The Purity Project of OKC

There is an old saying that where the attention goes the energy flows. It’s a way of saying that what we do is based in what we think. As a man thinketh, so is he. The same is also true about the mind and pornography. There is a very real body-mind connection as it relates to pornography and pornography addiction. The more we constantly pour pornographic images into our minds, the more poison we add to our lives. At first it is hardly noticeable; but in time, we will witness the mind deadening and life draining outcomes in our lives. Pornography is a dead end. The more we drink in the images, the sicker we become. The sicker we become, the more our lives don’t work. The more our lives don’t work, the more destruction and chaos we leave in our wake. At some point, if we don’t stop poisoning our minds, we will self-destruct.

We choose what we put into our mind

Many of us never consider that we have a choice about what we think about. We act as though we are victims about what flows across the view screens of our minds. But this is not so. The more we know about the mind, the more we can make it work for us instead of against us. The simple fact is this: the mind can only hold one thought at a time and we get to choose what that thought is. Though our thoughts may come from different places, each of the flow through our conscious awareness in in single file order. It is up to us to decide what we will think about. Though thoughts can be hard to control, we can choose which thoughts we wish to ignore or pay attention to.

The body responds to the images we choose

If we choose to fill our minds with the stories and images of pornography, we will also find that our bodies respond in kind. Our body chemistry reacts to what we think about. If we choose to think about pornography, the body will respond with sexual excitement. If we choose to act out on our excitement, our bodies will reinforce our thoughts with enzymes and endorphins that are said to be as addictive as heroin or cocaine. Before long, the poison we willingly drank by choice becomes an addiction over which we have little choice. To those of us who have been truly addicted to pornography, we have found that we cannot quit it on our own–we had to have help. And then we discover that the thousands of image we viewed remain burned in our brain and cause problems of a different kind.

My story

For a period of time in my life, I was addicted to a constant stream of lustful stories, images, and videos. At first it was little more than an exciting diversion. But, before long, I found myself looking forward to times where I could be isolated and feed my cravings little or no interruption. Looking back, it was like filling my mind with an addictive drug or poison. The more I filled my mind with the images, the more I crowded out the positive things that were in my life. It happened slowly but surely. The part of me that once desired connection sought isolation instead. The part of me that needed to find solutions to my problems sought avoidance by numbing my mind through pornographic escape.

Pornography is a poison

Pornography is nothing more than bait. Remember, bait may look attractive to the fish, but it leads to death. If you fill your mind with poison, the good things in your life will begin to die. It may happen slowly–but it will happen. Good emotions will be replaced with selfishness as you seek to please yourself outside of your rightful relationships. The body, soon enough, develops cravings for an addictive high that can only come by acting out. The delicate self-esteem erodes into little more than a constant sense of shame, guilt and regret.

To cure pornography, you must renew your mind.

Pornography starts out as a decision to turn the attention to something that is poisonous to our lives and relationships. And the cure is also found in renewing the mind. This will take some help. Once our minds have become insensitive to the needs of others, because of our years of denial, we will need some guides to help us see more clearly how to get back on the path. That’s what we here at the Purity Project of Oklahoma City are about. We seek to help those who sincerely want to stop poisoning themselves to find the freedom they desire. We hope you’ll contact us and let us know your story and how we can help.