So, who got back on the pipe Valentines day? I know see three years as a very long time. That’s 3 valentine days, 3 birthdays (hers and yours), 3 New Year’s, vacations, ect.
I never started out for 3 years. I was looking for 2 weeks. I was at about a week when V-day rolled in. ****!
Nexus, any word on those books?
i’m still goin strong. although that will soon be strongly tested cuz last night i found out my brazilian empress is back in town. uh oh. 
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I’m at 21 days without and going strong. Breaking the habit has been surprisingly easy, but I do feel, ehh, that I’m pretty filled up and easily excited.
So far, the lady of my dreams hasn’t haunted me either, so maybe its been easy due to that.
I’ll have the books on male cultivation provided soon. Making sure everything is in order, and giving you guys some time to decide if you are really serious about it! 
I’ve lost count of my days!
DareDevil, are you starting to feel like you need less sleep? Noticed anything inparticular you want to share, 21 days is most then probably most men under 40 ever achieve, keep it up!
One thing I can recommend for the meantime though is a few minutes of meditation before you go to sleep and when you wake up. This doesn’t have to be anything extreme, but it will definetely aid to settling the sexual energies.
More to come soon.
My record still stands, I see. Just a challenge to you guys to beat my 37 days with no emissions. I’m out of the running cause I’m married, however when my twins are born it will be via C-section, that means no sex for 3 months at least. Perfect opportunity to work up my horse stance time. Justa Man, I noticed some aggressiveness coming out in another thread, you feeling alright buddy?
So have you guys felt the Hui Yin cavity fill up yet? How has it helped your meditation?
I recommend something I once learned, meant to be practiced in such a state. It’s the first step of the Yi Chin Jing exercises. Lie on your back in a calm state. Rub your belly in a circular motion around your belly button, using your right palm. The motion is such that when the hand is above the navel it is passing to the left This is to follow the path of the intestines. As your palm passes, concentrate on feeling it with your stomach area and guid the energy towards it. You should be able to feel the chi flow towards that area. Use a lot of intention but send it through the skin of your belly, not through your hand. The chi should start to build up in your Dan Tien. Continue for at least 30 minutes. This is a great way to experience Chi for real. Please try it and let me know if you had the same experience.
-FJ
fa_jing,
I’ll try that.
Nexus,
Actually no, I’m not feeling I need less sleep. Unfortunately, but then I have been going to sleep pretty late and that may contribute to me sleeping a bit longer (if I go to sleep before 03:00 or so, I usually sleep 8 hours. If I go to sleep after that, I sleep more than 8, even if I do it for a long time. It’s odd, but I take it as a sign from my system to go to sleep early).
Energy level has been good, though, but nothing spectacular.
There maybe something new going in my taiji, but then again, there’s always something new going on my taiji, so I’m not sure to what I can attribute it.
I actually did take up meditation again on my own, for some reason. And I was doing it before going to sleep, too (though that’s typically when I do my qigong routine). Since you suggest it, I’ll try to make it daily as well – if I can cram it in my schedule.
cold weather
DareDevil, I notice you live in Finland. Do you feel an increased ability to tolerate the cold? I felt that way when I was “reserving.” I also felt the effect of not needing quite as much sleep.
-FJ
Keep it up, it will be worth it, just give it time!
wow an Anti masterbation support group.
Hey everybody, I just won! Evolution…Did you really go for 3 years without cumming? Why? are you superman now?
Are your eyes really shiny? Just curious, I find this all very fascinating.
Stacey, perhaps if you took the arts seriously, people would start to take you seriously.
ok then I don’t know how long I’ve gone, I know I have shiny eys and girls love me more when I store up jing.
My chi starts moving and I warm up. Or course a change in diet does the same. But I feel more full, more dense and solid. Hard to explain. I am not restraining nature, its winter, I’m just not in the mood for girls right now. But I will be. Besides its good to combine yin and yang.
I’m at a stage where having relations with a girl/woman is far more important that a heating sensation in my body, or extra kung fu power/balance, hitting power.
Everything in balance.
hmmm…
I tried this before although all I got was very easy to tick off. But I didn’t do it for that long only about a week. Perhaps I will try it again and see if I get any results. Here comes a long couple of weeks :eek: (or longer maybe?) :rolleyes:
Three years?
