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Here are some suggestions to help your players maintain an "in paradigm" mindset during play.

1. To maintain a magickal paradigm, make up Rotes, Rotes and more Rotes. I strongly encourage every player to create several Rotes that are "theirs", that help define their personal magickal style. I tend to give them breaks on things like fast casting and Paradox when they are using "their" rotes. I frown on them when they use Rotes from another Tradition. However, I encourage them to translate Rotes from one Tradition to another. This helps them concentrate on their magickal mindset. Mind you, rules wise most of the Rotes for different Traditions are exactly the same. However, the props and methods needed to bring them about and the reasons behind why the Rote works change from Tradition to Tradition.
2. Have strong goals. Mages should be dynamic beings, seeking to actively change the world, and as such should have strong and grandiose plans for their lives, both short and long term. These goals should reflect the basic mindset of a mage's paradigm, and should try to "push" reality in the right direction. Constructive goals are preferable to destructive ones. For example, a Verbena seeking holistic, herbal healing within her community is doing more to promote her paradigm than a Verbena destroying the Technocracy.
3. Encourage "interdisciplinary" disputes between mages of different Traditions. This is especially easy between the Techno-mages and the more fantastic mages, but can be especially interesting between two technomages or between two fantastic mages.