Soeum Piseth A negative attitude carries with it a lack of awareness. You’re not necessarily aware of a negative attitude permeating your outlook on life, and because of this lack of awareness, your attitude affects your interactions with other people and your interactions with yourself. What if you were to become aware? What if, suddenly, you were able to step outside of the thought pattern that creates your attitude, choose a new pattern, and thus, a new attitude? Changing your attitude is not about stifling or eliminating negative thoughts . It’s about changing your thought patterns through action . Negative thoughts will arise, but when you brood on them it’s like feeding and rewarding them so that they will come back again and form a pattern. When you alter repetitive thought patterns, you alter your attitude — it’s a physical process, and with it comes the ability to change the world in which you live. You’ll ac...