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Amazing advice from a man with many worn shoes on the Way 🙇 I wholeheartedly agree! Running, especially recommend trail running, it’s my main “practice” as I feel such a connection out in the mountains and rivers and stones and trees with Being, thru my body’s feelings, breathing, motion, sights of amazement in such beautiful surroundings, it’s a real Shen Gong practice for me 🙂 I also endorse weightlifting and body weight exercises like pull ups, pushups, dips, and sit ups done as super sets. Any physical activity done in moderation is good for your energy cultivation. Running will make you go thru your pain cave and into a place of deep strength if you let it 👊 And of course taking pain is the first step of you want to practice the martial arts. With @steve here the Dao bums for sure has much strength with very positive advice and direction 🙏

Here’s the Neidan for women PDF I remember printing for my wife…unfortunately at the time I was practicing “Mantak-deluded like/inspired” practices and now I recall I got her the female Mantak book and this🤦🏻 Thank god it never jived with her 😅 It’s disappointing but thought I’d share it anyway with you, ignore the occasional Jade egg 😝 but even if ONE idea or the inspiration of a way to go with your personal practice is found to you in it, it’s worth it to peruse. I read it a long time ago and just glanced at it today saw the Jade egg and Mantak as one of the sources and thought 😑 (Swimming Dragon is another source though and it encourages women to practice it! 😁) Final-Draft-Paper-for-Neidan-Conference-05_17_101.pdf

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No problem at all and thank you 🙏 🙂 So glad you have a practice that FEELS good to you and brings you such joy! Run with it! Dig deep. Saying “in my element” and “ethereal” says it all 😁 Practice on the beach must be amazing! Such great deep tidal chi forces and currents at work to imbue your Self with energetically and immerse in it. Wind, water, earth, sun, or moon the elements 😉 And agree not much published for women’s Nei gong and Nei Dan for sure ☹️ I looked deeply and found not much for my wife. There is a book by Damo Mitchell I think 🤔 I realize there are clearly many less internal female teachings because of the misogynistic slant of many traditional cultures but it’s disappointing so few texts of value are found for sure. But seriously avoid the female Mantak Chia book and all that BS…if you know the history of Daobums at all then you know that’s not helpful information for most people. I also remember printing my wife a pretty decent text called something like “Women’s Neidan” but not sure. I’ll poke around for it for you 🙏

Yes! Now the rub is find the RIGHT one for you energetically, karmically and having the gumption to do just that dive deeper than you have in anything else but if do, results will happen 🙏

WOW! Thank you 🙏 on the pointer to Daniel Ingram’s site. Lots to mine deeply here and chew on 🙂

Absolutely agree! 😁 Mabu is my foundational stance and the root of both building and circulating energy deeply IMO. If there was only on practice or stance I’d recommend someone do it’s horse stance. But only if you are in proper, aligned posture and position and deeply deeply learn to relax it in, will it work. It’s like a circuit and if there is an area of wiring blocked it runs hot and starts a fire, not enough current and nothing happens. Of course in person in best, but I have made huge, personal breakthroughs studying this material https://ckchutaichi.com And I have this book, which seems excellent! I gave it to my wife, who is getting much more interested in finding internal, energetic practice I believe as she gets older like me but it didn’t seem like it attracted her…that is no worries as there is no hurry. You are always practicing and exploring consciousness and siddhis but people are so busy being distracted by the outside, illusionary Maya (especially today with social media control so rampant) they are like fish who won’t believe ANYONE that tells them they live in water 😉 And yes I agree the Swimming Dragon 🐉 form feels energetically that it’s slanted toward the Mysterious Female 🙂 https://www.amazon.com/Swimming-Dragon-Chinese-Fitness-Beautiful/dp/0882680633/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LXITNMQJSEZW&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.kYOAavV9ArkXAWqVUE7NsivLJOp8FlZ83V_0X17pIv5xpj_xBaOCKA6zdG766L-vsdQjZAOduzravb02ASdcmJHumrGwd4eBV55QxWqF9W99PhGaI3FbyXFxiX5P587fOp-gTJvdiRmAN7NKWLmBvZK5d4wtY-UQESzP6vwkCivHiEwpoB2qF_JtB-yLZRF8urg0y3z9kM2Nz2HwSsIKQRoh3JYNCdvno1ZQ97vbKdWCvuSZYK3VlmX_u33bBtVTaNnuAfFhpexvE5oFpg93t2pxLVBggod0vzBPBUef7xs.dDSP8P0JeQJ9QdCYdOoIVBhKaCTUQG1pH-RzlMxtNH0&dib_tag=se&keywords=Swimming+dragon&qid=1755728699&sprefix=swimming+drago%2Caps%2C476&sr=8-1 All the best to you and your practice 🙇🏻🙏

This is simply amazing advice and the kind of down to earth, brass tacks, simplified, but dipping into profoundly deep wells at the same time teaching and understanding I am so very interested in these days. This kind of insight and ability to articulate is what seems to be missing when others speak of Daobums losing its shine in the last few years. And completely agree with de_paradise in that @Gerard post is great succinct advice and he indeed, from the amazing and deep insights he has shared here over years 🙇🏻 speaks with great experience.

It feels hopeless at first, like now I don’t care about anything! Not even reading, learning, or practicing anything, it’s all so pointless 😔 and then out of the darkness you just feel “nothing was ever needed, nothing was ever ever wrong” and boom 💥 🥰 Yes! This I finally understand, how can you expect fuel for the work if you are not creating the “backward flow” needed to ignite the process. You start to learn to let go and trust the process and know that “He who knows the Way” will guide you, if you just let it.

Yes! This is why asked the way I did…I spent so many years chasing JING thru sexual energy and techniques and it’s pointless. We need to create the “backward flow” of energy thru conservation on ALL levels, not just the physical gross level and expect the process to work. And for ALL the good Daobums has done for the myself and the cultivation community over the years, it has led me and so many down the path of pursuing energy, advancement, and growth by chasing our tails thru our front when all we had to do was really nothing, and to ALLOW our bodies to build up the needed energy by focusing inward and not letting it “flow out” whether that is thru our minds, our emotions, or our penises.

By “conservation” do you mean sexual restraint of orgasm? Not losing JING by not emitting semen?