Even the longest journey begins with the first Step

@Pachyderm, that is a great post. Thanks

Some more noises from Pachyderm...

THX for the responses, Isvara und Rumel!
Hope I put this into the correct 'slot' on the aneros site because
there is another 'blog' page with a different user interface. If not,
no problem to transfer to the other blog if that is wanted and the
other site seems more widely used, tell me.
First, a technical note. To get some
small amount of lubricating jelly to where it is supposed to do its
job I obtained a tiny (5ml) one-way plastic syringe from a pharmacy.
Without the needle, sure! It cost me 15 cents and well, I should
have cut off the protruding plastic socket onto which the injection
needle is supposed to be coupled. With not too deft and unpracticed
fingers for the posterior action plus some bad luck, that thingy can
really turn out to be a pain in the a...

Well, I had some alone time at the end
of the afternoon. Cleaned and prepared, though I knew that within two
hours+x at least my daughter would be turning up. Scratch some of the
deep relaxation, therefore. Such is life.

After using the above mentioned
syringe, insertion of my flight-tested helix seemed even easier than
it had been on the first try. OK. Took ten minutes to relax, to get
real comfortable, do some contractions (practiced them couple of
times without the white plastic thingy, better now) and prick up my
inner ears for the small echoes and 'nibbles' to come, hopefully.
What came first was a telephone call. Back to square one. Such is
life.

Relax again. Listen. Some small things
happening. Almost imperceptible convulsions and movements. Nice but
everything still in neutral, if I may compare it to a car's
gearshift. No problem with that. Feels as if my body and my brain do
not yet really know how to cope with those new signals and feelings.
That is what learning and patience are for. O yeah that patience is
tested when my son calls to tell me when he would like me to pick him
up, later in the evening. Such is life.

Try to relax again. Realizing that I
would probably not be able to reach the level of relaxation that I
would really like I decided to make this a 'training session'.
Putting a very light finger on the p-tab or base of the helix, not to
move it but to precisely sense its movements! Then I try/practice
contractions, front, back, hold, double, rolling movement. Nice to
play the helix like a 'joystick'. Remembering the many references to
contraction techniques in the forum, yet I remember to listen to my
other important 'mentor' on the aneros journey: Frank Sinatra, I did
it MY way! And it can not be wrong to find out exactly how my body
works with the helix, the conscious side.

By the movements of the helix, many
sensations, most of them I can not yet really classify. But there
seems to be a learning curve. Nice. Interesting. Promising. So when
my daughter calls me that she would want to be picked up ten minutes
from now I have no problem to clean up, put away the implements and
get her. Darn telephone!

By the way, even the two sessions with
the helix plus the muscle exercises without seem to have had some
small benefits already to my urinary tract and its performance. Not
bad.

I'll keep you posted!

Pachyderm

I love the fishing references, very good visual application. Please post more. Thanks.

Pachyderm's progress...

Not too many chances for Aneros/Helix
tryouts. Tried it two evenings at bedtime. Possible with my wife next
door - she once told me 'You snore like a water buffalo', sure! When
she said that I almost died laughing because which western male would
ever dream of being compared to one of these really impressive
creatures! And they sure do make a hell of a noise, awake or asleep!
Yeah that is why my wife and I sleep, sorry to say, not cuddled
together in the same bed!

Looking back at these attempts, I
should have known that it would be an almost self-defeating process.
Relaxation is the central engine of the aneros journey, and how on
earth can I properly relax when there is the chance that my
helix/prostate combination really 'ignites' and I can not avoid
making a lot of noise and the family comes running to check whether
their 'old man' has a seizure...

The sessions were nice, pleasant,
interesting but did not rock the boat - how could they with a
subconscious 'brake circuit' firmly installed in my mind! Like fishing without a bait.

