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Practice testicle breathing and scrotal compression twice a day for about fifteen minutes in the morning and fifteen minutes in the evening. This method alone yields real benefits. In addition to those benefits already mentioned, it also helps cure impotence or deficient virility. Insomnia and nervousness often radically improve with these breathing techniques. General lack of energy and associated symptoms may also be relieved with regular practice.

If you have retained your sexual fluid for four weeks or more, the exercise should start to take effect within three days after beginning practice. The testes feel warm, tend to "jump", and may itch somewhat. These indicate that the testes are receiving unusually high amounts of vital force. The tissues are already regenerating. These signs occur only if the exercise is done properly. A month or two of exercise will produce substantial increase in strength and well-being.

VENTING EXERCISE FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

After practicing scrotal compression for 2 to 6 weeks, some students with high blood pressure notice a large flow of chi energy to the head. They feel tension in the head because the blood has followed the upward flow of the vital power. This is not unlike a mild symptom of the "Kundalini Syndrome", in which freed energy races about the body out of control.

If you suffer from high blood pressure and haven't practiced meditation to open the microcosmic orbit (described in chapter 8) which distributes the energy evenly through the circuits of the body, you can meditate on two points to vent excess pressure. These are the Ming-Men, on the spine directly opposite the navel (between T-12 and T-13) and the Yuang Ch'uan (K-l point), on the balls of your feet.

To locate the Ming-Men place a string around the waist like a belt. Make it perfectly horizontal and place it across the navel. The Ming-Men lies where the string meets the spine. If you have a big hanging belly, measure from where your navel was before it fell. When you bend over backwards from the waist, the point feels like a hole in the spine.

The other point, the Yuang Ch'uan, lies on the foot. When clenching the toes, it is the deepest central point on the ball of the foot.

Once you've found the point on both feet, tape onto them spiny little balls such as a prickly chestnut or plain tree seed pod. Place both hands at the back and press firmly on the spiny ball while concentrating on the M4ng-Men point. This draws the chi and blood there.

After you feel the power flow to the Ming-Men, direct it down the spine and legs to the Yuang Ch'uan. Press down on the ball so that you feel the spines very distinctly. In severe cases it may take a month or two to get the power into the Ming-Men and bring it down to the Yuang-Ch'uan.

If blood flows too strongly to the head during or after scrotal compression, vent the power. Imbalanced force will flow out of the body through these two points. After practicing the scrotal exercises, many students open the microcosmic orbit so that their energy flows in a continuous circuit. This alone has often cured high blood pressure.

DIAGRAM 18

Yuang Chuan K-1

THE POWER LOCK EXERCISE FOR SEALING THE

SEMINAL FLUID

When you are well trained in this exercise you can use a variant of it during sexual intercourse, known as the Big Draw. The power locking method is done without a partner as a daily practice exercise. The method is the best for building power in the perineum to seal the seminal fluid. The sexual energy that we deal with here is different from the testicle breathing and scrotal compression and it's important to learn the subtle difference.

In the testicle breathing you move the cold sexual energy, the ching chi that lies in the scrotum in its yin state after production by the testicles, up to the head and then down into the body. With the scrotal compression exercise you force the chi energy that is produced in the organs—heart, lungs, spleen, etc.—down to mix with the cold ching chi resting in the sexual organs. Then you move the resulting warm energy upwards and circulate it.

In the Power Lock Exercise we arouse the sexual organ, turning the cold energy that lies in the seminal vascular duct into hot sexual energy. This heat is generated by the movement of millions of sperm cells. This yang energy is more explosive, harder to control, and always seeking the most direct path out to a cooler (yin) environment. In most men the path of least resistance is out the penis. In a Taoist master the easiest channel is up into the higher centers of the body. But it takes a lot of practice to control the anus muscle and the involuntary muscle around the seminal vascular duct to reverse the flow towards the penis and to help push up the sexual energy into the spine and upper body.

There are 4 levels of Power Lock practice:

1. Beginner: use muscles of the fist, jaw, neck, feet, perineum, buttocks, and abdomen to divert sexual tension and block the urge to ejaculate, and push upward the hot ching chi which created the aroused state.

2.Intermediate stage: less muscle use of the fist, jaw, feet, and increased reliance on the pelvic diaphragm, and sphincter, sacral, and cranial pump to help move up the sexual energy.

3.Advanced stage: less muscle in the perineum and more use of sacral and cranial pumps. Greater power of mind to move the ching to the crown center. By concentrating power at the upper part of the crown you draw the energy from the lower center to the higher center.

4.Most advanced stage: pure mind control only, no need to use the muscle, just use the mind power to command the penis, and command the ching energy to move up and down, to be erect or flaccid, as you will.

