Fellow warrior on the path
Pushing your mind and body is so crucial because they're one and the same. The body leads the mind and vice versa. When you have good info and a strong body, you'll have the confidence and will to both remember and put the knowledge you learned into action with a clear mind.
Trusting the intelligence in your body (i.e. your feelings and gut instincts) is definitely the way to become the total package as a man. Aligning those energies to serve you makes you feel like you can do anything.
Off the top of my head, when I'm doing the following, I feel like the world is mine and I can do anything:
- Reading and listening to quality self-development content
- Eating clean -- lean meats, smoothies with kale/spinach, avocado, bananas and other good nutrients
- Regular meditation
- Jiu-jitsu, yoga and pushups (haven't gotten back to the weights yet, but I'm going to)
- Cold showers multiple times per day
- Journaling to organize my thoughts, dump the brain clutter and review the things that are important for me to remember
- Cutting porn out completely
- Deep breathing exercises
There's so much we're not taught about our minds, bodies, testosterone and sexuality. When your life becomes about being the highest version of yourself in all of these ways, you'll feel like a king no matter what path you're taking
I invite you and everyone else to keep dropping literature that you're reading or that has helped you.
You're right about this thread being powerful. We need time apart from women to sharpen each other up as men with no ego involved.
You see,
@Dmitri , you might have felt alone in what you're going through, but because you had a safe place to put your ego aside and share with your brothers, you can quickly see that it's not just you. Me,
@Mister_DoItNice and probably a hundred other dudes in this thread have similar experiences.
We can only be so vulnerable around our women, so I don't take these kinds of conversations lightly, because we can become better men instead of suffering by ourselves.