Bioenergetic Aspects of Sex
Now let us discuss another important mechanism of regulation of the sexual function — a bioenergetic one.
A significant part of organism’s activity takes place on the bioenergetic plane [23,25]. One may say that on this plane there are special organs and pathways. These organs are represented by the chakras, while the pathways — by the meridians.
Knowledge about these structures has been used in the art of psychic self-regulation of Oriental countries since ancient times. But it is in Russia that they got combined with modern scientific concepts of multidimensional human organism; thus, comprehensive teachings about the chakras and meridians as reflexogenic zones of emotional-volitional sphere of man were created [14-25].
Mastering the techniques of working with these structures equips one with radical methods of psychic self-regulation that allow transforming oneself from a sick, dismal, constantly irritated individual — into a healthy, cheerful, and sociable person just within months.
Another function of the chakras consists in accumulation and transformation of free (i.e. not involved in biochemical ties) bioenergies within the organism.
The chakras are located as follows:
Sahasrara — a chakra that has a form of a lying disk and is located under the parietal bones. Its diameter is about 12 centimeters; its height is about 5 centimeters (the size of the developed chakra); it corresponds with the region of the forebrain hemispheres.
Ajna — a large chakra which is located in the middle of the head and is coincident with the central sections of the brain;
Vishudha — a chakra located in the lower half of the neck that occupies the space from the spine to the thyroid;
Anahata— a chakra located in the chest. A well-developed anahata occupies the most part of the thorax.
Manipura — a chakra of the upper part of the abdomen;
Svadhisthana — a chakra of the lower part of the abdomen;
Muladhara — a chakra located in the lower part of the pelvis between the coccyx and the pubic bone.
The level of development of individual chakras corresponds with one’s psychological features. So, when the following chakras are developed:
Sahasrara — the person has a pronounced strategic thinking ability, i.e. the ability to see the “big picture”, to comprehend the whole situation as if “from above”, which allows being a broad-thinking manager;
Ajna — the person possesses a tactical thinking ability, which allows dealing successfully with definite problems in science, business, family life, etc.;
Vishudha — an ability for aesthetical perception is observed; good painters, musicians, and other artists are people with a well-developed vishudha;
Anahata — the person possesses the ability to love emotionally (to love not “from the mind”, but “from the heart”);
Manipura — the ability to act energetically (but in people who do not work on ethical self-perfection it is often accompanied with a disposition towards dominance of negative emotions like irritation and anger);
Svadhisthana — the person possesses a well-pronounced reproductive function;
Muladhara — the person has the ability to maintain psychological stability in various situations.
Every one of us had an opportunity to experience specific manifestations of their chakras’ activity.
For example, when we are mentally tired, we feel heaviness in the ajna or sahasrara region.
But something harmonious sometimes “takes our breath away”, which is a manifestation of vishudha. But in the opposite situation, one may feel a “lump in the throat” — this is a reaction of the same chakra to the disharmony of the situation (for example, feeling hurt because of injustice of other people or of one’s own mistake that resulted in an “I-don’t-know-what-to-do” kind of emotional state).
Yes, our emotions are generated not in the brain at all, but on the bioenergetic plane — in the chakras. Those who can control their chakras understand this very well; they can, in particular, create and study their emotions, so to say, “in their pure form”, as energetic formations, as if “from aside”. The results of electrophysical studies, which showed that the brain structures participate in emotional reactions, reflect just a secondary link in the chain of realization of emotional states.
Anahata manifests itself at the moments when we experience unselfish love. But there are people who radiate love with their spiritual hearts from the anahata chakra all the time — at all surrounding people and in every situation. They are said to have a “big heart”. This is what we should strive to become: it is the development of the spiritual heart (first within the chakra anahata, and then on the scale much larger than the size of the physical body) that can become the beginning of the path leading one to full spiritual self-realization!
The chakra manipura is usually perceived only when one experiences negative emotions, creating that nasty “sinking” sensation in the pit of one’s stomach or even a feeling of unpleasant energies swirling and bubbling inside it.
Dissatisfied sexual arousal gives one an opportunity to feel svadhisthana very clearly. These unpleasant sensations in the lower part of the stomach and the corresponding segment of the spine (the latter are not observed in all people) — are a result of overfilling of the chakra with a special sort of bioenergy — udana, which was supposed to flow out of svadhisthana and cause orgasm. This is what the mechanism of orgasm consists in.
