The Best & Most Well Researched NoFap Benefits List!

This is specially made for those of us who wants to know what to gain before going on this crazy journey!

So, go grab yourself a cup of coffee/tea☕ and let’s dive right into it!

Whether you have been doing NoFap or Semen Retention for some time now or maybe you’re just curious about the crazy benefits you can attain by doing NoFap, in this article, I will list The 36 Must Know NoFap benefits (or semen retention for that matter) that will help you dramatically boost your masculinity, heal your porn-addicted brain and overall health to extraordinary new levels!

The massive list of these 36 amazing NoFap benefits provided in this article is probably one of the most well-researched and comprehensive lists of No PMO benefits that you can find online today.

So, if you are interested in learning about all the Semen Retention benefits and NoFap benefits, please ensure that you read this to the end of the article to become free of all the bullshit that you’re actively and unconsciously engaging in, in your everyday life.

Introduction

You deserve to have a clear and non-toxic mind, body and soul. You deserve to attain that, so take your time and go through the list of these benefits at your own pace, and let’s get rid of your addiction to porn, short-term gratification and various other neurotic behaviors you engage in. Are you ready for your long-awaited inner transformation? Great, but don’t forget that, It’s not gonna happen in an instant, it happens when you take action and plant seeds for your future self.

While there are many NoFap forums and communities floating around the web telling real-life stories of how people turned the tables completely in their lives by abstaining from watching porn, fapping and ejaculating on a daily basis, I think it’s important to let you know that these 36 NoFap benefits I will expand on in this article, are based on what I have discovered and experienced for myself and other fapstronauts I have communicated closely with.

You may experience none of these benefits at all, or you may experience a great variety of them or heck, even all of them. It all depends on your personal situation, how bad your porn addiction was/is, your upbringing, tendency to neurotic behavior, depression etc.

So please, don’t expect all of these benefits because it varies a lot from person to person.

It’s also important to remember that NoFap is not a magic pill In itself, rather it’s best supplemented with doing Cold Showers

Exercise, Eating healthy etc. You have to spread out your sources of health to more than just one source (NoFap), if you’re only relying on one source, your foundation of stability In your life, will be very fragile.

Just like the real millionaires and billionaires aren’t relying on only one source of wealth, they spread out their income sources to at least 7 sources. So when the next economic crash is hitting, they have these 7 pillars of income, to support their foundation, instead of only 1, you get the point.

To reap the following benefits as much as possible, I suggest you go all in on hard mode/monk mode and you keep evaluating your progress daily or weekly as you proceed on the journey. Try to stay away from all negative things in your life, as you’re doing NoFap. Only prioritize things that will move you forward, and work on doing other things than just NoFap to supplement your personal development, this could be meditation, art, making music, writing articles, helping other people, learning a new instrument or language etc.

Make a list of all the things you want to do, a to-do list, and make the 1st point your most important priority, your 2nd point your second most important priority etc. As you build out your list, I want you to take a scissor and cut the list, so only the top three tasks remains, this will help you to stay focused on your top priorities, without minding the other unimportant tasks, it’s really important that you actually use the scissor and cut it, because your mind will totally forget all about those tasks, as you do so.

Enough talk, now let’s go straight into the meat of this article and take a further look on the most juicy benefits you can gain from doing NoFap or SR.

Benefit #1: Increased Energy

When you start doing NoFap, you will start to sense that your baseline of energy tends to rise up within the first one or two weeks of exerting NoFap. This massive increase of energy comes from your bottled-up semen. This benefit from doing NoFap, is probably the biggest one, atleast in my case which is why I placed it as the number 1 benefit on this nofap benefits list.

Imagine how much energy it takes from the body to produce semen. It’s pure life that you’re leaking out, and surprise, it has tons of nutritional value in it. It has the capability to create another human being, and you’re just wasting it on your hand by looking at some pixels. Does that entail a true joy?

Instead of leaking this super valuable semen on a daily basis, what about you start transmuting this energy into something more productive? Start building up that business you’ve always dreamt of creating, create that song you’ve always wanted to make, train for your marathon, write articles, learn to draw, the possibilities are endless, but pursue something you have a great passion for, put your sexual energy into it, and let it become the fruit of your future!

When I started my NoFap practice, I came to realize that the increased energy I had built up from doing NoFap and Semen Retention helped me greatly with my self-realization and self-actualization. I became able to go much deeper in my meditation sessions and yoga sessions because of this clarity I got from retaining my semen.

I still remember when I once was on a continuous NoFap streak for 228 days, my energy levels were so high that I could literally my testosterone levels were on an alarming high level! (It was simply too much for me to handle). I knew nothing about how to transmute sexual energy at that time, and so I just had urges to fight with people all the time and show myself like an alpha male in combat. Super ridiculous.

Luckily, I realized after relapsing though that I was able to transmute this powerful sexual energy into productive tasks, instead of fights and other low-consciousness behavior. Also, I started to engage in doing exercises such as Qi-Gong and meditation, which are really useful for controlling this wild energy! You can read more about the benefits of Semen Retention and Qigong in this article.

A friend of mine suggested the ancient Chinese Qigong exercises, and it really proved helpful in balancing out my sexual energy and it helped me greatly with transmuting my sexual energy to more important useful purposes.

If you still feel too energetic and ungrounded because of the massive amount of stored sexual-energy, I suggest you start working out in the gym, play some physical games like football, volleyball or tennis or even doing things like reading a ton of books. These activities can be much more achievable when we have tons of sexual energy, and it still stimulates sexual energy and translates it into productive energy!

Benefit #2: Deeper Authentic Voice

Most of the people who follow NoFap and Semen Retention including myself, of course, have noticed that doing NoFap and Semen Retention for a longer period of time is almost similar to a second puberty! How crazy, right? The good thing about this is that it’s puberty without all the disadvantages like acne, insecurities etc.

