In the doing Tshuva section, we look at some of the methods prescribed by kabbalists to rectify the blemish of the brit. These are worth exploring at certain points in one's tshuva process, but we have learned that for beginners, they can do more harm than good. For most people, The greatest tool for fixing past mistakes and preventing future ones is simple: be happy! 

Depression over your mistakes is the Yetzer hara's most effective tool to push you down even further. Failing and getting back up again is one of your most important jobs in the world. Did you just make the same mistake? Again? You can't afford the luxury of wallowing in your suffering. Get up and dance! Put on some wedding music and jump around like a total idiot! That is the greatest way to reconnect to Hashem at this point, not by crying and fasting. 

We plan to expand on this topic greatly  in the future here at tikunhabrit.com. In the meantime, the continuation of this article quotes Breslovers on the importance of happiness in this world. 

This article, from Briskodesh.org , describes some of the challenges a person may face when he decides to begin rectifying his actions. Its not going to be easy, but the most important things in life never are.

 For help staying away from Internet pornography, see here .

Going to the Mikvah is one of the biggest Tikunim for flaws of the covenant, but many people are afraid or embarassed to go. Here is a practical guide to everything you need to know, from Briskodesh.org

Many people who have committed serious transgressions later join a Yeshivah, and place much effort on studying Torah, and the Torah protects them. In the beginning they feel wasted, but as time goes on they get a lot of their energy back. Sometimes after a person has sinned many times it is very hard for him to study Talmud but if he keeps on trying he will break through the surrounding Klipot.

For a sin that originates with the eyes, it is necessary to repent with the eyes...

In addition to the actual ingathering of the Jewish People to Israel, this prayer has an inner understanding of rectifying sexual sins.

In order to assist the penitent in his path of rectification, masters of the Kabbalah composed special prayers called “Tikunim” which have the power to erase the blemishes caused by sexual transgressions, and to rectify the souls that fell into the realm of impurity through the spilling of semen in vain.

One of the most popular and powerful tikkunim is Rebbe Nachman's formula for spiritual rectification. Even non-Breslovers believe that saying these ten chapters of tehillim has a special power to rectify sins committed in the past.
You can download a PDF with the Tikkun Haclali text here, or download a 50-page pamphlet (with small pages- best to print 2X2 on a page) here .

This article from the Jerusalem Post, January 20, 2006, describes the annual Shovivim tikkunim that took place in Jerusalem. The weeks in mid-winter, from the Shabbat of parshat Shmot to that of Mishpatim (the first letter of the six parshiyot of that period spell out ShOVeVIM, a word which also means "demons") is seen as a particularly propitious time to rectify spiritual flaws realted to sexual immorality. Some have the custom of staying up all night praying every Thursday of that time span.