karmic lessons

How to break a painful cycle and create new ways for a new cycle to start ?

Every time an old cycle comes up again in my life, my ego starts panicking and instantly reminds me all the emotions I felt every time this cycle was on in my life. What I felt, what I thought, what I believe will happen, and what I chose to do to survive it. So my ego is trying to rule the way I handle what is being presented in my life, based on what it did to survive it the last time.