Dear Vovin, I thought your reply to Maximiliano was excellent! :) Very well put! I would like to incorporate it into the "Correspondence" section of my website on the next full update, if you're agreeable. I would, of course, give *you* full credit as I've done in the past with others that I've quoted in that section. Would this be okay with you? My best to you, :) Rawn Clark 15 Jan 2003 rawnclark@... rawn@... http://www.ABardonCompanion.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis ----- Original Message ----- From: <ribex@...> To: <BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 1:31 AM Subject: [BardonPraxis] Re: Soul Mirror Dear Maximiliano ~ What makes you lazy? What are the reason(s) for your lazyness? Use questions like these to dig deeper into the reasons for your traits. For example: I am lazy. What am I lazy in regards to? 1) Lazy in my practices. 2) Lazy when it comes to getting the bills paid. 1) Now why am I lazy in my practices? I am hesitant to get to work with my practices because I fear failure. 2) Now why am I lazy when it comes to paying my bills? The dent in my bank-account make me feel insecure. New traits from the word Lazy: 1) Fear of failure. 2) Need to feel financially secure. 1) Now why do I fear failure? And exactly what do I fear failure in? etc. etc. etc. etc. Through the process of self-analysis such as shown above, you will have little problem in finding your hundred negative traits. Also, a good idea is to graphically depict the results of your analysis. This way you will get a solid picture of how your traits influence each other and how they interact. From the example above, the box 'Lazy' would branch out into two new boxes 'Lazy in practices' and 'Lazing with paying bills'. These two in turn branch out into 'Fear or failure', etc. Eventually the traits tend to go full circle and end where they started, or you may find that a couple of particular traits influence or are the root of many of the others. I hope this helps. Well met Vovin