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Hello there.

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Porn is a multi-billion dollar industry.

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What does this mean?

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It means that porn is more than just
a fringe trend.

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It's more like the elephant in the room.

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It's part of mainstream society,

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and that means, 
it's a really important topic.

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It's difficult to wrap 
our head around the topic of porn

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because it's not possible to separate 
the porn of today,

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away from our human sexuality.

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And today, human sexuality is incredibly 
out-of-alignment;

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Mostly because of the world religions.

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Porn in and of itself as a concept

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could potentially be an 
in-alignment thing,

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but because it is an extension

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of our out-of-alignment human sexuality,

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it then fuels our 
out-of-alignment sexuality.

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Pornography is the portrayal of 
sexual subject matter

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for the purpose of sexual arousal.

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Why would we watch porn?

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Because sexual desire and sexual arousal 
are usually a pleasant experience,

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and pleasure is not wrong.

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So it must be understood, 
that seeking out pleasure is also not wrong.

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So it is useless to discuss the rightness 
and wrongness of porn.

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We must instead develop perspective 
about porn.

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First, let's look at the shadow 
side of porn.

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The first most extreme shadow of porn
is that like any addiction

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porn serves as an escape from pain.

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It's a way to avoid a feeling state.

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Porn is self-medication.

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It blunts the senses and makes you 
forget everything else.

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It is hypnotic and trance-like
and makes you lose track of time.

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We use it to get relief from something.

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For example, we may use S&M porn to 
escape powerlessness by

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feeling a sense of power over someone.

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When it comes to porn addiction, the most
common feeling one is trying to escape

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is the feeling of emptiness.

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I am yet to meet one single person who 
watches porn on an ongoing basis

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who is not using the porn to avoid a 
feeling state within them.

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The chemicals that our own brain produces
in response to a certain stimulus

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can be many times more addictive than
even external substances, like cocaine.

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So it is absolutely possible to develop
addiction to something like porn.

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It throws us out of balance to the degree
that when we do not watch porn

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we begin to experience withdrawal 
symptoms.

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So even though porn feels like it fulfills
a need

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it actually simply creates a new need.

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In other words, people think porn is a 
sexual outlet which is fulfilling the need

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for release and satisfaction of sex drive,
when in fact it is creating sexual craving.

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I do not think it is actually beneficial 
to draw a line

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between an addiction and a compulsion.

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As far as I'm concerned if you feel out
of control of something,

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a certain behavior, especially if that
particular thing

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creates negative consequences, and you
still can't stop

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that is an addiction.

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The second major shadow aspect of porn
is that the porn industry itself is so

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profoundly out of alignment.

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Theoretically it would be possible to make
porn that is in-alignment,

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but as I said earlier the current porn we
have in today's world is not in alignment.

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It is an extension of our out-of-alignment
sexuality.

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Now the religious fanatics of the world
would have you believe that nudity is porn.

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This is not accurate and this is not
positive because it just teaches people

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that their body is something to be ashamed
of.

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It puts us even more at war with ourselves.

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So dropping the conservative view,
let's look at it this way:

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Regardless of whether we are conservative
or liberal, we all know at our core

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that when we are completely in-alignment
with our sexuality

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as an expression of our eternal
consiousness

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sex is about much more than just physical
gratification.

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The majority of porn available today
really truly is just about physical gratification.

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The people cease to become people,
this is the concept of objectification.

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Objectification is a serious issue when it
comes to porn.

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We objectify both men and women in porn
when we watch them on the screen.

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Because we are in essence disconnected
enough from it being another human being

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that we are now able to use that other
person for personal gratification.

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Now here's a really important point, the
minute we begin to objectify somebody else

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we make ourselves a match to the vibration
of objectification.

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You can't objectify something without
simultaneously yourself becoming

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objectified.

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And what happens as a result of that
objectification, you experience and

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instantaneous drop in your self-esteem
and your self-worth.

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This will come across as a feeling that 
your soul is being taken and you may not

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even realize that the one is linked
to the other.

