Dear Vania ~ Mmmmm... It sounds as if you are well on your way to understanding what all this soul-mirror work is all about. You are reaching the stage where it isn't a mechanical procedure any longer; when Bardon's exercises take fruit is when it becomes a real tangible thing within the student hirself, rather than trite "school- work". A major step is when the student realizes that it is *hir* Self he/she is dealing with; *hir* universe. This is when the blueprint/diagram comes to life, and real interaction begins between the work and the life. I think perhaps that it is better to understand that your soul-mirror is *yours*, rather than trying to generalize *your* personality to include everybody. While fears/desires may indeed be the most common roots of elemental imbalance, it does little good trying to force your own soul-mirror into a generic scope. Just the same, it will become less and less fruitful to ask others if your own personal discoveries from the soul-mirror work is correct or not. Other people can only teach you the techniques -the hows; the whys are all about *you*. For whatever it's worth, I hope this helps somewhat. Well met Vovin --- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, "Vania" <vaniavladeva@x> wrote: > HI Everyone, > > 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? > 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. What about babies? They don't have those? Do they > act on survival inctincts alone because they don't have a personality? 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? 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? > I'm very confused here, so any thoughts on the subject will be greatly > appreciated. > > Best wishes, > Vania