On the other hand, the sessions DID
work, if not on the orgasmic side, but perceptively on my health!
Something profoundly positive seems to be happening to my prostate
already, though my ancient pachyderm brain may not yet have found the
correct key to all the sense impressions going along with that
process. For years I have been taking medicines to facilitate the
flow of ahem 'bilge water' to get rid of, though I have already cut
their amount down to a quarter of the suggested dosage, with good
results and in full accordance with my doc. This last week, my body
has surprised me with almost perfect 'free flow events', like they
were normal for me ten years ago! Made me smile because the Thai
phrase for 'man taking a leak' is 'jing kratai', shoot a rabbit! Well
a rabbit (kratai) I could not really shoot, only surprise, but I DID
shoot a moth in the university institute's lavatory, and that is
something I could not have dreamed of for a couple of years!

Ok, not so uplifting for the
unfortunate moth, but that is a small sacrifice in the interest of
medicine (grin). Remember I did that when I was six years old - in
September I will be 64. THX Aneros!

Well, if this effect stabilizes and
persists, I will discuss it with my doctor and get off the prostate
drugs. That could then be a good angle to bring my wife into the
picture.

Thx for your interest and I will keep
you posted!

Pachyderm

I sincerly hope you have better luck catching O's than I do fish! Also, they are all keepers, no catch and release here.

Nice post and welcome!

Xileh

Hiho Xileh, look at this

too bad that was 'catch and release' did not know that before went there with relatives. I am a primitive character if I catch a fish it is quickly and expertly expedited into fish heaven and later fried, cooked or smoked. Enjoyed with due respect for a fellow terran lifeform. Would not dream of hurting such a creature just to pull out and admire.

Sometimes it helps a lot to take time at a lake, pond or river to observe what the fish are doing and when, to be properly prepared for a catch.

May your lines not always be reeled back empty!

Pachyderm

Non-Progress Report from Pachyderm

Two more sessions. With some luck,
morning and evening when the 'rest of the gang' was out. Yet I seem
to be encountering a brick wall, as far as any more than minute
'pleasure' aspects of the Aneros are concerned. I seem to keep
'hitting' the correct spots because the physical aspects of the
prostate massage are coming along nicely - sure no one-day-effects
there, as described, hooray for the 'free flow'!

Sure there are some minor pleasant sensations
- very tiny contractions, synched with my heartbeat and my breathing,
but practically on the same level as my first 'encounter' a month
ago, no more skyrocketing helixes now. Like the fisherman's float
just floating serenely with maybe sometimes a small nibble from 'down
below' or was it just a surface wave or only the wind?

Well I should take a look at my own
advice - expect nothing and do not try to force anything. Probably,
judging from the apparent medical success, it is really a matter of
the mind. My mind is full of surprises anyway, I can - within reasons
- influence my heartbeat and my blood pressure. So far, no p-waves or
anything, no nothing, no sensations from the prostate, good or bad.
Like a switch that is not closed yet or a signal line that has not
been laid. Maybe what I am struggling with is an unconscious 'taboo',
having for almost 60 years seen the anus as 'exit only' for necessary
but unpleasant body needs. Never envisioned the chance of pleasure
FROM THAT PART?

Have to make that very clear to myself,
something like 'Darn it, the prostate gland is right there where it is, look at
the blueprints, and to get at it without cutting deep, you just HAVE
to take the back door!' So, friends, I will be trying, will be
patient and open, will relax and hope for a breakthrough or at least for some steps in that direction. Will keep looking and, when anything
larger than a minnow strikes the bait, will keep you informed. And I
will continue reading here about all the good advice to success - and
non-success - to find my very own way.

Fortunately, here 'the big one' is not
'catch-and-release', it is for keeps!

Pachyderm

Pachy on the right track now...

Well, fellow travellers. In the last
post I did not sound as if I was treading a path of progress. Right I
was, there. And it was MY fault, yes!

That is the difference between theory
and practice! And if I would not report the truth of how and/or why
something happened (or not!) then you would all be better off reading
Grimm's Fairy Tales instead of a doctored or laundered blog.

To cut it short, a look at the
anatomical overview which rumel (THX!) sends to newbies made me
think. Why was it that nothing seemed to touch my prostate, could
that be because NOTHING was really touching that spot? Simple as
that. In the 'natural' position I had assumed my helix to be, the
thingy was in truth, after some self-adjusting, almost an inch TOO
FAR OUT!

