(02-02-2015, 11:59 AM)Fasttrack Wrote: I guess what I'm asking, is for some help and advice in accepting myself for being a male, while simultaneously eliminating the desire to pick up a pair of headphones (which is all too easily accessible) and listen to binaurals nearly every time I get myself off.
Ultimately, the answer to your question lies within you, and the only one who can do this for you, is you.
There are those on this forum who would be quick to inform you that you're incurable, and that you may as well start saving enough money to buy a house, and use it to book a flight to Thailand. I don't buy into that. I don't believe that we are all just the proverbial chip in a millrace -- an opinion that hasn't made me very popular here. (Or many other places, for that matter. Personal responsibility is a thing often feared, I think.)
You have already learned, I trust, that you can "hack" your brain. You are by now aware that your mind is susceptible to suggestion so long as you wish it to be, and that binaurals offer you a sort of "programming tool". I have had some experience with this tool myself -- not for breast growth, but for achieving deep meditative states.
Thus, the first possible solution that comes to mind... is to change the things you're suggesting to yourself. Ask your conscious mind what it is you want to get out of life, really, and look for ways to achieve that. You already know you can make yourself do it.
What you are ultimately seeking, I can't tell you... but for now, seek to learn the power of meditation. How you approach it is up to you. It could be Zen Buddhism, New-Agey mumbo-jumbo, or whatever -- it's all the same mechanism, available to you in whichever jargon you prefer. The mind controls the body, so when you learn to control the mind, the body follows. What the mind can conceive, the body can achieve.
A man can go on blindly stumbling down the path of life... but meditation gives him binoculars and a motorcycle.
You state that you do not desire to use any substances to get there. That's fine... it's just harder that way. Much harder. It's difficult to alter your consciousness deliberately, or know it when you get there, until you have experienced it (altered consciousness) somehow.
So, my message to you then: you can do whatever you want to. You are your own motivator, and your own obstacle.
(02-02-2015, 11:59 AM)Fasttrack Wrote: I've already tried thinking about how having a pair of breasts would hurt my career, make things awkward around friends and family, and the risk of breast cancer, etc.
Except, well, that's just not true.
Unless you have a career in bare-chested male modeling, there are no job-related repercussions. Plenty of fat men have boobs, unintentionally.
Your
real friends will never be bothered.
Breast cancer, maybe... but that's related to your overall health, diet, and lifestyle, and goes the same for any cancers. Cancer is a metabolic disease, so outside of certain occupational or environmental hazards, it's mostly preventable.
Here's the problem with your statement, though: you're trying to tell yourself what you
don't want. That never works, long-term. You can't self-motivate through fear to overcome desire. Desire is much more powerful. You must build desire for what you
do want.