Step 2 notes

["Alan" <fish_studios@...>]

I was gone for a few days and had a lot of reading to do to catch up 
to the current posts.

Someone had mentioned a method they were using to "feel" the 
sensations in the second exercise. I'd like to share a method I 
used:

Rather than trying to remember the experience of a sensation, I go 
get the sensation. Bardon explains that in IIH, with the 
visualization, when he says to look at the objects and then create 
the image mentally. I had problems originally with the auditory 
because I would eventually have an image called to mind. So I took 
off my watch, placed it behind my head where I could hear it, and 
then concentrated on the sound. If the image came to mind, I threw 
it away. I didn't have to create the sound, but my mind got used to 
just auditory and visuals. This also helped with the others. I'd 
go stick my arm in the freezer for a few seconds and focused on the 
cold sensation. Same for the heat, hold my hand over a flame to 
feel the heat and savor it. Taste and smell helped too. Its much 
like the CSM, just applied. Savor the sensation, and then create it 
on your own.

Thought that might be helpful. It helped a friend of mine so I 
thought may as well.

-- Alan