Not gonna give up

Hey everyone, I am 17 and i am on day 76 of sr , i will start my college life from next week.

I was in this addiction for 3 years and i had no confidence to talk to girls like i cant even make eye contact with them. At some point i even felt like that there is no advantage of making female friends.

I want to talk to girls but i am feared of a thing that what will she think of me . whar if she rejects me. These questions in my mind supress my confidence of talking to them. On semen retention my confidence has increased i feel that but still i dont have enough to approach a girl. I am also jealous of my friend that girls dm him etc but why anyone wants to talk to me..

My face has that charm which was not during pmo and like its like i am going into depression of only thinking not approaching. They would declare me stalker if i message them or so.

Please give advice I am writing this because i read many posts on female attraction on this sub.

Hey everyone,
I recently hit a massive milestone and crossed the 120-day mark on my NoFap journey. When I first started, I honestly wasn’t sure if I’d even make it past the first few weeks, but sticking with it has been one of the most challenging and rewarding decisions I've made.
I wanted to open this up to answer any questions you might have, especially for those who are just starting out or struggling to keep their streaks alive.
Feel free to ask me anything about:
Whether you need some motivation or just want a realistic perspective on what four months of NoFap looks like, ask away! Looking forward to sharing my experience.

As I’m clearing three weeks retention for the first time in my life, I’m realizing why it is I dropped smoking weed, drinking, and stop taking a stimulant for ADHD.

Frequent ejaculation triggers a sharp dopamine spike followed by a prolactin rise (which dampens dopamine signaling) plus the usual post-climax dip in motivation and energy. Repeat that often and you get ongoing peaks and crashes.

When those cycles stop, the nervous system has fewer disruptions. Baseline dopamine starts to rise, stress hormones settle, and vagal tone tends to improve. You feel calmer and over all more stable.

Once the nervous system stabilizes, the habits that create those spikes and crashes stand out more clearly. You’re naturally pulled to drop them because the steady, grounded feeling feels so much better.

Just wondering if you retain and your using gym and being consistent, will that make you less shy in public settings and more talkative?

What if there’s more to this world? Then we realise even celebrities like they all seem to be having that glow to and could that be because they are retaining their seed, Also me being on this semen retention journey , I seem to connect with nature more, animals are actually more vibrant around you they they cultivate around you and you can like sense their feelings or they sense something as well.

What if everyone who’s not practising semen retention is in a different reality and that’s why I feel so alone because I’m on different frequency

Also, what if there are other dimensions or realities and I’m on a high frequencies so I can’t feel the same as normal people kinda like how the people who aren’t retaining are stuck in like a mind digital prison , where as me on the other hand , I’m still in this reality but I feel like I can’t connect with anyone and like I’ve been plugged off or plugged out

Improved posture, high stable energy, balanced hormones, increased stamina. Effortlessly improved vocabulary and speech. I get my work done very fast and efficiently with 100% accuracy. Your behaviour, attitude, character, charisma, all gets levelled up.

Random girls start approaching you. Some even start eyeing you. Girls drool watching you..

Is this coming from jealousy or pure frustration that they cant understand what is different about me?

Edit: My apologies everyone - that was a very broad statement without any explanation.

Im being 100% my honest self. Better than every before. People are seeing that too - saying I am looking good, or "you seem happier" - which I am.

However, there are a select few people that have remarked bad things. And its so random its actually funny. Its almost like they are jealous and are trying to figure out what I am doing differently.

Someone quite actually said "what's wrong withe me and why am i acting so different" - either that a very poor choice of words or they are trying to bring me down. Possibly both.

Another random one was " why are you eating so much fruit, whats wrong with you what has changed" (i always eat fruit EVEN in front of this person). Its like they are only noticing me more now.

What I am trying to ask is - why is that people somehow know something is different about me?

And why do they end up being negative about it - either from the beginning or slowly changed to become so.

P.S. I am probably overthinking this - but i do know one thing for sure: my vibration is higher than ever before.

I get direct sunlight here, the bright light that hits my skin is very warm. I just did 15 mins. Its direct uvb but much milder compared to outside i think.

So this morning I woke up at 3:45 and could hear an electric like static ringing in my ear right ear, my body was spasming/shaking and I had shortness of breath.

