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# Re: About the Soul Mirror

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- Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] About the Soul Mirror
- From: "Lori Weber" <lorivw@...>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:27:50 -0500
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- Reply-to: "Lori Weber" <lorivw@...>

    Maybe you could try segmenting your black mirrors' traits into bite-size
    pieces. That's been working for me.

    I've been making slow progress in step 2, largely because my mirrors were so
    "loosey goosey." Even though I'd listed all kinds of stuff and diligently
    separated the registries into their respective elements (well, as best asI
    could determine what went where), I couldn't really get my arms around any one
    thing to work on in the character enoblement. So, I'd pick somethinglike
    "anger" and find myself confronting situtuations that made me angry all day
    long. After a few weeks of battle, I was ready to give up!

    So, I went back to my notes and picked one situation that really got me upset.
    I sat quietly for awhile, remembering what went into making me feel how I did.
    I looked for the antecedent to my angry reaction, and I found that there was a
    moment when I actually decided to become angry.

    Ah ha! I had been in the driver's seat all along. This was a big deal - aeureka
    moment. Once I realized this, I kept going. Who was with me? Whatin this person
    triggered my angry reaction? Was it how something was said? Maybe I was upset
    w/ myself for lacking understanding or patience or my hair ;-). The more I
    thought about each one of my problem areas, I noticedthat there were all kinds
    of "vulnerable" spots within me that needed attention. And when I'd first
    compiled my mirrors, I'd never have even guessedthese "roots" were feeding a
    whole tree of anger - w/ different branches manifesting different dark
    qualities. And I'd never really considered myself an easily angered person.

    One really helpful thing I found, also, was before begining work w/ cold water
    or autosuggestion - was to meditate on a time when I chose to rise above the
    negative feelings of the "sin of the day ;-)" So, I'd find a corrseponding
    trait in my white mirror, remember what it felt like to know myself as a decent
    person (It was easy for me to get mired in the muck of what a crummy person I
    was when I first started my step 2 work - and then set it aside for weeks
    because I hated what I saw) and then concentrate on the good.It helped to start
    my day w/o dredging up all the yucky stuff. The good is there, but finding it -
    again in its lowest common denominator - can be challenging.

    The only thing that's been working for me is to break apart each trait and look
    for specific instances that fed it. When I find something - I'll usually end up
    w/ 4 or 5 traits that fall under its umbrella. If I work on just one of them
    that particular day, then I'm much less likely to quit.

    Hope this helps -
    lori

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Maximiliano Markous
    To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com
    Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:42 AM
    Subject: [BardonPraxis] About the Soul Mirror

    I´m startig the soul mirror for the second time because after speaking to Rawn
    I realized that I just listed down like 200 traits but I wasn´t aware that I
    should look for the "roots"!!
    I have worked with it for two days till I came to realize that I don´t know
    what a root is!
    Can anybody give me an EXAMPLE of how you´ve found a root?
    Can "beliefs" count as a root? example: "money is evil", thos leads to judging
    rich people..etc. In this case is the primary belief the root of the other
    trais??
    If it is, it strikes me that most of our traits are born from our beliefs,
    education. Aren´t they? Should we be looking for this things??
    Thanks

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