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# Step1: Thought Control

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- To: "'BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com'" <BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com>
- Subject: Step1: Thought Control
- From: "Jeudy, Olivier [AUDT]" <olivier.jeudy@...>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:37:50 +0900

    Hi All:

    Recently, I've been having doubts about my understanding of the Thought
    Control exercize. For information, I've been practicing Step 1 for 2.5
    months and have attained a reasonable amount of proficiency in all
    exercizes. I've read all of Rawn's comments pertaining to Step 1 and believe
    I understand the requirements. Here is my problem:

    Bardon mentions that, given practice, the initially overwhelming flow of
    thoughts naturally slows down to a point where only a few thoughts emerge
    into one's consciousness. In my case, the repeated practice of Thought
    Control has slown things down to a point were not a SINGLE thought seem to
    emerge. The state is similar to my EOM state, but "less focused".

    Although no thoughts seem to emerge into my surface awareness, I feel that
    there are a lot of thoughts "at the back of my mind". I just perceive these
    thoughts as a very chaotic meddle. Whenever I explore these thoughts and
    bring them to my surface awareness, I notice they are everyday trivial
    things such as "I need to wash the dishes, call my friend" etc etc... I
    don't believe I am supposed to *actively* bring thoughts to my surface
    awareness since it would defeat the aim of the Thought Control exercize.
    However, since these "deep-awareness" thoughts do not seem to make any
    attempt at entering my surface awareness, this leaves me with nothing to
    exercize upon!!

    Rawn, says the following of Thought Control: "Number one was that it ended
    up being a pretty quiet place once I had disengaged and stopped
    participating in its activity. Number two was that the thoughts that did
    arise in that relative quiet were significant thoughts."

    Although I experience what Rawn means by his first sentence, I do not
    perceive any thoughts in my surface awareness, as suggested by the second
    sentence. What am I doing wrong? What should I improve?

    Sorry for this long email and thanks in advance for any help. And Rawn thank
    you for your wonderful commentaries on IIH. Now that I am hooked, I wouldn't
    even consider following the path of IIH without your insights!

    Regards,
    Olivier

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