[Mantak_Chia,_Michael_Winn]_Taoist_Secrets_of_Love(BookFi.org)

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spleen. Wait until your food is fully digested, and the quality of
your love making will be much higher. After sex is over, it may be
nourishing to eat some warm sweet foods. Herbal tea can be especially
tonifying and help a man regain his energy. Avoid cold
drinks, ice cream, or ice cubes afterwards—your body has to heat
them up which burns off your subtle sexual energy.
4. AVOID INTERCOURSE IN ANY EXTREME STATE
If you are too tired, angry, hungry, afraid, sad, weak, or angry
don't have sex. The energy required to make love may throw your
health further off balance, and accelerate the development of a
minor illness into a major one. A cold acquired from a partner can
develop into a flu. If you feel sexual frustration and are literally
"bursting" with extreme yang sex energy, engage in sex but with
restraint. Don't exhaust the yang energy so that you flip into the
opposite "yin" state of exhaustion. This is like a thirsty man dying
from gorging on water suddenly found.
You may feel passion and should fully enjoy the body sensations
and feelings stimulated by sex, but try not to get lost in their
extremes, or the pleasure may turn to pain. When the atmosphere
is one of relaxed enjoyment both lovers will find it easier to open to
the higher energies within themselves. If one lover moves to an
extreme state of arousal, the other may feel left out or unbalanced.
5. DON'T MAKE LOVE WHEN DRUNK ON ALCOHOL
It's hard to control your semen flow much less your chi flow when
you're drunk. The feeling of warmth you feel on alcohol is temporary,
caused by your blood capillaries opening and releasing your
inner energy. Strong physical exertion while drunk may damage
your lungs through loss of breath control. One or two drinks may
help some people relax without causing loss of control; if you must
drink alcohol learn your own limits and stay within them. When
your own energy becomes more intensely satisfying than that offered
by alcohol, your need for it will drop away naturally, without
struggle.