Puppet on a string.

Groundhog Day is a 1993 American comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, written by Ramis and Danny Rubin, based on a story by Rubin. It starred Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell.

Murray played Phil Connors, an egocentric Pittsburgh TV weatherman who, during a hated assignment covering the annual Groundhog Day event in Punxsutawney, finds himself repeating the same day over and over again. After indulging in hedonism and numerous suicide attempts, he begins to re-examine his life and priorities.

The Plot:
A self-centered and sour TV meteorologist Phil Connors, news producer Rita and cameraman Larry from a fictional Pittsburgh television station travel to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities with Punxsutawney Phil. Having grown tired of this assignment, Phil grudgingly gives his report and attempts to return to Pittsburgh when a blizzard shuts down the roads. Phil and his team are forced to return to Punxsutawney and stay in town overnight.

Phil wakes up to find that he is reliving February 2. The day plays out exactly as it did before, with no one else aware of the time loop, and only Phil aware of past events. At first he is confused, but, when the phenomenon continues on subsequent days, he decides to take advantage of the situation with no fear of long-term consequences: he learns secrets from the town's residents, seduces women, steals money, drives recklessly, and gets thrown in jail. However, his attempts to get closer to Rita repeatedly fail.

Eventually, Phil becomes despondent and tries more and more drastically to end the time loop; he gives ridiculous and offensive reports on the festival, abuses residents, and eventually kidnaps Punxsutawney Phil and, after a police chase, drives into a quarry, evidently killing both himself and the groundhog. However, Phil wakes up and finds that nothing has changed; further attempts at suicide are just as fruitless as he continues to find himself awaking at 6:00 A.M. on the morning of February 2 with the clock-radio on his bedstand playing ”I Got You, Babe” by Sonny & Cher.
When Phil explains the situation to Rita, she suggests that he should take advantage of it to improve himself. Inspired, Phil endeavours to try to learn more about Rita, building upon his knowledge of her and the town each day. He begins to use his by-now vast experience of the day to help as many people around town as possible. He uses the time to learn, among other things, to play piano, ice sculpt and speak French.

Eventually, Phil is able to befriend almost everyone he meets during the day, using his experiences to save lives, help townspeople, and to get closer to Rita. He crafts a report on the Groundhog Day celebration so eloquent that all the other stations turn their microphones to him. After the evening dance, Rita and Phil retire together to Phil's room. He wakes the next morning and finds the time loop is broken; it is now February 3 and Rita is still with him. After going outside, Phil talks about living in Punxsutawney with Rita.

We tend to relive the past, “If only …” and not let it go.

Prayer is a controlled waking dream. If we are to pray successfully, we must steady our attention to observe the world as it would be seen by us were our prayer answered. ~ Neville

Have you ever visualized your day the way you would have liked it to go? Do you wish you didn't do or say something? Do you wish you had worked on a project instead of channel hopping or internet surfing for hours and found nothing interesting? Just review your whole day and replay areas of your day the way you wish they were. Make it a reality in your imagination. Even if you got negative news, replay it in your imagination in a positive light. Reality is created first, in your imagination.

Even if events happen, you can take away the hurt by visualizing a positive outcome. Say you had an argument with someone at work. You can visualize the experience, as having gone on without any confrontation at all. The funny thing is that your visualization may affect the other person on a subconscious level. We are all interconnected spiritually. “Mind affects mind” as P.P. Quimby would say. If you send out positive thoughts, then expect only good things. You don't have to react to circumstances -- you can create them instead.

All your affairs, as you now look at them, represent your former way of thinking. They are held together by the glue of your former ideas. Now if you withdraw that glue, what can you expect, but that your affairs will all fall to pieces to let new affairs, representing your new way of thinking establish themselves. --Emma Curtis Hopkins

If you visualize bad things, then what will come back to you? Your thoughts are very powerful -- you must be careful with them. “Thoughts are things”. Watch how you speak to yourself, your inner dialogue. You are what you think.

Visualization is equivalent to programming a computer, except you are programming your own mind.
Think of a puppet on a string. It doesn’t move, lift an arm or leg until someone pulls the string. And you, dear reader, are that puppet. Your mind controls the strings and you act and feel accordingly.

Another thing you can do is to revise past events that are still bothering you. They could have been from years back. However, any guilt or anger from a past event can hold your progress back in your current life. You have to forgive to be able to move on in life. Anger and feelings of guilt9emotions), attract discord. Rather than being argumentative or to be pessimistic be an optimist instead. You attract into your life what you imagine and what you BELIEVE you are.
Neville gave beautiful examples of visualization:
http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/08/prayer-is-act-of-imaginative-love.html
http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/08/awakened-imagination.html

In NLP[1] you would:
• Close your eyes and imagine that you are sitting in a movie theatre viewing a large screen with a still black and white snapshot of yourself doing something emotionally neutral. • See yourself leaving your body and floating or walking up to the theatre projection booth until you are safely behind the glass where, in a very detached manner, you can view yourself sitting at a distance in the audience looking up at the picture of yourself on the movie screen. • Stay in the projection booth running the black and white movie of yourself proceeding through the days events just as they actually happened. Run the movie from beginning to end while watching yourself in the audience looking up at the movie of yourself fully engrossed in the events. Replay the movie, change the events, change the people and voices ( make them cartoonish), and continue over and over.

House of Cards (1993), starring Kathleen Turner, Tommy Lee Jones and Asha Menina was a great film about entering another persons world.

When her husband is killed in a fall at an archaeological dig, the mothers daughter handles her father's death in a very odd manner. As her condition worsens, the mother takes her to see an expert in childhood autism. The doctor attempts to bring the daughter out of her mental disarray through traditional therapy methods, but the mother takes a different route. She attempts to enter her daughter's mind and make sense of the seemingly bizarre things that she does, including building a wondrous house of cards.

[1]
http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/08/positive-intentions.html
http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2009/02/get-life-you-want.html