While my T and I agree that to dwell in the past is NOT a good thing, nor is projecting myself into the future. I am here in the present. Now, when I'm working on an issue here in the present, and I can't seem to find the result I want, it does help to review some of the past to see where I may have learned a response to this type of problem (and possibly made it into a bad habit?)

Many ppl also think things about themselves, like they will never be able to change something, that aren't their own thoughts at all. Instead, they are opinions from others in their past, who made some offhanded comment or even constantly mentally beat it into them. Reviewing past events for this reason is good too, imo.