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as a man. Hey guys, welcome back to the show. I'm Steven Mathis, Thanks for being here with me. Let's talk about how practicing senior attention can strengthen your relationship, why it will strengthen your relationship when you practice it mindfully and consistently over time, and exactly how to implement that. But first of all, let's talk about the difference between semen retention and semen intention.
I still will use both terms. They're fine, but I really like the term semen intention because that's what it's really about. See a lot of guys, when they first hear about this idea, when they first start practicing it, even sometimes years into practicing, it will still be of the mindset that practicing semen retention means that somehow releasing is a bad
thing. We need to release as infrequently as possible and just continually push those stretches or they'll get locked in on sort of certain time frames. And it's really not about that. When it brings the most benefits to you as a man is when you let go of the the dogma around it and you focus instead on merely approaching this very important, very impactful, very energetically impactful part of our life with intention.
Meaning you have intention around how often you're releasing and under what circumstances you're releasing. You choose a path, and what you will find is that when you actually listen to the gauges in your body and you choose a path, that path is going to be something other than just constantly releasing all the time, under every circumstance, right? Every time you masturbate, every
time you have sex. That path for 99.99999% of guys is not going to put you in a position to thrive in your life. There's no intention in that. It's just this automatic linkage. Oh, if I do something sexual, then I'm going to release. And it's all about that getting there, right? So seeing intention is about recognizing this is a very important and impactful part of our life. It energetically, emotionally, sexually, and in your relationship, it impacts you in
big ways. So let's approach it with intention. And yeah, that probably will mean ejaculating. Left less often, it will mean ejaculating in situations that you choose to and at the frequency that you choose to, but it doesn't mean never again by any stretch of the imagination. When you practice this, it absolutely will strengthen your relationship, especially if you approach it with an open mind, if you stay committed to it, if you're communicating.
We'll talk about some of those things in a minute. But when you put this into practice in your relationship, I've seen it over and over and over again in my own life and from so many guys, this absolutely will strengthen your relationship. It's a little bit of a change for sure to practice some sort of retention or intention around ejaculation, to practice it within our own being, and yes, to practice in the context of relationship.
It definitely is a change. But one of the things that is so important to experience, not to just understand as an idea when I say it now, but to experience and that is that we're not giving something up. What we're actually doing is trading something in for something much better, right? So we're trading in this Willy nilly approach where you just release all the time under every circumstance. We're trading that in for something much, much more powerful and indeed more pleasurable.
It's going to lift up and light up your being and your relationship in a lot of ways. Let's talk about how it does that. One of the ways that practicing retention will strengthen your relationship is it both builds and bodies or allows you to embody discipline. Discipline is very attractive. Discipline is magnetic. It is attractive to your partner, especially sexual discipline or including sexual discipline. It's also magnetically attractive to the universe.
When we live with discipline, that helps draw in more good stuff into our life, thriving and getting the most life out of our life. It requires some discipline and that doesn't mean we don't have fun or we don't experience pleasure or we don't have freedom. What it actually means is the exact opposite of that. We have more pleasure, more freedom, more fun in our life
when we embody discipline. And I can tell you that when you embody discipline in your relationship, it will be a good thing for your relationship and it absolutely will strengthen it, especially when you embody it in this way. Now, again, a lot of women or your partners as well may have some coming around to do and some perspective shifts that
happened over time. So it doesn't mean that they're going to immediately think that it's awesome that it's disciplined and that that's a very cool thing that you're practicing this. They might, but as they experience it, they will. So we'll talk a little bit more about the communication and how to actually implement that. But once you get into this, that embodiment of discipline will be a very good thing for your relationship.
Another way that practicing semen retention or intention strengthens your relationship is it keeps the biological primal drive to connect strong. So on a very fundamental primal kind of level, we have sex or we have the desire to have sex because we need to procreate and continue the species. And leading up to that or until that happens, there's that strong drive, right? You felt that, of course. And then in the immediate aftermath of release, that drive
goes way down. Right now, that's not a bad thing. It's as it should be, right? You've in the moment from a, again, a biological kind of level, you served done your job in the procreation department, right? So our bodies kind of shift and say, OK, temporarily, that's not really that critical. I'm not going to really give a lot of energy to that.
And what you will feel is that not only does your energy sometimes go down in the aftermath of ejaculation, at least in the immediate aftermath, your arousal and excitement around your partner probably is going to go down as well. Now, it doesn't mean that you fundamentally feel differently about your partner. If you've been married for 20 years, you're not going to all of a sudden, as you very well know, you're not going to all of a sudden not love your partner because you ejaculated.
But what will happen is your excitement and your kind of draw, that magnetic, electric kind of charge between the two of you that's going to go down. It's going to go down. So when we practice approaching release with intention, we keep that charge higher and it keeps that that like charge where if you felt with a partner where you can't keep your hands off each other and that kind of pull towards each other.
And it doesn't mean that it's to that point where you can't keep your hands off each other, but that kind of energetic pull together when you practice semen intention, it's going to keep that charge higher. Another way the practicing senior attention is going to strengthen your relationship is releases mean more. When you're not releasing all the time, every single time that you're together now, they're going to mean a lot more, which is a very special thing, right?
