Book summary “Healing love through the Tao”: summary

Introduction

You live in a society that treats sexual energy as a mere reproductive drive or a source of fleeting pleasure. Modern life drains your vital reserves through chronic stress, emotional turbulence, and the uncontrolled loss of creative power during ordinary orgasms. This constant depletion leaves you fatigued, emotionally unstable, and prematurely aged.

Transforming and directing sexual energy inward through Taoist internal alchemy rejuvenates the physical body, balances emotions, and awakens higher spiritual potential.

The Universal Tao system offers practical methods to reverse this drain by harnessing your primordial life force. You will learn to circulate energy through your body, strengthen vital organs, and awaken dormant healing power.

• How does sexual energy function as your primary life force?
• What mechanisms circulate vital energy along the spine?
• How can internal muscle exercises build lasting physical vitality?
• What practices enable you to experience sustained valley orgasms?

1. A Taoist View of Female Energy

The human body operates like a finite energy bank account where daily life expenses and emotional stress drain vital reserves unless replenished.

The ultimate goal of the Universal Tao system is to help you transcend physical boundaries and evolve your physical, mental, and spiritual bodies by working with the life force, or Chi. You use ancient meditative and internal energy exercises to increase physical energy, release tension, improve health, and tap into environmental forces. This builds a solid health foundation necessary to develop spiritual potential.

Energy Dynamics and Jing

Taoist sages view the human body's energy as a finite bank account where daily living expenses gradually drain vital reserves unless replenished. A young and healthy person earns 100 percent of their required energy daily from eating, resting, and exercise, while spending 60 to 70 percent on daily life maintenance. As you age, you earn less but spend the same, eventually overdrawing from vital organs and the brain. By age forty, you spend 50 to 60 percent of your principal energy, losing 30 to 40 percent through menstruation or outward sexual release.

Jing, or principal generative energy, is the most refined energy you are born with and serves as the foundation that can be transformed into life-force Chi and spiritual energy Shen. Jing is stored in living tissue, particularly the kidneys, sperm, and ova. While men mainly lose energy through ejaculation, your major energy loss occurs through menstruation, producing eggs, hormones, and the uterine lining, which accounts for a 30 to 40 percent daily energy expenditure across three to five hundred menstrual periods in a lifetime from age twelve through menopause in the fifties.

Sensory stimulation and ordinary drug use or sex cause losing-energy pleasure by burning vital organ reserves, whereas turning sexual energy inward provides gaining-energy pleasure. Activities like excessive entertainment, sensory indulgence, and drug use act like bonfires fueled by gasoline, creating intense gratification that rapidly drains vital organs and the brain. In contrast, recycling sexual energy internally strengthens the organs so they can control, satisfy, and balance the senses.

Dealing with Negative Emotions

Negative emotions drain life force and sexual energy, but instead of dumping garbage energy outward, you must circulate and transform it into positive Chi. Negative emotional states like anger, fear, and stress eat up 10 to 60 percent of your life-force energy due to negative emotional drains. Dumping negative energy causes it to ricochet back with extra force. By opening a specific body channel, you can combine negative energy with sexual energy and use natural combustion to change it into positive Chi.

Taoist meditation focuses on developing all three parts of the human composite: the physical body, the soul body, and the spirit body. Unlike traditions that cultivate the soul and spirit by neglecting the physical form, Taoism uses physical exercises, self-awareness, and inner alchemy to keep the physical body healthy, generate Chi, and successfully give birth to the spiritual self.

• Open the internal channel running through the body.
• Combine negative energy and sexual energy within the channel.
• Circulate both energies to trigger natural combustion and change negative energy into life-force Chi.
• Use the Fusion of the Five Elements meditation to harmonize emotional energy with associated organs.

2. Opening the Microcosmic Orbit

Ancient practitioners who sat quietly in nature discovered a physical energy flow originating in the navel. This natural circuit moves down to the perineum, up the spine to the head, and down through the tongue and throat.

The Microcosmic Orbit connects the functional and governor channels to circulate primordial sexual energy throughout the body.

Energy Channels and Circulation

The functional or yin channel runs up the front of the body from the perineum to the tip of the tongue. The governor or yang channel runs from the perineum up the tailbone and spine into the brain and down to the roof of the mouth. The tongue acts as a switch between these two major energy channels.