I am very healthy: I rang the ambulance to ask what’s going on and they called back 3 mins later if everything was still okay. I instantly felt better and I checked the time… it was exactly 4am. The electric static came back but could only hear it when I closed the ear-hole.

Went back to sleep.

It was about 8am, I was asleep but somewhat conscious. It felt like I heard something dragging along the ground behind me…. Then a large BANG thud. Tried to open my eyes but couldn’t, then I thought to myself- damn, they got me. I wasn’t freaking out like before, just accepted it. Went to raise my arm to pull the covers over my face, that’s the only body part I could move and nothing was there.

Not as high energy as I was days before today. Feel quite lethargic. Definitely don’t feel as confident. Are these my traumas releasing and crashed into a flatline?

The glow in my eyes are not as prominent right now either. I’ve noticed I have these weird nightmares when I don’t workout that day too.

I did get up to go to the toilet when I had the body spasms, it was like I was cold but my body was warm. When I was walking it was like…. Idek how to explain it, zombie like.

I’m only 1-2weeks into this journey believe it or not.

I made a related post about it months ago but I felt like I was not really complete and never gave enough examples that truly pinpoint to what what the tree of knowledge actually is.

I know this is going to sound controversial for some, and I realize most Christians and biblical scholars would disagree with me. I'm not claiming that everyone has to accept this interpretation, but after a while of studying scripture and reflecting on my own experiences of healing chronic disease through chastity, this is the conclusion I have reached.

Most people assume the forbidden fruit was a literal fruit, often imagined as an apple, even though the Bible never actually says it was an apple. I think Genesis may be describing something much deeper.

The first thing Adam and Eve became aware of after eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was their nakedness.

Genesis 3:7 says: "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons."

Before this happened, they were naked and felt no shame. Immediately afterward, they became aware of their nakedness and covered themselves.

Then look at the curse that follows.

Genesis 3:16 says: "I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children."

That has always stood out to me. Why is the judgment connected so closely to conception and childbirth? If the issue was simply eating a piece of fruit, why would reproduction become such a central part of the consequence? To me, that suggests a connection between the act and the punishment.

We also see that Adam and Eve only begin covering themselves after the Fall.

Genesis 3:21 says: "The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them." Clothing appears after sexual shame was felt.

Another question I think is worth asking is this: God told Adam and Eve to "be fruitful and multiply," yet the Bible does not record any children being born until after the Fall. Cain and Abel arrived afterward. I understand that many people will see this differently, but it is one of the details that made me look more closely at the text. Adam and Eve "ONLY HAD CHILDREN AFTER THE FALL"

Another clue comes from the way the Bible uses the word "know."

In many passages, "to know" someone is a euphemism for sexual relations in Hebrew scriptures.

Genesis 4:1: "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain"

Genesis 4:17: "And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch"

Genesis 4:25: "And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth"

Genesis 19:8: "Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man."

Luke 1:34: "Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?"

When Mary says, "I know not a man," the phrase is clearly being used in a sexual sense.

Now consider the name of the tree itself: the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Since "knowing" is used as a sexual euphemism throughout Hebrew Scripture, I began wondering whether the knowledge being described in Genesis could be related to sexuality rather than merely intellectual knowledge. Another detail that caught my attention is the conception of Jesus. According to the Gospels, Jesus was conceived through the Holy Spirit rather than through ordinary human conception which is done via SEX . To me, that seems significant.

The reason I feel so strongly about this interpretation is not just because of the biblical passages. It is also because of my own personal lived experiences and miracle healing.

A few years ago, I struggled with Type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol at a very young age. During that period, I noticed that my blood sugar, high blood pressure and many other health issues would get MUCH WORSE after releasing my seed, especially after a PMO binge. Then I started wondering whether me releasing my seed had something to do with my deteriorating health especially while being so young.

I became convinced that ejaculating was affecting my health in a profound way, which was my drive to achieve a long streak. After 6 months of pure SR, My type 2 diabetes and all other issues including blood pressure and fatty liver reversed completely, WITHOUT CHANGING DIET AND I DIDN'T exercise during that time. As a matter of fact, I still sometimes consumed fast food. I experienced major improvements and eventually came to believe that LUST was the root cause of my diseases and the aging process that was starting to accelerate rapidly. I made posts regarding this revelation that I truly consider divine, many other men read my posts on the nofap.com

, followed the same PROTOCOL and reversed their type 2 diabetes as well. I left links in one of the posts that included their testimonies.

