You can, indeed! It can be difficult to form new habits, which is quite similar to (and correlates with) how your brain is being rewired. However, there are some actions you may do to start rewiring responses that appear to be deeply ingrained in the brain. For instance: 1. Decide which behavior, thinking pattern, habit, or reaction you wish to modify. 2. Become conscious of it when it has you in its hold (when you feel yourself helplessly reverting to previous thinking, emotion, or behavior patterns), and 3. Break the cycle by acting in ways that are noticeably different. 4. Continue the process. Repeating something over and over again is necessary to rewire old, recalcitrant neural pathways that we might be encouraging for years or perhaps our whole lives.