4 steps to increase your vital energy and connect

The Tao considers that sexual energy or jing it is the source of all life and creativity in all its expressions. It is a basic resource that can be first transformed into chi or vital breath and then in shen or spiritual force, the other two ways in which people accumulate energy according to this philosophy.

When we become sexually aroused, the sex hormones are activated. In sexual alchemy practices, what is done is to take advantage of this process and take that energy we feel inside the body to regenerate itthat is, to create life within it.

But the Tao also recognizes that we are limited beings living in a universe of unlimited energy, so in the practices we connect with the infinite energy sources of the cosmos and we nourish our sexual energy with them. Thus, with the limitations of human nature, we are constantly replenished with the limitless abundance of energy that surrounds us.

How energy is stimulated step by step

In sexual alchemy the work is carried out in four phases or steps. You start with the first one and, as the practice is consolidated, you move on to the next one and so on.

1. Learn not to waste your energy

Is about make small changes after becoming aware of how we lose energy: with blocking emotions, having a scattered mind, with diet and the way of eating, with insufficient and inadequate breathing, through a little conscious sexuality…

Thus, if we do not empty ourselves too much, it will not be so difficult for us to fill ourselves up again.

2. Balance your chi

In this phase we will make sure that the chi this well distributed throughout the body. Observe, for example, if you have cold hands and feet, or temperature contrasts, such as cold feet and a hot head… This would indicate that the chi it is not well distributed.

In alchemical practice there are several exercises to balance the chi throughout the body and a good teacher will choose the most appropriate. At home you can try the seaweed exercise in the sea:

Separate your feet, raise your arms to the sky and, without moving from the waist down, undulate your trunk like seaweed in a calm sea.Bending your knees slightly, lower your trunk and arms, relax your trunk and head and notice how the spine is stretched and the vertebrae are separated. In this position, undulate the trunk from the coccyx, so that the chi circulate to the rest of the body.

3. Transform your emotions

There are practices where the goal is to transmute blocking emotions into nourishing ones. Afterwards, chi kung exercises and meditations are introduced to transform sexual energy into vitality.

Once again there are different ways of working on this aspect. On your own you may find it useful to practice the inner smile exercise

When you feel anger, envy, or another harmful emotion, identify it, then close your eyes and smile at it. Not with a grimace, but drawing an inward smile, also with your eyes. Observe for a while what happens: you will see that, even if it is only a little, that emotion is transformed into another less harmful one, which nourishes you, is one of understanding of responsibility…

4. Connect to the energies of the cosmos

In advanced practices we learn, after the first three stages, to increase our chi connecting with him chi of the universe and expand it beyond us. To do this, specific chi kung exercises are performed in which our hands act as a channel to give and receive energy.