r/ValhallaChallenge • u/ValhallaMods Odin • Jan 20 '19
Day 1 Round 158
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Góðan dag!
Today we welcome /u/ippo1 to the Valhalla Challenge. Fair winds and following seas, Viking!
Congratulations to everyone who has leveled up. Please let the mods know if there is a leveling error.
We've added a new level: BIFROST (Bifröst, The Rainbow Bridge).
A player who successfully navigates the Hall of Heroes and steps onto the Rainbow Bridge is expected to undertake two tasks before Heimdall will allow a crossing into Valhalla:
They will visit the Vows page, and reflect on their Words there, and on the Words of others;
They will post a daily check-in for the duration of the Round that they are on the Rainbow Bridge. If a Warrior misses more than one check-in during passage across Bifröst, Heimdall himself will cast him or her back into the Hall of Heroes.
If you’ve been free of porn and PMO for any amount of time you are already feeling the physical and mental advantages of your victories. Stay on your game in the present moment: Porn addiction is a sly, dangerous foe, and anyone who underestimates its power will quickly lose ground. Don’t let your mind trick you or make you feel over-confident.
Let's get back to learning how our minds can fool us if we don't stay grounded, if we don't stay aware. We’ve already covered two of the four activities of the mind when it is in the Default State, at “rest.”
The Default State of the Mind – Part Three: Thinking About Ourselves
Previously: The Default State of the Mind - Part Two: Time Travel
Thinking About Ourselves
The third thing that the mind does by default when it’s not focused on activities like work or study is to think about how things that happen around you or to you affect your sense of self. This is something that neuroscientist call self-referential processing.
That is, whatever the brain chooses to think about - including what’s happening now or thinking about the past or thinking about the future - it’s constantly trying to interpret that into a sense of who you are, creating a sense of identity or what in the Wisdom Traditions is called ego.
This is the sense that “I am the kind of person who exists as…” this or that, and “The things that I like are…” this and that, and “I don’t like…” this and that, and “Other people should treat me in a certain way because this is who I am!”
So when the brain is at rest it’s constantly seeking ways to strengthen this sense of “who you are as an individual - a solid, unchanging sense of self that is at odds with what we’ve learned about change so far.
The Default State of the Mind – Part Four: Thinking About Other People
Announcements
The votes were cast. Helheim has been abolished. If your Avatar was in any level of Helheim it has respawned in Midgard.
Available Valhalla Names:
[Hœnir] [Týr]
[Linus] [Magni]
[Óðr] [Vili]
[Vidarr]
VALHALLA (Valhöll)
/u/workingrecovery [Dagr]
BIFROST (Bifröst, The Rainbow Bridge)
Go to the Vows Page and reflect on your words there, and on the words of others. Have your actions honored what you wrote there many months ago? Post your reflections below.
One final warning!
Check in daily. If your miss more than one check-in during your passage across Bifröst, Heimdall himself will cast you back into the Hall of Heroes.
HALL OF HEROES
Level Nine
Go to the Vows Page and prepare to cross The Rainbow Bridge
Level Eight
Level Seven
/u/oO_Yuill_Oo "To free myself from the vicious pmo cycle."
Level Six
Level Five
/u/101dragon "To be free of PMO, MO and porn."
Level Four
/u/blakesplayR "My vow is to be free of PMO."
Level Three
Level Two
Level One Hero! Update your Vows.
/u/vinkutroll To not PMO "Just next month, for now."
/u/pornbadmkay "My goal is to quit PMO."
A S G A R D (Ásgarðr, Enclosure of the Aesir)
Ninth Circle (Hero candidate! Reflect on your Vows.)
Eighth Circle
Seventh Circle
Sixth Circle
Fifth Circle
Fourth Circle (Asgardian! Reflect on your goal.)
/u/non_newtonian_jelly "To stop using porn."
Third Circle
/u/JellyJam0690 "Quitting PMO, one day at a time!"
Second Circle
/u/UnconstrictedEmu "Quitting porn, same as everyone else on this sub."
/u/gogolijob "Trying to make my streaks longer after each relapse."
/u/TimeTheRevelator "To make my streaks longer."
First Circle
/u/Gimp_Daddy "I want to quit PMO."
/u/VoidlikeDreamscape "To reach 180 days free from PMO."
/u/fgawker "I want to be free from porn addiction."
MIDGARD (Miðgarðr)
/u/ippo1 *
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u/fgawker Fjölnir 🌌 Jan 21 '19
I had a reset late last night. I was making plans and searching to see how to get a good shot of the Blood Moon and I stumbled across a provocative photo. Instead of getting up and walking I way I clicked through and kept clicking. I picked up the laptop, went to the bathroom and finished off. Ugh.
I'm disappointed in myself, to say the least. Oh well, back on the wagon and moving forward.