Don't judge today's problems...

by what has happened before.  I have studied this.  The mind wants to protect us by going back to some previous trauma and matching it up with something happening now.  I can see how this might have worked in the cave man days for protection, but now, as far as I see it, it is much better to keep that stuff in the past and create more positive thoughts around problems.  We all know, by now, that our thoughts create our reality, so I say, surround your problems with light, realize that if you are making a similar problem, you can look and react another way.  Make a ripple, realize you have the power, see what happens.