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Jingle all the way!
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This episode kicks off our how to guide on conserving Jing. If this is completely new information then you are in the perfect place to absorb and learn, much like a child ... or even an emperor.
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Introduction: How to Conserve Essence
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We're back with Voices on the Mountain. This week, the second half of our episode on essence.
Challenge: Convincing Men to Conserve Essence
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That's right. Save it up. Don't waste it. Let's do this, Jang. And this is more the how to. The previous one was the why. um For those of you ah trying to convince males to do this, good luck. Yeah, I think you have to want it from the inside kind of thing. You do, you really do. I was just talking to a ah ah really a diligent patient this last week. I saw him at the end of last week, Friday, and apparently between Friday and his following appointment on Wednesday. So in five days, he talked to at least five to 10 dudes, and every one of them thought he was bad shit crazy. Like, you want me to do what?
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ah And the one guy I talked to who was my patient, he was actually pretty into it, and but he realized that like it's not a universally acceptable thing, certainly not at the beginning, but just stick with it and then realize, you know get them thinking about it.
Benefits of Limiting Ejaculation
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I always tell them, like you know talk to these people who think it's totally nutty to limit ejaculation and just ask them, when's the last time you went to the gym after you ejaculated? right When's the last time you did anything with your brain or your body after you ejaculated? much just rolled up into a roly poly and fell asleep, right? Right. I think it's one of the things like a lot of it is um once you do it and you start to see the effects, to feel the effects, you know, three, four days, a couple of weeks of you being able to have sex without ejaculating, you're going to be like, oh, like this is obviously better. And in the meantime, you know, you can't explain that honey's better than shit if you're talking to a fly. So don't worry about it. Nice proverb there. Okay. Okay.
Understanding Jing in Sexual Activities
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So last week we talked about conserving the Jing and keeping it in the body. But we also know that we're not Buddhists in the celibacy. We're still having sex and still activating this type of energy. So my follow up question before we quite get to the how is what are we doing with the Jing with the energy that comes up during sex? We're not letting go out. So where is it moving? Great question. So let me give you the summary answer first and then we'll go detail second. So the summary answer first is because we're not losing it, we're not wasting it, were but the goal is to get it to go up to our brain and nourish our brain. So that's in a nutshell, that is literally a nutshell.
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um No, don't stay there. Go up to the brain. Don't up. The other brain, the other brain.
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Exactly. so the The key here is but that's the that's the ultimate goal, but really one of the biggest ones. because Just like Asher said, like and this was one of the things that I think a lot of men say, actually it was one of the things my patient had said that his other guy friends were saying to him. They're like, dude, what am I supposed to do for a release if I don't have that? and There's a big difference between a release and a fatigue.
Balancing Release and Fatigue
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So from our perspective, when when men are coming or ejaculating, right there they're fatiguing themselves to relaxation. They're not actually circulating that, and they're certainly not benefiting from that.
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right So you imagine like, well, how do you clean off your kitchen counter every every week? I think it's pretty universal. People like get mail and they do other things and they just set it on the counter and then eventually at the end of the week you're like, all right, this has got to go. So do you just push it all up into the dumpster? I mean, that does release, right? Right. You did clear your kitchen counter. Well done. But what if some of that was your tax returns, right? It's not exactly fueling anything by doing that. So this is the idea like how can we get that release and keep things circulating and not built up to like a high tension point or anything, but not make ourselves fatigued and tired and at the same time. Sweet. Yeah. So the Jing's going to make its way up to the the brain. We're going to support marrow, a Jing substance with more Jing. Correct. Along the dew, I'm assuming. Correct.
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Absolutely.
Conserving Jing and Digestion
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And that's the ultimate end goal. There are actually intermediate goals. So I did say that we were telling you the summary one first, and then we'll go into the infinite details later. But ah a good example is even digestive. So when people don't ejaculate as much, they find their digestion works better. um And this is an interesting combination. It's not just our spleen that's responsible for our digestive system. it's The liver technique, yes, the liver absolutely has a goal he has a role up at the top of the digestive tract. Even the lungs, right? Large intestine-lung connection has a connection. Heart is the only one that doesn't have a true connection potentially um to the digestive tract. And then lastly, kidneys. And there is such a thing where when and we're talking about the yang of the digestive tract,
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We don't really have to talk about liver yang. And the reason I say that is, ah for those of you herbalists out there, think about which herbs tonify a liver's yang. It's not impossible. You can warm a liver, but we never really say this tonifies a liver yang because you just never need to tonify a liver yang. You need to circulate a ah eat liver yang that's stuck. Sometimes you can help a liver yang move more. So if it's sluggish, there's also that kind of thing. That's a different kind of thing than just dredging out a blockage. But we don't really ever think about tonifying it like we do strengthen the spleen, strengthen the kidney. but If you think about at what point on the entire body strengthens liver yang.
