When you face stress today, do not fall back on old reactions, it's never worked, change your perspective.
You may face some stress in your life today and you will find that old reactions will appear in you and old words and phrases will repeat in your mind. These are things from your past and they do not apply to you anymore. It's time to realise that these reactions did not work for you before and they wont work for you now. Change your perspective on life.