Your capacity to deal with the temptation to view porn is vital to your success to quit porn addiction. It starts from there, from the initial temptation. Most often porn addicts can’t resist this temptation, and then later they procrastinate about their lack of will-power.
First you have to understand this, quitting porn is not a game of will-power, if you deal it with your will-power and you force yourself to resist the temptation to watch porn, you’ll end up watching more porn.
Don’t resist yourself from watching porn, and don’t commit yourself that you’ll not watch porn from this night or so. It’ll not work. Because porn addiction is a very subtle affair and it should be dealt with care and caution, otherwise you can’t quit pornography, the roots of pornography in you are that much strong.
The first step is to understand the ‘real power’ of porn.
Understanding the enemy before fight is very important factor for anybody who goes to a fight. One who underestimates his opponent just fails. Same happens with porn, if you underestimate the power of porn, you just fail to quit porn.
I am not making you afraid. I am just reminding you that it needs great efforts to quit porn completely. Many people say quitting porn is easy. It’s not.
Understanding this fact will help you to forgive yourself more. Now you are aware that you are losing to a powerful enemy. This will help you to throw away your self-condemnation.
This is very important. Allow yourself more time to cure. Be realistic and don’t be angry at yourself if you fail. You’ll fail few times in the attempts to quit porn addiction. Its OK. But if you become desperate to it, then it’ll only make your situation worse.
So be patient. Understand the reality instead of blaming your willpower. This is the first step.
I’ll discuss the next steps in later articles.
