Sexual Force Management: Level 3

updated by: High Priest Zevios Metathronos

Once a year, hold the sexual force for 2 weeks, keep it, and carry its strength into your practice.

Level: 3 · The Yearly Retention
Hold: 14 days
How Often: Once a year
During: No sex, no masturbation, no porn; the force directed
After: A return to your balanced rhythm
Outcome: The force retained, and mastered

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.

Huangdi Neijing, Suwen 1 (上古天真論)
腎者主水，受五藏六府之精而藏之，故五藏盛乃能寫。
The Kidneys rule water. They receive the essence of the 5 Zang and the 6 Fu organs and store it; so only when the 5 Zang organs are full can it be released.

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 2 trained the hold for a week. Level 3 keeps it for 2 weeks, once a year, and retains the energy: the force is held, gathered and carried into your practice.

Once a year is the measure. The rest of the year, Levels 1 and 2 keep the force clean of waste, and release with desire and pleasure stays good.

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. Choosing the 2 Weeks

Choose 2 weeks of deeper practice: a retreat, a season of study, the weeks before an important working or a festival you hold dear. Mark them in advance.

If you share your life with a partner, agree on it together. A retention kept in secret from a partner becomes a burden on both.

IV. The 2 Weeks

Days	What You May Notice	What to Do
1 to 4	The old urges, then restlessness and heat.	The breath up the spine; hard training; early nights.
5 to 9	A surplus of energy; stronger desire; vivid dreams.	Daily meditation and energy work; put the drive into work.
10 to 14	A quieter, deeper strength; clarity; steadiness.	Gather it: longer meditations, the Void, your Kundalini work.

V. Retaining the Energy

Morning and evening, the circuit. The breath up the spine to the crown and down the front to below the navel, 20 breaths. End each time by resting the attention below the navel, where the energy is gathered.
Train every day. Movement uses the surplus well and keeps the body balanced (Physical Exercise).
Meditate every day. Energy meditation first, then the Void Meditation to seal it.
Guard the mind. No porn, and no feeding the mind with sexual images. Desire may come; let it rise and turn it upward with the breath.
Eat and sleep well. The reserves you keep need the right food and full sleep (Diet & Sleep).

VI. Men, Women and Age

The practice is the same for women and men. For men it matters more, and more with age.

A young man will feel the pressure strongly and must hold it with training and the breath. A man past 40 gains most from it: the Suwen sees the Kidney Qi decline from 40, and Sun Simiao spaces release further with each decade, until at 60 he advises holding the essence.

The full measure by age is on Level 1.

VII. Ending the 2 Weeks

Return to your rhythm with intent. A release with real desire, presence and pleasure closes the retention well; so does simply going on with Level 1. Observe how you feel in the days after: that is what the force does for you.

A release in sleep, for men, may come during the 2 weeks. It's natural, and the practice goes on.

VIII. If It Becomes Too Much

End the retention early if you feel pain or heavy pressure in the groin, if sleep fails for several nights, or if the mind can hold nothing else. The force is meant to be mastered with ease; Sun Simiao warned that holding long against a strong body does harm. Return to Level 2 and try again next year.

IX. Signs of Mastery

The 14 days pass with calm. The force is held and the mind is clear.
The energy is felt and directed. Meditation deepens; the body is strong.
The rhythm after is balanced. Release returns with desire, without a binge.
The year stays clean. Levels 1 and 2 hold from one retention to the next.

The Kidneys release only when the organs are full. Keep them full, and the force will be there when you call it.