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doesn't really exist. Well, we use kidney young. Yeah, because that's where the liver is getting its young. Oh, this is an interesting one. Because then you could also interestingly say, well, which burners are the liver yang and the kidney yang in? The lower burner. Well, lower burner, absolutely for kidney. But when it comes to the liver, it's a wacky one. Because the traditional understanding is that the liver is yang is in the middle burner, and it's yin is in the lower burner. Ah, sure. Right. It's the lower burner that's sharing the jing with the kidney. That's exactly right. It's the back and forth with blood and
Empirical TCM Approaches to Organ Health
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jing. Yes. And now that makes so much more sense, right?
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yeah Because if liver blood and kidney jing are both stored in the lower burner, well, of course they can go back and forth through each other. And that's also not theoretical. We can go into actual clinical reasons why we see that and how we see it and genius ways of using that. Sweet. We will because I have oh so many questions. Okay. It was a trick question. We don't have herbs for a liver young. Correct. Because we don't need. Correct. Because. Because you just move the liver. As long as the liver is moving, you're you're fine. And this is kind of like the idea where it's like you think about like a king, probably stressed out, probably tired. You know, you could see some wired and tired kings or monarchs. You tonify them up sometimes, right? That's tonifying heart.
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You go down to a um the guy who's you know controlling the granaries. He's getting pretty tired, too. Everybody's coming to him and be like, dude, I am hungry. How come my neighbor gets more food than me? And so that guy's like, yeah, let's tonify this guy up, too. you know yeah He's a tired farmer. And you go down you know go over the kidneys. Oh my god, that guy's the he's like the super generous, letting everyone go in front of him in the line. yeah right He's just got the half empty bowl all the time. That's the kidneys. We've got to tonify him. Even the lungs, we've got to move and and turn tonify those guys. Because the lungs, you know you can think of them as um ah similar to like an advisor where they're doing the job, almost like an ambassador sort of advisor. They also need to go out and do their thing. The only guy who doesn't usually run out of energy is the military commander, and that's your liver. So you you wouldn't really think about, let's juice the military guy up. Yeah, he's usually pretty good to go. you know
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So it's, but you can even see this more clearly with herbs. So when it comes to the yang of the digestive tract, though, which is kind of what we were going for for this whole metaphor, it's really spleen yang above and kidney yang below. That's the whole yang of the digestive tract. Now it's true. Digestion needs yin, it needs yang, it needs qi, it needs movement, it needs everything. But when we're talking about the yang of it, those are the two big boys. And so when we start strengthening our kidneys by not draining them, all that yang stays in the body, all that yin still stays in the body. Well, when we talk about kidney yang deficiency, we often see a lot of digestive problems. So ah the most common is undigested diarrhea, especially early in the morning. This is sometimes mistranslated as Cox-Crow diarrhea. Yeah, your translation is much less pleasant visually, so.
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What is it? Dinner porridge diarrhea? Oh, that's right. That's true. Is that a different one? No, that you're right. that is the That's the name of the pathology. The
Digestive Issues and Kidney Yang Deficiency
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the name of the sign, the like physical sign would be the fifth gung diarrhea. A gung is a time period, a two-hour time period. Yeah. Okay. And so hopping back to the- You mean soapy poopy? yeah Yeah, that's what- what looks like it looks like your dinner from the night before is it good. hey up Well played metaphor yeah very accurate description. And then in kidney in deficiency also has digestive problems a lot of you see this especially with elderly people but lots of different groups but when people are really kidney inefficient they get really hard constipated stools.