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The porn is linked to the sudden loss of
self-esteem.

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The thrill of the interaction with porn 
covers over or masks the internal

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destruction that is in fact occuring.

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You could argue that porn stars are
willing participants, so it's not

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all that bad.

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But I want you to look at it this way,
the majority of people who work in the

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porn industry do not come from 
healthy backgrounds.

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Many of them were in fact sexually abused
youth.

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Their sexuality became their only sense of
worth.

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They see their bodies of commodities.

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They have become comfortable with
objectification.

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I want you to just think about where 
someone has to be emotionally to become

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comfortable and approving of themselves
being objectified.

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A really good way to test your level of
objectification of people on the screen

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is to ask yourself, how would I feel if my
son was being viewed by people

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the same way that I'm viewing this person on
the screen?

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Or how would I feel if my daughter was
being viewed by people in the same way

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that I am viewing this person on the 
screen?

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The point being, when you care about
somebody enough to be close to them

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suddenly it matters to you.

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You can't objectify them anymore.

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We have to stop and really remember the
people we're watching in these porn films

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that's somebody's daughter, that's
somebody's mother, that's somebody's

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sister or brother.

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So what does that tell us? That tells us
that we disconnected from someone

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to use them purely for physical arousal
and relief.

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And so you cannot prove that it is
in-alignment unless you first prove that

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disconnection is in-alignment.

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The third major shadow of porn is what it
does to relationships.

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Now, before I dive too deep into the
shadow aspect of what porn does to

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relationships, I would like to say that if
you were completely in-alignment

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with the idea of using porn for sex, you 
would align with a partner who also agreed

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with that particular stance on your
sexuality.

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There wouldn't be a conflict.

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But when we are out-of-alignment with our
sexuality, what happens is we attract the

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partner who does not match or line up
with the sexuality which we are expressing

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relative to porn what this means is if
you're a porn user you will line up with

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a partner that doesn't like that about you
and it will create big relationship

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problems between you.

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So you could say that it might be a good
idea to find total approval for using porn

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for sexual gratification, and thus line up
with a partner who completely agrees with

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you and has no issue with your porn use,
or you can look at it this way:

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potentially it is you that is 
out-of-alignment with your own sexuality

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using porn, and so your partner is a 
reflection of the dichotomy within you,

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the aspect of you that is using it, and 
the aspect of you that knows that it is

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not the truth of who you really are, and
it's not really a genuine expression of

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your sexuality.

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Porn destroys intimacy.

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Intimacy is to see into someone, to feel 
into them, to hear into them, to understand

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them completely.

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Now sex can enhance intimacy greatly, but 
also you can have sex with zero intimacy

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at all. If we objectify the person on the 
screen or our partner, which is what we

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are doing with porn, we have no intimacy 
with them.

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If we objectify our partner we are in 
essence just two meat suits rubbing up

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against each other for our own individual 
pleasure.

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It's more like mutual masturbation, on an 
energetic level it appears more like

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sexual or energetic vampirism, where
you're trying to get something from

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somebody.

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Even if we use porn to become aroused as a
couple, this also is a barrier to intimacy;

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Because we are actually more involved in
and thus have more intimacy with the

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fantasy, than we do with each other in
that moment.

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I will also tell you that porn and 
subsequent sexual escapades are a close

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personal favorite of people who have a 
major fear of intimacy; Because it allows

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us to connect with someone or even just
connect with the idea of someone without

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actually having to connect.

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The fourth major shadow of porn, is that
sets up neuro pathways.

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If we find sexual gratification one way,
we will seek it out again and again in

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that very same way.

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We may even lose our ability to be 
turned on in any other way.

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If we associate orgasm with our partner
or with a light kiss, this is what will

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turn us on in the future. If we associate
orgasm to the things we observe in porn

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those things start to be the only way we
can become aroused.

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Most of these sex acts are not only 
objectifying, they're unpleasurable to the

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other partner, especially emotionally; 
And many of them involve domination and

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submission power dynamics.