You can open the Microcosmic Orbit through morning meditation by mentally following the natural circuit of Chi.

• Sit in meditation for a few minutes each morning and relax.
• Allow your energy to automatically complete the loop by letting your mind flow along with it.
• Start in the eyes, and mentally circulate your attention with the energy as it goes down the front through your tongue, throat, chest, and navel.
• Bring your attention up the tailbone and spine to the head.

Sexual energy is a primordial force that, when drawn upward through the Microcosmic Orbit, provides spiritual rebirth and health benefits. Unlike specialized organ Chi, sexual energy is extraordinarily versatile and nourishing to the spiritual being. This process triggers sex-stimulating hormones and prevents aging and illnesses.

Partners can synchronize their breathing and touch to become more in touch with their internal energy.

• Lie next to your partner with your ear or nose near your partner's nose.
• Synchronize your breathing and begin to feel the mingling of your breaths and energies.
• Hug each other for a prolonged period and begin to feel the energy in the abdomen with each breath.

Sealing the Energy Body

Clearing physical or mental blockages in the microcosmic channel is essential to seal energy within the body and prevent it from escaping. If tension blocks the channel during lovemaking, ovarian energy cannot rise to the brain. Under intense pressure, this vital force will be lost through the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.

Mastering the Microcosmic Orbit prepares students for advanced energy-conserving techniques like Iron Shirt chi kung and t'ai chi chi kung. These complementary practices help pack and store Chi into vital organs. Thirty-two energy channels correspond to specific organs discovered in the body. The exercises strengthen muscles, tendons, and bones while circulating energy among body, mind, and spirit.

3. Cultivating Ovarian Power

Ovarian breathing and compression exercises use internal muscle pumps to move dense sexual energy upward for healing and revitalization.

The ovaries act as the primary factory for female sexual energy, eggs, and hormones. This energy is known as Jing Chi. Because Ovarian Chi is denser and thicker than normal life force, it needs assistance to circulate upward through the spine. You have 450 thousand potential eggs in reserve and produce 3 to 5 hundred eggs during your reproductive years.

Anatomical Foundations and Pumps

The body possesses lower diaphragms that separate the pelvis from the perineum. The pelvic diaphragm, urogenital diaphragm, and thoracic diaphragm serve as critical muscular pumps. Controlling these partitions prevents the leakage of Chi and increases abdominal pressure.

The anus is divided into five distinct sections connected to specific organ and gland networks. By contracting particular parts of the anus, you can guide sexual healing energy to deficient organs.

• Bring your attention to the Ovarian Palace, located between the ovaries.
• Contract the vagina slightly to pull the energy down to the perineum.
• Contract and pull up the front part of the perineum while inhaling a short sip of air.
• Rest, holding your breath, and feel the flow from the Ovarian Palace to the perineum.
• Exhale, with your mind retaining the energy there.
• Repeat this procedure nine times.

Move the energy through T-11, C-7, the Jade Pillow, and the Crown point. Circulate the energy in the brain thirty-six counterclockwise revolutions and then clockwise. Allow the energy to flow down through the heart to the navel and collect it there.

Ovarian Compression Practice

Ovarian Compression packs air and Chi directly into the ovaries and vagina. This practice warms up the sexual region and increases sexual power.

• Choose your preferred sitting or standing position.
• Breathe in very slowly through the nose and compress the air in your throat.
• Swallow strongly to the solar plexus and hold the air there as a ball.
• Press the ball down to the navel region, and then down to the pelvic region and ovaries.
• Press the ball strongly into the ovaries until you cannot hold your breath no longer.
• Swallow accumulated saliva strongly at the end of your breath capacity.
• Rest by taking quick, shallow breaths through the nose.

Perform this compression for 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in the evening. Keep each compression at a minimum duration of 30 to 40 seconds. Practice up to 36 repetitions per sitting.

Venting exercises relieve head tension caused by unguided upward Chi flow. You can tape spiny little balls onto the Yuang Chuan points on the soles of both feet. Guide the energy from the crown to the Ming-Men and down to the soles through the backs of the legs.

4. The Orgasmic Upward Draw

Redirecting sexual arousal upward through the spine prevents energy depletion and enables the body to experience valley orgasms.

