Re: [BardonPraxis] more soul mirror questions

["Vania" <vaniavladeva@...>]

Thanks for the explanation, Rawn. It was really helpful.

Best wishes,
Vania

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>
To: <BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 6:59 AM
Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] more soul mirror questions


> Dear Vania,
>
> >> I've recently started re-doing my soul mirrors so that they include
> different occurences of a personality trait and also root causes of
> those
> traits. So I'm wondering whould my new mirrors should include both the
> 'cause and effect', in other words should I have both the rooth cause
> AND
> the resulting effects? Or should I only include the root causes? <<
>
> The more information contained within your soul mirror, the better! I'd
> say, include both if it pleases you and helps you to know yourself more
> thoroughly.
>
> >> An interesting thing I have noticed while working on finding the root
> of a trait, was that the majority of the root causes are either fears or
> desires based on our likes and dislikes. Am I missing something, is
> there more to it? I mean it's scary when I think that a person's
> behaviour can be solely based on fears/desires. <<
>
> Remember, this is your *un-consciously* formed personality. In other
> words, this is not the result of *conscious* choices.
>
> >> Come to think of it fears/desires are all rooted in inctinct, so is
> that the one root cause of our whole bahaviour? Is it instinct we're
> trying to overcome and thus transform out personality? <<
>
> Biological instinct does play a part but the root of most fear/desire is
> cultural programming -- things we are taught to fear/desire.
>
> >> I'm wondering though, because the fear/desire thing applies to the
> white mirror too, and so what are we to transform our personality into?
> <<
>
> With character transformation we replace our un-consciously formed
> patterns of behaviour with consciously chosen, positive alternatives
> that fulfill us. The personality structure becomes a matter of
> conscious choice, over which we exercise a determing power, instead of
> sub-conscious habit over which we have no power.
>
> My best to you,
> :) Rawn Clark
> 16 Feb 2003
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