Using the Dantian (下丹田 Xià Dāntián) and Building Your Battery. This blog is about building your energy, and increasing the number of 'bars' in your personal battery. Energy Circulation. There is an esoteric side to focusing on using the centre; this is to do with something called the 'Microcosmic' and 'Macrocosmic' 'Orbits'. One of the reasons that so much importance is placed on the Dantian is because, in Chinese thinking, it is considered to be the energy storehouse. The

Leading with the Correct bit Everyone can pull their perineum (the group of muscles between the genitals and the anus), also known as the 'pelvic floor' upwards; you do it when you want to stop urinating in mid-flow. However, when you do that particular action in that way, you are leading with the perineum. The same applies with the abdomen; everyone can pull their stomach/abdomen in, e.g. to get into a tight pair of trousers, but again, you are leading with the muscles