Tao Sexual Yoga-Essence and Energy

"Throughout our adult lives, our sexual organs and hormones exert a profound and decisive

influence on our thought and behavior.

They literally 'drive' men and women into each other's arms in order to insure propagation of the

species, and this drive is so powerful and compelling that it

completely overrides the instinct for safety and personal survival.

When 'in love', both men and women will defy death and disregard social conventions in order to be

together and 'make love'.

'Love', of course, is a Western euphemism for 'lust', which, despite its negative connotation in the

West, is regarded as a natural sign of health and vitality in

the East."

Hormones and Health

Chinese physicians pinpoint what they call the 'kidney glands' (shen hsien) as the key regulators of

sexual potency, especially in men. These glands, which straddle the tops of the kidneys like hats, are

called the 'suprarenal glands' in Western parlance.

The suprarenal, also known as the adrenal cortex, produce a variety of hormones of vital importance

various metabolic processes and biological functions.

In both male and female organisms, adrenal hormones include small but physiologically significant

amounts of androgens (male hormones) and relatively minute quantities of estrogens (female

hormones).

These sex hormones, or Yin and Yang 'essences', regulate the secretions of all other sex glands such

the ovaries, testes and prostate, and also influence secretions from the pituitary, pineal and thyroid

glands.

It is the balance, not quantity, of these microscopic elements of Yin and Yang essence that counts.

Insufficient secretion of androgens in males, for example, results in the loss of sexual drive and

potency. Excessive androgen secretion in the female can cause such masculizing effects as beard

growth and breast shrinkage. Thus, a primary goal of Taoist sexual regimens is the enhancement of

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male and female hormone secretions in optimum balance.

Belatedly, Western science has also established intimate links between sexual stimulation and

hormone

production, and between hormone production and health.

In 1974, for example, the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany, conducted tests on the

physiological effects of mildly erotic films on healthy males aged 21-34. After half an hour of

viewing, 75 per cent of the subjects showed marked increases in testosterone levels in their blood,

thereby establishing a clear connection between sexual excitement and hormone excretions.

Subsequent research revealed that men with high testosterone levels, high sperm count and dense,

viscous semen were completely immune to many communicable diseases and were highly resistant to

others, while those with low testosterone and sperm count and thin, watery semen had only partial

immunity to diseases. It is also well known to Western medical science that women have always

enjoyed higher immunity and resistance to disease, recover more quickly from illness, and live longer

lives than men.

According to the Taoist view, the ravages of aging are caused by the progressive depletion of

hormone

production and the dissipation of vital energy.

Since essence is the 'root' of the Taoist Trinity, with energy as the 'stem' and spirit as the 'blossom',

the

entire planet may be nourished simply by cultivating the roots, which consist of blood bile, enzymes,

hormones and other forms of 'essence'.

Of all these elements of essence, hormones exert by far the most profound and powerful

physiological

influences, even in the most minute quantities, and, of all Taoist regimes, disciplined sexual

intercourse

provides the most direct stimulation to vital hormone production and endocrine balance. While

sexual

excitement remains one of the most effective means of stimulation vital hormone production in both

men and women, women have the additional mechanisms of menstruation and pregnancy to

promote production of sexual hormones, even in the absence of sexual intercourse.

Men, on the other hand, have no such alternative mechanism, and for them sexual intercourse

remains the best way to stimulate hormone production. As a person gets older, it stands to reason

that sexual intercourse grows ever more important as a form of preventative therapy against disease

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and aging.

When enhanced secretions from the male 'kidney-glands' are preserved through properly disciplined

intercourse without ejaculation, they enter the bloodstream, travel throughout the body, and prevent

hair loss, skin wrinkling, poor muscle tone, arthritis, rheumatism, impotence and other disasters

associated with aging. For Taoists, the issue of sexual intercourse in old age is not a moral or social

one- it's a matter of life and health.

"Guys, please reread that again, it's so important we understand this."

To keep things in perspective, lets again verify this fundamental Taoist view point with some solid

medical evidence from Western science. A recent study conducted in America revealed that frequent

sexual intercourse considerably relieves the chronic pain of rheumatism in elderly couples by

stimulating secretion of cortisone in the adrenal cortex. According to the Taoist view, the adrenal

cortex is the gland most directly influenced by sexual excitement.