I personally think that getting a deep voice was one of the most awesome things to gain at puberty. Right? Sounding like a chipmunk was super frustrating to me, especially as I was a bit late to hit puberty compared to my friends.

When I acquired my deeper voice after going through puberty, I realized that it was actually swinging on a day to day basis. The power and depth of my voice was dependent on how insecure, anxious and depressed I was. The more insecure I was, the lighter and girly my voice was because I was not confident in myself and what I wanted to express verbally. After doing NoFap for months and years, I noticed my voice became 100% stable, authentic and deep. That’s the power of the seed right there guys.

This has been proven scientifically too that people who are more confident about themselves and keep a positive self-image tend to achieve a deeper and more authentic voice. Since you feel relaxed and confident, you also tend to be mindful of what you speak and endeavor to take time to articulate yourself, and hence, you can express each and every word with force and power.

Remember that confident people speak from their stomach and not from their throats! That’s how politicians, leaders, actors etc. speak. This science study also proves the fact that the higher the levels of testosterone in your body, the stronger and deeper your voice would become.

Benefit #3: Increased Confidence

Another huge and important benefit of doing NoFap is increased confidence!

NoFap increases your confidence to immense levels; levels that you have most likely never experienced before in your life! This is one of the most prominent benefits of abstaining from excessive masturbation. In fact, a search on Google for “NoFap Confidence” gave me 167.000 results, which is quite astonishing.

This is one of the benefits I experienced that is very controversial with what science is saying.

Science says that levels of confidence should be on the rise the more you masturbate, which I STRONGLY disagree with, and so do most of the NoFap community who has reached streaks of 100 days and above. And heck – just check the google results! That clearly indicates that this is something people actually experience a lot.

I started to feel the confidence after maybe 10 days of doing NoFap. This varies from person to person, but as I progressed in my streak, the longer my streak, the more confidence I gained. I was able to see myself in a much more loving way, and my self-image was really positive.

I realized that I had always had this invisible block of fear of the unknown in front of me. I was always transferring all my thoughts and mental energy onto that unknown block of fear, which was really draining me. Always analyzing situations in the future and trying to predict their possible outcomes, it resulted in me being anxious and depressed.

But as my confidence grew with rapid speed on my NoFap streak, I realized that instead of always trying to stay away from this unknown block of fear and trying to analyze it and the outcomes it would bring me, I realized I had to stand on top of this unknown block of fear and ride with the waves.

The truth is that there is no past and there is no future because that is not present, it’s not reality. The only thing that will ever be and exist is now. We know nothing about what the future will hold, and so there is no reason to analyze and make false assumptions that most likely will not occur. Fear = False Evidence Appearing Real.

Also, there is no reason to look back on traumatic, anxious or depressing moments in the past. It doesn’t benefit you, rather it steals from you. Focus on the now, but of course you have to stay practical in society. So plan ahead in the future as well, but don’t go completely analysis paralysis.

Benefit #4: A Re-Energized Pre-Frontal Cortex

We all know that the brain is the power center of the body that is responsible for all actions. But do you know that the pre-frontal cortex is the part of the brain that is largely responsible for all your logical reasoning, memory, imagination, and willpower, etc.?

When people get addicted to pornography and excessive fapping, it unfortunately sometimes result in the suffering of Hypofrontality.

Hypofrontality means that the frontal lobes are underperforming. The blood flow and glucose that should be going to the prefrontal cortex is reduced to such a degree that the brain won’t be able to function at 100% anymore. This will result in a great decrease of memory, abstract thinking, and creativity, motivation and discipline, flexibility of responses, using common sense and much more.

Which is why you often see healed Fapstronauts getting rid of brain fog etc.

A recent study made by German researchers at the Max Planck’s Institute in Berlin revealed that viewers of pornography have a smaller reward system, which meansthey possess less grey matter in the brain than people who don’t watch pornography.

After doing NoFap for I would say 100 days+, you should be able to start to feel the issues of Hypofrontality reversing, and you’ll become much more clear-minded and rational, which we will cover in the next benefit! You might even get a healthier relationship to food, alcohol and whatever you’re putting in your body. That at least happened for me and that’s the reason why it ended up on this nofap benefits list.

Benefit #5: Straight-Forward Thinking

The combination of your confidence going up and your energy levels reaching new heights will help your brain in general work smoother and faster than it used to. This results in a clear-minded Straight-Forward Thinking! Your ability to solve problem, focus on daunting tasks and seeing life from a more neutral point of view is really prominent when acquiring this benefit.

Have you felt that after busting a nut, you literally feel exhausted physically and mentally?

Yes, fapping really makes you a lazy procrastinator with no energy to express your true creative, productive and authentic self. I always remember fapping before going to sleep, else I wouldn’t sleep. Really think about it; I had to stroke my wiener every night just to fall asleep. That is unhealthy man, and not natural. It’s like being addicted to painkillers just to be able to fall ASLEEP!

I remember when waking up after having jerked off the night before, I still remained super exhausted and crashed in my brain. It felt like I had a hangover to be honest with you. It was horrible, but I was living from such an unconscious state of mind that I didn’t even realize I was living in this vicious cycle of masturbating every night.

I was so unaware of the vicious cycle I was living, probably due to society’s mass acceptance of masturbating all the time. A society that is promoting teasing content in TV-commercials, internet ads, social talk etc. all the time ain’t a healthy one.

This really slowed my brain down to such a degree that I couldn’t even function in school anymore. I am 100% sure that it was one of the reasons why I dropped out of high school at that time.

This constant draining of dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine resulted in a very hazy thinking. I wasn’t able to solve problems, recall old memories, remember faces, etc. It was horrible!

I think it took me 3-4 weeks for me to start observing my haziness dissolve in my brain, and today, I feel really pure-minded. Thank God for NoFap!

I just realized that I always blamed my old weed addiction for my unclear thinking, but NoFap showed me that excessive masturbation played a massive role in this foggy way of thinking.

