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Hi everyone, my background is born and raised Christian. About 4 years back my wife had to undergo therapy for OCD and during it we were introduced to the concept of mindfulness for the first time. So I dove into meditation in all its different forms and have had a fairly regular practice since. As part of some new resolutions I wanted to practice tantric sex and came across the semen retention concept. In learning about it over the past week I can across Taoism for the first time. The only things I read about it were about male sexual energy. Well I decided yesterday to try the testicle breathing and I felt exactly what was discribe of the cool sexual energy moving up! So now because of that experience I've decided I have to find out the truths about chi (which until this point I thought was kind of a load of crap). So if any of you have any suggestions where I should start, I'm all ears! Sorry for the long post!

Hi there! thanks everyone for the kind welcome. OCD stands for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. It is a mental disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts and ritualistic behaviors to try to nuetrilize them. So ive been practicing mindful meditation and other forms of meditation for several years. I am pretty in tune with my thoughts and body. So when i first felt this sensation I did attribute it to psychosomatic causes. However, after reading about the practices more of drawing up sexual energy from the genitals up I ruled that placebo effect out. Essentially I ruled it out because I experienced things I didn't read until after I experienced them. Examples are having a hard time bringing the energy around the sacral area, energy getting stuck in the navel and chest and those symptoms. I was doing part of the practice wrong and experienced some of these things that I did not know until after the fact. What do do you think?