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Summary of Question:	Help
Category:	General Sikhism
Date Posted:	Saturday, 4/01/2000 9:19 AM MDT

Sat Sri Akal

CAn u please tell a way of how i can stop masturbating
i m addicted to it
i can't stop
and find it very difficult
i had stopped for 6 months and started again
PLease Help Me

Sat Sri AKal

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Dear One:

sat Siri Akaal. If you stopped once, you can stop again. Know that sexual desire is as much about glands and hormones as anything else. The very BEST way to transmute sexual 'horniness' to use a western phrase, is daily kundalini yoga. I cannot tell where you live, but you can start by exploring this site http://www.3ho.org/ to see if there are teachers in your area. (Click on yoga teachers at the top.) Any yoga is good for this problem, actually, but kundalini yoga is BEST.

If you cannot locate a yoga class in your area, then get daily physical exercise, such as running, sports, basketball, swimming. Exercise can help although it is not as effective as yoga. It will stabilize the hormones raging through your body.

Practice of Naam simran daily, both morning and before you retire, will also help raise the sexual energy up through the body, and ease that desire. I'm talking about at least 11 minutes of sitting and chanting the Naam, but longer is better. You will feel relaxed and peaceful and then you should find it easier to sleep rather than masturbate.

Guru rakha,
--DKK