On the other hand, according to Western science, excessive coitus inhibits adrenal functions in the

male. Since 'coitus' includes ejaculation in Western medical and sexual terminology, we see that the

Taoist view that excessive ejaculation ruins the 'kidney-glands' in men is essentially correct.

Absorbing Essence and Storing Energy

In both men and women , sexual secretions contain many pure, potent, biochemically active

substances: hormones, enzymes, proteins, vitamins and other elements.

When female secretions are released into the warm, moist environment of the vagina during

intercourse, they come into direct contact with the sensitive, paper-thin skin of the man's blood

engorged penis. Body heat opens wide the pores of this stretched skin, and the rhythmic rubbing of

vagina and penis caused biochemically significant amounts of female 'essence' to be absorbed by the

male. In fact, less than a pinhead quantity of essential hormone suffices to exert profound

physiological effects upon the entire endocrine system once it enter the bloodstream. In the sexually

excited male, blood courses powerfully through the penis and picks up whatever hormones are

absorbed in the vagina by friction and osmosis. Similarly, the spongy tissues of a woman's vagina

absorb active

elements from her own secretions and from male semen after a man ejaculates inside.

Despite its obvious logic, most Western physicians still deny that such mutual exchange of vital

hormones takes place during sexual intercourse, even though they fully acknowledge that 'germs' can

be exchanged in this manner. If syphilis, herpes and AIDS can be 'picked up' through contact of

sexual organs of diseased people, then why can't hormones and enzymes be exchanged in the same

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way in healthy people?

Look at it this way. If you crush several cloves of garlic and place them on your thigh or abdomen or

anywhere else on the body, cover them with a warm, damp cloth and rub them against the skin, then

your breath will soon smell of garlic! Garlic oil, which like hormones is a highly concentrated

substance, enters the skin in microscopic quantities and is absorbed by the bloodstream, which

carries it to every part of the body, including the lungs. If a tiny drop of garlic 'essence' can permeate

the skin, enter the bloodstream and cause 'garlic breath' far from the point of entry, then a drop of

sexual essence from male or female semen should be able to do the same thing through the even

thinner, moister, warmer surfaces of the vagina and penis, especially if one uses Taoist techniques to

prolong direct contact.

For women, frequent intercourse with orgasm is the most efficient method of cultivating sexual

essence and energy. For men, frequent intercourse with infrequent ejaculation is the key technique

for cultivating sexual essence and energy.

Furthermore, retaining semen during intercourse enables a man not only to preserve and reabsorb

his own essence, it also enables him to prolong the act sufficiently for his partner to reach full

orgasm,

thereby releasing her most potent secretions for his benefit. In effect, he 'kills' two birds with one

stone, preserving his own essence while releasing and absorbing hers.

As noted earlier, a mans sexual responses are largely limited to his penis (the four Attainments),

whereas a woman's occur throughout her body (Five signs, Ten Indications). The same goes for

sexual secretions. A man's essence comes mainly from his sexual organ, but a woman emits essence

from all 'Three Peaks': tongue, nipples and vagina. Men who practice Tao benefit from all three

'libations'.

In Secrets of the Jade Bedroom, Peng-Tze points out the medicinal benefits of the 'upper libation',

but her states clearly that only the saliva secreted 'during intercourse' contains the magic elixir:

"During

intercourse, if a man takes in a lot of the woman's saliva, it will purify his stomach like medicinal

broth".

As for the potent therapeutic value of the 'middle libation' secreted from a woman's nipples, Western

medical science has uncovered in the last 15 years evidence that tends to confirm the traditional

Taoist

view. It has been firmly established that mother's milk contains powerful immunity factors secreted

from certain glands in the breasts which protect nursing infants from a wide range of degenerative

diseases. It is logical to assume, therefore, that the ducts that produce these immunity factors in a

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woman's breast may be stimulated to secrete those factors by a combination of intense sexual

excitement and strong, prolonged sucking of the nipples during intercourse, and that these secretion

form the 'Great Libation of the Middle Peak'.

Regarding the lower libation, it should be noted that Taoist have always regarded cunnilingus as an

excellent way to absorb this elixir, although they advise against fellatio ('blowing the flute') owing to

the risk of uncontrolled ejaculation.