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um because that lower part of the lower burner is so dry. Literally, in this case, dry of Jing, but that means they're gonna be dry of, yeah it's blood in Jing, as we just mentioned before. um And so they get the dry constipated stools. So there are ways of fixing, there's lots of different ways of fixing constipation. You just have to make sure you're diagnosing it correctly, right? So if you look at it as kidney inefficient, then obviously don't tonify their kidney young, that would be the exact opposite. You'll dry their their intestines out even more. um And so forth and so some people think of like a single formula a common one I've heard in America is called mods or n1 as a classic constipation formula No, we can't do that. and First of all, that's got da huang in it And so da huang is not intended for the regular use and number two though is for what kind of constipation I mean, that is a pretty fundamental question, right?
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no No empirical formulas for things. No, and yeah. no We don't even like empirical points for the most part. That's right. That's right. Or imperial powers. It's close, no. No, no, take down all the imperial powers. That's right. We're anti-emperors here, which is funny because Chinese better say that. Although, okay, so we're tangent. Sorry, people who don't like tangents, but we're tangent. um The emperors always seem like the greater fools in the text. like They're never, for the most part, the like the smart ones.
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like mean specificallyly huang d aging Well, he's asking Chippo all the questions, right? And he doesn't have the answers and he's asking like five-year-old questions, which is good because you need that. And even in like Chuangzi or whatever, like anything I read, it's the Emperor's never this like smart badass. I think maybe it's because they're Taoist texts. They're always like poking fun at him or something. But yeah, he always seems like ah a goober, a fool. Got it. Yeah. A little bit childlike. Totally. Which Taoism likes, right? The whole idea of like a child state of mind. Totally. No, not in a bad way. Yeah. But it no, you bring up an interesting point. I think they try and um
Cultural Portrayal of Emperors
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go both ways. I think you're right. I think there're throughout Chinese history, there's always been a little bit of like poking fun. so you know Don't poke so much that you know you might get decapitated or something, but a little fun here and there doesn't hurt.
00:11:59
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Totally. Well, it's like Shakespeare with his historical plays. Especially if you know who they were going to be performed for, in what court at what time, because he's basically making fun of whatever monarch that he's supposed to be appeasing inside the play. That totally makes sense. Right. I bet. You see this in the Huangian aging too. They almost like they fawn at the emperor sometimes too. He'll ask a surprisingly intelligent question. like one that a really advanced practitioner might ask, but not like something normal, right? like so They'll be like, does my dong chi really regulate my jing chi? And you're like, well, you have to have a lot of knowledge to ask that question. Well, you're not a complete dumbass, like, lopping attention. yeah The imperial pat on the head, I guess. Yeah. Fun tangent. Yeah, tangent done.
00:12:55
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I would go back to techniques. What are we doing?
Traditional Techniques to Prevent Ejaculation
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So then, because we were taught too in in the West, a lot of this stuff comes out of, I forget, homeboy's name. He writes the multi-year guys with male, Taoist. Oh, yeah. I don't know, sex, alchemy, all the time. Yeah, and he talks about running the whole run-and-do circuit um as a part of your Taoist sexual practice. That's correct. Is there a feng zhong shu? Is that right? Feng zhong shu? How do you say it? Feng zhong. Bedroom or whatever. Yeah, exactly. So like um you're you're talking about shu like in technique, right? I mean, I think so. Yeah, exactly. So this is yeah, this is the this technique is called
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um Well, the when people yeah ejaculate too much, it's called fang lao, which means bedroom fatigue. Yeah, exactly. And then there is a shu to it, which means like this technique and how do you do it? Not just why do you do it, right? That's exactly right. All right, so let's let's delve into this technique. And so the first one here is um we're going to start with literally how do you try in the moment or day of or long like basically just we're going to we're going to talk about how to circulate and all that stuff later but here is literally just how do you stop from ejaculating right and I think every male at some point has you know either chronically or irregularly who knows has also been like whoa it's really hard not to ejaculate at this time or something
00:14:24
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So there's a couple of key things. um And so Sun Semyau actually gives us direct guidance. So we'll go over what he says, um and kind of how to understand and interpret that. So let's start with what Sun Semyau says. Remember, he was the one who um did the primary chapter on this and from the Tang Dynasty. All right, so he says, um ah For those, I mean just to translate as we go, he says for those people um ah desiring to ah clear or he uses the word clear or ejaculate, then what we're supposed to do is they should ah literally, he says, close your mouth and open your eyes. Kind of a fascinating idea. But when he says close your mouth, it basically means like,
