Dear NB, >> My question is : other images, not related to cold, may appear. Sometimes abstract pictures come to the mind and go away, without any relationship nor interference with my feeling of cold. Is this something to consider as a failure, or is it unrelated ? If this is a failure, I'd like to know how to prevent images to appear! I read the correspondance on "More on Step 2 sensory concentration exercises", and I understand the concept of concentrating on the essential meaning of cold, e.g., but this solves the question of the "related images" only (like the roses in the case of smell), but not the flashes and the ebb and flow of random abstract images. ...Or is it a sort of 3D exercise of one pointedness ? << For the purposes of these sensory concentration exercises, *all* extraneous sensory input must be rejected/ignored. An image would pertain to the sense of sight. You need to isolate *just* the sense you're working with. This is a matter of one-pointedness. My best to you, :) Rawn Clark 21 Nov 2003 rawnclark@... rawn@... http://www.ABardonCompanion.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis http://E.webring.com/hub?ring=arionthebardonwe