Women possess a much greater capacity for sexual pleasure and energy than men, but ordinary orgasms waste this potential unless the energy is redirected upward. Taoists view women as water, taking longer to reach a boiling point but maintaining it longer. Vaginal spasms at lower arousal levels are often mistaken for total orgasms, leaving women feeling frustrated. By performing the Orgasmic Upward Draw, a woman warms up her sexual region and uses internal alchemy to transform sexual energy into Chi and spiritual energy, preventing energy loss and enabling cell nourishment and organ rejuvenation. You can reach a 95 to 99 percent arousal level before performing the Orgasmic Draw. This practice generates 10 to 100, 1,000, or hundreds of thousands of units of multiplied sexual energy. Women can practice these Taoist sexual techniques either alone through single cultivation or with a trained male partner through dual cultivation.

Breast Massage and Gland Stimulation

Breast massage stimulates the kidney meridian and endocrine glands along the hormonal pathway, awakening organ and gland chi before the Orgasmic Draw. Massaging the breasts activates nerves connected to all major glands and organs, starting from the pineal gland down through the pituitary, thyroid, thymus, pancreas, adrenals, and sex glands. Stimulating these glands in descending order awakens physical and mental manifestations of organ chi in the lungs, heart, spleen, kidneys, and liver, which are then fused in the breasts into compassion chi before being directed down to the ovaries.

• Sit on a hard object or round ball to stimulate the clitoris and vagina opening.
• Vigorously rub hands together to create heat and place palms on breasts.
• Place tongue on roof of mouth and lightly massage breasts using the second, middle, and fourth fingertips.
• Move right hand clockwise and left hand counterclockwise, pressing breasts against rib cage toward the base of the sternum.
• Press three fingers to the kidney point located one-and-a-half inches in from the nipple and circle toward the center.
• Massage breasts in an outward circular motion until the clitoris activates and sexual energy surges to the head.
• Allow energy to descend through pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, thymus, pancreas, and adrenal glands, bringing energy back to the breasts.
• Place palms on knees, experience energy in breasts, and use inner eye to drop energy like a plumb line down into the ovaries.

Stages of the Orgasmic Draw

Mastery of the Orgasmic Draw progresses through four distinct stages, shifting gradually from external muscle tension to pure mental control.

In Stage One, you use muscles of the fists, jaws, neck, feet, perineum, buttocks, and abdomen to activate pumps and push energy upward. Stage Two reduces reliance on outer muscles and increases use of the perineum Chi muscle and sphincter. Stage Three relies less on muscle tension and more on the Sacral and Cranial Pumps driven by the mind. Stage Four relies purely on mind control without any physical muscle clenching to command the energy.

• Stimulate breasts and genitals, direct sexual energy from nipples to ovaries and concentrate it in the Ovarian Palace.
• Inhale deeply through nose near orgasm, clench fists, claw feet, clench jaw, tighten neck pump, and press tongue to roof of mouth.
• Inhale, draw up genital-anus region, squeeze vagina lips tightly to press clitoris, hold breath for five seconds, and contract front of anus.
• Perform nine hard contractions of the sexual region without exhaling while holding energy at the front perineum.
• Exhale, rest, and arch sacrum back and outward to activate Sacral Pump, drawing energy up to coccyx and sacrum with three to nine inhalations.
• Draw energy to T-11 by bowing spine outward and pushing toward it.
• Draw energy to C-7 by pushing top of sternum back toward base of neck.
• Draw energy to Jade Pillow by pushing chin in toward base of skull and clenching teeth and tongue to palate.
• Draw energy to Pai-Hui crown point, turn eyes and senses upward, and spiral energy nine, eighteen, or thirty-six times clockwise and counterclockwise.
• Allow extra energy to flow down the Functional Channel to the third eye, throat, heart, and navel for storage.

A female student stopped the post-practice massage step and noticed an immediate increase in breast congestion before her period, which resolved entirely when she resumed the massage. Proper execution of Taoist sexual exercises requires adherence to specific safety rules and may induce temporary purging and cleansing side effects.