00:15:08
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increase a little tension. So, clench the jaw, not like hurt your teeth clench, right? But just a little tension there and open them ah um open the eyes, ah which already we're starting to get a kind of funny cartoon picture, right? So, you imagine this is a person probably fairly close to another person, maybe even face to face. So, just get ready for some ridiculous expressions here. Close the mouth also going to be a connecting Remdo idea. Correct. So Asher brought up a great point here. So we'll we'll delve into them as we go. I think that's a great idea rather than leave it all at the end. So when we close the mouth, we do two things. um Well, three things technically. One is
00:15:47
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you are ah closing the mouth for breath. So you're bringing the breath in through your nose. Number two is yeah the tongue is the tip of the tongue is against the the roof of the mouth behind the front two incisors. um For those of you who have meditated, you'll know exactly what I mean there. And it doesn't have to press hard. You literally just need a skin to skin connection. So a light touch is ideal, but just a light touch behind those top two incisors. And that's what Asher just mentioned about connecting the Ren and the Dew. And the third one is we usually add a little bit of suction in the mouth. And so this is the idea where you're obviously not sucking in your cheeks hilariously unless you really want to get a goofy face going on. But ah you do add a little bit of suction and it's fascinating. um It's kind of like when you inhale, it's really hard to ejaculate from a Chinese medicine perspective.
00:16:34
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I guess if you guys want to do a research project, you can do something for the next year, but try inhaling when you're about to attack it. And it's kind of hard because your body is drawing inward and therefore it's hard to expel outward. So that's why we added a little gentle suction on the and the cheeks as well. Okay. I was wondering if that had a had a jade elixir connection too. Yeah, where you're s swallowing your own saliva. Yeah. You bet. You could absolutely have that too.
00:17:02
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And then opening the eyes, that's an interesting one. that's kind of to I would describe that. He doesn't actually tell us why, but I think this is um basically ah for like bringing the shun more to the forefront. Sure. Yeah. It just activates things. All right, then the next one he says, b t which means to hold the qi in. And here he's talking about qi isn't breath. Same idea. You're holding the
Balancing Tension and Relaxation
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breath. Now you can either inhale or you can hold the breath. But the last thing you want to do if you're about to ejaculate and you don't want to ejaculate here is exhale.
00:17:35
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Like the whole exhale, relax all the body, relax all the muscles and just, you know, nope, everything is just going to fire off at that point. So don't do that, right? So he says, hold the hold the breath, but you can also slightly inhale. um You can inhale or you can just hold the breath and then um add that suction to the mouth. Next one he says, what's that? I was going to say that's interesting just because I feel like holding the breath heightens the tension in your body. Hmm, especially if you're not practiced at doing both.
00:18:06
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Absolutely. I feel like a lot of times people hold their breath, they have a lot of tension, and it's that tension too that will make you ejaculate without wanting to, make you ejaculate before you're ready. or yeah It's more of just like a physical reaction than an actual release. So so true. Asher hit on a really key point here. well well You'll see this as we go over this this line these lines right here, but it's actually not that we want to relax everything or tense everything. We want to tense certain areas and then relax other areas.
00:18:39
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So excellent point there. And really when we talk about this kind of tension, it is a little different than anxiety tension or things like that. Because if you're anxious, I mean, then everything is going to be challenging, right? um Yeah. But then, yeah, so that that's prone as well. But then here it's about like, where do I hold to basically add tension as a sealer agent rather than, right, to seal stuff in rather than to like tens tense and block everything off. to super super right there, Asher. All right, so then we go to the next one. and It says, um ah wo gu liangng sha which means like ah like, hold your, like clench both of your fists. So here again, it's about how do you like hold things in? How do you restrain it from coming? um Or bla that kind of coming as well. But here yeah, exactly. um So it's about kind of locking in and you see we're mostly on the upper body here adding tension.
00:19:34
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He's not talking about necessarily lower body tension here because that's that's a biggie. All right, then he says, ah zo yo shaangia ahwabi <unk> chi so left and right is, ah left, right, top to bottom, literally withdraw inward the nose and che q ah true means like to draw inward your chi, which is mere breath in this case. So again, inhale deeply so you can hold the breath, but here he's saying, um bring it in. Now, I don't actually know why he says left, right, top to bottom.
