“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”

<ul><li>Excess consumption (food or sex) is the signal to your primitive brain that you have hit the evolutionary jackpot. With continued daily over-consumption, high levels of dopamine trigger the production of the protein DeltaFosB. </li><li>DeltaFosB acts on the reward circuit, stronger nerve connections are behind all learning. This process is called neuroplasticity. The more intense the experience, the stronger the connections. The stronger the connections, the easier it is for electrical impulses to travel along this new pathway.</li></ul>

More Pleasure Seeking Leads To Less Pleasure 

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self"

<ul><li>Self-esteem increases</li><li>Good at management in emotional level</li><li>Energetic at every work</li><li>Positivity and sociable easily</li><li>Concentration increases</li><li>Comfort zone increases with talking to people</li><li>Relationship benefits</li><li>No more guilt </li></ul>

Benefits Of Not Watching Porn

<ul><li>This habit distracts the person towards his/her goals, dreams, better life and good mental health.</li><li>This addiction at any age can ruin the relationship between couples, in career or social life. Many a times one is unable to realize this.</li><li>Sex is a powerful motivational force which plays a vital role in evolving human race but due to the frequent watching of porn and masturbation, the quality of sex decreases.</li><li> It decreases human connection and people are becoming uncomfortable becoming social. This happens because one creates a different world in his/her brain and is most comfortable in it</li></ul>

Impacts

<ul><li>Men who developed an understanding of how their brain worked and how they were reinforcing negative, self-destructive habits were able to cut pornography out of their lives completely. They were once again attracted to their wives and girlfriends, and the symptoms disappeared. </li><li>The brain is changeable - you can reverse your symptoms and replace your negative habits with positive ones.</li><li>People find after quitting that their social anxiety and shyness disappears. </li><li>They can look people in the eyes again, have higher self-esteem and better senses of humour, and have increased female attraction.</li></ul>

Free From Porn

<ul><li>Delete all pornography.</li><li>Change your environment.</li><li>Keep a journal and record your progress.</li><li>Engage in regular exercise. Exercise distracts your brain from urges, improves self-confidence and fitness, helps improve your mood.</li><li>Try out cold showers.</li><li>Get outside in nature, walk through the park, breathe the fresh air.</li><li>Get outside and socialise.</li><li>Meditation and prayer help repair the control centre of your brain.</li><li>Engage in exciting, meaningful and productive habits and activities.</li><li>Learn more about what’s happening in your brain and how addiction works.</li></ul>

Tips and Strategies For Overcoming The Addiction

<ul><li>For the start, at least for one month or seven days one has to stay away from sexual activities. One has to be consistent in it. This period may be tough but this is the rebooting period for a better and healthy future.</li><li>In this period, one has to rediscover one’s existence in the life without porn. By this one’s mind will shut down and restart.</li><li>It’s Ok to relapse, Start again with greater enthusiasm.</li><li>DON’T GIVE EXCUSES!!</li></ul>

Reset Your Brain

<ul><li>For humans, rats, and all animals , the desire and motivation to pursue sex arise largely from a neurochemical called dopamine.</li><li>Dopamine amps up the centerpiece of the primitive part of the brain—the reward system. It’s where we experience cravings and pleasure, and where we get addicted.</li><li>At the top of our human reward list are food, sex, love, friendship, and novelty. These are called ‘natural reinforcers,’ as contrasted with addictive chemicals.</li><li>Sexual stimulation offers the biggest natural blast of dopamine available to your reward circuitry.</li><li>Dopamine’s nickname is molecule of addiction.</li></ul>

More Dopamine, Please!

The internet has made access to sexually explicit content radically more easy than ever before. This book is essential reading for those who are troubled by their own relationship with pornography, and for those who want to understand the world we now live in. Republished with extensive revisions in December 2017.

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Over 100,000 copies sold! When Your Brain on Porn was first published the porn industry and its lobbyists reacted with outrage. How could a commodity so popular - and so profitable - be a problem? But evidence of porn's addictiveness has been accumulating ever since. In February 2022 the peer-reviewed journal Psychological Medicine published a large-scale, longitudinal study that confirmed what many users and former users of digital pornography had figured out for themselves: 'porn - a male-dominated industry that targets a male-dominated audience - is associated with the erosion of the quality of men's sex lives.' In the same month the World Health Organization issued a clarification to its diagnosis of Compulsive Sexual Behaviour Disorder. Contrary to the claims of a vocal group of sexologists, the WHO insisted that the disorder 'may be expressed in a variety of behaviours, including sexual behaviour with others, masturbation, use of pornography, cybersex (including internet sex), telephone sex, and other forms of repetitive sexual behaviour.' Compulsive porn use is now recognised as a pathology by the world's leading health experts, in the most widely used diagnostic manual on the planet. This should not be surprising. As soon as high-speed internet became widely available a decade ago, growing numbers of people began to worry that their porn use was running out of control. Far from preparing them for fulfilling relationships, viewing an endless stream of porn videos led to unexpected adverse effects. Perhaps most surprisingly, for the first time in history erectile dysfunction was becoming a pervasive problem for young men. This led to one of the largest informal experiments in the history of science. Tens of thousands of people have tried abstaining from sexually stimulating material in a process they call 'rebooting'. Many of them reported startling changes, from improved concentration and elevated mood to a greater capacity for real-life intimacy. The late Gary Wilson listened to the stories of those who have tried giving up internet porn and related them to an account of how the reward system of the brain interacts with its environment. A growing body of research is definitively confirming what these pioneers discovered for themselves - internet pornography can be seriously addictive and damaging. No doubt the porn lobby will continue to try to sow doubt and distraction. But the evidence of both formal science and lived experience is now overwhelming. In Your Brain on Porn Gary Wilson draws on both first-person accounts and research findings. In a voice that is generous and humane, he offers advice for those who want to stop using internet pornography. The publication of Your Brain on Porn is a landmark in our attempts to understand, and remain balanced in, a world where addiction is big business. Praise for Your Brain on Porn In Your Brain on Porn Gary Wilson sets out to explain how abundant free pornography is causing serious problems for thousands of, mostly young, people. Your Brain on Porn gives guidance on how to break out of addictive porn use. - Dr Nicole Oei PhD, Addiction, Development and Psychopathology (Adapt) Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam Your Brain on Porn is the most considered, thorough and accurate account of internet porn addiction that exists at the time of writing.- Anthony I. Jack, Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, Neurology and Neuroscience, Case Western Reserve University