The Deer Exercise

The deer exercise is an exercise devised in China. The deer exercise basically consists of repeating cycles of contracting and relaxing ones anus. The deer exercise is one of a set of five. The five exercises are known as "Frolics of The Five Animals", these animals are: the tiger, deer, bear, ape, and crane. The reason the exercise is known as the deer exercise is because the exercise is based on imitating the way deers will contract and relax their anus's periodically. Learning from animals is something I refer to as pragmatic naturalism. Pragmatic naturalism exists in contrast to Darwinian naturalism. Darwinian naturalism is concerned with the motivations of animal behavior. Darwinian naturalism is basically learning about animals rather than learning from them. Some people recommend doing the deer exercise 100 times a day. I would say that if one wants to start doing the deer exercise one should do it about 25 times day, that is one should contract and relax ones anus 25 times in one sitting or standing(whatever you prefer). As far as Chinese exercises are concerned I don't pay much attention to the chi aspect of them(although I do not believe nor disbelieve in chi), instead I like to focus strictly on the mechanical physical aspect of it. Essentially learning from animals is imitating various aspects of their behavior. I don't want to venture to say what the purpose of the deer exercise. It seems proper that one should just try it if one is curious about it and see for oneself how one feels after doing it.