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I think that one of the worst things that 
porn has done in the world today,

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is to destroy the sex act between men and
women, why?

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Because these porns generally, especially
in the beginning, were geared directly

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towards men, towards male gratification. 


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The women in those scenes were acting,
they're not genuinely orgasming.

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And so what's happening is it's setting up
an idea in men's minds about the kind of

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sex that women like to have, when in 
reality it couldn't be farther from the

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truth.

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In reality most women will not become 
aroused or feel good or orgasm if you

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mimick what you are seeing on the screen.

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What has made me sad again and again is 
that the nuero pathways set up by

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pornography disable people from achieving 
a sexual union with somebody.

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It disables them from practicing the art
of lovemaking.

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It makes it so that the only way that we
can experience sex that's pleasurable with

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a partner, or even get ourselves aroused,
is if it is objectifying, if it is impersonal.

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In past years access to porn was difficult.

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Now due to the online presence of porn,
it is only a click away, and so young kids

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are now watching porn.

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And porn is setting up their expectation 
about what sex should look like.

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And this includes not just vanilla
pornography, but also extreme pornography

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in the dysfunctional fetishes.

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Pornography is becoming the only reference
for sex and intimacy that the youth of

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today's world have. This has serious
social implication.

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The fifth major shadow of porn, is that
porn is a serious waste of sexual energies

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and a distortion of sexual energies.

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Many of you have heard of kundalini 
energy, it's basically just a word we use

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to describe to vital force, or the 
spiritual energy within a person.

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That energy is creative energy.

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It's not possible to separate out sexual
energy from creative energy, that is why

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sexual energy creates life. It is 
inherently creative.

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If you are spending your energy getting
off on porn, you are wasting your

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creative energy.

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That is why so many people with porn
addictions develop a kind of apathy,

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they don't really put energy into their 
life, they're living a bit of a half-life.

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They live in a state of atrophy because
the energy they have to create their

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waking life is being spent.

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When we become addicted to porn, just like
any other addiction, we stop investing in

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our life. We stop engaging with real
people.

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The sixth major shadow of porn, is that
we are creating a reality based on what

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we are paying attention to, more than that
we are creating a collective reality based

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on what we are collectively paying 
attention to.

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So the question to ask yourself is, 
what is what I am paying attention to

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creating for me in my waking life?

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Also, like a drug, you need more and more
of it and higher levels to get the

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same kind of high.

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Think about horror films in the 50's,
they don't even compare to the horror

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films of today.

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It wouldn't scare us if we saw that, but
back then, that was downright terrifying.

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This also applies to our sexual 
gratification.

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We need to keep upping the odds and upping
the odds in order to get the same kind of

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rise.

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What will the porn look like 20 years from
today?

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If so many eyes are focused at the
distorted and out-of-alignment form of

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sexuality, I can promise you one thing:
we will create a collective reality of

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sexual distortion, as if the sexual 
distortion of today's world is not bad

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enough.

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The seventh major shadow of porn, is that
when people watch it, they often

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compartmentalize it from the rest of their
day-to-day life.

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They exit their life and enter this zone
of pornography.

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We have the tendency, when we watch porn, 
to think that the law of attraction is

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somehow not applicable to the time period
that we are watching porn, and so that

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time is not part of the "I create my own 
reality" actuality.

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We think that we can keep that aspect of 
life secret and contained.

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So we don't realize that our porn watching
is in fact not a separate reality, it is a

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part of our everyday reality and it will
absolutely merge with and affect our

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day-to-day life experiences, our values,
our belief systems, our relationships, our

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career, everything.

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So what should you do if you're struggling
with a porn addiction?

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The first thing that you have to do is to
is to really ask yourself this question:

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Is porn adding something to my life, or is
it taking something away?

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And you have to be really honest with 
yourself about the answer to that question.

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This is difficult for some of us because
if we like to watch porn, than we are in

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the habit of justifying our porn-watching.

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We keep telling ourselves that everyone 
is doing it.

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Only you can decide if pornography is 
negatively affecting your life.

