Start out with 3 questions when you find the answer you can quickly get more questions or be open to the questions that come up while activating. It is so that you can remain focused on looking for answers. With only 3 general questions you know at the end of the activation that you will have 3 answers at the very least.
Have you ever noticed that the more you try to remember the harder it becomes to remember? It's easier to remember 3 questions find the answer and when you found the answer forget about the question and ask another one.
So when you begin activating you're thinking of 3 general questions this way you know at the end of your activation you will have at least 3 answers. Notice I say at least. Because while activating you may find those answers within the first 5 minutes. Those answers may trigger additional and perhaps very important questions. Now if you're mind is already concentrating on all the possible questions you dreamed up from your trigger words. It is quite likely to choke? 
(for want of a better description) and ignore the questions that the answers produce. Because once you get involved with the activation it becomes a bit like having someone explain something to you.
Have you ever had someone come up to you with a question? You give the answer and want to explain some more but they cut you off with another question, so you give the answer to the next question but want to explain futher and can't. You know they missed the whole point because they didn't let you explain? If you haven't experienced this you've probably seen movies where this happened. The character asked a question and got the answer and cut the speaker off with the next question without considering, "what else should I know?" As a result of only waiting for the answer to their question without looking for more they wind up in trouble somehow. Why didn't you tell me? Is usually the question they ask when they find that they are in the wrong place.
The above is just an anology that could be summarised with, If the cup is full there is no room for more
To activate means to be active with the text and allowing it to trigger further questions while you activate. So when I suggest starting with 3 it is just to get the action going. You may not find any answers to those inital 3 but if you were open they will have triggered 3 more important questions. At the end of an activation pass you may have answered as many as 15 questions. If you have time during an activation pass and found all 3 answers and they didn't trigger anymore questions then grab 3 more from your list. The idea of starting with 3 is to keep the mind uncluttered yet focused.
Alex
[This message has been edited by AlexK (edited September 27, 2003).]
