I can feel the change.
I decided to adopt a new persona. In the same way that I feel like a different man in Milan, I feel like a different man at home. Deliberately.
One day, he decided to be different.
And it worked. Or is working.
It is easy to be different—just do different stuff. Do it enough and it’s a permanent change.
Not permanent-permanent. You know how they say that every cell in your body is replaced every seven years? (True or not, I believe this for the purpose of the point I’m about to make). I think character traits can be seen to cycle out over some period of time. A whole new (behavioral, psychological) you, every whatever number of years.
At least, if you are growing spiritually.
See the words above: “it worked” is not right. Nothing is static. Especially consciousness. “It is working” is right. Change is happening.
If you let it.