That covers cultivation of sexual essence through intercourse.

Now let's take a look at the energy situation. According to Tao, a brief burst of explosive energy

occurs when a man or woman reaches orgasm. Western science has already established that, at the

point of sexual orgasm, human brain wave patterns alter radically, literally putting the person into an

'altered state of consciousness'. Profound physiological and electrical changes occur throughout the

system during orgasm, and a burst of energy is indeed emitted. Partners may absorb one another's

burst of sexual energy at the moment of orgasm by following three basic guidelines:

keep your head nuzzled under your partner's ear when he or she ejaculates in order to avoid inhaling

the 'muddy breath' exhaled at that moment. Owing to the intense 'fire' that occurs in the lower

abdomen during orgasm, this burst of breath is regarded as a sort of waster product. Hug your

partner very tightly and maintain maximum surface contact between your skins. At orgasm, the entire

body radiates energy from its surface contact. Press and rub the public regions closely together. The

biggest burst of sexual energy during orgasm naturally occurs in the region of the 'Sea Of

Energy' (chee-hai), located below the navel. Now let's take a look at the various possibilities for

exchanging essence and energy between Yin and Yang during intercourse.

If the man ejaculates before the woman reaches orgasm, she gains the benefits of both his semen-

essence and his energy, while he loses both and gains neither of hers. If the couple ejaculates at the

same moment, the woman again gains the man's essence and energy, but the man gains only her

burst of energy, because he loses his erection before it has had a chance to absorb the essential

secretions of her orgasm.

If the man controls himself long enough for the woman to reach orgasm then suppresses his own

ejaculation, he absorbs both his own and her essence as well as her energy, while she still derives the

benefits of reabsorbing a measure of her own sexual secretions. The fourth and final alternative is for

the man to permit himself and ejaculation (when his emission schedule calls for it) after his partner

has reached orgasm, but only after he has spent some time 'dragging the Yin essence in through the

Yang peak'. In this case, both partners absorb each other's sexual essence and energy in a perfectly

balanced coition.

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For a man who has thoroughly mastered the techniques of ejaculation control, there are additional

steps he may take to facilitate absorption of female secretions and to further stimulate reabsorption

of his own semen-essence.

The first method is to 'thrust inward fiercely but draw outward slowly, thereby dragging the Yin

essence in through the skin of the Yang peak'. Swelling and contracting the penis deep inside the

vagina by deliberately flexing the muscles of the penile shaft is another highly recommended

technique for promoting absorption of Yin essence during intercourse. After the woman has

experienced one or more orgasms and is thoroughly satisfied, the man should start thrusting again

deeply and rhythmically. When the pressure to ejaculate mounts, he should stop and 'return the

semen' to his prostate, using methods introduced in chapter 7-Ejaculation Control (HPS on line

highly recommends that you purchase Dan Reids book, The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity and

learn these methods to promote

your health and sexual prowess). When his semen is back under control and his heart once again

calm, he may repeat this process again, three to five times. The prolonged friction between Jade Gate

and Jade Stem facilitates absorption of Yin essence, while the excitement of repeatedly approaching

the brink of ejaculation greatly increases a man's own internal sexual secretions. Such serial

retention's also

redirect the man's unexploded sexual energy inward and upward. This can often be felt coursing up

along the spine as 'goose bumps' or as heat waves at various points in the body.

Men should not attempt this method of 'pumping up' extra essence and energy by repeatedly 'playing

with the fire' of ejaculation until they have first mastered semen retention and established their own

ideal ejaculation frequencies.

Otherwise, they risk the loss of even more essence and energy than normal owing to enhanced

secretions when a man is due for emission because it primes the prostate with extra semen and thus

increases the loss due to ejaculation. It should be done only when semen is to be retained. The old

adage 'practice makes perfect' applies to this and all the other methods used in the Tao of Yin and

Yang, and these practices must be mastered step by step.

To borrow another adage, 'to the victor go the spoils'.

A sexually active man who is unwilling to hone his sexual skills and correctly adjust his attitudes in

preparation for the 'flowery battlefield' of sexual intercourse will, sooner or later, deplete his sexual

potency, dissipate his vital energy, lose his immunity and foreshorten his life.

Such men become as expendable to the species- and as useless to women- as drones driven from the

beehive.

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