And makes it a more meaningful thing. And it should be a meaningful thing because it's a very, very impactful thing. It impacts us as a being and it certainly impacts the relationship. Another way that practicing semen intention is going to strengthen your relationship is you're going to have better,
longer lasting sex period. When you have the kind of control that it will take to practice this, not only within your own solo practice, but in your relationship, you're going to be able to have better, longer lasting sex. And it's not that every time having sex has to be a marathon, but in general, when we have longer lasting sex, it's more
deeply connecting. That's it going to again, bring you closer together, not only strengthen that intimate part of your relationship, but strengthen the relationship itself. Another way that practicing this will strengthen your relationship is you're going to be better. You're going to show up better in your life. You're going to show up with more confidence. You're going to be more committed to stuff. You're going to be more creative. You're going to have a higher
energy and stamina. You're going to be funnier. You're going to you're going to have so much more life in you that you're going to show up better. You're going to get better results in your family life in, you know, being a father with your friends in your business. You're going to show up better and of course that's going to be attractive to your partner and is going to again, bring you
together. So there are million little nuanced kind of ways that practicing this in your relationship can can strengthen it and will strengthen it. Those are some of the big ones. I can promise you. I've heard from man after man after man who's put this into practice that once they sort of get over the humps that are required to, to get to a place where this is really kind of flowing and part of not only their practice individually, but
also part of their relationship. Undeniably it makes their relationship stronger. I would love to hear, by the way, in the comments below, some of you guys who are experiencing that. Throw a comment below this. Let's talk about how to implement this. Obviously, that's what really matters. We got to put this into practice. So the first thing to putting us into practice is in your solo
practice, right? So if you aren't able to effectively practice retention within your own body and being and masturbating in your solo practice, you're not going to be able to carry that in your relationship. That is the required foundation is the prerequisite, right? So the very kind of the simple way to practice this in the beginning is if you're having some kind of regular sex, meaning let's say anywhere in the multiple times a month kind
of category or more. If you're having regular sex, my suggestion would be that you don't release alone or very rarely release alone and you save those releases for when you're having sex initially. That doesn't require any particular communication, although it's great to communicate with your partner about your edging practice and to be open and, and to talk about those things.
Something I've talked about before that communication can be really, really powerful, but you can start to put this into practice without immediately needing to make any changes in
sex whatsoever. And when you do that, of course, I know a lot of you guys have found when you have that consistent mindful edging practice, you're going to start to have better sex already and have more energy and have a lot of these benefits already before you even make any changes in the relationship itself or in the having sex And when you release insects part. So that's the foundation. The next thing is to start having the discussions, right?
You got to communicate and actually start talking about this. Hey, I might start doing this or I'm considering doing this or I've been practicing this in my, in my solo practice. I want to practice and see what it feels like. I want to F around and find out a little bit what it feels like if I don't release every time we have sex, right? Or if I go maybe a certain number of times or if I start to kind of stretch that out.
So that communication and that's going to be very unique depending on your relationship, depending on how much you've talked about sex in the past, depending on how much you've talked about retention or your solo practice, there's going to be a lot of different nuances to that depending on the unique circumstances that you're in. But having that communication, having those discussions is a required next step, right? So you have the foundation of the solo practice.
You start to have communication and discussion around it. Because one thing you absolutely don't want to do is just like not be willing to talk about it, but then try to not release and just leave your partner in this place of wondering of like, why?
What will likely happen is if you haven't had any discussions about this at all or minimal discussion and you just don't release or you just say you're not going to, your partner very well may think that you're not attracted or you're not turned on or you didn't have a good time or whatever. They, their head will very likely start to go to things that are disconnected from what the truth of the situation is, which which is that you're wanting to have some intention.
So the discussion is that next step then as you start to actually put this into practice, insects itself, meaning you start to have times where your intention going into it is to have sex and to not release the most important thing as you actually practice. That part of it is something I talked about recently, which is active allowance, right? So be intentional. Have choices about what you would prefer. Set intention as you go into it.
Do your best to have things go according to that intention in terms of releasing or not releasing, but allow for what is right. As always, when we allow for what is in the moment, it's much better. It releases the tension. Things get more in a state of flow. There is no need to force any of this in any way, shape or form. You do not need to force rushing this into your relationship. You do not need to force any
particular time frames. You do not need to force anything in any particular time together with your partner or even in your solo practice. Allow, allow for what is. Yes, set an intention. Yes. Be willing to try new things, to continually step into that, to have the commitment and the discipline to practice new things and to practice embodying a new way and experience it for yourself. But allow for what is along the
way. It'll free things up, you'll have a lot more flow, and you'll be able to actually experience the benefits of this, which are massive. Massive. I have felt such a difference in my relationships when this has become a part. I would never, I could never imagine going back. It will seriously and very potently strengthen your relationship. I'd love to hear your thoughts or questions, your experiences. Leave a comment below. If you're not already subscribed, hit that follow or
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