Lighten Up

Push a little further from habituation. Doing something new everyday beats habituation.

Free yourself from mind-machinery. By practicing awareness, one builds freedom from the automated thoughts of “mind-machinery.”

Play yourself. Discover something of who you are at your truest self, and combine that with who you envision yourself to be. Step into that role, driven by your honest intention. 

Create a psychological gesture* to re-awaken you int this role when needed. A deep breath, underestimated cliché,  can be a great psychological gesture, but any gesture you chose is fine.

*The psychological gesture developed by Michael Chekhov (used by Johnny Depp, Jack Nicholson, and Anthony Hopkins)  is basically a gesture that can get you into desired character directly, sort of a personality teleportation.

At expense of this gesture, you can then be whoever you want to be any given moment. There is only one little something to think about, courtesy of Schopenhauer: “Man can do what he wills , but he can rarely will what he actually wills”

Some Buddhist practices do a sort of psychological gesture to seek light, but they put deities in the desired character, and act accordingly.