Part 1
Hanging onto a handful of anxious, worried thoughts to protect you from what they point to as a fearful moment to come, is like wrapping your arms around the anchor of a sinking ship because there's nothing left on deck for you to cling to as it goes down!
Part 2
No pattern has the power to change itself, any more than rearranging the spots on a leopard's coat would change the nature of how it hunts, as it stalks its prey in the deep jungle shadows.