According to Eckhart Tolle, too many people have derived their identity from their own problems and the challenges that they face.  However, when you raise your consciousness and your awareness you discover that problems do not exist in the "now." Problems may exist in your past, and their may some in your future, but when you simply focus on the now, problems don't exist.  As we become more mindful and increase our consciousness and awareness, we can spend more time in the now and get less carried away with reliving the past or being anxious about the future.

Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it. Anthony De Mello

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.  Abraham Maslow 

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them. Eckhart Tolle