Sexual Force Management: Level 2

updated by: High Priest Zevios Metathronos

Hold the sexual force for 5 to 7 days, now and then, and learn what it does when it isn't spent.

Level: 2 · Retention
Hold: 5 to 7 days
How Often: Now and then, by choice
During: No sex, no masturbation, no porn
After: Release with desire and pleasure
Outcome: You can hold the force at will

Sex and the release of sexual energy are good. Released with real desire and real pleasure, the sexual force removes blockages of the Kundalini, clears the channels and renews the whole being. What weakens is waste: release without desire, without pleasure, without reason. These practices guard the force against waste, and keep it for what it is meant to do.

Plato, Laws VIII, 840a, of Iccus of Tarentum, victor at Olympia
διὰ φιλονικίαν, καὶ τέχνην καὶ τὸ μετὰ τοῦ σωφρονεῖν ἀνδρεῖον ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ κεκτημένος, ὡς λόγος, οὔτε τινὸς πώποτε γυναικὸς ἥψατο οὐδʼ αὖ παιδὸς ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ τῆς ἀσκήσεως ἀκμῇ.
Spurred on by ambition and skill, and possessing courage combined with temperance in his soul, during all the period of his training (as the story goes) he never touched a woman, nor yet a boy. (Tr. R. G. Bury)

Before You Begin
This page speaks plainly about sex, porn and addiction. It's written for adults.
Every number on it is indicative. Bodies, ages and lives differ, and each Initiate adapts the practice to their own.

I. What Changes at This Level

Level 1 ended the waste. Level 2 trains the hold: 5 to 7 days with no sexual release at all, by your own choice.

It's an ability, and you use it now and then. Choose the days, hold them, then return to your rhythm. Release stays good at every level.

II. The 3 Levels

Level	What You Train	How Often
Level 1	Ending the waste: no release without desire and real pleasure; porn and compulsion ended; the imbalance found and set right	Always
Level 2	Holding the force for 5 to 7 days and directing it	Now and then, by choice
Level 3	Holding the force for 2 weeks and retaining its energy	Once a year

III. Why Hold It

The Greek athletes held it before the Games, and Plato names the Olympic victors who did. Held for a while, the force builds and turns into vitality, drive and focus.

In the language of Qigong, the essence held is refined into Qi. In the language of the Temple, the force that isn't spent rises, and the meditations of the Kundalini and the energy work draw on it.

IV. The 5 to 7 Days

Days	What You May Notice	What to Do
1 and 2	Urges at the hours of old habit.	The breath up the spine; move; let the urge pass.
3 and 4	Restlessness, warmth, a surplus of energy.	Exercise hard; meditate; put the energy to work.
5 to 7	Energy, focus, sharper senses, stronger desire.	Direct it: meditation, training, study, creative work.

During the days: no sex, no masturbation, no porn, and no feeding the mind with sexual images. Desire itself is welcome; you simply don't spend it.

V. Directing the Force

The breath up the spine. Breathing in, draw the energy from the base of the spine up to the crown; breathing out, let it flow down the front of the body and settle below the navel. Qigong calls this circuit the Small Heavenly Circuit (小周天). 10 to 20 breaths, morning and evening, and whenever the force presses.
Movement. Train as on the Physical Exercise pages; a body that works uses the surplus well.
Meditation. The energy meditations take more from the force now. End each session with the Void Meditation.
Work. Study and creative work take the drive and turn it into something done.

VI. The Release After

When the days are done, return to your rhythm: release when real desire comes, with a partner or alone, and enjoy it fully. It's good, and after a hold it's often deeper.

Avoid a binge. If the end of the hold brings release after release, the hold was forced; next time, choose fewer days.

A release in sleep, for men, is the body's own measure. It's natural, and it doesn't break the practice.

VII. If It Becomes Too Much

Stop the hold and release if you feel pain or heavy pressure in the groin, if you can't sleep, or if the thought of sex takes over the whole day. Then try again later, with fewer days.

Sun Simiao warned of this: forcing a strong body to hold long without release does harm. The aim is mastery, held with ease.

VIII. Your Practice Month

Practice	How Often	Duration
A hold of 5 to 7 days	Once a month, or when you choose	5 to 7 days
The breath up the spine	Morning and evening during the hold	10 to 20 breaths
Level 1	Always	No porn, no waste

Typical timeframe: 2 to 3 months of holds before the 7 days come easily.

IX. Signs You're Ready for Level 3

You hold 7 days with calm. The urges pass and the energy stays.
You direct the force. The breath, training and meditation take it in.
The release after is balanced. No binge follows the hold.
Level 1 holds. No porn, no waste, for months.

Hold it by choice, release it with joy. Both are mastery.