Crossing the Great Nothing
“Guard your breath, tune your hum, and let every trigger become fuel for a higher vibration.”
The meaning you give the journey becomes its truth. Sit alone, see clearly, accept fully, improve steadily. Freedom is holding space beyond the ego, expanding beyond limits, crashing against new edges, and beginning again, stronger each time.
“The empath walks the Great Nothing with lightness, holding space so that no fear remains for those who follow.”
Atreyu is the boy hero from The NeverEnding Story by Michael Ende (book, 1979) and the famous movie (1984). He is a young warrior from the Grassy Plains, chosen to save the realm of Fantasia from the Great Nothing — a mysterious force erasing all of existence.
Atreyu represents several deep archetypal forces:
A Seeker: He embarks on a quest not to conquer others but to discover truth and save the soul of his world.
Fearless Innocence: Unlike traditional “sword and armor” heroes, Atreyu fights with inner strength, courage, and resilience rather than brute force.
Sacrifice and Endurance: He suffers loss, confusion, and betrayal, but he never gives up — not even when facing despair itself.
Facing the Void: The Great Nothing symbolizes despair, nihilism, forgetting one’s true nature. Atreyu battles it by remembering meaning, purpose, connection — by keeping his heart alive.
Atreyu’s adventure mirrors the path of self-discovery:
- Leaving behind the familiar.
- Losing old illusions.
- Facing moments where everything seems pointless.
- Continuing forward with faith in something deeper.
- Realizing that saving the world is saving one’s own heart.
Some sources say “Atreyu” comes from German roots meaning “son of all.” In the story, he is an orphan — he belongs to everyone, not to a single family.
Spiritually, this means he is the child of the universe itself, carrying a piece of everyone within him.
You are not a part struggling against the storm. You are the presence in which storms appear and dissolve.
The Great Nothing symbolizes despair, nihilism, and the forgetting of one’s true nature. Atreyu does not fight it with force but by remembering his own heart.
He keeps his heart alive when everything else fades. In doing so, he realizes that saving the world is the same as saving his own heart.
When all around is emptiness, he discovers the truth: I AM Alive. Emptiness is not death. Emptiness is pure potential.
You are the bridge between the Great Nothing and a New Beginning.
Handling Sudden Trauma Triggers
“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.”
—Carl Jung, Letters Vol II, Page 363.
What Is Happening
Trauma memories sit in the limbic system. When someone close mirrors the voice, look, or tension pattern that once hurt you, the amygdala fires first and asks questions later. Cortisol surges, breath locks, muscles brace. The body rewinds to the original danger even if the present is safe.
Why Energy Matters
Nervous-system charge is electrical and chemical. A balanced charge keeps the prefrontal cortex online where reason lives. Too little energy feels numb. Too much feels like panic. Skill is learning to discharge excess without falling below the line.
Breath: The Fastest Lever
Slow diaphragmatic breathing shifts the vagus nerve from fight-or-flight to rest-and-digest within sixty seconds. Technique: inhale for four, hold for two, exhale for six. Pause one beat in emptiness. Repeat for two minutes. The longer exhale signals safety, lowers heart rate, and restarts rational thought.
Humming: A Built-In Tuning Fork
The sound mmm vibrates the lips, sinuses, and vagus nerve roots. Humming while exhaling turns breath into a therapeutic vibration. It lengthens the exhale, massages the throat, boosts nitric oxide in nasal passages, and floods the brain with alpha waves that counter anxiety.
Rapid Protocol When Triggered
- Plant feet flat, soften knees, notice ground contact.
- Inhale four, hold two. Exhale six through a quiet hum.
- Place a hand on the sternum, feel the vibration meet the heartbeat.
- Name the feeling in one word: “fear” or “anger.” Labelling recruits the thinking cortex.
- Visualise sending the hum down the spine into the floor, letting excess charge drain.
- When the breath feels smooth and the mind can form full sentences, re-enter the conversation or step outside for fresh air if needed.
Daily High-Vibration Maintenance
- Five minutes box breathing on waking.
