I just found out about this chapter and also the meet-up function (what will Facebook think of next. A tleast I think it is part of Facebook.)

It is interesting to see how many different group types there are. Maybe there is something interesting in your part of the world.

http://www.meetup.com/The-Monroe-Institute-Local-Chapter-Boston/

I also had an experience while listening to the recording...at one point I felt a lot of heat; I had a light blanket on and at the time I thought maybe I was just too hot. It wasn't until my next reiki session, when I also had a random experience of heat, that I really began to believe that whay happened whilr experiencing the recording was the same heat thing. I am wondering if this happens to others when they go towards other focus levels?

The other thing I noticed was that during the first part of the recording, I didn't feel that so much was happening in my conciousness...didn't feel going "deeper" or whatever you want to say. But when the suggestion was given to head back to normal waking conciousness, I found I really did have to come back. So I had poor awareness of the shift going "away" from C1. Others commentd that the same thing happened for them. Is that common here too?

Mayber I should ask these questions other places, just not sure which thread.

Lucy wrote on Sep 26^th, 2010 at 8:57am:


  This experience i had at TMI in Faber during the Gateway Voyage, convinced me of the benefit of "toning".   I was skeptical of the value of toning despite that two outer sources i resonate a lot with, Bob Monroe/TMI Institute and the E.C. readings very much recommend it as an aid to meditation. 

  I took the G.V.P. at TMI during late July.  It was a very hot, humid VA summer then, but inside they kept TMI quite air conditioned.  So there was quite a contrast between inside and outside temp wise.  I was often cold during our "sound experiences" in our CHEC units. 

   This was a couple of days or so into the program. Anyways, i had stayed up real late talking to some fellow TMI students the night before.  I knew i was going to be real tired the next morning during whatever ungodly hour they seemed to wake us up at.   When the morning wake up call came, i was tempted to just sleep through it because i was so tired. 

   I decided to try to stay awake, and i started toning along.   A little while into it, my body became very, very hot, having gone from feeling a bit chilled not long before.   

  Moreover, after the meditation i had A LOT of energy, which lasted throughout the day & into the night.  It felt like i had a very good night's sleep the night before.

   I felt like the Toning part was mostly responsible for that, though of course the H.S. and deep meditation helped too.  But it was during the toning when my body began to become very hot. 

  I feel like Toning somehow directly affects the endocrine glands in the body, which are connected to the more subtle energy centers.

  I've rarely had the above experience since, but that maybe because my body is now more naturally intune with those other levels of self.  Though right now, my body doesn't feel all that intune.  I have my first major cold now since 2.2 years ago & very unusually i've missed two days of work in a row.