Semen retention science

– Benefit (Modern View): Forms a powerful neuromuscular reflex. During sexual arousal, you will involuntarily direct energy upward (through tongue and diaphragm tension), physically helping to prevent premature ejaculation.

– 11. Prostate Point Stimulation:

– How to do it: Find the point between the anus and the root of the penis, closer to the anus. (The area closer to the penis root is firm tissue – not our target). Look for a soft inward dip; fingers can sink in deeply here. Press firmly on this point with your fingers. Do 45 presses, rest, then another 45 presses.

– Benefit: This is a “secret point” in Taoism. Its stimulation directly trains the pelvic floor muscles, prevents and treats prostatitis, and provides a powerful impulse to raise energy up the spine.

Stage 6: Completion and Filling with Light

– 12. Slapping the Entire Body:

– How to do it: Use your palms or a bamboo whisk to slap your entire body, paying attention to the joints.

– Benefit: “Wakes up” the capillaries, stimulates lymph flow, dislodges energetic blockages.

– 13. “Rubbing in” Sunlight and “Eating the Sun”:

– How to do it:

– Rubbing: Gather sunlight in your palms and literally “rub” it into your skin, from head to toe. Visualize the skin beginning to glow from within. Physically, vigorously rub the skin of your entire body.

– Eating: Look at the sun through closed eyelids. On an inhale, open your mouth and “draw in” the sun’s rays, visualizing yourself chewing and swallowing clumps of golden sunlight.

– Benefit (Ancient View): You fill yourself with pure Yang energy, displacing remnants of darkness and heaviness.

– Benefit (Modern View): Deep visualization and work with photons of light stimulate the pineal gland (epiphysis) and hypothalamus, harmonizing all the body’s biorhythms. This is an antidepressant and a source of powerful psychosomatic harmony.

Outcome: You have conducted a complete reboot of your bioenergetic system. Now your body is not an old, rusty pipeline, but a clean, shining conductor for power, ready for transformation. Now it’s time to move further and pump energy. We continue the training and move on to strengthening muscles, tendons, and ligaments. Without this, energy cannot move upward. Working with the body – that’s where the key lies!

The “Three Pillars – Steel Tendons” Complex: Strength, Stretch, Grounding.

This complex simultaneously lays three foundations: flexibility of the spine and tendons (Pillar 1), unshakable strength in the legs and pelvis (Pillar 2), and energetic elongation that fills the body with power (Pillar 3).

Pillar 1: “100 Heroic Bows to the Sun” (Dynamic Warm-up and Flexibility)

– Technique:

– Stand straight, feet shoulder-width apart. Inhale, raise straight arms out to the sides and up, palms facing the sun.

– With a slow, smooth exhale, bend forward, aiming to place your palms on the floor in front of you. Knees can be slightly bent. Head is relaxed.

– Inhale, straighten up, extending the spine, and raise your arms out to the sides and up, arching back slightly.

– Exhale, make another bow to the Sun.

– Quantity: Start with 10 times, adding 1—2 bows daily. Goal: 100 every morning. Do it for quality and mindful movement, not speed.

– Benefit:

– Physiology: Improves flexibility of the entire spine, strengthens the lower back, stretches the hamstrings, enhances blood and lymph circulation.

– Energetics: This exercise is a powerful pump for circulating Energy. The bow – releases old energy into the earth; the rise with the arch – receives new energy from the cosmos.

Pillar 2: “Horse Stance” (Static Strength and Grounding)

– Technique (Basic Level):

– Place your feet much wider than shoulder-width, toes pointing straight ahead or slightly turned out.

– Slowly bend your knees, lowering your hips until your thighs are parallel to the floor (90-degree knee angle). A half-squat position. Keep your back absolutely straight!

– Extend your arms in front of you at shoulder level, as if embracing a large ball. Palms face down or toward you, fingers relaxed. Gaze forward.

– Breathe deeply and evenly. Hold the pose for 60 seconds.

– Progression (Advanced Level):

– Rise onto your toes. This dramatically increases the load on the calves, thighs, and pelvis, and requires immense concentration.

– Add the perineum lock. Throughout the hold, maintain a light tension in the pelvic floor muscles, drawing the perineum upward. This directs energy upward and prevents its leakage.

– Gradually increase the holding time.

– Benefit:

– Physiology: The best exercise for strengthening the pelvic floor, thigh, and lower back muscles. Powerfully stimulates the kidneys and adrenals.

– Energetics: You are a mountain. You accumulate the Earth’s force through your feet and direct it upward, strengthening your core – the reservoir of Energy.

Pillar 3: “Tree Pose” (Elongation and Filling)

– Technique (Basic Level):

– Smoothly come out of the Horse Stance and immediately transition to this pose by straightening your legs.

– Raise your arms out to the sides and up, palms facing the sun. Stretch your entire body maximally: from your toes to your fingertips. Imagine being pulled by the crown of your head toward the sky and by your tailbone toward the earth.

– Spread your fingers, feel the stretch, reach for the sky and Sun with your whole being.

– Breathe deeply. Hold the pose for 60 seconds.

– Progression (Advanced Level):

– Rise onto your toes. This intensifies the full-body stretch and demands even greater concentration.

– Add the perineum lock. As in the Horse Stance, this seals and directs the energy up the spine.

– Benefit:

– Physiology: Stretches and strengthens all the spinal stabilizer muscles, improves posture, opens the chest.

– Energetics: You are a tree reaching for the sun. You actively absorb Celestial energy (Yang) and channel it downward along the spine, filling the entire body.

Working with Weights (Master of the Cave Level)

– Horse Stance with Dumbbells: Hold two suitable dumbbells (start with 1—5 lbs) in front of you, arms in the same position. This increases load on the shoulders, core, and intensifies energetic pressure in the lower abdomen.

– Tree Pose with a Kettlebell: Hold a kettlebell (start with 9—18 lbs) overhead with straight arms, stretching your whole body upward while engaging the perineal lock. The kettlebell is ideal because its offset center of gravity forces all core stabilizer muscles to engage. This is an ultimate training for connecting the upper and lower body, for forging a true “axis of power.”

Important Precautions:

– Breathing: Never hold your breath in static poses! Breathe deeply and evenly into your BELLY.

– Graduality: Don’t rush with weights. Master perfect technique without weight for at least 2—3 months.

– Contraindications: If you have knee, hip, or spinal issues, perform these poses with caution and only after consulting a physician.

Outcome: This short but incredibly effective complex, performed daily, will build you a steel-like muscular-tendinous framework through which your life force will flow unimpeded, like current through high-voltage wires.

Chapter 7: Testicular Breathing. Alchemy in Action

The Foundational Taoist Exercise.

Please, remember once and for all: Testicular Breathing is not just an exercise. It is a meditation, a prayer of your body, the most direct way to transform raw spermatic energy (Jing) into vital life force (Qi) and spirit (Shen).