- Two minutes humming while walking or driving.
- Hydrate, whole foods, morning sunlight to stabilise circadian energy.
- Short strength or yoga session to burn residual stress hormones.
- Evening gratitude list to close the day in a coherent heart rhythm.
Advantages You Will Notice
- Faster recovery from emotional hits.
- Steadier voice and clearer thinking during conflict.
- Higher baseline energy without jitter.
- Improved sleep depth.
- Stronger immunity through consistent vagal tone.
Masturbate Your Way to Heaven
Classical Taoism approaches sexuality through yang‑sheng (養生), “nourishing life.” Instead of condemning masturbation, the tradition asks how desire can be refined into usable strength. The process turns on the Three Treasures:
- Jing (essence) – your essential substance, stored in sexual fluids, bone marrow and the kidneys.
- Qi (vital force) – the vitality that animates breath, movement and metabolism.
- Shen (spirit) – lucid awareness, the radiance of mind.
Breath and focused attention draw jing upward, distilling it into qi and finally into shen. Masturbation can either leak jing or accelerate this alchemy; Taoist practice shows how to achieve the latter.
The Classic Age Rule
Tang‑dynasty physician Sun Simiao offered a recovery rhythm for male ejaculation that remains the baseline today:
- twenties – about one ejaculation every four days;
- thirties – about every eight days;
- forties – roughly every ten days;
- fifties – roughly every twenty days;
- sixties and beyond – avoid ejaculation and explore non‑ejaculatory orgasms instead.
Female orgasm was—and still is—encouraged; it was said to circulate yin within a woman and add yang to her partner. Season and health also count: ejaculate less in winter or whenever you feel depleted.
Practical Guidelines
- Listen first to your body: If retention makes you irritable, sleepless or dull, allow an orgasm and note how you feel afterward.
- Follow seasonal rhythm: Spring invites freer sexual expression; winter calls for conservation.
- Use mindful media: Fast‑cut porn scatters energy outward. Imagination, conscious breath and subtle touch keep it inside.
- Pair with supportive habits: Gentle Qigong or walking circulates stored qi; whole foods rebuild jing; meditation steadies shen.
From Guilt to Wu Wei
Taoist sages compare sex to “clouds and rain”—simply another shift in nature’s weather. When guilt arises, witness it, breathe, and allow it to dissolve. Acting from wu wei (無為)—effortless alignment—prevents emotional knots that block energy flow.
In Taoism the question is never “Is masturbation good or bad?” but “Are you using the raw power wisely?” By syncing frequency with age and vitality, circling sensation through breath, and framing pleasure as inner alchemy, you turn a private habit into a source of health and spacious ease, free of guilt and rich in advantage.
“Pleasure is power when guided by wisdom. Masturbate responsibly.”
We are alive and breathing, present in this world, yet many of us are not happy. Why? Have we ever stopped to ask?
We lack mastery over ourselves. We consume blindly, act selfishly, and destroy without aim. Why? Question the hidden patterns, the cycles, the fears.
Observe yourself. This is the first step. Become yourself. This is the last.
Shake hands with your own being. This is the first step. Keep the promise you make to yourself. This is the last.
Guard your heart.
Protect your own spark. Nurture the anima until your whole psyche stands clear and calm, able to tame the lion of craving and rage. Guilt and codependency heal no one. Freedom begins when you claim your life and walk on in your own strength.
When the world seems dark
And the sun no longer shines
When the heart feels heavy
And there’s nothing to smile about
Take my hand, come with me
In a place where the soul smiles
Feel the rhythm filling the air
And we dance until dawn
Dancing with you, the sky will smile
The stars will dance as we squirm
In an embrace of notes and love
In the sweet rhythm that the heart no longer fears
(oh-oh-oh)
I remember your love,
I remember my love,
I remember our love
I remember… Emptiness.
I AM Alive.
I AM luminous, empty, and full of potential.
And that is enough. I AM enough.
I AM Alive.
I AM Alive.
I AM Alive.
