Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace until Wednesday morning.

So I wonder if there's a part of you that you would like to change.

For most of us, I think there are aspects of ourselves that we might wish were a little

different and sometimes there might be a feeling as though it's impossible to change.

And the older we get, we might assume that the longer we've been alive, the more solid

those qualities become and therefore the less likely it is to change.

But today I'd like to kind of reframe that a little differently and maybe offer a glimmer

of hope that we can change at any age and look, I say this as not only someone who's

getting on in years, but you know, we've had people along at Headspace in their 70s, 80s

and 90s learning meditation and talking about how even at that age it's really transformed

their thinking the way they feel about themselves and about particular aspects of themselves.

And I'm always fascinated by this idea of impermanence and change and how everything

is in constant flux all of the time.

And if we think about the physical body, for example, okay, so more than I don't know exactly

how many, but I know there's more than 30 trillion cells in the body and that those cells are

refreshed, replaced in full every six months.

Something like that, we want to sort of a cycle.

So even though we look at our physical body and we might assume that it is solid, that

it's fixed, that it kind of is what it is, well, in truth, the entire physical body is

being refreshed and replenished over that period of time.

So then we might think, yeah, sure, but what about our thoughts and our mind?

That's always the same.

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