Dear Joel, <How much time can be extended the exercises of step 1? One hour, < for example? <"I recommend that you follow the guidelines Bardon offered in that < regard" >> Well, but Bardon doesn´t say how much time should last an exercise. He only says how much time should last the control of the exercise itself (for example, ten minutes in the case of the thought control exercise.) << Yes, and those *are* Bardon's guidelines. But why are you this concerned about how long it's okay to prolong the exercises when you have not yet mastered the basic exercises themselves? I suggest that you focus upon mastering the exercises as Bardon instructed instead of these other issues. >> I am afraid I didn´t explain myself very well. What I wanted to say is if there can be negative traits that can´t be beaten only for autosuggestion and it could be necessary be devoted to action. << If you read Step Two you will see that Bardon described several techniques *in addition to* auto-suggestion that must be employed in the character transformation. Auto-suggestion alone is never enough. >>I have three questions more: << All of these questions have been addressed on my website. I recommend that you go to http://www.ABardonCompanion.com/Search.html and use the search engine there. My best to you, :) Rawn Clark 08 Apr 2005 rawnclark@... rawn@... http://www.ABardonCompanion.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis http://E.webring.com/hub?ring=arionthebardonwe