00:20:07
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Obviously there's left and right nostrils, which we're talking about drawing in the nose. I think he's talking probably about all the air, top to bottom, but I can't really, I'd never, never understood why he says top to bottom, but I'll leave that for um for you guys to ponder. So basically breathe in through your nose. And then um ah here we go to, yo sui shaul and then he talks about, xifu so here you're talking about um with like, again, withdrawing inward or contracting inward, the lower part of the body. And ah you as you breathe in, you breathe into your lower abdomen. So this is a fascinating one. When people tighten,
00:20:48
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nine times out of 10, they can't do deep breathing. So just pay attention to people who are suffering from anxiety, right? More extreme would be panic attacks and everything gets cut off at their diaphragm. They can't move really anything below that and their breathing gets super shallow and short of breath and everything. So here we are adding localized tension and yet he's saying breathe into your lower abdomen or your full. So you can see we're holding in but almost creating pressure inside, not pressure. that's It's basically like trying to seal the exterior. That's what all of these are trying to do.
00:21:25
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Okay, is the is the lower going to be the Dan Tien? Is it going to be Huoyen? Is it going to, you know, or all of that? That's right. That is a great question. Yeah, because he just says Xiapu, which is like the lower part, the lower area. But he's definitely talking about the pelvic region, the Huoyen area would be the primary. Okay. So you're withdrawing it inward, almost like a male Kegel kind of thing. Now remember, ah don't this is not dead tension. This is not just like hard tension. This is like upward and kind of lifting tension. Same thing when we're when people are doing Kegels, they shouldn't just try and tense where it's at. They just try and lift their whole pelvic floor towards the ceiling. That's the goal. So it's not like, it's same thing when people do the the back exercise. um The flying swallow dots the water.
00:22:13
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fei yin dian shui, where they're laying flat and then they arch there. It's like Superman poses, I think, in yoga, where you're laying flat face down on the mat and you lift your chest and your legs simultaneously. Okay, sure. Or one at a time is fine too. So the key there is elongate out and then lift. not just crunch in towards the, right? Right. Which sounds funny, but then the same thing, you extrapolate that and you're just like, okay, well, what's the right kind of kegel or like pelvic lifting? It's not just tensing the pelvic floor, it's trying to lift and hold the pelvic floor inward. Right. It's really like ah playing with the full range of motion of a muscle and through through tension rather than just like squeezing it along the shortest axis.
00:22:57
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Yeah, that's a really great way to say it, I assure. Well, a lot of years of rehab and you pick up a couple things. Got it. It's like, it doesn't feel good when I just like do the PT. It's like, oh, I have to like actually try to get something to elongate. Yes. And not just crunch back on whatever tension it was feeling throughout the day. You bet. You bet. That's a really good point. And there's a difference in feeling of it too. It feels um firm and mobile versus
00:23:30
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locked and dead, right? A tight contraction just feels locked and dead, like it can't move anywhere. Yeah. The mobility. There's still like circulation going through. Exactly. Versus where crunching is something that's already tight. It's like bad circulation. I think you probably just made it worse. and Right. Now that hurts more. yeah Exactly. um And then he talks about, there's a pretty ancient word here, and he talks about slightly lifting or slightly up turning the spine and the butt. And so what we're talking about here is kind of like, yep, talking the hips underneath. But what we really talk about, and um I think a lot of martial artists know this too, is um when we talk about tucking the hips under, what we really mean is expand the lower lumbar.
00:24:16
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or expand the lumbar region in general. So if you can put like one of your fingers, like say you put your middle finger on your L2, L1, L2 lumbar, so right at the top of your lumbar, and you put your own thumb of that same hand on your tailbone, now see if you can elongate that that space. Well, when you roll underneath, what you want to do is elongate and open that space. We call that opening the Mingman in martial arts. And if you do that, if you have your energy move and like source from an open Mingman, it's weird how effective things become. You become really efficient with how you move um if you just source your movement from that Mingman area. And it's not easy to do it first, but you you can habitualize it and stuff.
