Five old-timers shared their tools of using their body to overcome their lust temptations:

• Brushing off shame from my forehead and shoulders with flicks of my hand.
• Turning my eyes from left to right and up and down in order to interrupt my thinking.
• Getting down on my knees faking that I need to tie one of my shoelaces.
• Picking up litter.
• “Voting with my feet”: changing my chair just a little bit so that the person my lust wants to lust after is not in my field of vision anymore.
• Sitting on the same side of the table as the person my lust is driving at—instead of in front of the person.
• Sitting with my back to the crowd of people in a restaurant, bar, or any other public place.
• Closing my eyes or turning my head until a lust object has passed.
• Turning my head until a lust object has passed.
• Crossing the street in order to avoid a trigger.
• Choosing the cash desk with the unattractive cashier.
• Wearing a rubber band on my wrist and snapping it whenever I experience lust: in this way stinging my way back into reality.
• Turning my head away, turning my eyes away.
• Blocking my ears with my hands, putting a pillow over my ears, turning on the radio, putting in headphones.
• Getting some fresh air, opening a window, walking outside, taking a cold shower.
• Using a sheet of paper at the computer to quickly block any bad image that comes in.
• Blurring my eyes slightly if I am in a crowded place.
• If I’m in an airport, crowded railway station, etc., going to where there is the least amount of people.
• Sometimes just being still and praying quietly helps too.
• “The SA salute”—raising a hand over my eyes, reducing my vision.
• Taking off my glasses when I’m walking or entering a restroom.
• Having some change in my pocket and throwing one of the coins away to get rid of a look.
• Stomping my foot and say “No.”
• Putting down my car window and saying “Get out!” to a recurring thought.
• Lighting a candle as a prayer for someone I’m lusting after, then blowing it out when the thought is gone.
• If I am alone and think of someone as a lust object, I sing aloud “Happy Birthday” for the person to remind myself that the person is a real person, not some possession of mine.
• Kneeling down in a public place and saying the third step prayer out loud.
• Doing a job I don’t want to do, like cleaning the toilet.
• Putting on a cap and pulling the peak low over my forehead so that the view is obstructed.
• Zoom is a fantastic medium to attend meetings nowadays, but I always have Post-it notes handy to stick on someone’s face my lust wants to lust after.
• Choosing the route that has the least likelihood of having a trigger.