I am fourty six years old and retaining is not even a problem LOL and I have read several of your begining books. Original question with answer then is to absorb yourself into the Tao and then you can learn to work with it ?
I see, I use to watch some shows where elderly asian gentlmen would stand next to trees, bushes and the like surrounding it with there arms . I wondered how they where extracting it? Chi that is, but maybe I viewed it wrong