00:25:02
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So there's some good stuff um like Tai Chi classics and stuff, usually talk about that as well. Anyway, same thing here. We're trying to open up the Mingman area and notice we just opened an area, not closed it. So yeah, we're doing things like contracting certain areas, but we're also opening other areas. Sure. Nice. And then he says, continuing onward, Ji, zuo shou, zhong, liang chir, ya, And then here he calls it, this is an ancient word for um ah the hui yin point.
Emergency Techniques to Prevent Ejaculation
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So there's, ah it's called ping yi shui, but that in the class, the normal way that we say that point is called hui yin, which is ren one. So he said, if it's really urgent, like if you're, you did all these things and you're like, okay, I'm a pretty good student, I took notes.
00:25:53
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Seinfeld style, and my crib notes aren't working, so what do I do? I'm still stuck in a pickle here, or anyway. ah Then he said, take your um yeah specifically your left hand, ah your middle two fingers, which I would say would be your index finger and your middle finger, but up to you. just ah Yeah, he said middle two. There's three to choose from, yeah. Middle and something. Exactly. um And then he said, ah press on the Huayin point. So you're you're doing that to give again, kind of like trying to lock um it in. Now, what I need to point out too, is that we're not actually doing a normal. So if you actually ejaculate and you just hold that Huayin point,
00:26:37
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I do not think that that um satisfies this method. Basically then what you do is you're just shooting your ejaculate into your vas deferens and you'll just pee it out and you'll probably have kind of painful urination, painful urination or, you know, probably just bubbly cloudy urine, one of the two for a couple of urinations and you're still losing all your jing. It's just, it, it just trickles out slower and it was just hanging on your vas deferens. So this does not mean hold that point and then ejaculate. It means hold that point to help yourself not ejaculate. And I think the other point too is that Huyen isn't located like we're taught in the West. That's right. This makes a huge difference. So it's more towards the anus and it's in that first third kind of coming off. That's absolutely right.
00:27:23
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And the huge difference here for for Western thought is that, so if you just go into the middle of um of your perineum, your taint, man, it's just so much easier to say taint taint. You're basically over what, like your prostate, bladder's like really far back there, but when you go on that backside, you're actually over, you're behind the prostate and you're over the ejaculary duct. Whatever duck comes out of the prostate and then goes to um your penis for ejaculation. And then you're pressing on that, which makes way more sense than just pressing w randomly up on some soft tissue in your prostate. So is that true? Yeah, important note on that one and how to make it work, even if you know where Hoi An is. Different location.
00:28:09
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better function. and And just as Asher said, too, it's like most of our acupuncture points are holes or divots into the body. They're not where there's already a swollen organ there, right? Yeah. Don't just like no prostate punches, right? No, ah but glad that we have a better location now for Hoi N. I wonder what else. will come out in the future. but I can't remember which episode we talked about that, but i Asher brought it. Let's ghost points. Oh, ghost points. Yeah, check that ghost points out. Sweet. All right, so that's and that's the urgent method, so you don't always have to do that. ah Remember, if you're kind of opening the Ming Mun and contracting that lower area, technically, you wouldn't really need your left hand, but that's why he's like, oh, but if you're in a real pickle, that's when you go to that method. And then he also says, um
00:28:58
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a long exhale of Chi. So here's where you're exhaling. Remember previously it was holding the breath or inhaling when it was getting really, really close. And now he says literally like a long exhale of Chi and then um you want to kind of he the The word he uses is like grind your teeth a thousand times, but what he means is just kind of like clench your teeth. So remember, we didn't go to full clenching before. This is all in that emergency, like, ah, I really got to stop this. And that's where you take the long exhale. So like a long relaxed exhale while pressing the hui yin and tightening the jaw.
Conserving Essence for Mental Health
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And then he says, therefore, that this jing, the kidney essence will ascend towards the brain.