Under normal conditions, udana that has flown out during orgasm gets into the organism of the partner. If the partner does not get the “due” portion of udana after the sexual intercourse, he or she may feel tired or exhausted. This is why harmony in sexual relationships can be achieved, as a rule, only provided that both partners have an orgasm at the same time.
An excess of udana (one’s own or received from the partner) gets transformed (sublimated) into energy of other chakras (provided that the chakras and corresponding pathways — the meridians — are developed and function well).
Depending on which chakra dominates, all people can be divided into corresponding psychological types.
Each chakra is responsible for supply of free bioenergies to organs that are located within the corresponding segment of the body. Many diseases of various organs develop because the corresponding chakras are contaminated. Special exercises with the chakras allow one to cure the respective organs [25].
The chakras are intercommunicated through several meridians:
Sushumna — this is a wide meridian that runs from the coccyx up the spine and through the medulla oblongata to sahasrara. Sushumna conducts a wide range of bioenergies.
Vajrini — this canal is located within sushumna and is narrower. It delivers udana from svadhisthana to other chakras.
Chitrini (Brahmanadi) — is a meridian that runs behind sushumna along the spinous processes of the vertebras and in the skin behind them. In the head, this meridian runs through the scull along and inside the occipital bones to sahasrara. Chitrini conducts one of the subtlest kinds of bioenergies in the organism.
Along the front part of the body, there is a very important meridian called zhen-mo (in Chinese) — or front meridian. It begins from the upper occipital part of the head, where chitrini ends. Then it forks into two branches that turn round sahasrara and join in the forehead area to split into several small canals that run down the face and join again in the vishudha region. Its another large branch crosses through the brain, reaches the chin coming through the palate and joins the other branches at the front side of the neck. After that the canal runs down the front side of the trunk as a wide ribbon (8-10 centimeters wide), running through the hypodermic cellular tissue. Then it crosses the pubic bone and heads through the perineum towards the spinal meridians.
The topography and condition of all bioenergetic structures of the organism, including the chakras and meridians, can be determined by means of clairvoyance, which can be developed through a systematic raja yoga practice [25].
Special exercises allow one to connect the spinal meridians and the front meridian into one ring; this energetic circle is called the microcosmic orbit. Exercises with the microcosmic orbit give a unique positive emotional effect [25].
Let us come to the issue of bioenergetic transformations taking place in human organism.
Energy comes to human organism mainly from food. After that it undergoes a series of transformations.
Initially all free energy that has been derived as a result of processing the food in the digestive tract gets accumulated in the manipura chakra. Its quality depends on the type of foodstuffs that one eats. The coarsest type of energy is derived from “killed” food, while the subtlest — from fruits, berries, vegetables, and grains. Then manipuric energy (samana, in Sanskrit) has to be refined before it can be used for various needs of the organism most effectively. Of course, this can be performed provided that bioenergetic structures taking part in this process are developed and function properly.
The first stage of the refining process takes place when samana gets transformed into udana. The second stage is performed by means of doing a special exercise — circulation of energy around the microcosmic orbit. During this stage the energy of the two lower chakras (muladhara and svadhisthana) gets raised up through the spinal meridians, moved over the head, and brought down through the front meridian. When going down the front meridian, the energy gets transformed, which everyone who has mastered this exercise can perceive. The front meridian represents a sort of an energy transformer. As a result, the practitioner discovers an absolutely new world of the subtlest positive emotions; this is very important to master, in sexual contacts in particular.
The developed chakras are combined also by the wide middle meridian, which runs vertically through the center of the body.
On a primitive level, sexual communication of people is reduced to mechanical irritation of the erogenous zones. But in case of spiritually advanced people, sex is much more about subtle positive emotions. This corresponds with the very purpose of this kind of communication that they set for themselves — not reaching one’s own orgasm as soon as possible, but giving the partner as much tenderness as possible and attaining high harmony between souls.
During a sexual intercourse an intensive energy exchange between the partners takes place, and it is not only udana that they exchange. They can activate the bioenergetic systems, cleanse the chakras and meridians if they pay attention to this. Those who attained the ability to see bioenergies can watch them flowing and control the energy streams.
One can heal the partner through a sexual contact.
But in other cases, a serious damage of the bioenergetic systems may be incurred, which can cause diseases. This may happen as a result of a sexual contact with a drunk, sick, or bioenergetically coarse person.
