The procedure for getting to the dreaming body…starts with the initial act, which by the act of being sustained breeds unbending intent. Unbending intent leads to internal silence, and internal silence to inner strength needed to make the assemblage point shift in dreams to suitable positions–he called this sequence the groundwork.

The development of dreamers is indirect…we can do dreaming by ourselves, alone. Since dreaming uses a natural, built-in shift of the assemblage point, we should need no one to help us.

What we badly need is sobriety, and no one can give it to us or help us get it except ourselves. Without it, the shift of the assemblage point is chaotic…as our ordinary dreams are chaotic. (Fire, 180)

So, all in all, the procedure to get to the dreaming body is impeccability in our daily life. (Fire, 181)