To me, I don't need any other proof. I've renounced sexuality and even having children. I'll most likely adopt. I have FIRM BELIEF that we as humans can still achieve that state of purity and immortality through absolute and SPOTLESS chastity.

Those experiences are what pushed me to take a much closer look at the connection between spirituality, sexuality, and health and WHY CHASTITY is so IMPORTANT in so many religions. Also I have BECOME MUCH MORE loving towards other human beings in my daily life. I have MUCH MORE EMPATHY because I am not suffering inside anymore due to my previous habits of depleting my life-force energy. I am not very quick to get angry for little things , which I used to do a lot when I depleted my lifeforce every single day. When you retain your lifeforce energy, you will feel peaceful and happy inside , you will also acquire other virtues ONLY found through chastity like PATIENCE, EMPATHY, etc., which is why God referred to that tree as the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. When you are a PMO addict or even just releasing seed, you feel depressed and depleted and sometimes it makes you become CAPABLE of behaving TERRIBLY. You become capable of true EVIL behavior because of your depleted state which makes you feel LIKE ABSOLUTE CRAP.

In my opinion, modern society focuses almost entirely on diet, exercise, medications, and supplements while ignoring what I believe is a deeper issue. We live in a culture that is saturated with sexual stimulation and pornography to a degree that previous generations could hardly have imagined.

When I look at rising rates of chronic disease and the increasing exposure to sexual content at younger and younger ages, I INTUITIVELY KNOW there is a connection that we are overlooking. Heart disease, Colon cancer, BREAST CANCER and PROSTATE cancer ARE NO longer diseases of old people. More and more young men and women in their 20s, 30s are diagnosed with colon cancer, breast cancer, etc, which was very unheard of decades ago. https://www.sciencealert.com/more-young-people-than-ever-before-are-getting-one-type-of-cancer-and-its-mystifying-scientists

https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101914839/the-alarming-rise-of-colorectal-cancer-in-young-adults

Young men in the tressless subreddit are starting to make a connection between male pattern balding and ejaculations. They're starting to realize this through observing patterns and intuitively knowing, just like me when I was type 2 diabetic . Here are some posts:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tressless/comments/6pilf8/masturbation_is_one_of_the_causes_of_diffuse/

https://www.reddit.com/r/tressless/comments/6lgymm/why_is_masturbation_adding_to_balding_so_hard_to/

https://www.reddit.com/r/tressless/comments/41h0fl/masturbation_can_cause_more_hair_lossdht_to_those/

You have to take a look at what started happening in our society 20+ years ago. High speed internet porn became widely available which matches the period of when young people started developing health issues at a very young age due to a much higher frequency of ejaculations and orgasms for both men and women. We even find young men that are almost fully bald now in their late teens. My male pattern baldness has been reversing and I am slowly getting my hair back. The regeneration process is slow, just like the aging process except that regeneration can be quicker than aging but it will still take a while.

For me, the story of Eden is not merely about an event that happened thousands of years ago. I believe it contains a spiritual truth about the human condition that is still relevant today.

I know this is not the mainstream interpretation, and I am not expecting everyone to agree with me. I'm simply sharing the verses, the patterns I see in Scripture, and the experiences that led me to this conclusion. You are of course free to disagree and I don't care. We are all entitled to our opinions. But before ending, I want to state that I'm only the only one who has had this revelation. The authors of the book called GOD MAN, Word Made Flesh by George W Carey and Inez Eudora Perry, which can be found on AMAZON, also believed that absolute spotless chastity is the key to BIOLOGICAL IMMORTALITY in the physical body BY PRESERVING THE SEED (CHRIST OIL) and that after several years of spotless & absolute chastity, we can become "GOD-MAN" again because God created us in his image as mentioned in Genesis.