Sure, no self-respecting prostate would
give a twitchy damn for a massager dancing somewhere near but
practically or most of the time 'out of touch'. So far I seem to have
exercised my sphincter muscles and some others but only marginally
'touched base' - reached the prostate. Yet even that is having a lot
of health benefits already. And they keep building up, even an itchy
haemorrid attack seems to have greatly diminuished its intensity -
yeah that comes from exercising those muscles round my back door!
Nice.

So in the middle of an undisturbed
evening session, I managed for the first time to really put the helix
into its CORRECT position, and it sure touched places where 'there is
something happening'. Will keep on exploring, staying relaxed and
patient, but now I know I can be going somewhere.

It reminds me of that stupid old joke
about the polish lumberman who buys a chainsaw and ist not convinced
about its performance, getting no improvement for a week and brings
the thingy back to the shop where the attendant starts the motor for
a test. Surprised about the engine's racket the worthy woodcutter
yells 'Hey, what the hell is that noise?'

So well, I seem to have finally found
the 'starter button'. I will keep the forum informed about where that
gets me!

Pachyderm

Getting through Pachyderm's thick
skin...

Well, Aneros companions, I seem to be
well on the way now, as Frankieboy sang 'I did it my way'. Had a
couple of increasingly pleasant sessions, some in the late afternoon,
some in the evening. Only slight drawback there that when I turn onto
my right side that is my preferred position for sleeping and, fully
relaxed, I can fall asleep in no time. That resulted in sweet dreams
and me getting the helix out sometime around 4:00 am or even later, a
few times. No problem.

Well-cleaned (using a slightly modified
lab water squirting bottle) and lubed (tiny needle-less syringe
augmented with a small green garden wire loop so that it does not
disappear down below again when I push the plunger! OOPS!) and the
good old helix now properly in position, results have been picking up
slowly yet continuously.

Things went from 'I can finally feel
something touching my prostate(?)' to 'Does not feel bad' to 'This is
quite good' to 'Hey REALLY GOOD where the f**ck is this going!' Seems
my mind and body are in an active process of removing possible
'roadblocks' there.

Possible internal dialogue of my
Prostate, timed approximately as 'one or two sessions per line',
could have been roughly like this (grin):

- 'What? Someone at the back door.
Never had that before!'

- 'It is a Miss Helix. Insists on
touching me ever so lightly. How strange.'

- 'Feels funny. Must ask Mr. P from the
front about it. He might know. Newfangled notion but not bad.'

- 'Hey brain give me a line to Mr. P!
What about I never ever called anyone before? Get ya act together,
old switchboard!'

- 'P says I'm lucky, just relax and
enjoy. Missy Helix is not a looker but man can she touch. Nice!'

- 'She is getting me all confused and
jittery. But GOOD, big THX Miss Heli, you surprise me!'

- 'Oh, Heli, if you keep going on like
this I can not fathom what will happen. But it sure will be
something...'

Yeah that last line is the status of
this morning. Woke up with a smile around 5:40, waddled to the
bathroom wanting to remove the helix. After five hours at its place
of work, some dirt was sure to have accumulated. Oops wifey was there
in the tub. Wait, therefore. Back to bed, on my back, left knee
raised right leg stretched. Waiting to hear my wife exiting the
bathroom. That was when things happened! Reasonably relaxed, yes I
was. Not focused on the helix at all. Not exspecting anything. No
conscious convulsions. And yes, to be honest, maybe a slight - ahem -
fart triggered it all...

Hard to describe. Like a man who was
blind attempting to talk about colors. Well the helix started its
slight 'automatic' movement, roughly timed by my heartbeat, probably
amplifying tiny peristaltic twitches (the normal autonomous movement
of colon tissues). Good. Nice. Even nicer! A feeling building up of
fullness, of tingling over my lower body like a warm water flow. And
still gaining intensity like a wave that will be almost irresistible
when it crests. VERY beautiful. Really powerful. Completely different
from the pattern of the buildup to a conventional orgasm. I could
sense the Tsunami approaching from the distance. Strong energies
involved but nothing to make an old pachyderm waver.

The alarm clock and my wife >Bathroom
is free!< made for a slight 'coitus interruptus' there. No
problem, the further way is clear. And boy, was I proved right with
my assumption that cleanup would turn out to be a bit messy. Then,
changing tracks into the 'normal' morning routine...

