As with most young men puberty brought an explosion of hormones. My father warned me time after time not to read porn magazines and masturbate. He said they have a negative effect on me both physically and spiritually. It is common knowledge among older Chinese that sex deplete ones energy. The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic, the bible of Chinese medicine, explicitly explains how sex affects you. At that time I just laughed it off, because many western medical journals and studies say sex and masturbation are good for you: just a minor loss of protein which can easily be replenished.
Only after I began Nei Dan (inner alchemy) practice did I realize from my own personal experience, how true that ancient wisdom is. Usually in the Nei Dan process, the first step is to convert Jing (sexual energy) into Qi and use that to replenish the brain. This process is called Huan Jing Bu Nao in Chinese. If you ask the Chinese about this term, I am sure many have heard about it from books, magazine, movies or TV dramas. Sadly, most of the time these days this term is used in a comic way; thus, the younger generations dismiss it as fiction.
Interestingly, just a couple of months ago, I read a study on how watching porn affects our brain. “Researchers found that gray matter volume in the right caudate of the striatum was smaller among frequent porn viewers. Men who watched more porn also showed less activity in another area of the striatum, known as the left putamen … These brain changes are similar to those seen in cocaine addicts, who develop abnormalities in areas, such as the nucleus accumbens and striatum, which are responsible for learning, memory, pleasure, and reward.”
For the full article see:
http://www.medicaldaily.com/watching-adult-films-alters-brain-activity-similar-drug-addicts-alcoholics-347224
So after all, the idea of converting the jing (sexual energy) to replenish the brain doesn’t sound that absurd. Indeed, anyone with some background in Traditional Chinese Medicine knows that the brain is part of the kidney systems and jing is mainly stored in the lower dan tian, particularly the area between your kidneys (ming men).
Only after I began Nei Dan (inner alchemy) practice did I realize from my own personal experience, how true that ancient wisdom is. Usually in the Nei Dan process, the first step is to convert Jing (sexual energy) into Qi and use that to replenish the brain. This process is called Huan Jing Bu Nao in Chinese. If you ask the Chinese about this term, I am sure many have heard about it from books, magazine, movies or TV dramas. Sadly, most of the time these days this term is used in a comic way; thus, the younger generations dismiss it as fiction.
Interestingly, just a couple of months ago, I read a study on how watching porn affects our brain. “Researchers found that gray matter volume in the right caudate of the striatum was smaller among frequent porn viewers. Men who watched more porn also showed less activity in another area of the striatum, known as the left putamen … These brain changes are similar to those seen in cocaine addicts, who develop abnormalities in areas, such as the nucleus accumbens and striatum, which are responsible for learning, memory, pleasure, and reward.”
For the full article see:
http://www.medicaldaily.com/watching-adult-films-alters-brain-activity-similar-drug-addicts-alcoholics-347224
So after all, the idea of converting the jing (sexual energy) to replenish the brain doesn’t sound that absurd. Indeed, anyone with some background in Traditional Chinese Medicine knows that the brain is part of the kidney systems and jing is mainly stored in the lower dan tian, particularly the area between your kidneys (ming men).
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