Where Does the Energy Go?

there is many types of Qi and they have differnt cycles or duration. Wei Qi and Ying/Food Qi flows in cycles of 24-years, you can do qi gong and build qi which can prevent from using wei and ying qi, but if you exercise and push yourself it burns out, lifestyle tells alot about how you manage this Qi. Jing is longer cycles to influence, ateast 3-months to really begin to influence, this is why the 100-day programs famous in qi gong.

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>>Regarding the leaks I would assume that placing the tongue
>>on the roof of the mouth would slow down that mouth leak source.
>>Can the perineum be closed by the will or does it require
>>squeezing? Is this also true for the genitals and the anus?

If you keep the tongue on the roof of your mouth, it will
help to redirect some stuck energy back into the MO, and it
will help to keep saliva moving–which is considered an elixir
in its own right.

I wouldn’t recommend doing a continued squeezing for the
perineum/genitals/anus. While these are useful to do in
the context of certain practices to amplify desired effects,
I wouldn’t do this too much. You’ll end up creating a lot
of tension in body which can cause problems in its own right.

Ultimately you want to seal leaks energetically not physically.
Of course, this opens up a whole can of worms of how to do this . . .

We also lose a lot of energy, i.e. leakage, through our sense
organs. This is also worth being aware of, and there are
techniques for reducing this also.

One simple thing that can be done is to moderate (but not cut off)
sensory input. For instance, too much visual stimulation
affects the liver negatively and acts as an energy drain. Thus,
if you watch a lot of television, cutting back is useful.
Strong visual imagery such as graphic TV violence or pornography
will rapidly drain your energy, so greatly reducing or eliminating
this is a good idea. Too much sound stimulation affects the
kidneys negatively and acts as an energy drain. Thus,
if you spend a lot of your day with an IPOD playing music, then
you’re draining away your energy. Talking too much, i.e.
being a chatterbox, burns up heart energy, etc. Of course,
this does not mean that one should suddenly adopt “monastery-like”
behavior and cut off all outside stimulation, because part of
being in this world is to live in it and fulfill your worldly
destiny, but it does pay to be *moderate* and not stimulate
yourself to excess.

Of course, at much higher levels of internal alchemy, various
techniques for dealing with energetic leaks of the senses are addressed.
For instance, Star Alchemy (after Greatest Kan and Li), is
also known as “Sealing of the Five Senses”, and some portions
of that level classically are supposedly designed to seal
off energetic leaks from the “five thieves”, i.e. five senses.

That’s probably way more info than you were looking for, so
let me just say this in short: I really wouldn’t worry too
much at this point about energy leaks. Oftentimes the other
three things I mentioned in my list of four play a larger
role. However, it is still useful to be aware that such
leaking can happen, and to use it as a lesson to be more
moderate in sensory stimulation.

>>You may be right about spending more energy.
>>That has certainly been the case at work.
>>I’ve noticed increased mind capacity, which has allowed
>>me to take on even more design and analysis projects.
>>I may have to reconsider that, for my own progress along the Tao.

This is one of the more common things, in my opinion.
There’s nothing necessarily wrong with it either.
If you really enjoy doing design and analysis projects,
why not do more? Again, you want to complete
your worldly destiny as well as your spiritual one. Regardless
of how you acquire more energy, you should use it in
some way–either to be more vital in the world or to
channel it into spiritual work–otherwise it is like
adding money to a bank account but never spending it.
Of course if you find that doing extra design and analysis
projects are making your life more stressful, than that’s
a different story–but if you enjoy it, why not?
One other thing to consider is that you don’t have to take
an “all-or-nothing” position. You could spend *some* of
your additional energy on your work, and spend *some* of
your additional energy on spiritual work–in other words,
you don’t necessarily have to choose, you can do a little
of both!

>>Hopefully my internal blockages are being cleared.
>>I know that there are still at least several parts of me
>>that resist fusing. On the positive side since doing Fusion
>>and starting to learn the Healing love practices, my saliva
>>flow has increased. I seem to have heard that this is the
>>upper Dan Tien’s expression of jing.

While sometimes it’s a matter of not having strong enough tools,
oftentimes it’s just a matter of patience. We all want to
improve and reach enlightenment, and we all want it to happen
in a straight linear fashion with continuous improvement
day after day after day–and we don’t want it to take too long!
Of course, that’s not what happens. It takes a long long time.
Sometimes it seems like you’re going backward rather than forward,
because it often falls a pattern of ten steps forward, five steps
back etc. In a lot of ways though, I think that this is how it is
supposed to be. If we just improved linearly, without the
appearance of “ten steps forward, five steps back”, we would get
too arrogant. If we improved too rapidly, we wouldn’t learn as
much; we wouldn’t gain the depth of experience. Furthermore,
we wouldn’t appreciate the fruits of our effort as much.
In other words, what we really need to do is just focus
on the present and put forth continued effort, confident in
knowing that our persistence will pay off–without being too
overly concerned with the ultimate goal–knowing that eventually
we will reach it if we just keep doing what we are doing.
Lastly, it is sometimes hard to see just how much progress we are
making in the short term, but with clear vision, if we make
comparisons to how we were say a year previous or whatever, usually
the differences are striking.

>>The prospect of reversion is frustrating to me, but I’m going
>>to continue with the process and not focus as much on the goal.

Exactly. This is the best approach in my opinion.

>>I look forward to the live transmission of Fusion this Spring
>>in Asheville and Healing Love at Heavenly Mountain this summer.

Then I’ll see you there. I will also be doing this, and
doing Lesser Kan and Li this summer.

>>I’m definitely very interested in Kan and Li,
>>but that may be too much for me to digest this summer.

Of course, only you can decide that for yourself, but if
I had to give a recommendation, I’d say go for it. You’ve
already been working with Fusion and Healing Love on your own,
and then you’re going to get the repetition in the live courses
you’re taking. I personally think you’d have more than enough
background. Plus, you’d have at least a year to practice
it and digest it before even having the option of doing anything
further along (since you’d really only have the ability to
repeat the Fundamentals/Fusion in Asheville).

Best,
Steven