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GuardYourEyes Chizuk E-Mail (No. 1184)
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In Today's Issue
- Testimonial: The Steps Work, They Really Do!
- Member Chizuk: Don't Watch Movies - Watch Real Life!
- Attitude: Laughter is Good for Recovery
- So Laugh a Little...
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Category: Testimonial
The Steps Work, They really Do!
By "Encouraged"
Thank you for your daily emails, they are very inspiring. I don't use your website because my internet access is very limited (guess why), and I can't read on the site or post. I feel compelled to reply to the guy who doesn't believe that he can stop masturbating.
I said the same to a friend a few years ago, and when he said that so many people - even raging sex freaks - have managed to stop for good, I thought that he doesn't understand me. However, I joined the group and followed the 12 steps religiously again and again without understanding how it works and without seeing initial results and guess what? After about a year the miracle happened, and it's still happening every day. It was niskayem the promise of the Big Book that "we have ceased fighting anything or anyone, even lust. For, by this time, sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested in lust" (page 84).
I've, B"H, been clean for over a year. This is a true miracle. I used to act out daily, and even when I didn't, my mind was obsessed and mad with lust almost all the time. Note that I'm not the only one: there are thousands or, perhaps, even millions of people that have experienced this miracle and can testify to this. YOU will also see this miracle happen to YOU. Join a group and follow the steps. Have patience and it will happen.
Don't believe me? Try it yourself!
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Category: Member Chizuk
Don't Watch Movies - Watch Real Life
By Machshovo Tova
For many many decades I have been victim to the pull of movies. Way before the days of PC and Internet, I would sit for hours at the TV, watching every kind of stupid movie. Even in middle of learning a sugya in Bais Medrash, the 'pull' would force me to close the gemara and go feed my addiction. Way before porn was available on private devices, I would frequent movie theaters in various neighborhoods (with and without various disguises), and sometimes it had not been x-rated, but most times it had. When the Internet arrived, it only added to my existing 'pull'. But it also pulled me down so deep that I realized it will kill me if I don't completely cut it out of my life.
B"H, I was able to completely stay away from all forms of non-religious movies, and my new real life is much better than ever.
Why watch 'movies' when you can watch 'real life'?
Why 'watch' real life when you can 'live' real life?
Get out there and start LIVING!
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One-liner
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
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Category: Attitude
Laughter is Good for Recovery
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
--E. E. Cummings
One of the true gifts of recovery is that we learn to laugh again.
No matter how beat up our spirits have been by our addiction, no matter how heavy or hard our hearts have become, one day we find ourselves laughing.
The lightness in our hearts lets us know life is good.
It may happen in a meeting as we suddenly stop taking ourselves so seriously.
It may happen as we learn to socialize again and share a joke or score a goal in a group of our new friends.
It may happen as we look into the eyes of someone who loves us and our hearts bubble over with joy.
Laughter heals us. It is one of our heart's songs. There is always some in our life, somewhere - and we need only look in order to find it.
Prayer for the Day
Hashem, please give me something today that will tickle me with joy or humor. Help me give in to the urge to laugh. I know my laughter is music to Your ears.
Today's Action
When I notice something to laugh or smile about today, I will share it with others.
Humor and joy are meant to be shared.
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 Laugh A Little...
Laughter is Good for Recovery
When my wife gets a little upset, sometimes a simple "Calm down" in a soothing voice is all it takes to get her a lot upset.
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I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.
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I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.
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Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
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Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
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Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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Ever notice, how the people who tell you to calm down, are the ones who made you mad in the first place?
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