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i was reading an article on chinafrominside the other day and read that in order to optain a high level of nei gong, bagua practitioners must remain celibate. is this true of XY as well?!?!? i think the article said 1 or 2 times a month at most is ok; input from advanced XY players is most welcome

As i understand it an even regulation is best. By this i mean that you dont become completely celebate and you dont go overboard with it. a happy medium.

If you were to become celebate for your practice of Xing Yi it would be like eating and never going to the toilet. obviously this is not healthy!

There is a specific system as to how many times you can .... you know .... based on your age and your practice. Unfortunately i dont know it.

for women things are very different as well. The whole subject is complicated.

Basically as long as your not going to the extreme either way you should be ok.

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Chris

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To try to make a very complex system simple...men expel Qi each time, it drains essence. Women on the other hand receive and accumulate...so good for the women bad for the men.

Not sure if the art puts that much attention on it. I think its more of those artist who also branch out into Chinese medical thinking.

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so you don't damge our body. It's not that long and it's not eating and not crapping thing. If you want to be good - that it's a good idea or soem of the sheeing force from doing long range half stepping and impact from stomping will damage the knees.

After sex, your knees will feel exeptionally weak, the ligaments will have less chi going there, so e.g, practicing XY or bagua right after will hurt yourt knees.

take it FWIW - ignore it whatever. It's do whatever you want anyways so ask yourself - is it worth it, that's all.

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O boy.. we do have some problem in celebating
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“	Originally Posted By: ajc input from advanced XY players is most welcome	”

But not output, apparently.

“	Originally Posted By: aqira ...so good for the women bad for the men. .	”

Bro, you must be doing something wrong!

“	Originally Posted By: Unkotare But not output, apparently.	”

You Rock Unk
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yeah i had also heard that you should also refrain from shaking hands or other contact with people do to loss of qi. so i guess celebacy would be must if you can lose qi from just a hand shake

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“	yeah i had also heard that you should also refrain from shaking hands or other contact with people do to loss of qi. so i guess celebacy would be must if you can lose qi from just a hand shake	”

when I was dabbling in Reiki.. there were talks about blocking your chi from outside.. basically blocking ur +ve from -ve... kind of interesting topic
-TkdWarrior-

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I'm down with that philosophy Won, it's helped me lose some weight!

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Double bubble benefit eh :-)

I read " Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating the male sectual energy". Interesting book. One of the main points was that men should NEVER ejaculate and thus lose energy. An internal orgasim can still be achieved though.

Also, that it is true that we lose energy during, but if you know what you are doing you can steal energy and/or circulate energy with your partner.

The methods are closely related to Tantic practices. It's been some time since I read it and I have forgoten much of the particulars but I do use some of the methods described in the book.

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