This is especially important for people who walk the spiritual Path: a spouse who does not go to God together with you, who does not work on refinement of his or her emotions and consciousness — will be a drag on your spiritual advancement. And if you do not change the situation radically — this will be considered as a sin of non-fulfillment of your main destination — to develop spiritually to the best of your abilities. Jesus Christ told regarding situations like this that those who — for the sake of fulfillment of His Teachings — renounce earthly attachments to their unworthy spouses and go towards attainment of the main Purpose of their lives — to God — will receive a hundredfold, including blessings in the life to come (Matt. 19:29, Mark 10:29-30).
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Sexual emotions, as any other kind of emotions, — are phenomena of energy field nature and exist not only inside our bodies but also get emanated beyond them, causing resonance in other beings, including people. And the latter — consciously or not — may get attuned to this kind of fields.
Various characteristics of sexual emotions such as primitive lust — or tender giving; coarseness — or refinement; arrogant contempt — or gratitude; also get transmitted.
But the most intensive influences in the sexual sphere, of course, take place during an immediate sexual contact.
In particular, it is from this perspective that a problem of partners’ bioenergetic compatibility should be viewed.
The result of compatibility can be a high harmony in relationships.
Incompatibility may lead in some cases to heavy depressions and even to the development of aversion to the partner. The prospects of future sexual contacts with the partner can become terrifying.
Another nuance is that a short duration of coitus due to quick ejaculation may well not be a man’s fault, but a result of coarseness of the svadhisthanic energy of a woman. Namely, if her udana is much coarser than the svadhisthanic energy of the man — then his sexual contacts with this woman are very brief, although with other women he is able to have arbitrary long sexual contacts.
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From the bioenergetic perspective, in order for the reproductive system to function properly, one has to possess overall bioenergetic purity and refinement, and the bioenergetic structures of one’s organism, which we discussed above, have to be developed and well-functioning. Among them are:
Ajna — concentration in ajna during a sexual intercourse is similar by its effect on the reproductive system to activation of the sympathetic section of the nervous system. This reduces the male potency (weak erection, shortening of the coitus) and has a negative effect on woman (inability to relax mentally, domination of irrelevant thoughts, etc.). If one partner concentrates in ajna, it does not allow the other one to be established in subtle emotional states during the sexual intercourse. In a case like this, harmony is impossible to attain.
Attaining the ability to shift the concentration of the consciousness from ajna to anahata and to other chakras allows getting rid of being slaved by negative emotions. This also helps one stop the “inner dialogue” to which a great number of people are subjugated.
If there is bioenergetic contamination in ajna, which a clairvoyant may see as dark spots, then it is very difficult to shift the concentration from it to another chakra, and it is almost impossible to keep the concentration outside ajna for some time. This is why it is very important to maintain this chakra in cleansed condition.
Anahata — being constantly with the concentration of the consciousness in anahata as a background state is a significant spiritual achievement by itself. During a sexual intercourse this is absolutely necessary. Merging energies of two anahatas produces an incredible emotional effect.
Manipura — domination of negative emotional states supported by the energy state of manipura corresponds to excitation of the sympathetic section of the nervous system, which is incompatible with harmonious sexual relationships. Learning to control one’s own bioenergetic system allows one to get rid of states like this.
Svadhisthana — this is a leading chakra of the whole reproductive system. Sufficient energy potential in this chakra is a prerequisite for manifestation of sexual emotions and reaching orgasm both by men and women, as well as for erection.
It is immaturity of svadhisthana that accounts for lack of orgasms (when everything else makes for it) in case of women who just started their sexual life; positive sexual experience afterwards leads to “maturing” of the chakra.
Distribution of the concentration of the consciousness between anahata and svadhisthana results in full manifestation of sexuality during the intercourse.
Muladhara — a bioenergetic potential in muladhara ensures stable realization of the sexual function, since muladharic energy replenishes svadhisthana in case of its exhaustion.
Vajrini — this is the meridian which channels udana from svadhisthana. Cleansing and development of vajrini allows women suffering from anorgasmia and painful sensations to get rid of these symptoms by letting the excessive energy flow out freely of the chakra. Vajrini is usually cleansed by means of special methods along with sushumna.
Chitrini — concentration of the consciousness in this meridian allows one to attain extremely subtle emotional states, which are very valuable for a sexual intercourse.
The front meridian — if both partners concentrate in the front meridian, this leads to their experiencing an intense tenderness.
It should be noted also that winter swimming in ice-cold water can contribute to curing of many chronic diseases of the sexual system. This method was covered in the works [25,40,42,72].