In this exercise, you need to arouse the penis about 90% of the way to orgasmic ejaculation. Do not go beyond the point of no return, or you will have no sperm chi to practice with for awhile. As you master the Power Lock you may fine tune how close you come to ejaculation and stop at 98% or 99%. Rub the glans of the penis until it is erect. When you have a feeling that orgasm is imminent, stop and do the Power Locking method 3 to 9 times or until the erection subsides. This counts as one exercise. Repeat this procedure—stimulate penis to erection and then do the locking until it subsides—as many as 3-9-18-36 times at a sitting.

Practice makes perfect. Once you gain control of your sexual organs totally in this practice, you will naturally have full control in sexual intercourse. I recommend practicing up to 10,000 times in order to gain advanced control, although some will naturally master it much more quickly if they have trained their mind through yoga, meditation, or other disciplines. If you are not involved in a program of daily physical discipline, I suggest you at least do some warmup exercises and stretching before practicing the Power Lock. This will tone up the energy in your organs and make it easier to feel your internal chi energies and thus hasten your command of your sexual energy.

POWER LOCK EXERCISE: STEP BY STEP

1.Sitting position is the same as in Testicle Breathing—feet flat on the floor, wear loose pants or naked from the waist down. Stimulate your penis to erection. Center your attention on your sexual organs and the expanding energy in the penis and scrotum.

2.Inhale deeply through your nose when near orgasm. Simultaneously clench both fists, claw your feet down, make them feel like vacuum pumps sucking at the floor. At the same time clench your jaw, tighten the cranial pump at the back of your neck and press your tongue firmly to the roof of your mouth. Inhale once more and draw up the entire genital-anus region, concentrating on the Hui-Yin (perineum), urogenital diaphragm, and especially the penis. Pull the energy from the penis to the perineum by squeezing as tightly as possible. Holding your breath, slowly count to 9 with all muscles fully flexed. When you are out of breath, exhale and release all muscles in the body. You may feel energy rush up and down, especially in the sexual region.

After exercising for a week or two, you may actually begin to feel the muscle contraction pull your penis up and in. The anus will feel like it's closed super-tight. Unless indicated otherwise, all breathing is to be done through the nose. Nasal breathing affords better control of the air inhaled. It filters and warms the air and supplies life-force of well balanced quality. The whole body must relax on the exhale. Allow all tension to flow out of you as if you were in meditation.

Inhale, clench, and pull up repeatedly on your sexual region, holding the energy at the perineum. The retention at the perineum is very important. If you release your attention the hot energy will drop down to the sexual organs or leak out to the penis. If you release the energy it will drop down and you'll have to start again. Do this for at least one week.

3. Start with arousing the penis. Clench fists, feet, neck, and jaw, on the inhale. Draw up the entire genital organs, diaphragm, anus, and especially the penis, pull the hot energy up the perineum and continue to draw it up to your coccyx. A little up from the bottom tip of your spine. Feel it enter the hiatus opening in the sacrum.

Activate your sacral pump by arching your lower back outward in order to straighten the spine. This makes it easier for the chi to rise. Hold the energy at the sacrum section, keep on inhaling and pulling, inhaling and pulling in the sexual energy from the sexual organs until you can feel the erection calm down. Sometimes it may need 3-9 inhalations with increasingly hard contraction. Squeezing the buttocks more tightly may help you force the ching into the sacrum. When you're out of breath, exhale. Then relax and let your sacrum and neck go back to their normal positions, this will help activate the two pumps.

If you practiced the Testicle Breathing (or already opened your microcosmic orbit), when you do the Power Lock it will be much easier to get the hot sexual ching to enter the sacrum. Otherwise this area is usually a little difficult to work through because sperm chi energy is denser than other types of chi and has to be pumped up. That's where the sacral pump comes in. Some people experience pain, tingling, or "pins and needles" pain. When the hot sexual energy enters the hiatus, don't be upset if it happens to you. You can help the ching get past the coccyx if you're having trouble with it by gently massaging the area with a silk cloth from time to time.

5.Your next stopping place is at your jade pillow. This is at the back of your head, between C-l and the base of the skull. Do it in the same manner as described—keep drawing up the energy up to the perineum, sacrum, T-ll, and the base of the skull. The cranial pump may fill with energy and pound furiously when the energy first moves through.

6.The next stopping point for the energy is the Pai Hui, at the crown of your head. Repeat the same process of arousing and deflating your erection by drawing the energy up. Make sure you tuck in your chin slightly and squeeze in the skull to further activate the upper cranial pump and keep the upper spine straight. Keep on pulling the energy to the top of your head until you get the erection to subside.

