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the hard way; extremist practicesFrom: Steven
Subject: General
Date/Time 2010-06-07 01:30:18
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MessageHi Explorer,
This sort of goes back to what I said in the post I wrote on
Semen Retention that I linked to you.
Extremist practices may not be wise.
I mean this is clearly my personal opinion, but I look it at this way:
Is it natural for the human body to retain semen for long periods of time? NO
Does the human body naturally lean toward releasing semen daily? NO
The human body left to its own without any funny psychological ideas from the
head, or mental obsessive behaviors, is going to naturally seek a middle ground.
This means semi-regular, but not overly frequent, releasing patterns that
are typically more frequent during mating periods (such as spring/early summer)
and less frequent during hibernation times (dead of winter).
This is what the body *Naturally* gravitates to.
Doing anything other than that, by definition of the word "naturally", is
by definition UNNATURAL.
If a person wants to do extremist practices for a particular gain, then in
concert a person really needs to provide extra support in direct proportion
to the amount of deviation from the mean. (say--but not limited
to--supportive qigong) Otherwise, it should be no surprise to see negative consequences in my view.
As I mentioned in my post, I do *not* do long term retention, as I can't
extend daily practice during busy times past about 1.5-2 hrs max, and I
feel that 5-6 hrs is what I realistically need to provide support to
long term retention (as in the amount I do for daily practice on a hermit
retreat). Of course, everyone is different with their own time frame of
needed practice, but in my opinion far too many people do long term
retention without enough supportive practice to back that up.
If someone is doing retention and they say it is working for them,
then great . . . I'm likely to not say too much.
But Would I personally recommend it as a practice? NO . . . because of
all the reasons above, and because I would never recommend something
that I don't do myself.
Getting back to your particular case, at the same time I wouldn't
worry about what you did before. Who knows whether it was a good
or bad thing at the time? All you can control is the present.
In the present, trust that your body is open to all possibilities of
states of being, and that any dysfunction now is purely temporary
and may or may not have anything to do with the past.
And in the present, the only thing you do is ask yourself what feels
right for you to do now, and then act accordingly.
No worries,
Steven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPLEY_z1Uf0&feature=fvsr
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