Dear Martin, >> Another "side-question" just occurred to me. In previous meditations when trying to "achieve" VoM, I felt quite unsettled compared to how I felt when doing the other mental exercises of Step One. Twice I awoke the next morning to find that my body was aching all over as if I had run a marathon - my muscles were physcially hurting and my chest was very tight... this might be totally unrelated, but I had not done any strenuous physical exercise on either days, so it seemed a bit of a coincidence that I had just started the VoM exercise. I only ask in case it is related and it happens again. << Perhaps you were expending an inordinate amount of mental effort and energy in trying to force a VoM. This can lead to tiredness as you draw energy from your physical body for your mental effort. My best to you, :) Rawn Clark 08 Nov 2004 rawnclark@... rawn@... http://www.ABardonCompanion.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis http://E.webring.com/hub?ring=arionthebardonwe