00:29:40
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um And he literally says the word Bu Nao to tonify the brain. and We don't say this a lot in modern Chinese medicine. like Think of a single herb that we would say Bu Nao to tonifies the brain. Not a whole lot, but we do know that brain function relies extraordinarily heavily on kidneys. So a slight tangent here, I think this is um very applicable for so many practitioners and muggles alike is a lot of times you'll get people saying like, how do I um protect my brain function now, and specifically also in the future to prevent things like dementia. Well, from our perspective, it's basically kidneys. Now, is it only kidneys? No, yeah. Does the spleen E have something to do with it? Yes, absolutely. But when we're talking about long-term brain function, we really are talking mostly about the kidneys chur. And if that kidney chur, which really means the kidney yang with plentiful yin, so both sides, can ascend properly and doesn't get blocked by phlegm,
00:30:40
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then you can see the two big things, and it's not the only two, but it's the two primary things we do for long-term brain function is make sure there's no phlegm veiling or blocking and then and blocking the mind. And then number two is that there's plenty of kidney development or kidney function here. And so here is a great way that we can say, well, we're directly tonifying the kidneys or tonifying the brain by not draining our kidneys. And then he says, he goes on to say this makes people um ah changheng like live a long time. And then he says, if people ah kind of drain their jing um excessively, then it will damage the sun, right? Which we kind of went into last time.
00:31:25
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Yeah. And then there's probably going to be an idea too, where it's like you get more kidney young, if you have more Jing or kidney in to, to heat up, you can like have more of each as they both grow. And then you have more energy for your digestion and all the other things. Um, I think that's part of the, what do they call it? The pill of immortality, whatever it is, the elixir, the peach, whatever. The peach. Not like the modern day emojis. Man, I don't know what people are thinking with those emojis. I feel like such an old fuddy-duddy. I'm like, the peach? That means, oh, that's that's what it means? so Oh, I didn't get that at all. Did you think the poop was was an ice cream cone for a while?
00:32:12
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Did you? No, I've just heard that from some people. Chocolate flavored smiley poop? No. That's right. Ice cream? No, but I did think the peach was a pussy for the longest time. And then someone was like, oh no, it's a butt. And I was like, that doesn't make any sense. Get out of here. Oh yeah, this is true. And the heart kind of is butt-shaped too. Yeah, plenty of emojis for all that. yeah Oh yeah, so Azure was, yeah but he brought up a really solid point there. This also is really helpful for practitioners and everybody, again. It just depends how um attentive people are. But yeah, you can't store kidney yang if there's no place to store it.
00:32:49
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and the place it needs to be stored is kidney in. so let me give you ah um I'm going to go a little bit practitioner expert for a second here. If you're going to try and descend a ministerial fire, that's blocked because the triple burner waterways are blocked. I realize those might be fancy words for non-practitioners, but just roll with it for a sec. Well, we have a formula that does that. It's called Wen Dan Tang. If you can descend this yang from the chest, Well, bonus, but if they don't have enough kidney yin to store it, it's very transient. It doesn't really work long. It's like it not a long-standing thing. So weirdly, well, not weirdly, but this is why, sometimes we'll give Wen Dantang with kidney yin builders or kidney jing builders. So we're literally increasing the housing space in the kidneys, which is the yin, and we're descending the yang, which is the occupants.
00:33:39
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And that's where we can start anchoring and actually you know sealing stuff into the kidneys, as opposed to just descending it temporarily and then not having a place to store it. Totally.
Understanding Kidney Yin and Yang Balance
00:33:49
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I usually give the example of a water boiling on a stove. And it's like, if there's not enough water, of course you're going to boil it off real quick and it's going to turn steam and you're going to have nothing left. And then you get more heat out of that water. If there's more water, you can heat it up more. There's more thermal energy stored there because you have more water jing to be stored. It can handle more heat.
00:34:13
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I love that. and it actually like Physiologically, I know it sounds metaphorical, what Asher just said, there's a reason we call the kidneys the water organs, and there's a reason why only the water organ is able to store a fire. No other organ can handle it. Try and add fire to fire explosion. Try and add fire to wood. It'll burn it. Burn it. Fire to metal. Melt it. Melt it. Fire to earth is potentially the only other one that you could do, and that's actually a ministerial fire one. yeah Oh, okay. We have a ministerial fire episode coming out, but I don't know. We talked so much about the earth element in there. Oh, yeah, you're right. That's a little bit more advanced because when we think about a heart kidney cycle, technically there's the third unspoken element, which is the hub of that. That's rotating it from the middle is there. Oh, yeah. Okay.
Introducing Ministerial Fire for Future Exploration
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Um, well, it goes to a great quote. We'll we'll come back to that, but then aging even refers to the ministerial fire as being the warmth stored in the earth. All right. Shit.
00:35:12
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More stuff. more More to learn. We'll have episodes two, three, and four of Ministerial Fire coming in.