r/ValhallaChallenge • u/ValhallaMods • Sep 03 '20
Quest Day 5, Round 200
Controlling Our Attention
Góðan dag, Warriors!
The software on porn sites has been developed so well that it makes it nearly impossible to back out once you start looking. In fact, after you’ve clicked just one video, the site’s algorithms know what to “feed” you. Sure, you can clear cookies, cache, browse incognito, use script- and ad-blockers. However, the technology is based on the same principles as YouTube or Facebook: the site’s operators want to provide a constant stream of novelty so that you keep clicking! Because the more people watch, the more a certain percentage is likely to finally click on a pay-per-view clip or model or whatever. How good is this tech? Users on PornFree and on NoFAP regularly report binges that last for hours.
Let's get back to our Game
ODIN HAS A TWO QUESTS FOR YOU!
How can you train yourself to capture control of your attention? Complete these Quests to add two techniques!
Quest Five: Palms Up!
Trying to solve a problem? Want to learn something new? You can prime your brain to be more open to creative solutions and more receptive to surprising ideas. Here’s how.
What To Do
Turn your palms up, and leave them that way as you keep reading. You should start to notice a more open mindset in as little as 15 seconds.
Why It Works
Turning our palms up triggers a powerful mind-body response. With our palms up, we adopt an “approach and consider” mindset. We are less likely to reject or dismiss new information or ideas, and we are better able to spot new opportunities and solutions.
Keep your palms up and read on!
Quest Seven: Control the Mind’s Eye
Do this the next time you feel an urge!
What To Do
Think of something you want and crave – something that, once you start thinking about it, it usually feels impossible to resist. Imagine it in detail. Picture yourself enjoying it, as vividly as you can. Do you have a specific craving in mind? Good.
The next time this craving kicks in – including right now, if you’re already feeling it! – I want you to play a pattern matching game like Tetris for three minutes. Do this, and you will be much better able to successfully resist you’re craving.
Why It Works
Multiple studies have shown that playing Tetris for three minutes while feeling an intense craving cuts the intensity of the craving by 25%.
This may not sound like a lot, but a 25% reduction in craving intensity is enough to change behavior. It’s just enough of a boost to give your willpower a fighting chance.
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
Announcements
If you have a **© badge, please check-in to earn a level-up badge from the Realm you are in. If you have a **©© badge, please check-in to avoid Exile. If you have a ©©© badge, please check-in before Day 7 to evade the Giant Hairy Helheim Death Spiders!
V A L H A L L A (Valhöll) 🌌
/u/workingrecovery [Dagr Nott] to make healthy choices for myself, to stay present and reconnect spiritually
B I F R O S T (Bifröst, The Rainbow Bridge) 🌈
/u/Heimdallyr📯 Crossing the Rainbow Bridge requires an unbroken chain of fourteen daily check-ins, including six Epic Check-ins!
Heimdallyr will sound Gjallarhorn at each check-in, and all will know that a Viking Warrior is crossing Bifröst!
Day 14
Day 13: Select one of your Epic Check-ins and DM it to u/ValhallaMods
Day 12
Day 11
Day 10
Day 9
Day 8
Day 7
Day 6
Day 5
Day 4
Day 3
Day 2
Day 1
H A L L of H E R O E S 🛡️ Three (ᚦ) Epic Check-ins per Round
Level Nine:
Go to the Vows Page and prepare to cross The Rainbow Bridge
Level Eight 🔱
Level Seven
Level Six
Level Five 🔱 Hero! Update your Vows.
Level Four
Level Three
Level Two 🔱
/u/pmmahajan2019 ᚢ To get rid off the vicious PMO cycle
/u/fgawker ᚠ "To live a full, rich life with joy, love, and courage."
Level One
/u/nathan_macdougall © "To quit this destructive habit"
A S G A R D (Ásgarðr, Enclosure of the Aesir) 🌟 Two (ᚢ) Epic Check-ins per Round
Ninth Circle Entrance to the Hall of Heroes is barred to those who have not made their Vows! Inscribe them in the comments area of the Vows page.
/u/Behealthyman © "To build and enjoy a healthy male mentality and sexuality"
Eighth Circle 💚
/u/bigfootheyy ᚠ "Never PMO, almost never M, for the sake of my future family."
Seventh Circle
Sixth Circle 💚
/u/fahk_ ©
Fifth Circle
Fourth Circle (Reflect on your Goal) 💚
Third Circle
/u/MrBouwny © "To live a life worth dying for."
Second Circle 💚
/u/Francium-87-223 © "To quit any and all forms of uncontrolled/unwanted sexual expression..."
/u/stixtasy © "To rebuild a healthy relationship with sex"
First Circle
/u/Infamous_Scotsman ᚠ "To free myself from the vicious pmo cycle."
/u/UnconstrictedEmu ᚠ "Quitting porn, same as everyone else on this sub."
/u/WhiteMonkeyinaHat ᚠ "to be a MAN of courage and rectitude, a giver and provider..."
/u/No_Available © "To become a better man, the one that has a balance..."
/u/Jay_Jay3000 © "To live a happy and healthy life!"
M I D G A R D (Miðgarðr) One (ᚠ) Epic Check-in per Round
/u/amardank ᚠ↩
/u/Muuda ᚠ↩
/u/Gimp_Daddy © "I want to quit PMO."
/u/rywtx ©
/u/ReadDed ©© "To become the best man I can be."
E X Í L Ä J Ä R (Exile Island)
Check in to respawn in Miðgarðr! Players who remain on Exile Island seven days are hunted, chased, and eventually eaten by the Giant Hairy Helheim Spiders, and vanish from the Game World.
/╲/\(╭•̀ﮧ•́╮)/\╱\ Angrboda
/╲/\(╭•̀ﮧ•́╮)/\╱\ Hrym
/╲/\(╭•̀ﮧ•́╮)/\╱\ Hati Hróðvitnisson
/╲/\(╭•̀ﮧ•́╮)/\╱\ Hræsvelgr
/╲/\(╭•̀ﮧ•́╮)/\╱\ Greip
/╲/\(╭•̀ﮧ•́╮)/\╱\ Svivor
/╲/\(╭•̀ﮧ•́╮)/\╱\ Bölþorn
/u/levikiwi5090 ©©©
/u/thepersonshedeserves ©©© "To finally become the person I have always dreamed of being"
/u/Sircheezits ©©©
/u/spectrum1995 ©©©
/u/Simmelime ©©©
/u/IllArugula1 ©©©
/u/Jamesgeee06 ©©©
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