Benefit #6: Positive Outlook on Life

Do you know that Dopamine is also called as the “feel-good” hormone? It’s the neurotransmitter that is responsible for feelings like bliss, euphoria, love, motivation and discipline and many more. When you complete a short-term pleasurable activity like having a drink, smoking a cigarette or busting a nut, this neurotransmitter rewards you to keep you craving to do that activity again and again.

The more you retain your dopamine and use it as a reward system for positive and practical habits, the more you reinforce happiness in your life. I discovered that I feel so much more in alignment with my core values and the universe in general.

This may sound a bit woo-woo to you, but for reals, I feel like I am in a meditative state of mind, most of the time. This isn’t due to NoFap alone though, rather it is because I transmuted my sexual energy into doing productive and healthy tasks such as exercising, taking cold showers, etc.

That’s what I want you to do as well. In order for you to get this positive outlook on life, you have to be in constant dynamic and alignment with what you want to achieve, and always do your best to climb up the ladder of things you want to accomplish.

But NoFap itself does also have its own ability to give you this positive outlook on life, for sure – But if you want the positivity to be stronger, I suggest you add on some extras to your NoFap lifestyle.

The semen itself has so much important nutritional value that will rebalance your hormones, brain receptors, and neurotransmitters. If you keep releasing your semen, your brain will certainly reduce the number of D2 receptors being released.

These D2 receptors are neurons used for handling the task of passing the messages from your various hormonal systems to your brain, thereby allowing us to feel a response, which is either good or bad. Imagine that the more you release your semen, the lower the quantity and potency is of these D2 receptors. You could say that they are kind of blurry, and not as high quality as they could be if you didn’t fap excessively.

When you start doing NoFap, your brain automatically starts to rewire and heal itself, which then results in your D2 receptors getting rebuilt. Then, you will suddenly start to enjoy music much more, and it will sound super crispy in your ears, trust me.

You will also start to appreciate having casual conversations with other people and in general, just feel deep gratitude for even being alive. At least, that’s what I have noticed deep; deep gratitude for even being alive!

This is one of the most important benefits I think, and practicing gratitude on your NoFap journey is also crucial to achieving real success!

Benefit #7: Curing Erectile Dysfunction

Another major reason that many people go on the path of doing NoFap or Semen Retention is to find a solution to their erectile dysfunction (ED) issues. ED is, unfortunately, becoming a very common issue among men, and some even face this issue when they are as young as 15-16 years old!

Scientifically, it is not yet proven that fapping will make you prone to getting Erectile Dysfunction, but it is evident that too much porn and of course fapping (even though science hasn’t approved it yet), has a great chance of leading you to lose interest in normal sex. This because your mind will become so numb to intimacy that you need serious hardcore porn to satisfy you.

When you expect the same hardcore sex as shown in porn from your partner, you will most likely face serious issues with your penis not being able to get hard.

I remember I had a GF at the time I was fapping excessively. I had to visualize hardcore porn and other girls in order to be able to have an orgasm. That’s quite sad.

Luckily, doing NoFap or Semen Retention can help you get out of this ED rut.

if you’re having really serious ED issues, I suggest you go the full monk-mode or all in on semen retention. Above all, abstain from all dopamine releasing activities as much as you can, until you start to feel the healing and rewiring taking place.

Benefit #8: Becoming a Role Model for Others

A common benefit I’ve noticed myself is that people start to flock toward you as you retain your semen. This is not to say that you’re becoming an Alpha Male, you’re most likely not, but you’re for sure adopting some of the Alpha Male behavior traits when doing NoFap and/or Semen Retention for a longer period of time.

I have discovered that other men are looking much more up to me now than they did before doing NoFap. This is exactly why leaders have always been retaining their semen. It’s so powerful, and it literally attracts everyone around you to you.

The leader-kind-of-way you’ll start presenting yourself in will serve as a great inspiration for kids as well as teens and other adults. This is the opportunity for you to really make a change in the world, and start the ripple effect of the positive things you want to influence the world with.

You acquire your own mentor/coach diploma by doing NoFap/Semen Retention for longer periods of time. It’s a serious challenge that will require you to face some tough shit, but in the end, there is a purpose and a reason for why you chose to go this path, which will be beneficial.

I believe that the NoFap movement and Semen Retention movement is a step toward awakening the masses from their slumber. We are getting more conscious, dissolving ourselves from our egos and seeing new possibilities in life that we never really acknowledged before.

We are facing the next step of evolution if you ask me, so you better be standup as an authentic role model for others, so you can inspire and help people out. This can be a part of your life purpose. It personally is for me. To be fired up, motivated, and inspired everyday because I get a chance to wake up people from their deep sleep in unconscious behavior, that’s a true life purpose (Although life-purposes are dynamic, and will change 1000 times in your lifetime).

Benefit #9: Balanced Hormones

As I mentioned earlier, the hormonal levels start to decrease as we age. According to experts, the rate of decline in the testosterone levels amounts to around 1 percent every year, but if you start practicing NoFap, the amount of decline in the testosterone levels will be reduced by a great extent.

When you fap, there is a great possibility that your testosterone receptors are getting dramatically reduced, which can result in the destruction of your social life, mental health/self-image and happiness to a great extent. But when you practice NoFap, you will be maintaining the androgen receptors and hormonal balance in control.

Many people have reported that they feel more sexually active at 35 than when they were at the age of 20-25. This is because when you are young (twenties-ish), you have more sexual cravings and it’s easier to become addicted to fapping at that age because biologically, that age is your peak age of reproduction.

You know, not many years ago, people died at the age of 30 and 40, due to the society not having developed pharmaceuticals. You would most likely be a father to a few kids in your twenties at that time, but that age is changing dramatically at the moment because we are getting older and older in society due to our medicines and wide knowledge on science and chemistry.

Benefit #10: Increased Stamina Buildup

This one is very, very real for me!

