Personality change
If you were in LA and planned to go to Atlanta, but shifted your course 4 degrees, you might end up closer to Williamsburg, Virginia. Leona Tyler says if you make a small, but significant change in life direction and keep it, over time, you can get a change of personality.
Cognitive therapy can try to change worldviews, assumptions and expectations to be more hopeful, emotional experience clarified, rumination to be less angry and bitter, actions more reconciliatory.
Many will not even notice new patterns of behavior, even if they do, they might not trust they will last. Personality is an accumulated set of experiences, united by a common narrative, powered by a need to be internally consistent. Personality can seem too consistent and hard to change.
In our usual situational exposure, we are stable. Stability and consistency of the narrative thread is held fast and defended, it's hard to make headway in personality conversion. It usually requiers a powerful, or, an accumulation of emotional experience to make a noticeable personality change.
Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Everett L. Worthington, Jr.
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