So jing retention at its basic is just “don’t orgasm”. Then there’s versions I suppose. For example:
- don’t do anything physically that might cause you to orgasm
- don’t do anything mentally or physically that might cause you to orgasm
- everything’s on the table so long as you don’t actually expel
- it’s like voltron, they all get put together in various ways and methodologies
Some are alone, some are with others, some are both. My personal version, retention is a spiritual practice and as much of a diet of the mind as the body, both alone and with others. That being said, the NANOSECOND I come across a trustworthy and competent instructor in the tantric space, I’m getting lessons - I’m not a catholic priest or a monk, I’m only emulating one because I’d heard more than enough testimonial to be curious, my teacher comes from a Daoist and TCM background, and I seem to remember the whole sacred secretion thing catching my attention.
As for tuning forks, take it with a grain of salt, but I don’t really do complicated ceremony well, or at all. I take a tuning fork, I strike it, and I point it at the first thing that catches my attention post-strike. It’s almost entirely a thoughtless intuitive exercise at this point. The reason the tuning forks helped was they got me through detox and “ascension sickness” and just energy being way too intense, etc.
I’m not nearly as respectful to sound healing as I probably should be for all the wonder it’s done for me, but it’s been in that irreverence that the wonder happened… don’t wanna rock the boat. But I primarily use an Otto 128 C and an Angel Tuner set, one for generic clearing (angel), and the other physical work (Otto).
Ahh, just came to mind, striking the 128 (which is a weighted tuning fork in case you didn’t know) and then holding it fork side towards a bony prominence and then following that vibration until I couldn’t feel it any further REALLY helped with noticing when I was feeling energy. Like circling my outer elbow and realizing I felt that in my fingertips, then trying to bend it on its way so it’d hit these two fingertips more directly than those two.
It came from the thought that our entire reality is big data - massive data collection, filtered heavily, and then interpreted and there’s a LOT of signal noise that gets filtered out. What’re the chances that young me thought “that hum under my skin is REALLY annoying, I wish it would stop”? And if it did? Then my biology entering into puberty was set for “doesn’t want to feel energy”, or “doesn’t want to have prophetic dreams” and those systems weren’t further developed in the teen upgrade.
So a bit of a rant, but for me, I think that’s where energy insensitivity comes from. It’s why some people deepen their psychic abilities into, through, and after adolescence. And it’s why I’m sure it’s just another skill, another couple of neurons and pathways, and you just have to work at it.