As I progressed on my NoFap journey and got over 1 year of doing it, my endurance running has been through the roof. I’ve noticed that when I am running long distances, I literally enter a meditative state and I become fully present.

I start to feel a sense of universal consciousness ish inside of me, that makes me able to detach myself from the pain and suffering that comes from running these long distances.

I literally go into a trance state of mind, where I visualize all my goals and the future me when running.

At the end of the run, I always get the energy and motivation to run that extra mile, even though I don’t feel like it.

This is not to say that my running isn’t difficult or hard anymore, but it has become a lot easier after practicing NoFap, for sure! I believe that my inner body is doing much better now than what it did before doing NoFap. It feels like my breathing, blood flow, and muscle repair is just 1000 x better than previously.

Also, you can’t be a professional athlete and jerk off everyday, forget it mate.

Benefit #11: Good Habits

Maybe you can recognize this in yourself or in someone close to you, but do you know that person who always talks about their New Year’s resolutions or always telling you about how he/she is going to quit alcohol, cigarettes and even fapping for that sake?

I know a lot of these people, and I’ve definitely been one of them myself. But how many resolutions can they actually accomplish? Most often, people fall off the track with their resolutions, and turn back into their usual habit cycle, right? The thing here is to create a subconscious habit, and the only way to do that is to repeat, repeat, repeat what you want to accomplish, no matter how difficult it is.

But even though developing habits can be really tough, but once you start cultivating a habit, it becomes a routine and you start following it daily. This process becomes much easier when doing NoFap. Thanks to the increased energy, motivation and straight-forward thinking you get from retaining your golden seed!

When you bust it away, you are not only losing out on your energy but also on your motivation to do certain things. Heck, even your prefrontal cortex starts to get reduced over a period of time, which is also a crucial part in your decision making. Hypofrontality!

So you better start doing NoFap and start today to develop all the good habits you always wanted to have. “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”

Benefit #12: Women Attraction

This is the one benefit that is most widely discussed on various NoFap and Semen Retention forums and discussion boards online. The more you abstain from PMO, the more energetic you feel and your approach and lifestyle changes to a great extent. Your confidence and positive outlook on life will attract women as they always look up to confident men who can take decisions quickly and boldly.

There are various explanations and theories on why NoFap and Semen Retention seem to work in attracting women, but it is most likely due to your increase of testosterone and the other nutritional components your semen holds. At this, your voice becomes deeper, your eyes and skin becomes clear, you become more authentic and in alignment with who you’re supposed to be.

No one knows the exact answer to this, but it is really a profound benefit and I highly recommend you go check out this awesome post and thread on the official NoFap forum that explains the phenomenon of women attraction when on NoFap.

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Benefit #13: You Become More Social

The times I started a new streak of NoFap, it was one of the things that hit me the hardest and most brutally. When meditating at night the first days of a NoFap streak, I usually feel uncomfortable, maybe even anxious. And by looking into my pain points in my body, I discovered this raw, unpleasant feeling of loneliness and showering over me.

As I tend to go with the flow and dive deeper into this feeling to explore and figure out the mechanics of it, I always ended up with deep gratitude for other people, for my friends and family, and how the entire universe is connected and based solely on love.

Typically, after discovering this, it felt like I was climbing over the rocks of loneliness, that is often present on the path of NoFap.

You’re likely to feel this loneliness because that’s the feeling you’ve been hiding from yourself all the time you’ve done PMO. So when doing NoFap, a lot of people quit because of the temptation to kill this pain with the pleasant feeling of an orgasm.

But that is just shooting yourself right in the foot and not facing your problems and issues. I tend to warp my self-image into me believing that I am a lone wolf and an introvert. This is the exact opposite of the truth, rather it’s just me trying to hide from my fears.

“Easy Choices, Hard Life, Hard Choices, Easy Life..” – Jerzy Gregorek

It’s always best to face it right on, accept it, let it shower over you, see it for what it is, and when you feel comfortable in yourself, move on. That roughly described the kind of meditation I do when I’m having this feeling.

I got the inspiration of just allowing all my raw emotions, feelings and sensations to flow over me after I read the book “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle. This is seriously a MUST READ for all the people doing No PMO, and other curious souls that want to know more about meditation, the universe, and the incredible power of the eternal now.

Try to imagine a teenager watching porn the entire day and masturbating excessively, maybe about 5-6 times. Can you imagine this teenager to be in a mental and physical position to go out and contribute to the world? Of course not, he’ll be greatly drained of energy.

Another major reason why PMO can reduce your social life is because when you get an orgasm, your body releases endorphins that gives you a wonderful feeling of satisfaction.

But when you keep experiencing that kind of satisfaction for a long time, your mind will automatically start to associate fapping with one of the best and most satisfying things to do. So you’ll rather have sex with your hand than going out to interact with other people and explore the world.

When you do NoFap, you will automatically feel the urge mingle with other people, start to make new friends and all of a sudden, your social life gets reactivated and it will start to blossom into something much more beautiful than you can ever imagine.

Benefit #14: You Become More Body Conscious

When you start practicing NoFap, you become a lot more conscious of your body (Don’t forget to come back to this NoFap benefits list). If you have either practiced yoga or meditation, you woul have probably noticed that it always helps you to keep you aware of your body and inner sensations. This results in what is popularly called “Emotional Intelligence (EQ).” The main reason behind that is when you do yoga or meditation, your ability to focus and observe is trained.

But once you follow the “Challenge of NoFap,” you will begin to be able to observe and feel every organ of your body. Some Fapstronauts have stilled their minds so much that they can literally feel the blood flow in their bodies. This takes your awareness off from your overthinking mind and takes you into the present moment, which is evolving as a human being. You cannot evolve when you’re in your mind all the time. Surprise.

Benefit #15: Shiny and Acne-Free Skin

I’ve never suffered from extreme acne as many other young people do, but I had a little in puberty and beyond, that was really slow to disappear. By doing NoFap, exercising regularly, taking cold showers and going on a vegetarian diet, I was able to get rid of all my acne in maybe 6 months or so.