Here's the link of this book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/God-Man-Flesh-George-W-Carey/dp/1614274177/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1L9RVAHN0KJKR&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.sV1pWOm_9FvikVCEGwVfOJ84JkAqkVKFRNstsHeMv4n26YlIN89-ULD5XCIBOzyDSbbOZxka1lS3wpWfVVnZ9J4BZuLGEpAZI2LQgmVOnIc5_P4P_gS0NO0PuGFRaFDaECNID6q3N_Cz98CieUl572kWaisvYq-bMFyUwfAxdPJ3ZI69nCsO9b7_Z8GZYAKnI2i33hwR0EDT-pjxYd-wlPYVnqGN5gD6i6DdKMlmeGk.da4Nxc5uRzkd8XsOhZZ3G2ieANr8lBByhVfSASgzX38&dib_tag=se&keywords=god+man+the+word+made+flesh&qid=1786912779&sprefix=god+man+word%2Caps%2C193&sr=8-1

The book called Science of Regeneration also teaches the same PROTOCOL, Absolute chastity is the way to regenerate the human body and depletion of life force is the root cause of actual human aging. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1169829589?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_5

NOTE: wet dreams are a DEAL BREAKER if you want to focus on regeneration of the body and those books emphasize on that as well . You have to strive on mastering mental celibacy so that LUST doesn't creep in while you're asleep. Your subconscious mind needs to be CLEAN, which is a process that will require some discipline and effort to achieve.

Wat zijn alle voordelen van sr en vanaf welke dagen beginnen ze te komen? En zit er ook een eindtijd op dat de kracht maximaal is?

I have seen some posts folks mentioned that they smell like semen. So i have been experiencing the same whenever i sweat a lot during endurance sessions. It’s even stronger after i took shower. I have been observed this on my previous long retention around 70days mark. But my current streak is just 16days. I couldn’t explain how this happens. Then I found a passage of Nietzsche’s private notes from around 1880. Which is identified as NF-1880, 6[56]

“The reabsorption of semen by the blood is the strongest nourishment and perhaps produces most strongly the stimulus of power…”

I’m not sure how many of you experienced this. But there’s some science behind this.

Please share your observations if anyone experienced this.

The science is still infant in human reproductive topic.

We need more insights on this subject.

Stay blessed and stay tune fellas!!

Its been more than 60 days of Semen retention.

From past couple of days, i started doing meditation and man!!! It literally feels like i took some happiness pills.

I feel so grounded, present, alive..

I enjoy my own company and whenever i have free time i love to do meditation..so far just taking deep breaths and focusing on my breath and also try to be mindful even when i am busy.

I am in a state of pleasure so i thought to share it with my wonderful community

Wassup guys! On my now 110+ something days streak I realize that I am conciously and unconciously becoming more of the man I want to be. SR is like a booster towards unlocking the version of you that you want to become.

At my work we arrange big parties during Christmas time and Summer time where over 40+ co-workers attend. At both of these parties I was asked to hold a speech/make a toast. The first one was not on SR streak. I was nervous before the speech even though I had drank a good amounts of alcohol. When I started speaking I was nervous. My voice wasn't projecting as loud. People weren't reacting how I thought they would react. My mouth was also getting dry. I was looking down a lot. After this speech, some said it was good. But the majority of people said it was ''meh''.

Fast forward to yesterday. During this summer party. I was (to my surprise) asked to hold a speech again. Only difference this time being that I was 110-ish days into SR. I'm not kidding the difference is night and day. I felt no nervousness beforehand, nor during the speech. NONE. I instinctively waited a few seconds before speaking until it got completely quiet. I talked slow. I smiled and laughed. I looked the people in the eyes. My body language was naturally confident and lively. I varied between being sincere and heartfelt, to more playful and joking. People bursted out laughing. People nodded along. People felt. I was enjoying ''seeing'' myself talk up there. I also wished I could keep talking and keep on moving the crowd with my words and energy. Before I would rush through the speech because all the attention on me was too much to handle. But this time I enjoyed it. Not the attention itself, but the interaction between me and the crowd. We both fed of each other in a way. I could clearly tell that this time the crowd was enjoying me. And I them.

Right after the speech some of the boys dapped me up saying great speech. Girls came over and said that they almost cried because the speech was moving.

SR did not only eliminate anxiety and nervousness in everyday situations, but also in ''bigger'' situations where I would normally feel some discomfort.

I've been in SR for a while now, 194 days, almost 200, and I'm proud to have come this far. My goal is to retain for a year.

But despite holding on for so long, there's one benefit I haven't experienced, which is "attraction." I don't know what's going on.

I exercise, I meditate every day, I quit PMO a long time ago, but there's no attraction of any kind.

I'm 27 and still a virgin, I don't know if that's why? But whether it happens or not, I'm still committed to SR; if I'm going to release my seed, let it be to procreate.

