7 Simple Steps To Overcome Lust

Feeling unable to resist the urge
to lust after someone or after a
few? Overcoming lust is a
personal choice to make; it’s not
something that can be imposed
upon you or that you can simply
switch off. Rather, you’ll need
to work at a result that
distracts, replaces, or softens
your lustful thoughts. Here are
some approaches that should work for you
1.
Consider what lust gets you over like and love. Lust is a
fleeting feeling, one that wants to be satisfied immediately
without a thought for the future. Liking and loving a person
are longer term notions, requiring you to address commitment
and respect for the person you’re interested in. Do you want
to spend most of your time making fleeting, shallow relations
with great people or do you want to take the time to get to
know the other person better and connect with them
genuinely? The choice is yours.

2. Have respect for yourself. If you allow lust to be the driver
in your daily relations with others, you’re not connecting fully
with yourself. You are allowing your bodily desires to
determine who you are and how you behave, rather than
letting your mind and personality do some of the thinking.
3. Spend less time looking at imagery that promotes lust.
p****graphy, TV shows which portray men and women as
only sexually attractive to one another, novels filled with
graphic romances, etc., are all ways to increase a sense that
lust is a normal way of relating when, in reality, it’s only a
small portion of life that needs to be tamed.

4. Devote yourself to a real passion. Find what you love doing
and throw your lust into that instead. Become a business
person, a healer, a guru, a politician, whatever drives you and
divert your lustful energies into creating great messages and
energies to create and spread your passion instead.
5. Anchor yourself by hanging around with real people and not
starlets and bimbos. Real people are just as beautiful, only
they don’t feel a need to attract the gaze and flaunt it
because they’re already comfortable in their own skin.
6. Quit flirting with everybody. Flirting with the one person
you’re really keen to make a better, longer term connection
with is fine but don’t let this stay a habit with all and sundry.
Flirting isn’t a method of everyday communication – it can
terrify some potentially great friends, employees, clients, etc.
right away – think about that!
7. Turn to your faith. If you follow a faith, there will be plenty
of guidance to draw on for overcoming lustful thoughts. Find
the relevant texts and apply these to your life on a regular
basis. Talk to a priest or adviser in your religion if you need
more advice and support.