It normally takes time, but it’s the natural cure, and so that’s definitely the way to go in my opinion. On a side note, I also observed that my skin was getting clearer and shiny, my eyes were also becoming much more glooming and white with no bloodshot eyes or anything. My eyes also became bigger and not as tired as they usually were.

Benefit #16: Less Sleep is Enough

In the beginning phase of NoFap, I still needed a lot of sleep to function properly on a normal day. But as time went on, I realized that I have a craving for waking up much earlier, not for the sake of waking up early, but simply because I can’t stop being productive. I have so much creativity and energy flowing through me that I have to get up at 5.30 or 6 every morning, and I love it.

This has been reported to be true for a lot of fapstronauts that after some weeks or months of doing NoFap or Semen Retention, which is why it ended up here on the NoFap benefits list. Many Fapstronauts will much rather wake up earlier than later in the day because they suddenly start to feel the urge to get as much out of their time as possible. They want to use their creativity and productivity constantly to be producing, instead of always consuming which they were addicted to before starting on No PMO.

I personally believe that there are some kind of connection here between people who retain their semen and monks and other sages as well. People who tend to do NoFap or Semen Retention have a tendency to start doing a lot of the things that monks and sages do, such as having a clean diet, meditating, waking up earlier, feeling grateful, practicing inner development, etc.

Developing a greater spiritual understanding and practice, getting more connected to the one source and becoming in alignment with the universe is the possible outcome for both Fapstronauts as well as sages and monks.

Benefit #17: You Become Much More Creative

This one is quite huge for me. I have briefly gone over this in some of the other benefits, but this one for sure deserves its own place on the NoFap benefits list.

Since I have been doing NoFap, from the beginning, I feel like creativity has been flowing through me on a daily basis. Super inspirational and creative sparks of ideas and thoughts have been entering my mind. I have been so pumped for some of the ideas I have gotten that made me start the projects I am currently working on.

One of them being the site you are browsing right now www.thisalpha.com. It’s all about educating people about how they can raise their energy, creativity, productivity, and general happiness and mental + physical wellbeing by the use of such an important and spiritually powerful tool as NoFap or Semen Retention.

Your prefrontal cortex section of the brain will start to become much more active than it previously used to be when you weren’t doing No PMO. It is in this section of the brain that creativity blossoms.

Napoleon Hill built his entire fortune by doing semen retention, and he came up with genius ideas and concepts by retaining his sperm.

Creativity is a skill that will be developed over time on your NoFap or Semen Retention journey. The more you start to produce in your life rather than consume, your creativity will start to blossom. Start to think more for yourself, instead of listening to the masses. Do whatever you want to do.

“A thousand voices, but where’s your own?”.

Benefit #18: Better Sex Life

This, of course, depends on the mode you’ve chosen to go with or maybe if you’re doing Monk Mode, Hard Mode or even Semen Retention. This probably doesn’t play a role in your life unless you do stuff like Karezza sex, etc.

Whether you’re doing Karezza or having normal sex, it’s just gonna feel better, and it’s gonna be much more intimate, deep and meaningful than what you have previously experienced.

Trust me on this, there will be a huge difference in the way you’re having sex. I noticed that my primal hunger for having sex has decreased to a balanced level and it doesn’t take up all my thoughts, emotions and feelings anymore as it used to.

I’m not addicted to having sex anymore, which results in me thinking less about it. This results in my brain having zero expectations for the next intercourse, which always makes the sex more interesting and adventurous, rather than visualizing and imagining it all the time, predicting the outcome of sex and having hardcore unhealthy fantasies.

I am able to enjoy sex so much more now, and it’s something intimate and meaningful, not just an orgasm anymore. I feel like I am connected to my partner in a very deep way that is almost beyond words and what language can comprehend to explain.

But now, intercourse is like sharing my soul with my GF, and yeah it’s just amazing. If you have a GF/BF or a person you’ve seen for a while, whether you’re GF/BF yet, I suggest you to try out Karezza. That is absolutely an amazing sex, and you aren’t gonna ejaculate/orgasm, but trust me it’s better than normal sex!

Benefit #19: You’ll Start to Acquire More Time

Another major benefit is that you will suddenly find a lot of time in your hands. This is obvious as you were wasting a lot of time earlier on things that were not important and harmful to your health as well.

PMO eats a lot of time from your day-to-day life as you spend a lot of time browsing through videos and photos looking for content that would satisfy your sexual desire. After finding the perfect video or photo, you find yourself jerking off.

Some people edge for hours to make the orgasm the best it could possibly be so that it either takes you a few minutes or hours to masturbate and then you go off to clean up the sticky mess in your room.

The next day, you’ll wake up unconsciously walking around like a zombie with no flame turned on inside. Low energy, low productivity, low creativity, lots of time spent consuming ridiculous material, and all of that ain’t gonna move you forward.

The more you start taking care of your time by doing NoFap, getting disciplined and doing the things you know you need to do, the more you move ahead of your schedule and create some big time gaps for yourself that can be used for creative and practical work. That’s gonna move you toward your life purpose which will then result in you being happy! J

Benefit #20: Brain Fog Diminishes

While I was fapping excessively, I started to notice that I kept forgetting names, faces, situations, phone numbers, homework and so much more. This is one of the worst side-effects of fapping in my opinion. I hated brain fog.

I was at a point where I really couldn’t think clearly anymore. It was so bad that I thought I had been forever damaged by the weed I smoked in my younger teens. But I was wrong because it wasn’t even the weed, rather it was the constant vicious cycle of masturbating excessively.

As I developed on my journey on NoFap, I discovered that my brain fog cleared up rather fast, but I firmly believe that exercising and eating healthy plays a big role in curing brain fog as well. Getting rid of canned foods, industrially produced food products, etc. plays a big, big role.