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But until you decide it's negatively 
affecting your life, you will have

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absolutely no motivation to change it.

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Step Two: Become aware.

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You have to become completely aware of 
what you are trying to escape from by

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using porn.

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The next time you feel the urge to watch 
it, sit with the uncomfortable feelings as

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if you were exploring the sensation, and 
try to identify what it is.

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Also, identify your triggers.

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A trigger is something that causes you to 
feel the compulsion to watch porn.

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Think about the last hours and minutes 
leading up to the moment when the urge

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occurs.

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Can you identify any triggers?

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For example, did you get into a fight with
someone which caused you to feel stress,

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and thus need release?

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Step 3: Go in the direction of those 
negative feeling states instead of away

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from them.

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So the next time you feel that urge to 
go use porn, instead of doing that,

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I want you to sink down into that feeling,
that negative feeling state, and I want

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you to be unconditionally present with 
it.

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This is the beginning of integration.

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To understand more about how to do 
this process, I want you to watch my

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video on YouTube titled: "How to Heal the
Emotional Body"

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Also, if you find that the feeling state 
that is in fact motivating your porn use

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is the feeling of emptiness, which is so 
often the case, I want you to go watch my

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YouTube video titled: "How to Stop Feeling Empty"

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Four: Change your life in accordance with
the feeling state that you discovered that

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you're trying to avoid.

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For example, if you are using porn to 
avoid boredom, get busy.

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Find a healthy preoccupation that 
requires your focused attention and energy.

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Or, if you find that you were using porn
to escape stress, figure out what is

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making you the most stressed, and either 
find healthier ways to manage the stress

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or change that aspect of your life 
entirely so the stress is no longer there.

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Basically we have to face and work with
the very thing which we are using porn

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to avoid, in order to overcome the 
causation of our porn use.

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Porn use is more like a symptom.

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Why would you address the symptom without
addressing the cause?

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Five: If you feel the urge to watch porn,

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play a game of fast-forward instead.

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It's easy to get wrapped up in the 
sensations

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of excitement and arousal, but if you can

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use that feeling of arousal to remind 
yourself,

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to play the tape forward,

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to post watching porn,

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that feeling of disappointment,

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that feeling of exhaustion,

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that feeling of low self-worth,

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the feeling of total and utter failure and
shame.

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Then you can use the memory of what it 
will be like if you do watch porn

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to water down the intensity and the heat
of the arousal.

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Six: Get into the mentality that porn
quite literally doesn't exist.

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If you do the previous steps which I have 
just listed,

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this step will be much easier.

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When it comes to addictions, as I have
said before,

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the addiction in and of itself is the
symptom,

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of a deeper underlying problem.

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So when we are usually addressing 
addictions,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Rather than focus on the substance that 
we're addicted to,

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What we want to do is to figure out a way

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
to solve the causation of the addiction,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
to solve whatever is fueling that 
addiction.

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Cause if you do that,

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then the addiction simply goes away 
on its own.

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When it comes to porn,

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we can focus on addressing the causation
and also the symptom.

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We do this, by going cold turkey.

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In other words, when it comes to porn

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don't limit your time to watching porn.

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Get rid of your outlets for the 
addiction,

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so you literally can't access it.

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Then, think and act as if porn does not
exist.

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Out of sheer necessity, you will be forced
to replace the porn

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with other things to direct your energy 
towards.

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Seven: In alignment with the last point I 
made,

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when you feel that urge, recognize that 
urge as an extreme burst of energy.

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Of course you want to release that energy,


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the question is towards what?

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What I want you to do when you feel the 
urge to watch porn,

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is to redirect that energy towards 
something that is more beneficial.

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You cannot actually suppress your sexual
urges

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it's not possible, it has to get out 
somehow

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Now, the fact that we can't suppress our 
sexual urges is fact the reason why

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our porn subscriptions are higher in 
states like Utah,

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where there's a high amount of sexual 
suppression.

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Suppression doesn't work.

