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  • October 5, 2016 at 1:40 pm #117281
    Lacy
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    Noh, I on the other hand think we constantly change. Our cells, our thoughts, our ideas, our goals, our experience.

    If you are asking a psychologist – neuroplasticity is a science that has proven that yes – a personality can change. Much the same like we train to dance, practice to thrown and catch a ball, work on a better handwriting and so on – we can change how we think, how we feel, how we behave – I think that is also the whole point to buddhist lifestyle as well.

    Humans are extremely adaptive beings. We very often NEED to change in order to survive.

    October 5, 2016 at 1:49 pm #117282
    Peter
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    That life requires the sacrifice of life we latterly change with every breath we take yet we don’t generally experience that as change

    I agree that we change objective measurable qualities quite often however it seems to me that our experience of ourselves that makes those changes (assuming we don’t identify our sense of selves with our thoughts, ideas, goals…) changes very little.

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    October 5, 2016 at 2:22 pm #117287
    norit
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    I asked a therapist this and they said yes, as long as someone is open to changing, and works to do so, that anyone can change. I think (hope) this is true, also. I would very much like to change into a better version of myself.

    October 5, 2016 at 8:42 pm #117308
    Mike
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    There is a famous quote by
    Heraclitus: “There is nothing
    constant except change.”
    Every experience we have
    changes us in some way.
    Our personalities, bodies and
    minds are constantly evolving.
    There’s a book, Counter Clockwise,
    that discusses how a change in
    scenery (older music, newspapers, etc.) made people look and feel
    younger – and do things they thought
    they were too old to do. Ellen Langer
    wrote the book, based on a Harvard
    psychology experiment. You should
    check it out or Google it. It’s
    very interesting.

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