When the energy finally goes up into your head, you'll have the very distinct feeling of warmth and tingling sensations from the energy. The usual immediate response is that it feels good and amazingly refreshing. Some people claim they can think more clearly and are more creative; it's possible they are at a stage where they can easily convert the ching chi into expanded consciousness automatically. This sperm energy is later converted into the original chi, the pure life-force, in the spiritual levels of Taoist Yoga. When we get older we have used up so much of our brain energy that the fluids gradually begin to dry up, and leave a cavity in our head. The Power Lock helps to transport the sexual energy to fill the cavity; instead of storing it in the scrotum it is stored in the higher regions of the body/mind that can take immediate benefit from it. Taoists regard the sexual energy as a creative energy that can be transformed to any part of our vital organs, glands, or brain.

Practice the Power Lock until you can pull up the sexual energy from the penis to the head in one pipe. In the beginning you can just go from one station to another. Later the back channel (governor channel) will feel more open. Eventually you will be able to put your mind in the testicles and at the crown of the head and just bring the sexual energy from the testicles all the way up to the brain. Take time to really feel the sexual energy when you practice. Don't rush it, and always keep those pumps going after the exercise as you breath in and out. Gradually use more mind than physical pull when you do all this. Let the energy feeling be your guide.

7. When you feel the energy has filled the brain, concentrate on the mid-eyebrow and bring it down through the nose and the palate and

down from the tongue to the throat center, heart center, solar plexus, and then down into the navel. This circulation is aided by the internal pressures created during the Power Lock. You press the lower trunk energy into and up the spine. At the same time, you press the energy in the upper body downward and hold the contraction as long as you can. When you exhale completely relax the whole body. The natural direction of the chi is to continue in a circle up the back of your body and down the front to the navel.

Continue cycling the sexual energy in this way until your erection subsides. In the beginning, and especially if your very aroused sexually, it may take 3 to 9 such cycles to accomplish. But after you've practiced for awhile, one such round is enough.

8. Perform 36 complete contractions in the morning and at night. Once you've got the hang of it, for the normal man 36 repetitions, morning and night, should not be unduly strenuous. If you are very aroused you will do fewer repetitions as each erection will take longer to subside. With such intensity of training, you will easily develop the muscle tone needed for effective seminal retention within a month or two. How quickly you progress is not important; what is essential is that you progress steadily. Rock bottom minimum should be one round per day just to keep the habit. If you happen to see a pretty woman or photograph that arouses you during the day, you can instantly perform the Power Lock and draw the energy up. Make sure your boss is not watching as he may think you're having a seizure.

The preferred times for these exercises are from eleven P.M. until one A.M. or 11 A.M. until one P.M. During these periods the tide of Yin Energy changes to Yang, and vice versa. The sun begins to rise around midnight and starts to set around noon. At these times the power flows very well. If you cannot practice during these hours, don't be discouraged: you will definitely advance so long as you exercise daily.

9. A final refinement to remember is that the lower contraction is not centered in the stomach or abdominal region. We concentrate on the front of the under trunk—the penis, perineum, and urogenital diaphragm. Our goal is to so train these muscles that they immovably dam up the seminal river. Then we will reverse the river's flow and flood the body with restorative energy.

Directing power from the upper and lower trunk toward the center of the body pours energy into the navel region. Since the

seminal fluid (like the blood) tends to follow the chi energy, the navel, in effect, grips the seminal fluid and pulls it up into the body through the spine. So contract the urogenital diaphragm as if you were holding in a bladderful of urine. Lock the passage so tightly that no internal urge can burst through the sealing rings of muscle.

SAFETY POINTS FOR TESTICLE BREATHING, SCROTAL

COMPRESSION, AND POWER LOCK

1.Never lie flat on the back during these exercises. The power may stick in the chest, causing considerable irritability and undue pressure on the heart.

2.Never lie on the left side when practicing. This also stresses the heart and overfills it with energy.

3.Never place any objects under your side while in the lying position. This will bend the channel of energy and may cause back pain.

If any of the problems mentioned in points 1 to 3 arise, release the energy safely by using the "Venting Exercise". Any pains or discomfort should disappear within one week of beginning to vent.

4.Practice on an empty stomach whenever possible. In any event, always wait one hour after eating.

5.Wear clothes or wrap yourself in a light blanket during this practice. You will perspire if the exercises are done properly and will suffer a chill if not covered. After practice change your clothes so that you are removed from the moisture of the fabric. There should be a gentle flow of clean air in the room. Avoid any drafts or wind. Wind tends to blow the chi power away. It might cause your energy to get cold easily.

6.Sweat should accumulate on the brow after five scrotal compressions. As you advance, beads of sweat should stand on your brow after three compressions. Rub this sweat into the skin: it has desirable properties which should be returned to the body.

7.Don't breathe through the mouth during these exercises. It is