Semen Retention: Redirecting the Sex Drive

 One of the most important aspects of semen retention is learning to redirect the sex drive. 

As men, our sex drive is one of the primary motivating factors behind our life. Thinking back on your life, have you ever made decisions completely based on your sex drive? Maybe you had a drunken one night stand, or spent hours on PornHub masturbating. When you’re aroused, when your sex drive is on and starting to kick in, you’re in an altered state. Your breath deepens, your heart rate increases, your energy body expands. You’re in an expansive, higher vibrational state when you’re aroused, and this causes the logical mind to be completely bypassed. Nothing can really stop you when this drive is pushing you to do something. The problem for men, is that their sex drive is completely unconscious. They have no control over what they’re putting this sex drive into, and it’s causing them to seek draining habits such as porn addiction, seeking out one night stands etc.They’re discharging their energy through excessive ejaculation because they have no other outlet for this powerful sexual energy.

One of the keys to successfully practicing semen retention, and making this a sustainable lifestyle, is to be able to get in touch with your sex drive. Learn to make friends with it so that you can put it into what you choose to put it into and it no longer has control over you. This is a drastically different approach opposed to suppressing your sex drive. A lot of guys doing Nofap just completely suppress the sex drive. They don’t masturbate, they don’t think sexual thoughts and it doesn’t work out 95% of the time. Whenever you try to suppress you actually end up increasing. It always comes back in the end.

So how do you actually redirect the sex drive?

For most men their expression of sexuality is limited to an outward flow of energy from the genitals. Arousal builds up, there’s nowhere else for it to go, and they need to get it out of the body, so they ejaculate.

The body is filled with energy channels. This is what acupuncturists work with for healing. All of these rivers of energy flow through the body. It’s important that you practice some sort of internal art, some sort of internal practice to open up the energy channels in the body. This gives you more space to start to consciously redirect this sexual energy upwards in the body. This is a crucial aspect of semen retention, and a crucial aspect of transmuting this energy. There’s various ways to do this. The main channel  I work with is called the Microcosmic Orbit. It starts at the perineum, the base of the spine, it travels up the spine and over the head, and then comes down the front of the body. It’s a loop and you can contain the energy this way. First of all, you open it using meditative practices. I have a guided microcosmic orbit meditation video that you can follow here.

Also Qigong, which is a form of Chinese energetic yoga can be used to open up the energy channels.

Now you have space in your body for this energy to flow. Once you have a clear pathway in the body you can start to bring the sexual energy up through the microcosmic orbit. You’ll start to reprogram your body. Reprogram your expression of sexual energy instead of being completely limited to this outward explosion of releasing your sexual energy as most men do, which is a depleting pattern. Instead, you get into this new pattern, this new pathway of expression of bringing it up the spine, and circulating it through the body. This way it connects with the rest of the body, it starts to nourish your brain, increasing your intelligence, your thinking, your creativity. It also connects to all the organs and glands in the body. The microcosmic orbit connects to every other energy channel of the body, so pretty soon the sexual energy is flowing throughout your entire body. Naturally what you start to focus on, you put this energy into. You’re putting your sexual energy into everything that you do. Being able to change the direction of movement of the sexual energy is one of the keys to success in semen retention, and one of the keys to success in being a man. So now, thinking of the power of the sex drive, what decisions have you made in your life just based on your sexual impulses? What has your sex drive driven you to do? Just think about that for a moment.

Now imagine what you would accomplish if that power, that driving force is now pushing you to do the things you actually want to do. It’s pushing you to build a business, it’s pushing you to build incredible relationships, it’s pushing you to improve yourself. Develop yourself, develop your mind, develop your body and become the best version of yourself. Because of that high vibrational state of sexual energy putting you into an altered state, your logical mind won’t even be able to stop these things from happening when you’re channeling your sexual energy into them because our logical mind has a way of holding us back. 

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