Masturbation often becomes automatic routine for stress relief or sleep, but the same habit can be helpful or unhelpful depending on context. The key is bringing awareness to why you do it and what effect it actually has.
So mindful masturbation, it's bringing consciousness into our masturbation practice. And so at the core of it, at the heart of it, in the most simple of terms, it's being intentional with our reason why we're doing this right now. Mm-hmm. A lot of times, you know, and exactly as you were describing, like, you know, jacking off does become something that's automatic, or we have our routines, you know, we have our rituals, we, you know, it, it can be something that's, you know, yeah, part of our getting ready routine or something we use to stimulate throughout the day or relieve stress throughout the day or help us to go to sleep. And objectively, like, you know, on the whole, kind of like a blanket statement, like, that's not bad. I think like it can be tricky to use the words healthy and unhealthy in such large terms. So I like to use the phrasing of like helpful versus unhelpful. That's right. Yeah. And I think like, you know, it's It's a really great example too, where like, you know, in some instances, you know, having that routine might be helpful for why you want to jack off now, might also be helpful in some other ways that are playing behind the scenes.
