. My mom’s nagging. Mind-foggily powerful urges — the pressure’s ripping apart my body from the inside.
It takes every iota of my willpower to avoid relapsing.
I wonder why I’m subjecting myself to such torture while every atom in my body’s screaming, “Release!”
A mini-epiphany then zaps through me like electricity.
What NoFap Really Makes You Feel Like
Sex is the highest of our physical desires — no wonder most of the modern world revolves around it.
Masturbation and porn poison you with the illusion of sex — your mind will register this at a subconscious level. This bleeds into your self-esteem, confidence, and demeanor.
It’s like the deep-seated shame of lying—how it makes it hard to look someone in the eye. Contrast that with the soul-lightening joy of uttering a hard truth.
When you’re on NoFap, you feel like a winner — because you’re doing something over 95% of men fail to do. Even among that minority of 5%, only a fraction pull long streaks.
Long streaks make you feel you’re part of an elite, exclusive club.
And the resulting confidence will pervade every fiber of your being — your gait, boldness, voice, eye contact, charisma, and aura.
Relapsing Doesn’t Make You a Failure
You will relapse. Period.
It took me 120+ relapses to get to my current 80+ day streak — some grisly beyond belief.
“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
— Stephan McCranie
Relapsing won’t erase your progress and pull you back to square one — letting it defeat you and giving on NoFap is when you’ve truly failed.
NoFap is NOT a joke by any stretch of the imagination — expecting it to be easy becomes a one-two punch:
- You’ll grow complacent and this makes relapsing much more likely.
- If (or when) you relapse, you’ll beat yourself over it and doubt your self-control.
Drill it into your head that NoFap is going to be bloody hard — and that’s exactly what makes it worth it.
“Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.”
— Jerzy Gregorek
There Are a Ton of Other Benefits as Well
When you feel like a winner, “impossible” tasks seem doable — be it approaching that pretty girl at the gym or pulling the plug on your soul-sucking job.
With the poisonous dopamine flood of porn removed, you’ll experience a massive uptick in your motivation to do things.
The pent-up sexual energy from not releasing will be at your disposal to transmute as you will.
Lifting weights, meditating, starting a side hustle, reading books, journaling, learning a new skill, training in a combat sport — the number of things you can do spikes sharply.
Treat NoFap as a means to improve yourself and your life — don’t let it become an end in itself.
All your effort in practicing NoFap goes down the drain if you don’t put the additional energy, time, and motivation to good use.
Final Thoughts
NoFap isn’t a challenge, but a journey.
Start by reducing the frequency and extremity of porn you watch. Try downgrading from videos to photos. If you’ve been masturbating thrice a day, reduce it to once. Then, every alternate day.
Celebrate your small wins. Internet gurus will hype NoFap and encourage you to set unreal goals — that will only set you up for disappointment.
If you’ve been beating your meat every day, even a single day of NoFap is a win.
Asking a middle-aged female stranger the time when you used to piss your pants looking at the opposite sex is a win.
Your past experiences and the extent of your addiction determine your wins.
Not the numbers you see on the internet.
Embrace NoFap as a lifestyle. Don’t let your relapses derail you — and use your streaks to fuel your personal growth.
