I have struggled with a pornography addiction throughout most of my adult life. I also spent much of the 2010s practicing mindfulness meditation. I was very inspired by the books of Jon Kabat-Zinn, Judson Brewer, Richard Davidson, Mathieu Ricard and especially Dan Harris’s “10% Happier” thinking that by practicing mindfulness and strengthening my prefrontal cortex that I would be able to control compulsive impulses to look at porn.
I was wrong. I’d be able to go about month and then I’d eventually relapse.
The problem was that mindfulness, for all its benefits, does NOT rewire addicted neural pathways. I am happy to say that I found a method to actually deal with the addiction directly and I have successfully rewired my brain using a script I learned in the Beyond Compulsion Academy. Now, I am porn-free and recently retired to a consistent mindfulness meditation. I can’t express how much better meditation is now! Obviously, meditation is a much richer experience without the incessant, relentless desire to look at porn. I can really be in the present moment with greater ease.
If you are a practitioner of mindfulness meditation and also struggling with porn, look up the Beyond Compulsion Academy
and the ‘help is here’ podcast. They will actually get you out of the addiction. Freed from your compulsive sexual urges, your meditation practice will only benefit. I promise!
