Wim Hof

One element of doing Nofap is taking cold showers. I dabbled in taking them but never really committed to it. They were uncomfortable and I didn't get why I should take them.

When I would continue to relapse to porn, I didn't understand "why" I kept relapsing until I took Josh's course. Josh breaks down the effect it has on the mind, and I saw that I used porn as a stress and anxiety reducing tool among many other things.

A guy in my Men's group shared ten things that he does for instant gratification, and ten things he can do to replace those habits. Number eight was to do the Wim Hof breathing technique. "Hmm... Interesting." I thought.

Wim Hof just relaxing

I have been intrigued by breath work for awhile but unaware of what that exactly meant. I've meditated and practiced focusing on my breath before, but never practiced any breathing techniques.

Being that I'd been off porn for 40 days or so, my vigorous curiosity got the best of me and I dove head first into the Wim.

After learning about Wim Hof and his breathing method and cold therapy. I finally understood the benefits of taking cold showers. As he breaks down the science and benefits behind them. I've been doing them every day for over a month now.

He is an incredibly passionate, knowledgable, and fascinating guy. To boil him down to a title, you could call him a Dutch Daredevil, among many other things. He's also known as the Ice Man.

Overall, he is an impressive and lovely person that I have become a super fan of. He has an absolutely amazing story and an incredible track record of feats like holding the record for longest swim under water. Running half marathons with no shoes. And climbing Mt. Kilamanjaro and Mt. Everest with only shorts and boots on.

I watched a couple videos of people partaking in his breathing method and jumped into a guided breathing session. I've since been doing the technique and taking cold showers everyday. Here's the video I made about doing it for ten days in a row. It explains how it works, and shows my experience with it.

Doing the technique creates an intense tingling, buzzing, ringing, and vibrating in close to all parts of the body. It's such a connecting and transcendent experience. Along with being a great way to take control your body and mind when feeling stressed, it's the best way to get high on your own supply!

This Vice Documentary  shows what he does well. It also shows off his personality and explains why he got into all of this stuff. His journey is rooted in a tragedy which I will let you discover on your own. He's so fun and innocent and completely knowledgeable and intelligent about the body, and you understand why when you hear his back story.

This is also a great intro to Wim Hof and everything he is about.  It's an interview by Russel Brand on his podcast. You can also listen with just audio on the purple podcast app when you're on the go! Under The Skin with Russell Brand Episode #70. It's an even more extensive look into Wim Hof's purpose.

He has an amazing energy and vigor for teaching and spreading this message of assisting your body to heal itself with his breathing technique and exposure to cold water.

Since doing this technique everyday along with taking cold showers I have a new baseline of more energy and excitement to get things done. Having found this after quitting porn, it just stacks on top of my progress perfectly.

My dream is to meet Wim Hof and do one of his retreats. He holds them in his lake house in Poland, where he takes people through the breathing technique, and has them jump into freezing cold water in the middle of winter and hike mountains in only their shorts... Good stuff.

Check out my video to see how you to start doing the technique and go check out some other Wim Hof stuff online . He truly is an inspiration and someone who has paved his way perfectly through life. So I find him fitting to be the first REBEL I write about on this blog :)

My Case For Action

This is my Case for Action in creating my Men’s Group, Rebel Rationale. This is what I see is happening to modern day men in my community and in society regarding porn and masturbating.

1.    What is so right now about this area?

Men are secretly struggling with an “addiction” to a synthetic sexual stimulus called porn. It primarily negatively affects how we develop relationships with real women romantically. Along with socializing in general, self-esteem, confidence and contentment in life.  Masturbating to porn is an easily accepted form of sexual expression, stress release and self-savagery to all men who partake in it. It's also one of the many ways men are brainwashed out of their personal power today.

      In my community, I see no men’s group, or places for men to share their struggles with porn, dating, their masculinity, and their true self-expression. The world is full of incels (involuntary celibates), and sexually frustrated boys and men who turn to porn, and even violence and other harmful behaviors to let out this pent up energy.

      Most men are blind to how porn is truly affecting their minds, their bodies, their behaviors, and their overall well beings. Because, most men don’t know the scientific facts regarding porn intake on the mind. They don't understand that porn is completely FREE for a reason (To keep you a slave to your dick and your emotions) Or they have not fully grasped or become present to the negative effects it has on their lives.

