The root of all Reichian therapy and its various offshoots is the energy flow. Reich's understanding of the pulsatory nature of this energy, its rhythmic expansion and contraction helped to explain the physical source of emotional disorders, and offered a working model for treatment. This paper presents an approach emphasizing using the instroke of pulsation. In my view, the outstroke, or the expansive phase, has taken on too great an importance. The outstroke, with all its dramatic power, at first appears to be the more "important" phase of pulsation, and the instroke, the contraction, merely a reactive, balancing measure. Too often, little distinction is made between contraction, a blocking and holding that is anti-life, and a naturally occurring, gathering inward stroke. The inward stroke flows when open, just as the expansive phase does. Contraction can occur, but simply because the flow is moving inward it does not necessarily mean that there is a blocking of holding.