Your Energy

Understanding how the energy in your body works wil allow you to expand genital orgasms into whole-body orgasms and
to use your sexual energy to improve your creativity and health. As we mentioned in the introduction, Sexual Kung Fu
developed as a branch of Chinese medicine. One of the world’s oldest and most effective healing systems, Chinese
medicine is responsible for the discovery of such successfully proven therapies as acupuncture and acupressure.
According to Chinese medicine, in addition to the physical structures of your body, you also have physical energy that is
constantly circulating through every cell of your body.
THE BODY ELECTRIC
As Western chemistry has become more refined, it is now able to demonstrate that our bodies are indeed fil ed with
energy and electric charges. In the February 1984 issue of Discover magazine, K. C. Cole explained the comparison:
"Electricity is almost certainly the most elusive of everyday things: It lives in the walls of our houses, and regulates the
lives of our cells.... It runs electric trains and human brains.... Your entire body is a giant electric machine: body
chemistry (like all chemistry) is based on electrical bonds."
Chinese medicine is based on a person’s ability to maintain the proper circulation of this bioelectric energy through the
body. If you have ever had acupuncture, you have experienced the circulation of this bioelectric energy, which the
Chinese call chi (pronounced CHEE), in your own body. However, if you have not had this opportunity, there is a simple
experiment you can do to feel your body's chi. Rub your hands together for ten seconds and then hold the palms about
an inch apart. If you concentrate, you should be able to feel a flow of energy passing between them.
The idea of chi is not unique to China. Dr. John Mann and Larry Short, authors of The Body o Light count forty-nine
cultures around the world that have a word for chi; the words vary from prana in Sanskrit to neyayoneyah in Lakota Sioux
to num, which means "boiling point," in the language of the kalahari !Kung. The West is perhaps unique in its lack of an
equivalent term. In the West, we speak about feeling energized or having low energy, but with a few notable exceptions,
we tend to ignore this important part of our physical body.
The concept of chi is gaining increasing acceptance in the medical establishment. A major transition occurred when
President Richard Nixon reestablished diplomatic relations with China in 1972. In Beijing, Chinese doctors performed
emergency surgery on New York Times correspondent James Reston, using only acupuncture for anesthesia. Since then
many delegations of Western physicians to China have witnessed similar events.
Chi is just beginning to be understood in the terminology of Western science. Currently, several Western physicians are
exploring the phenomenon, such as Robert Becker, a Syracuse University orthopedist and author of The Body Electric,
who is trying to explain chi in relation to his work in bioelectricity and healing. It was Dr. Becker’s research into electricity
and its role in regenerating bones that led to the current method of using low-level electrical currents to stimulate the
mending of fractures.
YOUR MICROCOSMIC ORBIT
You have bioelectric energy in every cell of your body. This energy also travels along certain well-defined circuits, called
meridians, which acupuncture utilizes to regulate the amount of chi in any particular part of your body. The main circuit in
the body is cal ed the Microcosmic Orbit (see figure 3) and is made up of two channels, the Back Channel and the Front
Channel (in Chinese medicine traditionally called the Governor Channel and the Functional Channel, respectively).
These channels are part of our earliest development. In utero, our body first resembles a flat disk. As the embryo
develops, the disk folds over, leaving two seams, one along the midline of the back of our body and one along the front.
The back seam can be seen in our spine, but the front line is more subtle. We rarely notice the front seam unless it does
not close completely, as is the case with a child who is born with a harelip.
One multi-orgasmic man explained his understanding of the Microcosmic Orbit: "I think of the Microcosmic Orbit as a
channel or meridian or route that has been discovered and tested over thousands of years to transform the raw biological
energy used to create children into a lighter and more refined energy that can be used to improve one's health and one’s
lovemaking."


THE BACK CHANNEL
THE MULTI-ORGASMIC MAN

















































Figure 3 - THE MICROCOSMIC ORBIT
The Back Channel begins at the perineum and runs along the back of the body from the tip of the tailbone, up the spine
and neck, to the crown of the head, and finally down the forehead to where it ends between the bottom of the nose and
the upper lip, where there is an indentation.
THE FRONT CHANNEL
The Front Channel runs from the tip of your tongue to your throat and along the midline of your body down to your pubis
and perineum. Touching your tongue to your palate closes the Microcosmic Orbit. The Front Channel is sometimes
translated from the Chinese as the Conception Channel, and if you look very closely at the belly of a woman who is
pregnant, you will generally see a dark line (which doctors call the linea nigra) that extends along part of this channel.

WHAT DOES ENERGY FEEL LIKE WHEN IT IS MOVING IN YOUR BODY?
The fact is that you already have energy, or chi, moving through every part of your body. Without it, you would not be
alive. Generally we just are not aware of this current of energy moving through our bodies. When we first become aware
of chi, we may experience many different sensations. Some of the most common that people report are warmth, tingling,
prickling (like the feeling of static electricity), pulsating, humming, bubbling, and buzzing. Some people feel it move
slowly, while others feel a fast "rush." Though some people feel it move in a straight line along the Microcosmic Orbit,
most people feel it more at some points along the orbit than at others.
HOW DOES CHI MOVE?
There is a Taoist saying: "The mind moves and the chi follows." Wherever you focus your attention, the chi tends to
gather and increase. As biofeedback experiments have now confirmed, focusing your attention on an area of the body
can cause increased activity in the nerves and muscles in that area. The stronger the focus, the greater the movement of
the chi. Keep in mind that you are not pushing o pulling the chi, you are simply shifting your focus to another point.
Understanding this is crucial to developing an effective practice. However, you will not just be moving your attention over
your skin, you will be experiencing a palpable flow of warm, tingling energy.