• Never lie flat on back or left side during practice.
• Practice on an empty but not hungry stomach, waiting at least one hour after eating.
• Wear loose clothes or wrap in a light blanket to avoid drafts, and change clothes if perspiring.
• Breathe exclusively through the nose.
• Perform post-package massage by briskly rubbing breasts in a circular motion against ribs and massaging mons, outer lips, perineum, and sacrum to disperse un-drawn energy.

5. Stone Egg and Weight Lifting Practices

Stone egg exercises originally evolved in ancient China to improve physical and spiritual health by powering the Chi muscle to lift sexual energy upward. While historically taught in the Royal Palace to the queen and concubines, the true purpose was to strengthen internal muscles, tone the lower abdomen, improve Ovarian Breathing and Orgasmic Draw, and increase hormone flow.

Using obsidian and jade eggs strengthens the Chi muscle, increases hormone flow, and builds immense internal Chi pressure.

Egg Selection and Insertion

Volcanic obsidian eggs combining yang volcano power and yin earth essence are recommended for women's practices. Obsidian attracts and concentrates female yin essence. Eggs range from quail egg to jumbo supermarket size, with most women choosing a medium one about one inch in diameter. Proper hygiene requires boiling the stone egg before its first use and washing it only with water afterward.

• Select an egg with a smooth, nonporous surface approximately one inch in diameter.
• Boil the stone egg before its first use by bringing water to a boil and allowing it to cool down.
• Wash the egg with water only after each subsequent use, avoiding soap, detergent, or rubbing alcohol.

Preliminary breast and genital massage stimulates hormone secretion and breaks down congested stagnant Chi before egg exercises. Using a silk or taffeta cloth creates friction that helps hormonal stimulation.

• Gush or push fatty tissue of each breast against the rib cage.
• Move two or three fingers of each hand in small circular movements starting from the nipple outward.
• Massage the mons and labial area inch by inch using circular fingertip motions until moist vaginal secretions appear.

The vaginal canal is divided into three functional sections to isolate and master precise muscle control over the egg.

• Contract the external vaginal orifice tightly to prevent the egg from dropping out.
• Contract the muscles immediately in front of the cervix as the second section.
• Squeeze and move the egg up and down, left and right, and tilt it using the middle vaginal canal muscles.

Egg exercises are performed in the basic horse stance, combining multi-section vaginal contractions and specific movement patterns.

• Insert the wider end of the obsidian or jade egg into the aroused vagina, using safe natural lubricant if needed.
• Assume the basic horse stance with feet shoulder-width apart, knees bent, groin folded, spine aligned, and arms elevated at a 45-degree angle with clenched fists.
• Contract the first section tightly to close the external vaginal orifice.
• Inhale and contract the second section of muscles in front of the cervix.
• Squeeze the egg from the third middle section and slowly move it up and down, then left and right, and tilt it up and down.
• Rest after exercising and circulate energy in the Microcosmic Orbit.

Vaginal Weight Lifting and Organ Pulling

Vaginal weight lifting suspends weights from drilled jade eggs to strengthen pelvic diaphragms, internal organs, and increase Chi pressure. Adding weights forces internal organs and glands to contribute counterpressure and strength.

• Thread a sturdy string through a specially drilled jade egg and attach a half-pound weight using a plate or bag.
• Insert the egg into the vagina and assume the horse stance.
• Grip the egg tightly by closing the external and internal vagina and contracting the uterus, then release the weight string.
• Use the cervix to pull the weight up, holding your breath and contracting harder.
• Rock the pelvis to swing the weight thirty to sixty times to generate energy.
• Draw gathered energy up the spine into the head, hold for thirty to forty-five seconds, and bring energy down to the navel.

Advanced weight lifting involves enlisting higher organs and glands sequentially to create a massive internal pulling force.

• Contract the left ovary, wrap Chi around it, and pull toward the cervix.
• Repeat the pulling contraction using the right ovary, then both ovaries together.
• Use the contraction of kidneys, spleen and liver, lungs, heart with caution, and the thymus gland to add pulling force.
• Press the tongue to the palate, turn eyes upward toward the middle of the brain, squeeze head muscles, and pull from the pituitary and pineal glands.
• Circulate energy in the Microcosmic Orbit and collect it in the navel.

6. Dual Cultivation and Valley Orgasms

Practicing dual cultivation with a partner allows couples to synchronize breathing, retain seminal energy, and exchange vital life force.

