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3.Guide that "cold" feeling from your scrotum to your perineum by inhaling and pulling up slightly on your testicles. At the same time feel it coolly flow the few inches to the perineum, an action induced by putting your mind at the perineum and holding it there. Inhale and exhale several times at the testes to build up more energy. The retention of the ching chi at the perineum is very important, for if you release your attention the cold energy will drop down to the scrotum or leak out. It is just like you are using a straw to draw up the fluid. When you are out of breath and pause for a while you need to keep the attention by holding your finger over the straw. If you release it it will drop down and you'll have to start again. Do this for several days or until you get it.

4.Begin to draw the sex energy from the testes up the back channel, as if sipping on a straw. Always start with testicle breathing, inhaling and exhaling till you feel the ching energy is ready. Inhale, draw the "cold" from your testicles to the perineum and then draw it up to your coccyx, the very bottom end of your spine. There's an area a little up from the tip of your spine, mostly bone, that's called the hiatus opening of the sacrum.

When you pull the cool ching up to the perineum and then to the sacrum, slightly arch your lower back outward, as if you were standing with your back against a wall and flattening it against it. Tilt the sacrum downward and hold it down in order to help activate the pump action, which will be further accentuated if you gently tighten the back of your neck and skull bones. Hold the energy at the sacrum for a while, then exhale but hold your attention at the sacrum.

Then let your sacrum and neck relax back to their normal positions, this will help to activate the two pumps, sacrum and cranial pump. At the same time do the testicle breathing. Bring the energy up to the sacrum again, hold it there till you can feel the sacrum open and the energy gradually move up. You can actually feel the cold energy move up a little at a time. If you're having trouble feeling this, try rocking your sacrum back and forth and then hold still and observe the effect of this pumping.

There's an indentation in the sacrum bone and that's where you draw your testes' "cold" energy. This particular area is usually a little difficult to work because sperm energy is denser than chi and has to be pumped up. So that's where that pump comes in.

Some people experience pain, or tingling or pins and needles when the "cold" enters the hiatus, so don't be upset if it happens to you. You can help get through the coccyx if you're having trouble by gently massaging the area with a silk cloth from time to time.

5. If you've managed to go up through your coccyx, spend the next week drawing the cold to T-11 in your mid-back (the 11th thoracic vertebra). Do it in the same manner, with an inhale-exhale at the testes and sucking it up your spinal "straw" to the perineum, sacrum, T-11 (opposite your solar plexus, at the last "floating" rib). Pull up and retain at T-11 till it feels full and continues to open and move up by itself. Again, because sperm energy is denser than chi, you have to accomodate to it by flexing that part of your back in and out to straighten it. That loosens it for freer passage of the "cold" energy.

At the T-11 adrenal glands energy center, sitting atop your kidneys. In Taoist practice we regard this as a mini pump, where your arch will create a vacuum to push up the energy higher.

6.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 discribed by inhale-exhale at the testicle and keep on pumping up the energy up to perineum sacrum, T-11 and the base of skull. In this area is a place to store the energy for further use.

7.Your next stopping point is Pai Hui, at the crown of your head. Do it in the same manner only this time fill the straw to the top. Tilt the sacrum to the back in order to straighten the curve out a little bit to help activate the pump action. This gets the lower pumping going. At the same time you tuck in your chin a little and squeeze the back of your skull, it will activate the upper cranial pump. Keep on pulling up to the point dead center on top of the head.

8.When the energy finally goes up into your head, men will have the very distinct feeling that it's spinning and usually in a clockwise direction, as you look up. If you're alert you can count 36 revolutions. It should feel good and refreshing; the extra energy should help your creative power and improve your memory. You can think more clearly, and are at the beginning stage of controlling

THE GOLDEN NECTAR

When your head is filled with sperm energy the excess ching may spontaneously combust with the chi in your higher centers and spill over into the Microcosmic Orbit and flow down through your palate and down the tongue. This will taste different to different people. It's generally called the Golden Nectar but it can taste like champagne, honey, coconut juice, or fragrance of all kinds of things, or it can simply feel like a warm tingling sensation on your tongue.

This exercise, the "Dance of the Testes", may be performed anywhere: in the subway or car, at your desk or television, in bed, etc. The main consideration is that the back be properly straight, chest relaxed, and scrotum hanging freely.

It is highly desirable to use the testicle breathing to tone the pelvic diaphragm. The whole lower abdomen is deeply massaged each time the pelvic diaphragm flexes. Life force flows into the region through periodic waves of breath which stimulate the glands and vital organs.

COMPRESSING THE AIR INTO THE SCROTUM INCREASES

SEXUAL POWER

Many benefits of the Testicle Breathing are magnified when performed in conjunction with the Scrotal Compression exercise. This exercise reduces the incidence of nocturnal emission and premature ejaculation. It lessens the chance of hernia. It helps you calm down when sexually over-excited by teaching you to consciously direct energy into and out of the pelvic region. It builds your sexual power dynamically by using the vital chi taken from air and packing its charge into your ching chi.

Of the three suggested positions, sitting or standing are preferable. Inhale a fairly large amount of air into the throat and swallow the air. Swallowing drives the air down to the solar plexus. From this center it will be driven down to the testes. This is accomplished by contracting the abdominal muscles downward in a slow wave.

From the solar plexus the air is rolled down into the pelvic region. From there it is compressed into the testes. When the air is driven into the testes you experience a flush of heat. The testes

seem to expand, and after a short time the power driven into them flows up the spine to the head, which also becomes very warm.

SCROTAL COMPRESSION EXERCISE: STEP BY STEP

1.Sit on the edge of your chair with your feet flat on the floor about a shoulder apart. Wear loose pants or wear nothing from your waist down, so your testicles literally hang out.

2.Inhale through the nostrils into the throat. From there swallow the air down to the solar plexus, midway between your heart and your navel. Imagine the air as a ball.

3.First the ball sits behind the solar plexus. From this point roll it down to the navel. Then into the pelvis and scrotum.

4.Forcibly compress the air into the scrotum for as long as you can do so. The minimum period for each compression should be 30 to

40seconds. Slowly work up to at least one minute. Every single scrotal compression shoots tremendous energy into the testes. With compression of an entire minute the exercise takes full effect. The anal sphincter and perineum muscle must be squeezed tight during this exercise to prevent leakage of energy.

5.When you have finished the compression, exhale and relax completely. If saliva accumulates in the mouth during compression, swallow it before exhaling.

6.After complete exhalation take a number of quick, short breaths to recover your wind. Dart the air in and out of the nostrils to quickly regain capacity for another compression. Remember to breath through the nose, and do not inhale unduly large quantities of air. This is called "Bellows Breathing", because you must pump your lower abdomen in and out quickly in order to do it.

This exercise quickly charges the whole body. If you feel ill or out of sorts, several scrotal compressions will restore you to good form. Perform the exercises in the following sequence: First do one scrotal compression. Then rotate the waist with the arms at shoulder level. Rest for a moment and repeat the exercise. Remember to keep the tongue up to the palate when compressing the air. Perform

5contractions.

When you have grown stronger, you may do five compressions in succession and then rest with waist rotation. Then begin a second series of five compressions. Keep the breathing between compression short and shallow to not lodge power high in the body.

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Then down to the lower abdomen.

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Then press air down to the scrotum.

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.

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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.