The Swallowed Third Foot

  

龜縮頸，耕牛之力

The turtle retracts its neck, the strength of the ploughing cattle.

氣隨糞行
Vapours follow excrement.

五常，全寓性¹

The five constant virtues, all residing in the sex.

Sex remains taboo for some, a power to be mastered for others and often a laughing matter for everybody. Still, old practices aimed to fully understand any and every part of one’s body, nothing was left untrained. Since it used to be a verbal transmission between a teacher and his student, the taboo nature of the topic was actually not a big issue. This is a bit different if it has to be written down and the present post will be as short as possible, most of this kind of teaching should be kept as a timely transmission from teacher to student.

Because of its unique nature, there is only a few literature on the subject, most of it being more folklore than anything else or too enigmatic and almost impossible to understand without having the proper keys (even obscurer than the first quote…). What is also missing is a description of acupoints for this part of the body and even more fascias and their lines when it is actually just that.

Finally, it is noticeable that old practices gathered that sex was actually, in parallel with the last quote, where one could check its real understand of the body internal processes. Indeed, now legendary skills learned when still virgin would allow the student to put his/her sex in any state at will and without any need for an external stimulus. Therefore, some considered that will, 志, and intention, 意, are really expressed over there.

As far as sex and flat stomach are concerned, it is a question of verticality and resting size, the smaller or the tighter the better.

I. Third Foot

In some practices, the part from the perineum to the sex extremities is considered to be like an added footing. Indeed, its position has some impact on one’s balance and the torso verticality. Some of the fascia webs, especially the ones described in a previous post, obviously a bit differently whether it is a man or a woman, end up at this place. Not firm enough, this will have a greater influence on the backbone than normally expected.

The first training is then to search for the correct alignment for such part. Found, the pubis will flatten and the resting sex will get smaller for the man and tighter for the women.

II. Swallowing

The first quote illustrates a deep connection between the head and the penis. The same naturally exist with the vagina, but then it would be a reference to a locking oyster. So, it remains surprising that such fascia webs which connect two extremities of the torso have never been really described. Still, whether oyster or turtle, the idea is the more it is retracted, the more one can express the power of the neck/head.

But this goes beyond, because the sex, and the anus as well, are places where heat can be lost when they are opened. Therefore, trying to close them as much as possible is crucial as far as insulation is concerned. Here, the difference between a virgin teenager building foundations and an adult fixing his/her body becomes dire. Indeed, taking advantage of a stronger hymen or frenulum for the teenagers, it was possible to make the vagina so strong nothing unwanted could pass through, which is more of a legend nowadays, or make the penis and the testicles totally disappear, that which some masters can still demonstrate. This was sometimes called the stomach swallowing, having a visible impact on its flattening. 

Finally, such technique was meant to save some of the energy needed to generate our reproducing tools, women cycles becoming longer or reducing sperm production.

Unfortunately, adults cannot achieve such level of transformation, just a bit firmer hymen for women or a micro-sex when resting for men is all one can target for after adulthood.

 

 

 

 

Once the ins and the outs of the flat stomach are understood comes the question of their training. As for a lot of them, posture and movements, tools, and finally breathing are all means given to do so, the next posts.

 

 

 

 

1. 性 knows more than one meaning and there is definitely a less provocative way to translate such quote.