      Men often masturbate compulsively, and without wanting to do it. It's become a nervous itch to be constantly and sporadically scratched. I never felt good after an episode like this, just like most men. There is a feeling of helplessness, and being a slave to your urges and sexual thoughts. Men are shooting out their sperm cheaply, to a (most likely) emotionally damaged woman they have never met before, on a computer screen. Not knowing that their semen is a scientifically proven super nutrient for their bodies and minds.

      There is a disconnect between love, romance, and sexual release. I have been living in this disconnect since I was 14 years old. I began watching porn and masturbating to it before I even kissed a girl. It absolutely negatively affected my confidence with women and dating.

I have been working my way backwards with dating ever since. So all of these claims I am making are from my own experience and understanding of behavior and sexuality.

I am asserting that there’s a generation of men who are hurting themselves and their futures by partaking in watching porn and compulsively masturbating.

      Many millennial men and younger can relate to this, having grown up with the internet so present. It is so easy and desirable to watch porn and masturbate. It feels great in the moment, but we are not present to the long lasting effects it has on our young minds. Boys and men are not present to these effects. I am asserting that if you watch porn and masturbate to it, it is having a negative effect on you in a lot of ways, and in ways that you are completely unaware of.

2.   What is the predictable future in this area if no action is taken?

Men in my community and beyond will continue to struggle with finding their purpose, achieving their goals, dating beautiful women, if they continue to watch porn. Even if they have a sense that it is damaging to them.

They will continue to be enslaved by their sexual urges and general impulses because they will not begin mastering their minds, impulses and habits in this area.

The subconscious and unconscious cycle of shame and misery around jerking off to strangers fucking on a screen will continue.

Men will not identify this as something that holds them back, or see it as something that hurts their effectiveness and happiness in life. They will leave courage, boldness, immense energy and productivity on the table by continuing to shoot out their semen compulsively.

Men will not reach or strive for their true higher selves. They’ll die never knowing how much more was left in the tank, because they remained ignorant to the effects porn had on their ability to continuously create their own lives.

 Men will die never knowing that they could have achieved so much more in their careers, their love lives, and so many other areas. They will remain “asleep” to the damage being done on their mental, emotional and psychological well-being. 

Men will continue to make excuses for their lack of success with women, their careers, social lives, and being unhealthy. We will continue to breed men who avoid delayed gratification, hardship, and never develop true grit.

Men will continue to numb themselves, sleep walking through life, and never seeing themselves as a person truly responsible for their actions and overall well-being.

I have had all of these thoughts prior to quitting porn. I was a slave to my sexual urges. I knew I wanted to get work done, and would give into a sexual thought, only to feel bad afterwards EVERY SINLGE TIME. "Fuck, I didn't want to jerk off, and I did, now I feel worse physically, mentally and emotionally." That's not how I really talked to myself, but that was all true.

I would feel stressed or anxious, and the next thing I knew I was watching porn. I am now able to see my stress and anxiety, notice that those feelings trigger my sexual urges, and move on from it. Because I am aware of it now.

I was a victim to my own mind, and unable to resist the temptress of instant gratification. I had been rationalizing for years how it wasn’t that bad, and it allowed me to release that distraction. I was giving up my sexual energy and mental well being to a pixelated woman on a screen. Which continuously hurt my confidence and social skills with real women.

 Never giving myself the opportunity to TRANSMUTE my sexual energy into passion around my creativity, to exercising and generating ideas and money, like I am now. Sexual transmutation is an incredible phenomenon that I’ll be covering in this group.

This transmuted energy has built buildings, cars, the internet, all of these amazing technological and physical things in life from great men who conquered their own sexual urges to use it for manifesting greatness.

3.   The way the future could be in this area if a new possibility is created!

Men can admit that they have a problem with porn. Realize that porn is having a negative effect on their minds, their relationships, and their ability to socialize with and approach women.

Men could be open about their struggles with porn addiction, and how it has affected their dating, their masculinity and other areas. There could be more self-expression, and less stifling of vulnerability among men. This group will be a safe and trustworthy place for men to share openly and honestly.

Men will find out that they really can over come this addiction and master their sexual impulses, their minds, and their realities.

Once men get a handle on this area of their life, (whether you think it’s a problem or not) things will open up in ways you previously thought impossible. I wasn't doing it everyday. I was once or twice a week with an occasional 2 week streak. Making an effort to get off it for the long haul has allowed me to grow exponentially every single day. I learn and create something new every new 24 hours I get.

Dropping this negative habit and stepping into mastering your mind will unlock a newfound energy, effectiveness and vigor for life!

You WILL have the experience of dropping many other bad habits from your life by doing this, as it is a natural progression to tackle more areas of your life once you get on this roll.