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You have to redirect that energy towards
something else.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Think about harnessing that energy, ask 
yourself:

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If I could harness that energy and put it
towards something else

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that would directly benefit my life, 
what would it be?

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And then do that instead.

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If you do this enough, you will realize
that you've actually got a life.

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You're no longer watching porn, feeling
terrible about yourself

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and feeling like you need to get a life.

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Eight: Increase your self-esteem and start
to self-care.

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As was discussed earlier,

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porn instantly decreases your self-esteem.

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So the opposite vibration to porn,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
is self-esteem.

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If you are addicted to porn,

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it has become a self-hate spiral.

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So pull yourself out of that
and start to live healthy

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and alter your perspective so you can see
yourself in a positive light.

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Take a look at the values you do have and 
things the things you really do believe in

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and begin to live according to those 
values.

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Live from a space of integrity with who
you are.

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Do things you enjoy.

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Eat a diet that makes you feel good about
yourself.

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Exercise.

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Groom yourself in a way that makes you 
feel proud to present yourself to the world.

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Get outside.

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Help others.

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Helping others increases your self-esteem
five-fold.

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Seek out things that make you laugh.

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Start meditating and going to yoga class.

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Listen to motivating music that inspires
you to really live.

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Start focusing on the things like about 
yourself

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and find approval for the things you 
dislike about yourself.

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These are just some examples.

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Raise your frequency.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
For more information about how to raise 
your frequency

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
you can look up my YouTube video titled:
"How to Raise Your Frequency and Increase
Your Vibration"

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Remember that the more you replace porn 
with more beneficial pursuits,

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the better and better your life will get.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
While we're on this subject,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
It must be known that if you think that 
there is something not good

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
about watching porn, you can't watch porn
and feel good.

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Nine: Now I am going to give you the #1
most important tip when it comes to

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
any addiction, including porn addiction.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Way back when, scientists were doing 
studies

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
on rats and substance addiction.

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They would put them in cages and they 
would lace their water with substances

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
like cocaine.

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Of course these rats would continue to go 
to the water,

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they would become addicted to the cocaine
in the water,

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and other drugs, to the degree that they 
would then die.

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Of course the obvious assumption is that 
the substances were to blame

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
for the addiction.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Then, in 1970, Bruce Alexander, who was
a scientist at the time

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
made and interesting observation.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
These rats who are addicted to these 
substances,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
were placed in cages alone.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
So he thought to himself,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
what's the next logical thing to do to 
test

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
whether substances are in fact to blame 
for addiction?

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Ah! Let's put these rats in nice cages
with friends.

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And what did he find?

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These rats did not become addicted to the 
substances,

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in fact they seemed to shun the water 
which was

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
laced with these particular
medicinals.

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What does this tell us about addiction?

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
It tells us that addiction is not about the 
substance,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
it's about an underlying feeling of 
isolation.

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The addiction was an adaptation to a 
painful environment.

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Most especially one that was void of 
connection.

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What I'm about to say I want you to 
remember for the rest of your life.

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Emotional isolation is the #1 cause of all
addictions on this planet.

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Sobriety is not the opposite of addiction.

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Human connection is.

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So connect with people.

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For more information about how to do this,


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watch my YouTube video titled 
"How to Connect with Someone"

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It is my desire that sex not be associated
with sin in the minds of men.

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We cannot be at war with our sexuality,

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and become integral and whole beings
in and of ourselves.

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It is not right my desire for porn to 
become the scapegoat for society's 


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dysfunction, which is how many would paint
it to be.

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I am all for becoming free and open-minded

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
and for embracing things that should never
be taboo.

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But being free and open-minded is not the
same thing

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
as simply celebrating the taboo
because it is taboo.

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I am open to the idea that when people
come into a state of alignment

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with their sexuality, where their 
relationship to their own sexuality

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is healthy and also a beneficial one.

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That we are fully capable of making 
pornography that is completely

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
in-alignment.

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But as for right now,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
the vast majority of porn is 
profoundly out of alignment.

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It is an empty package, and you deserve

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
something of substance.

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Have a good week.

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