In terms of individual advice, the "Xiang’er", like the rest of Daoism, discusses ways in which a person could gain immortality. According to the "Xiang’er", the body was inhabited by spirits that survive in the presence of qi. In order to attain immortality, a person had to preserve and nourish these internal spirits. Presumably these spirits could be nurtured through meditation, but the "Xiang’er" offers very little guidance on what type of meditation one should do. The "Xiang’er" also looks down upon Daoist sexual practices, and urges its readers not to practice them.