I don’t identify myself with any specific diet lifestyle, but I can highly recommend you to try out a fully plant-based diet to see if that would cure your brain fog as an add-on to NoFap or Semen Retention. From my personal experience, I have no doubt about diet playing a massive role in curing Brain Fog. You are what you eat!

Benefit #21: Depression Will Loosen Its Grip On You

This is another huge benefit because often the root cause of your depression stems from you avoiding to face your depressive thought patterns. You’d rather choose PMO instead of facing your dark and evil thoughts. This act of masturbating seems so innocent because while we are caught in the thought loop of going to masturbate, we just can’t seem to get out of it and our inner voice is like split up in two. The angel and the devil talking to us.

Devil: “Just do it. It’s gonna be so good and you’re gonna have an incredible orgasm.”

Angel: “No, don’t do it. Remember what you read online that NoFap is avoiding to face the challenges of life that has to be faced. Just put it back down in your pants and go for a walk. Come on.”

Devil: “You’re already here in front of your screen, why not just take a little peek and check out Red Tube to see if there are any naughty recommended videos.”

Angel: “Seriously, go for a jog or something. It’s not worth it, so don’t kill your streak because you’ll get depressed and anxious afterwards.”

That’s often how the inner conversation looks like, at least in my head.

But as you progress, and listen more and more to the angel in your head as well as your hormones, neurotransmitters, and semen starts to balance, you’ll start to experience the clouds of depressive thoughts starting to float a bit faster over your head. Before you even realize it, the sun is already shining inside of you and everything blossoms.

I had severe clinically diagnosed depression for a few years, and I am sure that NoFap was a massive factor in curing it. It’s about the mindset and perspective. Every single human on this planet has the capability and tendency to experience depression. It’s a level of consciousness where everyone can go, and you’ll end up there based on your perspective.

And it can definitely be hard to give up on your current fixed perspective/fixed mindset as you really have invested a lot of value into the thoughts that brought you to your current perspective, but the truth of the matter is that you have to do something new in order to acquire new results.

You can’t just keep doing the same things over and over again and expect something new or something better. That’s actually the definition of being insane.

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein.

So if you’re aiming to get out of depression, start doing NoFap or Semen Retention as soon as possible. If you’re already on a streak and not seeing the results you want, think about the quote I just cited from Albert Einstein. Start doing something new by changing your habits. You’re simply not doing enough if you aren’t getting the desired results.

What you put in is what you get out, and life tends to give you more than what you put in.

Educate yourself on changing your mindset!

One of the best books I’ve ever read that changed my mindset drastically was “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck.

It’s an amazing book that changed my life from being very certain about a fixed way of looking at things. I was very close-minded, but this book literally turned my mind into a flexible muscle. Now, my open-mindedness is the dominating perspective in my mind.

Click Here to watch Tom Bilyeu from Impact Theory’s review of the book!

Benefit #22: Improved Focus and Concentration

One of the major benefits I experience as a lot of other Fapstronauts talk about it is the massive increase in focus and concentration levels. Similar to how you’re rebooting your computer, NoFap also helps you in rebooting your inner-system and when you stop watching porn for more than a week or so, the pre-frontal cortex section of your brain expands and starts to allow more blood to flow to your brain, which results in greater focus and concentration.

Many Fapstronauts have reported that already within 2-3 weeks of doing NoFap / Semen Retention, they begin to see better results in the work/study they’re engaging in.

Our Brains are obviously not made for porn. When you stop watching porn, you set your brain up for a massive healthy reboot. Your Dopamine levels are slowly brought back to normal which will – as stated earlier – give you a clearer mind, and a clearer mind gives you greater Focus and Concentration.

Also, Fapstronauts who have been struggling with their social skills have seen massive improvements in small talk and the focus on being present in conversations with other people.

Benefit #23: Decreasing Levels of Stress and Pressure

When your mind is stable, your stress levels and neurotic patterns are almost non-visible. People with the habit of doing excessively are much more prone to experience increased levels of pressure and stress.

Somewhere inside the real core you, you know that it isn’t right and acceptable to masturbate to porn and support a mass-destructive industry. Have you ever experienced, that you PMO’ed to some crazy video on P*rnhub, and 5 seconds after, you have ejaculated. You feel a real shame inside of you and in a matter of seconds you close your laptop, pretend like you did nothing and go to sleep.

If you subtract this awful feeling from your life, and eliminate fapping, you will suddenly start to feel purer and acceptable, which would in turn give you a much more positive sense of self, which would create a more stable foundation for your identity to stand on. This will decrease your levels of stress and pressure in the long-term.

Benefit #24: Development of Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

For every minute you are in an angry mood, you are not only spreading bad vibes, but you’re also giving up your peace of mind. Yes, you are sacrificing your peace of mind, and every time you choose to rather engage with your ego than the presence.

When you are on a big streak, chances are that your testosterone levels will be quite high, which can lead to a serious aggressive behavior. This happened to me on a streak, where I almost hit one year and I was pretty much out of control. I was really aggressive and had the urge to fight all the time and compete with other people.

This only became a problem because I didn’t know how to tame this sexual energy that was so present inside of me. By doing Qigong exercises, endurance running, cold showers and meditation, I learned to stabilize this energy. The truth is that I actually had to relapse at the time because I didn’t know how to transmute my energy into something productive or healthy.

It was really important for me to go through this phase, as I learned a lot about how to tame my emotions and feelings, and I developed this ability to let go of negative feelings, such as tense stomach, neck, nausea from anxiety, etc. I learned to let this go by simply observing the emotional triggers via doing exercises such as Qigong, cold showers, etc.

Benefit #25: Improved Mental Strength

This may not surprise you by now, but I still think that this one deserves its own place on the list. All the things I have mentioned so far are pillars for your mental strength to become strong and present. Increased productivity and energy = Increased lust for solving problems and challenges = improved mental strength.

