Hi Kos, Don't worry too much - it's a very strange experience when you are actually faced with reality (or in the early stages of the work a glimpse in to a much wider reality) and yes, it will freak you out a bit but don't for a second worry about being mad. Any negative feelings are elements of your personality which don't want to give up their hold on your previous "normality". Whilst your willpower tackle and resolve issues about what you thought you know any depression, anxiety, paranoia, worry etc. will disappear as you go on and gain understanding. Seems you are also worrying about certin things for nothing; if you worry about people finding out you have psychic powers, perhaps you need to get some - if you catch my drift. Creating a negative situation beofre it exists is a character imbalance; fortunately these get tackled early! Specific pain you feel, if it has no physical symptom (diet, exercise, booze and tabs etc.), is likley to be because you are using parts of your mind which haven't been used before - iagine going to the gym and pumping hard fro a montha fter you never have before, fine for a while and then you ache to buggery. Simply put, take a pill and chil - keep doing the exercises and don't worry. Perspective will sort its self out with more knowledge; the full akasha principle won't make itself fully apparent to you before you are ready or specifically in step 5 (off hand). Just enjoy the ride and remember, it isn't what other people think that counts. Mark kos_kou4 <kos_kou4@...> wrote: Hello friends, I started Bardon's course 5 months ago but it seems that I misunderstood some things. When I was just doing the meditations everything was ok but someday I read from these forums, and I thought, that with step 1 exercises the mind will be controlled and that I have allways to observe my thoughts. At the beginning everything was ok but I also was convinced that "now I will control my mind". One day I read in this forum that someone always has to observe his thoughts. So, I decided to really force myself to always observe my thoughts, I always had in my mind to observe my thoughts and I , mentally not physically, didn't do anything else except this. At the first day I was doing this it was ok, but in the evening I noticed that I had a pain in my head, some difficulty in concentration and I felt a little distand from everything. But I thought that in the morning I will be ok. At the next morning I was exactly the same and I had an anxious feeling and a real pressure inside my head. I begun to get scared about this but I didn't stop forcing myself to observe thoughts. At the end of that day the symptoms was worse and I was observing myself to move,talk,walk but it wasn't me that doing these. I was in a daze and I felt like something dragging me from reality. So, while I was observing myself doing things I started to think how am I doing these, how am I walk?, think?, whats the process of thinking? and generally things about how unconsious works. These thoughts made me really desperate and anxious because they have no answer and I just seeing them happening. I stopped to observe thoughts but it was out of control. The other day I remember that I had this thought "it seems that from now on I will be like this (a terrible force,pain inside my head, very anxious and very distand from reality) because it had to be like this, but I want to go back". When I saw that I couldn't go back and I was in a situation that I couldn't escape from it I had the strongest negative feeling I've ever had, a feeling of insecurity, desparation and helpless, and I thought that I am mad. After that I stopped Bardon's course and I was in this very unconfortable situation for 3 days. At the end of that third day I remember telling myself "this is nothing you just overdo it with observing thoughts, you are very sensitive and that's why you felt like this" and I was normal again! All the symptoms left in a second and I was healthy again. I started Bardon's course again and for 1 month I was ok. But one day I had this thought "while taking Bardon's course maybe someday discover that I have psychic abilities of a phenomenal nature and that is a situation that I can never escape from, like the other I had a month ago" and the symptoms just came back but not so strong as the other time. I was in this situation for 3 months. I was anxious, felt a force inside my head, could't concentrate, felt like being in a daze, couldn't let myself go something bothered me all the time, there was times that I thought about unconsious work and I felt desparate, felt like trying to control whatever I said and did and this made me to speak very little and at nights before I sleep I sometimes felt that everything is a lie and something drugging me somewhere. All these was untill yesterday and today I went to a therapist and he told me that this (observing myself) was just a different kind of conciousness. But I didn't expect to see this conciousness, I expected when I was started to always observing my thoughts that I will have a change in my personality that will last, to observe my thoughts. And that's why when I felt like this(observing myself)I thought that was a naturall situation,a change, that will last forever and not just an another kind of consiousness. And it was from this that I thought that there is no turning back from that really unconfortable situation I was. I thought that I would have a change that will last, this change was anxious and negative emotions, and subconsious gave me these negative feelings as a change that will last. When I understand this misunderstood of mine I was again ok, but I feel oversensitive and afraid of changes. What I would really like from you please is to tell me your opinion about these, what should I do and how real changes comes in this course. Because if a change as psychic abilities comes to me as my personality is now this will be really scary and catastrophic. Also I can see that I can reach that state of consiousness very easily. Is this state "a safeguard" from negative emotions and thoughts? Thank you for your time Yahoo! 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