Deepak Chopra Instagram – #AskDeepak “I have been following your teachings and began meditating over a year ago. I have become aware of my thoughts and emotions in this process. Where I am challenged is staying positive and not having negative thoughts when situations arise. How can I change this pattern?” My response: The way to change negative thought patterns is to simply remain self-aware while they occur. Do not resist or try to discipline your mind to push negative thoughts away or even try to think positive thoughts. You can’t change mental patterns with other mental activity when the pattern is held in place by deeper feelings or self-beliefs. Those can only be replaced with the experience of your true self, which is self-awareness. Just being self-aware, without judgment, will dissolve the patterns over time. Love, Deepak