The Nofap flatline is a period of complete or partial loss of satisfaction from rewarding experiences caused by abstaining from self-stimulation and/or adult content.
The Nofap flatline occurs when your brain is recovering from no longer receiving the hypernormal stimulus amount of dopamine produced from self-stimulation. A flatline can feel like an intense distance from happiness, motivation, confidence, and optimism. It can feel like the only way to make it stop is to relapse, which is a lie.
Experiencing a flatline is experiencing the withdrawals from hypernormal dopamine releases of self-stimulation and adult content; no different than a withdrawal from drugs.
Going through the flatlines is the cost to get back to a dopamine-rewarding life.
The most common periods of Flatline occur:
1. The first three days
2. The second week
3. End of month one
4. Mid and end of month two
It takes around 90 days for most people to feel like they are back to having increased dopamine sensitivity. A 90-day abstinence period may be helpful to assess your habits with self-stimulation and adult content. If you cannot reach 90 days or even less days, it may be something worth thinking about in relation to your objectives.
Adult content and self-stimulation causes massive dopamine spikes. These hypernormal stimuli can make it hard for you to detect small dopamine spikes from small, crucial, stepping-stone wins that drive you to pursue greater wins and rewards.
By massively spiking your dopamine with inauthentic sexual experiences, you make it more difficult to feel the small pleasures in life. Feeling rewarded for pursuing your goals is crucial to maintain and increase spiritual strength and desire for mastery.
Being sensitive to dopamine is important. A low tolerance.
Below are methods to beat the Nofap flatine.
Change your environment
Changing your environment is one of the best ways to beat a nofap flatline and prevent a relapse. Get away from the place where you normally self-stimulate. Go on a walk, or go to the gym. REWARD yourself for not giving in to the temptation and get coffee out or something else. Reward the behavior you want to encourage in yourself.
Going outside is always a good idea. Being in the sun. Sunlight is shown to increase dopamine production. Being surrounded by plant life. Hiking, running through the woods, being away from the city and feeling the comforting blanket of solitude.
High Intensity Training
High-intensity training releases endorphins like dopamine. High intensity training in pursuit of any kind of mastery in the domain of body will make you feel better and release built-up energy and drive. Hard training makes you feel better.
You must adopt a path to mastery for the body to pursue when you need to life your spirits.
Meditate or breathing exercises
A Nofap Flatline can come with negative self-talk in your mind. Your mind needs conditioning. You must destroy all negative self-talk to stay leading your mind, instead of being lead by it. The mind leading is anxiety & depression. Destroying negative self-talk is a tenet.
Breathing and meditation helps calm the mind and release feelings/energy/vibes /anger/etc. that have attached themselves to you that you want to remove.
Hang out with Friends
If you don’t have friends, you need to make friends. Hanging out with friends is shown to increase positive chemicals like dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and more. It’s beneficial to have active hobbies with friends like going to the gym or joining a recreational sports league.
Having productive hobbies with friends is crucial. Productive things across body, mind, and spirit. Exercise together, study, build a business, explore an idea, travel, etc. Use friendship to improve the group and the individual.
Hanging out with friends obviously prevents any type of relapse.
Get out of bed as soon as possible
It’s important to get out of bed as soon as possible. To start strong with a morning primer, as opposed to looking through social media on the phone which can lead to negative behaviors. An easy way to accomplish this is to not sleep with your phone; sleep with it out of reach so that you have to leave your bed to retrieve it.
Wait
The best thing to do in many situations, is to wait. To do nothing. This can cause panic because it can feel like things are out of our control.
Because we – let go – we are in control.
“I can wait, I can fast, I can think.” Said Marcus Aurelius.
The Nofap Flatline will pass. It can be beaten.
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