I went about a week. But, one does not hold a horse stance for 30 minutes on day 1. Its something I’m being mindful of. It has never come up in my study, so to speak, so I’m not terribly concerned about it yet – just interested. I’m still working on the other aspects of internal, the external of the internal, thouhg I am doing some excercises my master has given me and I am feeling affects. Putting them into words would be wierd. COuld be done, I’m a believer there’s a word for every job, but this is soemthing different.
for the style of hard qigong i am doing right now, i am meant to train 100 days without secreting ‘jing’…which being a 22 year old male at Uni is very difficult to do! Luckily my gf is abroad right now, so that helps…
right now, i am going on for a month. But i dunno if i’ll be able to keep up the 100 days! Would be much easier if i was a monk in the Temple where this particular style came from methinks
i definately feel more energetic.
Nexus - the advice on meditation before and after sleeping is well heeded - those are very difficult times!
david
When i try i never get more than a few days
But i do feel great difference on energy level, it incrises greatly when you do qigong.
On a side thing sort of thing, did you guys know that this kind of thing is popular belif even in cultures that dont have any form of qigong or yoga?
In my country there are some soccer and other sports players that wont have sex some days before a important game. Same thing goes for some mma fighters.
Xesball - don’t worry too much about it, I think you are a teenager? Around age 24-25 it gets a little easier to control. What you said was true. I made a comment about Mohammed Ali in an other thread. Also football players are supposed to abstain before a match.
–This society is becoming over-sexed because they use sex to sell things. It’s everywhere and it is encouraged to increase consumerism. There is also a lot of psuedo-science put out by the doctors that masturbation is fine, at least that’s what I read in my mother’s “Cosmopolitan” magazine when I was a teen. Following that advice, I left myself depleted and emotionally it was not good. I’m actually very angry about it now, and I want to combat this mis-information. I have two friends who are grown men ages 28 and 33 that still j/o twice a day on a regular basis to porn. If you shake there hand, it is like completely limp. They also have pretty soft bodies despite working out. I think men used to be different. Back in my father’s generation, more men served in the army. If you were in the army you slept in a room with lot’s of other dudes in bunks. These guys were not wanking it like at all. They had a negative view of this and their attitude is actually mostly correct. These men now are far more manly then some of these effiminate wankers walking around today, from a younger generation. You really can tell alot about someone from their handshake - not those idiots that try to squeeze your hand as hard as possible, but a good firm handshake.
-FJ
Our society is very much influenced by sex and sexual thoughts. Having gone for 22 days without, while it doesn’t really even seem like a long time (it’s not the time per se, but the staving off of the desire), has made that much very obvious. We’re bombarded by sexual issues : from attractive females walking us by to the over-sexing of the media.
While I don’t really oppose all that, I do hope people would be more aware of it. I have myself thought about this a lot just now. When so many of even our own actions are influenced by sexual desire, it is very interesting to seek to extinguish it. When it’s not sexual desires influencing us, what is?
We return more wholly to the original state, more in tune with everything and ourselves. And how easy it would be to lose that, to merely be a slave of our own desires. At least in this fashion, 100 days of no ejaculation seems like a very good exercise of the self. I strongly recommend it (and hope I can make it that far myself), if for nothing else but this revelation.
Hmm
I’m not saying this competition purposes but a year ago I broke an abstinence of 4 and half years. Of course I was studying Chinese Medicine when I first started which claims that unenforced desire for sexual practices would symptomatic of bodily/emotional disharmonies. However, it was enforced as a means of practice, and …welll… how can I say? I just got used to it, and went through a phase where getting involved in a relationship was difficult to do anyway, so that made it easier I guess.
However to be honest I do consider that amount of time to be somewhat extreme if it’s enforced and unhealthy (or at least indictative of bad health) if not enforced.
fa_jing… . you started!! 
i’m in a phase right now where like repulsive monkey said, it’s difficult for a relationship, so that makes it easier to abstain. 4 and a half years ?! you get maaad props!! for this day and age, with media and whatnot, that is quite an accomplishment. sex is everywhere, as alot of you said. i think it’s real sad that this is how our culture gets on, but it is what it is. it’s strange how it’s almost second nature to look at a sexy girls a$$ when she passes by. i catch myself doing it like it’s a normal reflex.
whatevers. 3 weeks+ and counting.
This may go against everything I’ve said so far, but after 1 year with no sex IMO you are allowed to get a hooker. 
I still want to emphasize that the reason we are bombarded with sexual images in the media is for the purpose of selling things, that is what is most wrong about it. These same forces want us to be sex addicts so we’ll pay that much more attention when the commercial with the hot babe comes on the tube. It’s not really like society has suddenly started appreciating the human female form.
-FJ