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Distractions 24 May 2011 12:18 #106702

musicman Current streak: 3 days OFFLINE Expert Boarder Posts: 117 Karma: 0	Just curious, what do people here use as distraction tools when the going gets tough?
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Re: Distractions 24 May 2011 13:39 #106708

TheJester	musicman wrote on 24 May 2011 12:18: Just curious, what do people here use as distraction tools when the going gets tough? Online games Hard ones, that make you concentrate.
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Re: Distractions 24 May 2011 13:44 #106709

David712 Current streak: 26 days OFFLINE Fresh Boarder Posts: 5 Karma: 0	The best think for me - I reach out to someone a real person let him know whats going on how i am feeling and we chap a shmooz about it. By the time I get off i am usually in a better place.
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Re: Distractions 24 May 2011 17:10 #106740

ben durdayah Current streak: 49 days OFFLINE Platinum Boarder No, that is not a mouse... Posts: 1253 Karma: 5	Kickboxing, Possom Tossing, Kazoo Playing, Chulent Cook Offs... Y'know, the usual GYE activities...
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Re: Distractions 24 May 2011 17:19 #106741

ZemirosShabbos OFFLINE Platinum Boarder pass the compote Posts: 6153 Karma: 72	zemiros karaoke roadkill shtreimel crafting writing a serialized novel extolling the virtues of the Heiliger Guard running up your post count learning daf yomi (not THAT daf yomi, daf yomi of Bardichev's Battle and Yechida's Reflections) (don't forget bingo, origami, rock-collecting and hang-gliding)
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Re: Distractions 24 May 2011 20:27 #106766

Boomerang OFFLINE Fresh Boarder Karma: 0	Go to the gym/go for a walk, have a joke with a friend, play/listen to fav music. Whatever you do, don't start touching your penis and toying with the idea of looking at soft porn. Cos it rapidly goes downhill from there as I'm sure you know.....
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Re: Distractions 25 May 2011 00:07 #106777

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For a long time I relied exclusively on distractions such as going for a run, saying tehillim, playing a game online, or even watching TV (that last one was useless, for me!). What I found, unfortunately, was the some of my most disastrous falls took place immediately after going for a run, when I thought I'd be too tired to m*, or even immediately after saying several perakim of tehillim.

So I'm trying something new now -- REACHING OUT! My falls are largely the result of my isolation from friends and my attempts to isolate myself from Hashem. Making a phone call -- to my sponsor, my sister, my Bubbe, an old friend I haven't heard from in forever -- gets me out of my head. It's not a distraction so much as a form of surrendering to Hashem's will, which I've found to be the only day that I can survive through a day.

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Re: Distractions 25 May 2011 02:59 #106792

musicman Current streak: 3 days OFFLINE Expert Boarder Posts: 117 Karma: 0	One thing is for sure, reaching out, especially in this beautiful community, has been the one weapon that's worked every time.
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