Øðr as Survival
Beyond the obvious evolutionary benefits of channelled aggression.
One of the most fundamental core traits of a male, fuelled not only by testosterone but also ethos, cohesion as well as an innate warrior spirit, is aggression. Aggression has allowed for the survival of our species so far by allowing true men to fight to protect what was theirs, including their offsprings, tribe, resources or land. Or to stand for what they believed in, allowing for humanity to thrive up and civilization to evolve, up to a recent point in time associated precisely with a loss of masculinity in the modern world.
These most basic benefits of aggression are well known from an evolutionary point of view. So is Øðr and the need for it to be channelled either through aggression or sexuality in order to maintain balance within the Nine Homeworlds. It is, after all, a matter of survival of our species, and others.
What is less known is that Øðr, and thus, channelling of energy, may it be through aggression or sex, is essential for health and for our own survival against our very own body.
Repressed aggression, or sexuality, results in a built up of negative energy within the body, and undermines our ability to biologically function properly. This negative energy is behind psychosomatic ailments, as well as actual diseases. With a build up of energy, from not fully and properly expressing Øðr through violence or seed release, comes a body’s inability to function well and protect itself from internal aggression. This could be a cancerous cell your body is no longer able to eliminate before it replicates. A bacteria, your immune system can no longer kill before it gets out of hand and makes you sick. It can also direct your own body to attack you, by making a hole in your stomach, by increasing your blood pressure, or by damaging your organs. Øðr that is not duly channelled also results in high levels of stress, with devastating effects on your body as well, from cortisol and other hormonal imbalances, to variations in blood sugar and pheromone release, even affecting you standing among other males from merely your scent.
Øðr expression proper - through violence or sex - is therefore absolutely critical in keeping what you love and stand for protected, but also in keeping balance within your body and natural internal biological processes fully functional.
Øðr is just life, in more ways than just one.
Practically, you should therefore allocate significant resources to fighting and engaging in controlled violence. Enemies if possible. In a healthy and fully expressed way. Or at least training for it, including with bros. Simulated fighting still does release aggression to some extent. In full balance with the expression of violence and aggression, you should also frequently release your seed into a body. The higher the quality of the recipient of your essence of life, the better. Merely releasing semen and wasting it does not involve the exchange of energy necessary for optimised Øðr.