Unlike brief genital orgasms that cause energy loss, a valley orgasm occurs when a man is near ejaculation and uses the Big Draw to send energy inward and upward while resting and lowering arousal to 60 percent. Women can similarly use the Orgasmic Draw to continually double or triple their energy through successive upward waves.

• Make love actively using three, six, or nine shallow strokes for each deep one.
• Stop thrusting when approaching orgasm and use the Orgasmic Upward Draw or Big Draw to bring power up to the Pai-Hui crown.
• Embrace, synchronize breathing, and open the Microcosmic Orbit using thought.
• Exchange power by circulating energy in and around entwined bodies, focusing on the lower Tan Tien and moving upward toward the middle and upper Tan Tiens.
• Rest, allow arousal to drop by 50 percent, and resume thrusting and drawing energy upward through multiple exchanges.

99 percent of the way to ejaculation is when a man pulls out to perform the Big Draw. 60 percent arousal is where sexual organs settle down after a valley orgasm draw before starting again.

Valley Orgasm Mechanics

Specific lovemaking positions stimulate internal organs and glands, provided the energy channels are open to allow healing Chi to move upward. The basic principle is that the active partner brings healing to the inactive partner, who remains still to quiet the mind and feel the partner's sexual healing energy. Nine basic sexual positions are grouped into face-to-face and back-facing categories. Three sets of nine shallow penetrations and one deep penetration are recommended in The Handbook of the Plain Girl to be practiced three times a day for twenty days.

The man-on-top position allows all five sensory organs to connect and helps the woman reach her G-spot while applying pressure to her pubic bone and breasts. The woman-on-top position improves blood circulation and helps dissolve blood clots in the liver and kidneys.

• Practice face-to-face positions such as the woman on her back with the man on top, or both on their sides facing each other.
• Practice back-facing positions such as the woman on hands and knees with the man kneeling behind, or the man on his back with the woman on her knees facing his feet.

Semen Retention and Energy Safeguards

Ejaculation causes a massive loss of vitality, whereas retaining semen through physical grips, breathing modifications, or cooling methods allows the man to transmute his sexual energy upward. 200 million sperm are lost by men during a single ejaculation.

Alan and Donna Brauer describe the scrotal pull technique in their book ESO: Extended Sexual Orgasm, where grasping the scrotum between the testicles and pulling downward prevents ejaculation.

• Grip the base, not the head, of the glans of the penis tightly with the vagina to block the urge to ejaculate before the point of no return.
• Grasp the scrotum between the testicles with the thumb and forefinger and pull firmly downward when near orgasm.
• Use the 'cold water skinny-dip' by sticking the penis in a bowl of cold water by the bed to take a breather.
• Practice the 'century count' by counting to one hundred very slowly while waiting for the orgasmic feeling to subside.

Unilateral extraction of sexual energy without mutual exchange constitutes sexual vampirism and leads to depletion or negative consequences. Ancient legends describe old men in China seeking out childless women to perform the Big Draw without the women's knowledge to increase their own energy at the women's expense.

10 Key Ideas

1. The human body operates like a finite energy bank account where daily life expenses and emotional stress drain vital reserves unless replenished.
2. Jing serves as the foundational generative energy stored in living tissue that can be transformed into life-force Chi and spiritual energy Shen.
3. The Microcosmic Orbit connects the functional and governor channels to circulate primordial sexual energy throughout the body.
4. Ovarian breathing and compression exercises use internal muscle pumps to move dense sexual energy upward for healing and revitalization.
5. Breast massage stimulates the kidney meridian and endocrine glands along the hormonal pathway, awakening organ and gland chi before the Orgasmic Draw.
6. Redirecting sexual arousal upward through the spine prevents energy depletion and enables the body to experience valley orgasms.
7. Using obsidian and jade eggs strengthens the Chi muscle, increases hormone flow, and builds immense internal Chi pressure.
8. Vaginal weight lifting suspends weights from drilled jade eggs to strengthen pelvic diaphragms, internal organs, and increase Chi pressure.
9. Practicing dual cultivation with a partner allows couples to synchronize breathing, retain seminal energy, and exchange vital life force.
10. Transforming and directing sexual energy inward through Taoist internal alchemy rejuvenates the physical body, balances emotions, and awakens higher spiritual potential.