“Could I Have Blocked My Qi?”
Hi everyone. I’m 46 years old and I’m not a Qigong practitioner, but about three years ago I became interested in semen retention practices and Taoist alchemy.
During that period, while having sex with my partner at the time, I tried putting these practices into effect for the first time. At the moment of orgasm, I strongly contracted my sphincter with the intention of preventing ejaculation and, at the same time, directing the energy of the orgasm upward toward the higher energy centers.
I don’t know if I did it correctly. In fact, I barely felt any pleasure at that moment.
Shortly afterward, I started feeling very strange. For the next two or three days, I had an unpleasant sensation in my chest, as if there were something there that I couldn’t identify or that was difficult to describe—something that I interpreted as a kind of energetic disturbance or sensation.
During those nights, I also had very strange dreams and difficulty sleeping.
The strangest part of the whole experience is that my partner told me she was feeling practically the same thing.
After three days, I started doing some meditations with the intention of transmuting the energy. I don’t know whether that had anything to do with what happened, but the strange thing is that both of us stopped experiencing that sensation on the same day, even though by then we were no longer together.
What intrigues me the most, and I don’t know if it could be related to this experience, is that my sexuality seems to have changed since that occasion.
Since then, I haven’t experienced the same level of pleasure during sex. I’ve also noticed a decrease in sexual desire, and it has become harder for me to feel that spark that I used to experience when I was with a woman.
To this day, I still wonder what might have happened.
Could this have any explanation from the perspective of sexual energy or Qi/Chi? Could it be related to the difficulty I now have in feeling that sexual connection, and is there any way I could potentially reverse it or improve it?
I would especially appreciate hearing from people with experience in Qigong, Taoist practices, sexual energy work, or semen retention who might have some insight into what could have happened.