Most people in society concentrate on building their body strength while only a few think about exercising their mental strength. But it is increasingly important for anyone to start focusing on their mental strength as it determines how you control your feelings and the urge to do things that are unhealthy or unimportant.

NoFap does increase your mental strength to a great extent because you have started to suppress the primal urges to release sexual energy, which means you’ve started to climb the ladder to self-actualization if we follow Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

It takes balls to go from the bottom to the top!

The more you say no to your urges over and over again, you develop this mental toughness that not many people in society has at this point.

Benefit #26: Increased Motivation

It is probably one of the top 10 most important benefits that with no doubt you will acquire from NoFap. Your level of motivation and general inspiration to do things will be really present in you. It is because your testosterone levels are rapidly increasing, which in turn energizes your pre-frontal cortex to a great extent. This benefit is huge, and you’re going to feel it quite fast, which is why I decided to give this benefit it’s own place here on the NoFap benefits list, even though you probably already figured that you would become more motivated as you get more energy as we discussed in benefit #1 :-).

When your body is filled with an abundance of positive energy, you’ll crave to do something useful and productive like having longer workouts in the gym, reading books or planning to take your business to the next level.

The moment you start working on your productive tasks, the results will speak for themselves. Take for example, when you’re working out in the gym, you see your biceps developing over time, and that gives you motivation and momentum to work even harder and try implementing new things into your life such as starting a business or learning a new language, etc.

Benefit #27: Increased Sense of Self-Pride

This one is closely related to having a positive self-image, but it’s still something unique to have self-pride. The more you achieve different things on your NoFap journey, you’ll start to develop this snowball effect of self-pride, you will start to value yourself much more which will result in more self-love and self-pride because you’re doing what is in alignment with your values and the identity you want to have. Even just reaching a new day on NoFap is something to be proud of!

The self-pride differs a lot depending on the individual and the individuals unique upbringing and experiences through life. Another major role that will determine your sense of self-pride is a matter of how hardcore your PMO addiction was/is. No matter what I can assure you that if you do NoFap over a longer period of time and if you have a porn addiction, you are certainly going to feel more self-pride when taking on the NoFap journey.

Benefit #28: Feeling Alive by Becoming Familiar with Raw Emotions

Another positive change that comes along with doing NoFap (If you’re doing NoFap the right way) is that you will become so used to the raw emotions that is flowing in your body all the time and you will stop labeling certain emotions as positive or negative. You will attain this neutral standpoint to view your emotions fro. So, you’re not engaging in them, rather you’re just looking at them with no other perspective than being an observer of your thoughts.

This is a benefit as the neutral standpoint to observe from reduces anxiety, depression and negative thoughts in general to a great extent. Because you aren’t labelling your thoughts, you aren’t attaching yourself to these thoughts and emotions, which means they aren’t you. This is also called mindfulness.

Benefit #29: Gratitude & The Law of Attraction

Gratitude is one of the strongest powers of the universe that a human can possibly tap into. By being grateful, you’re literally allowing everything good to stream towards you. This is so because you will valuing everything without taking anything for granted. This unlocks the fullness of your life and helps you to understand your emotions, thoughts and social circumstances in a much clearer way than you ever thought was possible.

I also feel that the more grateful I feel, the more spiritually aligned I am with the universe and myself. I know it sounds super new age, but I really feel like I am connecting to the source and to the power of laws like Law of Attraction. This only has a chance of working for you, when you’re feeling grateful when you’re not communicating and operating from a point of lack in your life.

I know this might sound crazy to some of you who don’t believe in this “woo-woo,” but The Law of Attraction, seriously worked for me, especially, after going on NoFap as well as doing MindMovies daily. By following the absolute mind-blowing recipe from MindMovies and going through their material, then before even realizing it, I was attracting so many random objects that I would think of in a matter of hours.

It’s all about the repetitive work and allowing everything to be realistic without doubting yourself. In this case, it helps a lot to be grateful, so you can speak from a place of you already being abundant, compared to being a victim and taking everything for granted.

So instead of staying home and engaging in PMO, take a trip out in nature, and be grateful for everything. Practice The Law of Attraction, and I promise you, it works. It really does.

If you’re doing NoFap and Semen Retention + Practicing Gratitude along with The Law of Attraction, you’re seriously doing yourself a great favor, and setting yourself up for success x 1000000.

Benefit #30: Goodbye Short-Term Gratification

As you start to control your addiction to PMO, you will over time become better and better, and you will learn to control your cravings. As you’re exercising this muscle of abstaining from PMO, this will flood into other addictions and negative habits you’re engaging in as well.

That could be:

Drinking alcohol

Eating sugar

Playing too many video games

Browsing Instagram for 1 hour+ pr. Day etc.

As you become better at abstaining from NoFap, you will most likely watch your unhealthy behaviors and addictions like those I listed above, which will become less of a problem for you.

You know your mental strength is seriously developing when you reach this point of seeing your addictions and other unhealthy behaviors diminish.

This is due to the muscle of abstaining from PMO you’re training, which results in a hormonal and chemical balance in your body.

Benefit #31: Urge to Expand Your Mind and Learn

People who do NoFap as a part of their lifestyles tend to become wiser, mature and healthier than people who keep engaging with PMO everyday.

As studies say, people who are informed and have longer educations tend to live longer than people who aren’t informed.

The levels of open-mindedness that comes from retaining your semen is crazy.

Your urges to learn more about yourself, the world, society, the universe, spirituality, meditation and so much more is really a thing for the Fapstronauts out there.

Life stops when we stop learning, so why not open yourself up to never become satisfied with enough knowledge? By doing NoFap for the rest of your life, you’re going to be a life-long learner for sure, and that is exactly what the world needs today; people who are wiser and can pass the seed of information of retaining semen and doing NoFap.

The tasks you saw as daunting and difficult to complete before now becomes a fun challenge to do, just because you see the opportunity for you to observe how your mind works in a scenario like this and how you respond with thoughts and emotions etc.