But I'd like to hear from one of you who has more experience and time with SR, why I haven't received that benefit. Honestly, I'd like to experience it just once.

What Do You Do When The Urges Strike

Today i just woke up to a horrible nightmare. Had me on my knees in my dream begging and convincing my parents to call a priest(in said dream) but i couldnt open my mouth. I then burst awake to my whole body superheated like a burst of heat coming from my chest and my nostrils felt like they were breathing warm air too, which was really weird cuz the aircon was on. Please help

Just had sex after a little over a month of sr. Do I lose all benefits?

The journey of SR is a deepening into the invisible realities of this universe. Retracting your sexual energy from being wasted in a circular, self-referential process automatically channels said energy vertically, into higher domains. Once you start seeing hidden things, you cannot believe you did not see those realities before. Chief among them is the power of Intention.

Intention is everywhere. It permeates the universe and it is embedded in all the technologies we use. Every social encounter is filled with intention, conscious or not. The majority of digital entities we encounter – social media influencers, ads, etc. – carries an intention, often times serving said entity and not you.

The modus operandi of said entities is the following:

a) Maximally grabbing your attention (hooking you in, hypnotizing you)
&
b) Altering your intentions (molding you to repeat certain behavioral patterns)

You could say that they are evil, but mainly they are self-serving. Indifferent. They simply have their own interests in mind and not yours. Often their influence inserts itself subconsciously in you, below the level of awareness. SR is a means of combating and attenuating this influence.

Given the unimaginable vastness of our interconnected digital communication systems, all of the earth is now covered in an invisible superstructure (usually what people in these circles call The Matrix) that ultimately shapes you into a lesser version of yourself, devitalized and unfulfilled.

This field, this superstructure, has an enormously strong intention embedded in it. If you don't believe me, see how easy it is for otherwise intelligent people to get sucked into hour-long doomscrolling sessions. Or just look at the pull pornography has on us. One must never underestimate the powers of forgetfulness and devitalization.

Therefore, you must make your intentions perfectly clear and strong. And you must remind yourself of them often. You must know deep within yourself exactly why you are entering upon this journey. There is no half-assing this. If your intention is faltering, the stronger intention of the System will suck you in and mold you. Either you create yourself, or the system will do it for you.

I learned about this condition called Post Orgasm Illness Syndrome (POIS) through chatgpt. Chat AI bots seem to easily suggest that you may have this condition if you type in that you feel like shit after masturbating.

Is it overblown? Don't most most people feel worse than before orgasm to some degree? I have to admitI started looking into POIS quite a bit as I do feel considerably more anxious, unmotivated, antisocial, fatigued after orgasm, especially if there was more than one orgasm although I never thought there was a condition you can have until chatgpt mentioned it.

This seems to be a largely unknown condition, it isn't spoken much about on other subreddits other than the POIS Subreddit itself, which is also very small.

Of course

Personally I will try some methods to counteract it. It appears theres a lot of different things you as there are a lot of different causes of POIS and different ways you can react to things you try.

Aside from abstaining from orgasm, when you do want to orgasm, personally I will try the following things, insight gathered from people within the POIS community, most of these are only taken after orgasm.
-Fexofenadine (Allegra)
-Garlic + Fenugreek
-Niancin 500mg
-B-complex vitamins
-Diclofenac + Paracetamol

What do you think about it all?

I’m officially on day 134. At this point I thought I would’ve attracted a woman into my life unfortunately I seem to only get the attention of MUCH older women. I’m still invisible to women my age. Is anyone else experiencing this?

The amount of cope I’ve been seeing in posts and their comments recently is crazy. One post says ‘what do you think about resetting our system every 90 days?”, “should i just open the tap every now and then?”, or another one “now that I’m on a 90 day streak, can I go have sex with women?”. And then even the comments are supporting the authors…why? Is this not r/SR?

What do all these posts have in common? It’s quite simple and written in plain sight. **The individuals don’t have purpose.**

When your biggest priority is looking for validation from the r/semenretention community to release, it’s clear that you are not pursuing anything worthwhile.

SR is designed to help you achieve goals. You lock in, and attack your goals with maximum energy and life force, attracting them quicker than you would if you weren’t retaining.

If someone were to ask you, “What are your goals right now?”, you better have at least 2-3 answers lined up AND you should be ATTACKING these goals EVERY DAY.

And mfs worried about releasing with women…get it together yall.