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Author: [[Edward Green]] Full Title: The Semen Retention Manuscript - Volume 2 Category: #books The Art Of Discipline If you are finding it difficult to avoid relapsing on semen retention, then please consider where this weakness lies. Your weakness here is self-discipline. Your will is not yet powerful enough to ignore your carnal instincts, thus you have not the ability to control your mind, your mind is controlling you. You must strengthen your will if you wish to succeed. Your level of self-discipline will determine how far you go in life. the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment… and this is the law of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.” - Leonardo da Vinci. The secret to self-discipline is simple. Your purpose needs to be so strong that it overpowers any desires or disturbances standing in your way. Masturbation is a major disturbance that is draining your resources. It severely impedes your efforts to achieve your life’s purpose and thus has no place in your life. It must be eliminated. After you acquire this habit for long enough, your brain gets hooked on this short form data acquisition, and no longer seeks to make the longer term investments of deep thought, that it once did from reading books and other sources of information in which you digest the information more slowly and deeply. The most effective emotion is dissatisfaction; dissatisfaction with your current state of life. To be dissatisfied with being mediocre, to despise failure, to develop an utter distaste for weak mindedness. Set your standard of living high. If you want to be a man of value, you need to first act like one. You are your habits. Decide the type of man you wish to be, decide the type of life you wish to live. Look at your own life now, feel the dissatisfaction with where you’re at, and let that motivate you to rise out of your circumstances and achieve your goals. Living a life of self-discipline is much less about restriction than it is to do with purpose. You have a purpose to carry out. Not being distracted in each moment by impulsive desires or unrelated worldly matters. It is the ability to focus in on a goal and carry out the required steps necessary, whilst avoiding any stimuli that will hinder you from your duty.
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The Semen Retention Manuscript - Volume 2 by Edward Green presents wisdom from the contemplative traditions.
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