That is the Aneros journey for me old
pachy so far. Five weeks of travel now. Interesting. Very promising.
Very helpful the forum and the information from rumel. And I hope I
can contribute a bit to the progress of new members by writing this
thread about my doings and reflections about them.

From the health angle the journey has
been real awesome so far, also. Had a med checkup yesterday all 'in
the green' including improved blood test results and a
near-to-perfect ECG plus significant progress with blood circulation
issues in my legs. The 'free flow' is nicely continuing, too. Without
more moths sacrificed on aeskulapius' altar.

When I look at my first post in this
thread now, I am absolutely surprised how rapidly and strongly I have
progressed on both the 'health' and the 'pleasure' scale. Hope to
keep both scales open in the direction 'UP'!

THX so far Aneros community from

Pachyderm

Not long now...

Follow-up from Pachyderm

Thx twlltin!

Had a rather hectic day and night.
Around 4:45 pm my daughter calls that the big graduation party of my
son's high school is not on the 19th but TODAY at 19:00 (7:00 pm).
Nice to know had not yet had a ticket in my own hands. Well, hurry
home, wash, get dressed finding dress pants that fit over my ample
belly, yeah.

Get to the place, late naturally,
having had to pick up my son's girl friend. Nice event, good buffet
dinner - not so good for my rotund waistline. My wife and I leave at
0:15, kids stay. I do some reading and hit the sack around 1:15. OK.

Around 4 am someone wakes me. MAN you
are a hell of a lucky bloke that this is not Texas and I do not have
a trusty .45 ready under my pillow! Oops it turns out to be my
daughter's friend, he had an altercation with her and she is off still
holding his wallet and phone. He knows where to find my kid's
emergency house key outside. OK I dress real quick - fortunately no
active helix this morning! - and drive him to the place where the
family of my son's girl friend live. Daughter is there, girl friend's
parents do not know but find a notice saying she is sleeping in the
downstairs bedroom. Talk to daughter, stop the two young people's
loud words with a „No matrimonial squabbles before outsiders!“
that sure gets their attention. Grab both of them in a big hug and
bring them to the friend's appartment, daughter readily agreed to
that. Back in bed at 5:30. Guess this boy does realize he has a friend
who happens to be the father of his special girl...

Wake at 8:30, stretching out and
getting my bearings I sense my prostate is about doing the same
thing. Warm feeling, it is there, not hurting but somehow basking 'in
the afterglow'. Well this is now the same body position as yesterday
(one knee up other leg stretched) I might just try...

Wow it works I can sort of project my
heartbeat and its subtle pulsation onto my prostate. Get it to rock
along nicely until even the old 'Mr. P from the front side' raises
its head, all without any gadget only ('ONLY!') improved mind-body
interfacing. Old elefant learning new tricks. Interesting where this
can go. No more boring conferences or such! Sorry I have to abort the
session because must get my son up (from bed with his girl) and help
him get ready for a trip to Danmark with a handful of his fellow
ex-classmates.

Have done so now he is safely off. Did
some shopping and now I have decided to 'share the night and my
experiences' with the aneros community.

'Elefant trumpet sound' from Pachyderm

thanks for sharing.

Hiho Aneros-ians!

Am in Thailand with family, finally got the resort's wifi to function. Little privacy. Therefore no sessions. Some interesting moments before our journey, still. Will be back in the telling at the end of july.

OK caught two nice fish (broadhead catfish) from my favorite pond. The larger around 3 pounds.

Yours Pachyderm

Hello, fellow Aneros-ians!

Am back in the - at the moment not-so - cold North. Some short sessions, uneventful. Have to work myself back to the status before our holiday (4 weeks). But I will keep in mind that sudden 'strokes of luck' can just happen like mine with fishing on my favorite pond just a week ago!

That nice fellow of over 4 pounds swiped the bait and took off like a submarine. Went all over the small weedy pond and I there alone with only my old trusty long fishing rod (without reel)! Managed to guide the fish ON TOP of the weeds where I could grab it. Five people had dinner off that fish.

Will be back now on a regular base, hopefully with pleasant progress news.

Pachyderm