# Digital Sovereignty · Nine Rites protocol RF-003

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- Practice record: RF-003
- Duration: 28 days
- Stage: Forge · Discipline: Temperance
- Requires: one witness

**Threshold:** From consumed to sovereign.
**Principle:** Cheap dopamine pays the reward of achievement without the achievement.

## Who this practice is for
The man whose attention, and often his sexuality and ambition, is being farmed by feeds, games, and porn.

## Open the practice
Name the one loop with the most grip, scroll, porn, gaming, news. State the 28-day reset to a witness. Remove the loop's easiest access path physically today: log out, delete the app, move the console, greyscale the phone.

## Daily actions (28 days)
1. Friction redesign. The loop takes effort to reach; the alternative, book, weights, craft, a call, is the default within reach.
2. One embodied swap. Convert one virtual interaction into a real one: a walk, a meal, a call over a comment.
3. Binary check-in. Did I stay out of the loop? Did I do the day's real thing? Did I connect with a body, not a feed?

## Weekly review
When did the craving spike, and what was I actually avoiding underneath it? What did I do with the reclaimed hour? Who did I see in person?

## Completion
A written review, one deliberately hard screen-free experience, a long hike, a day offline, a real gathering, and the ongoing rule you'll keep. Sovereignty is not abstinence forever; it is choosing the terms.

## Caution
If the loop is compulsive to the point of distress, this is a support-and-treatment matter, not a willpower rite. Route to professional help. Nine Rites is not therapy and does not replace professional support.