Dr. Lee Warren
@brainmindlife • 25,374 subscribers
Neurosurgeon, New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery, Iraq War vet, host of The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast
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I'm a brain surgeon, and I'm gonna show you how to operate your brain the way it's designed, to help you heal. Let's scrub in and get it done. (Remember- I'm not a therapist, and this is not mental health advice. I'm sharing what I've learned after overcoming PTSD from the Iraq War and the pain of losing a child. Talk to a professional provider if you're struggling) Forgiveness Is Brain Surgery, Not Sentiment Forgiveness gets sold as a nice feeling you’re supposed to have. It’s not a feeling. It’s a decision that performs actual surgery on the neural pathway connecting you to the person who hurt you, releasing you from carrying their offense in your own body. Neuroscience nugget: Chronic resentment keeps the body’s threat-response system activated: elevated cortisol, disrupted sleep, and impaired prefrontal function. But studies on forgiveness interventions show reduced physiological stress markers when people practice it. Self-Brain Surgery Procedure: Say the sentence out loud, even if you don’t feel it yet: “I choose to forgive ___ for ___. I release this from my body.” Feelings follow decisions. Don’t wait to feel forgiving before you decide to forgive. (Note: Forgiveness DOES NOT mean reconciliation or that you stay in a dangerous or harmful situation. It's something you do in your mind and heart) Scripture: “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.” Ephesians 4:32, NIV This is self-brain surgery. It's hard and holy work, and I'm proud of you for showing up. Follow me to connect neuroscience and scripture every day. Save this to help when you need to heal. Share it with a friend who's hurting. Click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times bestseller, The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery. #selfbrainsurgery #neuroscience #neuroplasticity #grief #healing
Dr. Lee Warren19,401 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
Overwhelming thoughts You feel panic or uncertainty when faced with an overwhelming thought, a painful emotion, or a trigger from your past. Doubts flood your mind: I don’t know how to handle this. What if I mess it up? What if it’s already too late to change this part of my life? This is just who I am. Why should I try to change now? Maybe I’m not strong enough. But here’s the truth: You’re ready. You are well trained, equipped with everything you need, and mentally prepared for what’s going to happen when you start operating. Equally important is what will happen if you don’t operate: Things will stay the same or get worse because the default process is also a type of self–brain surgery. The sad truth is that default leads to decline and that choosing not to change is choosing to stay the same. You see, neuroplasticity works all the time in your brain, and response to every thought you have, whether you take charge of the process or not. So when those automatic and negative thoughts pop into your head, and you accept them without critically, examining them or challenging them to replace them with something more true, your brain wires them in as if they are true. The bottom line? You're either getting better at staying the same/getting worse, or you're getting better at getting better. Self-brain surgeons get better at getting better. The ninth Commandment of self-brain surgery is this: I must believe that I'm getting better at what I'm doing. II Timothy 1:7 says God did not give you a spirit of fear, but of power, of love, and of a sound mind. II Peter 1:3 sad that his divine power has given you everything you need for your life. So what's going to have the final say for you? Your automatic thoughts that research suggests are almost always wrong? Or scripture, which never changes and reflects the timeless truth of God's plan for you and is being validated every day by 21st-century neuroscience findings. Let's get better at getting better together. Hit that follow button, save this for later when you need to remember something true, and share it with a friend who needs to believe that they really can get better. And click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times best seller, The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery. #neuroscience #selfbrainsurgery #neurosurgeon #mentalhealth
Dr. Lee Warren17,590 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
Defined or Refined? When you face difficulty, insurmountable obstacles, great loss, or other massive things, it forces a choice: Will you be defined by this? Or will you be refined by this? When we lost our son in 2013, Lisa and I quickly realized that this loss could easily become the thing that our family was about for the rest of our lives. We've seen it in our practice, when someone goes through something hard and everything about their entire life. After that revolves around the loss, the pain from the past, the wound that they've suffered. But we've seen other people that, after they appropriately grieved, somehow found purpose against the pain. Somehow overtime seemed to develop a quality about their lives that was informed by the tragedy that made them stronger, more resilient, and able to help people because of what they've gone through. This redemption of pain and turning it into purpose seems to me to be what God is promising in Isaiah 48:10 . "I have refined you, but not as silver is refined. Rather, I have refined you in the furnace of suffering." The furnace is not pleasant. But loss, trauma, and adversity are GOING TO PUT YOU IN THE FIRE. So, since you cannot avoid being in the fire, the only choice you have is what the fire does to you. Defined, or refined. That choice made all the difference for us. Save this for the next time the furnace forces you to make a choice. And share it with a friend who's in the fire. Follow me for daily connections between neuroscience and faith that will help you flourish in your life, even when you're in a season of suffering. And click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times, best seller, The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery. #neuroscience #selfbrainsurgery #pain #trauma
Dr. Lee Warren14,537 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
I'm a brain surgeon, and I'm gonna show you how to operate your brain the way it's designed, to help you heal the wounds you’ve been carrying; the ones from childhood, from broken relationships, from things said that can’t be unsaid, and from things done that can’t be undone. This is part four, make sure you watch then other ones also. Let's scrub in and get it done. (This isn't mental health advice. I'm sharing what I learned that helped me heal after PTSD from the Iraq War and losing a child. Talk to your provider if this seems scary if if you're struggling to heal) You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Feel Avoiding a wound doesn’t make it go away, it just makes it run the show from underground. Numbing, distracting, and denying all keep the wound exactly where it is: open, but hidden. (Not to mention violating our 6th commandment of SBS- “I must love tomorrow more than I hate how I feel right now.”) Neuroscience nugget: Suppressing an emotion doesn’t reduce the underlying physiological stress response, it just masks it while the body still carries the elevated cortisol and vigilance of unresolved threat. Self-Brain Surgery Procedure: Set a timer for two minutes. Let yourself actually feel the wound (the sadness, the anger, the grief) without acting on it or arguing with it. When the timer goes off, close it deliberately: “I have felt this. Now I choose what to do next.” Scripture: “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” Matthew 5:4, NIV This is self-brain surgery. It's hard and holy work, and I'm proud of you. Follow me to connect neuroscience and scripture every day. Save this to help when you need to heal. Share it with a friend who's hurting. Click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times Bestseller, The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery.
Dr. Lee Warren16,318 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
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