Dear Rawn, Many thanks for your answer. <<I'd suggest isolating yourself in a room and putting on the "Center of Stillness Meditation" CD. Let it lead you to that place where you feel detachment from the circumstances of your physical reality and where you "look down at" your mundane self. From that perspective of the Individual Self, you will perceive how absurd the intensity of what you're feeling really is and how little it actually serves you.>> I'll do that. Thanks. Incidentally, the embryo of solution I imagined (magic of water, pore breathing etc.) seemed to have an imediate effect also. Stopped the whole thing almost completely in one second. And it was *not* my imagination only :-) I wonder whether my hypothesis concerning Fire and Earth was plausible. Can you give me your opinion, Rawn ? But I'll use CSM anyway because I really need to "look from above" :-) <<"A true magician accepts life the way it is presented to him; he enjoys the good and he learns from the evil and he is never despondent. A magician knows his own weaknesses and will make every effort to eliminate them. He will not entertain any thoughts of remorse, because they are negative thoughts and therefore they must be avoided. It suffices to acknowledge one's faults and never to relapse." That last sentence is most pertinent . . .>> Believe me or not, the idea of "legitimately" banishing remorses and negative thoughts was quite foreign to me till now, for reasons I don't want to elaborate on here. I did learn *techniques* (Silva e.g.), but I was always feeling a bit guilty using them. This is a change of paradigm. ...I may actually recuperate lots of energy supressing all those excrescences :-) <<This is an opportunity for advancement being offered to you on a silver platter. It's a boon! ;-)>> Looks this new iteration starting at level one was necessary indeed :-) << >> And since I'm at it : what should I do when my consciousness tells me to use tricks to help me going through certains exercises, and that I find those tricks as exercises a few levels further in IIH, a few days later ? May I still proceed ? << What does your *conscience* (not consciousness) tell you? >> I'll take the liberty to discuss this topic through personnal email. Greetings to all. NB __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com