Men will stop being victims to their impulses, and will be in control when they get an urge and stop subconsciously going to masturbate to a computer screen.

      Men will start to create things and produce results they have been thinking about for a long time and begin to see themselves as powerful for conquering this addiction.

     

      I have begun to reap these benefits, in creating 3-5 times more videos than before. Exercising every day, eating WAY healthier, and taking on areas of my life that I have been numb to for years.

      I am more confident and self expressed with talking to people, and communicating my wants and desires. I understand the value I have as a man, and with what I carry in my balls. Growing in physical, mental, and emotional strength, I am on a roll with attacking obstacles and achieving my goals.

      I’m here to tell you that this shit is true and it works. It will work if you make it work, if you believe in yourself, and  if you want it bad enough.

What allowed me to fully quit was taking this course. It breaks down what porn really does to your mind, your brain, your social life, and your physical strength. You will meet Josh in this video, and he'll explain what the course is like.

It has truly changed my life. I knew that when I watched his video that something dope was going to come from this, and I'm so glad I clicked it. It was so worth the money I spent, and I am now making it back by signing up other guys for the course.

It works, and I'm the proof, along with hundreds of other guys. I now talk to Josh regularly sending him texts and having phone calls. He's my buddy and supports my videos and my music. He's just a great dude, he really cares about people and he's created an amazing course on quitting porn that truly works, with a 30 day money back guarantee.

So, click on this link to check out the course, and hit me up for any questions. Thank you for reading this. Amazing shit is going to happen in this group. :)

Introduction to "Rebel Rationale"

What is this group?

Hello everyone, and welcome! This is a place to express ideas around self-improvement, masculinity, and to question mainstream ideas that don’t necessarily serve us as individuals and as men. Thus the rebellious name and the rationalizing of why it is actually important. I see that questioning everything is vital to happiness and success. We were not all put here to to go to school, get married and have kids. We get to choose what our lives look like.

Here is a brief video introduction of the group :)

I'll be sharing about various topics in my own videos and blogs. Along with sharing videos and stuff from other people I find on the Internet. You are all also welcome to share your own videos and articles on here, that you find relevant to self improvement. You all have something to contribute, and there is a reason I invited you to this group.

 I have been been quitting porn since April 8th and achieved my highest streak of 64 days! I'll be sharing my own experience with that along the way. I see it as the key factor to actually creating this group. Along with unlocking myself as a man in many other ways. It's put me on a real path of developing healthy habits, and improving my life and my environment.

In the past, I wanted to create a men's group, but never did due to feelings of shame. As I felt it was "disrespectful" not to include women, I was scared of ridicule around that. I don't anymore, as I see the benefit that men's groups actually have, having been in one for a few months around quitting porn.

This is a place for men to become better versions of themselves and to have fun learning and growing. My intention is to share what I have learned in these areas, and to connect with men on deeper levels about their masculinity, and their goals, and to provoke you to unlock your higher selves too :)

Men evolved from surviving in the wilderness, in tribes, and we have lost sight of this. Due to how much we have advanced from previous men’s hard work of building buildings, advancing technology etcetera. We don’t have the need for tribes of men, battling the elements, and struggling to survive and thrive. 

We have buildings full of men jerking off, eating ice cream, and waking up resentful of having their 9-5 jobs. We don't have to live this way, men have been struggling because we aren't being challenged. This group may not be as intense or dramatic as that scene in Fight Club, but it hits home with what modern men are dealing with.

As men we now get create hardships for ourselves, as we don't have to fight off sabre tooth tigers to protect our pregnant wives by... (lifting weights, running, taking classes to test our minds).This is how we become stronger and improve ourselves as modern men.

Masculinity grows with challenge, and we have to create many of our own challenges to become better with how luxurious our lives have become. With everyone having a computer in their pocket, and social media reminding us and promoting that we aren't having as much fun as everyone else. There is work to be done in having groups of men convene to talk about man shit. 

One part of this group will be around quitting porn, as I see it as the first step to resetting as a man with regards to women, success, and your relationship to your own manhood. I encourage you all to check out the course I took on quitting porn, and know that it's not a requirement to be in the group. You are welcome to watch what I post, be active in the comments, and post your own positive stuff on here too.

Other topics of discussion will be semen retention, dating, exercise, spirituality, nutrition, TV, movies, music, PC culture and other topics that people are interested in.

       This group is going to be a lot of fun, and a great place to share as fellow men. You are welcome to spread the word and invite other men into the group too. Thanks for reading and I’m excited to begin this journey with you all!