This is the golden way to learn more about yourself, take on challenges and things you don’t really want to do. That is key to high levels of success. You got to put in that extra kick to get that extra.

Benefit #32: Increased Spiritual Interest and Understanding

This one is huge, and really deserves a room here in this NoFap benefits list. NoFap can bring out more energy and confidence in you, but not only that.

NoFap and retaining the power of the nutritious and valuable semen can also bring the spark to start awakening your spiritual dimensions. NoFap/Semen Retention can lead you to the path of attaining enlightenment.

I am still very often in a meditative state of mind as I am progressing on my journey of NoFap. I exercise always, eating healthy, taking cold showers and doing NoFap. That’s it! And I seriously feel much connected to the universe, which is an amazing feeling! Maybe also due to my practice of The Law of Attraction and various other techniques.

But it really doesn’t take anything super crazy remarkable to get to this satisfactory point where I am at the moment I am not saying this to brag or to talk down to you only to inspire you to see what you are yet to accomplish. I am not even at the top of the mountain yet, and I will never get there because there is no mountain to be climbed, there is only now.

You’ll start to contemplate about some seriously deep philosophical and existential questions.

You may feel like an outsider, as people are always gossiping, going out for parties, etc. when you just rather want to stay home, meditate and watch some cool videos on the ego or something.

Embrace that you’re on this path, you’re on it for a reason!

Benefit #33: Build Your Dream Body

You’ll get motivated and fired up to building your dream body because you want to take care as good care of yourself as much as you can with the high levels of self-pride and self-love that you know feel in your body and mind. You’re not really doing it to impress other people at this point, instead you just want to take care of your body so as to stay in shape and to be able to function properly.

Building muscles is a great way of releasing sexual energy, and converting/transmuting it into something much more valuable for you to exactly stay healthy and stay mentally clear!

People who really love to build a muscular body can largely benefit from doing NoFap as it gives them the perfect platform to build their body and the energy to workout in the gym for longer hours.

Yes, NoFap and or Semen Retention can really prove to be a lot more beneficial because it provides you with a lot more added energy that allows you to build your dream body, as well as the mental sharpness that is needed for you to get to the next levels without any massive hurdles.

Benefit #34: Hair Regrowth and Facial Hair Regrowth

This is one of those benefits that 50% of the people seem to get and 50% seem not to get.

But after 2 months of doing NoFap approximately, a lot of Fapstronauts have reported that their hair grows much faster than before. Dandruff is also not present anymore, and the scalp just feels more natural and soft just after 2 months of doing NoFap! I’ve seen people grow their hairlines back to normal, trust me – It’s crazy if you’re one of the Fapstronauts who are prone to hair regrowth on NoFap.

This is mainly because fapping and doing PMO decreases the androgen receptors in your body and with every ejaculation causes an imbalance in the level of androgen and estrogen receptors in your body, thereby leading to most of the bodily functions to become hampered.

But once you start taking the reboot of doing NoFap or Semen Retention, the levels will get balanced to some extent along with the dopamine receptors, and that is the reason that some people might see an increased hair growth in their bodies.

What I’ve researched and what I’ve found seem to work best for people who are suffering from hair loss on NoFap is supplementing NoFap with Visualization.

Visualize your hair growing back every single day until you see results. This is what Dr. Joe Dispenza did to heal his body after being in an accident, where he broke his spine and back. He was told by the doctors that he would never be able to walk again but after 9 weeks of visualizing, he was back on his legs.

This is the power of visualization.

I personally use MindMovies to create my own visualization videos on how I want my life to be. I’ve been using it for two months now, and I see the results of it getting more and more evident each day I use it. I combine it with NoFap and Law of Attraction and it is the key to success.

Dr. Joe Dispenza uses MindMovies also btw, and he uses their intelligent software in all of his live events and courses!

Benefit #35: Clear Eyes

This one is very real and is also a common trait in Alpha Males and long-term Fapstronauts.

If you’d like to see an example of how clear eyes you can get. I suggest you check out Aanghel on YouTube.

I got really clear and more open-wide eyes myself, which is also a factor in women attraction on NoFap I believe.

At this point, you’ve literally removed all the toxins and unhealthy particles inside your body, as well as your thoughts getting clear and positive, which has a huge effect on your bloodstream and then clearance of eyes.

Benefit #36: Bird Perspective on Life

A lot of people face a tough time solving their day to day problems. The main reason behind this struggle is that they all look at their issue from the wrong and problematic fixed angle, instead of having a clear and open perspective on the issue.

As you’re developing yourself with NoFap and exercising add ons you have, like cold showers, etc. you’ll start to see your Bird Perspective getting more and more evident.

You’ll start to figure out the mechanics of your mind and body, so you that you will know how to detach yourself from certain outcomes and situations, which will then smoothen your life and make it a much more pleasant ride, than not having a Bird Perspective. It helps you to become 100% engaged and unconsciously responding to your emotions and feelings from a sense of ego.

By using the Bird Perspective, your problems in life will get smaller and more achievable. They’ll stop appearing as big blocks of difficulty and pain.

Thank you for checking out the NoFap Benefits List, 36 Benefits of doing NoFap / Semen Retention, I really hope that you could use this overview of the benefits, so you can decide whether this is something for you or not. Maybe not, but I can imagine that these benefits would be really nice to have in your own life, am I right?

I personally think that times go by so super-fast, and we’re not really here on earth for a long time. Why not get most out of it, challenge the norms of society and do what you have to do, to be able to express yourself fully, every single day of your life!

It’s your life, and you’re the architect of it, remember that.

Remember to help other people, when they need your help, but don’t forget yourself as well, you’re your own best friend, and you’re going to live with yourself, for the rest of your life. You want to feel good and independent, you can’t rely on other people forever to make you feel good.

Become comfortable in yourself.

NoFap and- or Semen Retention is a big opportunity for learning more about yourself, and I seriously advice you to take the journey, but that’s up to you – I just believe that the results speaks for themselves.