Your brain doesn’t know what time it is. Every time you replay that conversation from last year, that mistake from last month, that moment you wish you could take back from yesterday, your brain treats it like it’s happening right now. Same stress chemicals. Same alarm bells. You’re not... remembering it. You’re reliving it, on a loop you built yourself. That's because of two things: your brain doesn't know the difference between what's really happening and what you're just imagining, and neuroplasticity means that your brain automates things that you think about and turns them into programs that it runs without you having to think about them next time. So, the more you rehearse something from the past or something you're just imagining, the more your brain builds out a reality as if that thing is still here right now. The ninth Commandment of self brain surgery is, "I must believe that what I'm doing I'm getting better at." That means if you're doing things with your mind that are making your brain better at living in the past or worrying about imaginary outcomes, you're getting better at feeling worse. So knock it off. Here’s the shift: you can’t edit the past, but you can stop rehearsing it. Every replay is a rehearsal, and your brain gets better at whatever you rehearse. Let's make neuroplasticity work for us and not against us. We call that self-brain surgery. It's not easy at first, it's hard and holy work. But remember, you get better at whatever you repeatedly do Philippians 3:13 says it like this: forget what lies behind and strain towards what lies ahead. Not denying it happened, but refusing to keep performing it. There's better stuff in the future, but not if you keep building a brain that lives in the past. Follow me to connect neuroscience and scripture every day. Save this for the next time your mind hits replay. Share it with someone stuck on a loop. Click the link in my bio to learn more about Self-Brain Surgery. #SelfBrainSurgery #Neurosurgery #FaithAndScience #BrainHealthshow more

Yes, it’s human nature to relive the past with all its hurts and joys. But I’m choosing joy, so I acknowledge the past, but I don’t live there. Living in gratitude and leaning into God’s help each day, I get better at choosing joy!! You create your reality!

Amen!

I struggle with this daily. I feel trapped. It’s so difficult to make it stop. I succeed momentarily, but 10 mins later I catch myself right back where I started.

Praying for you

Thank you for posting this. I needed to read this. Great passage in Phillipians too. I've made some awful mistakes in my life and have really beat myself up for years re-living and re-hashing the implication of those decisions.

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We are called in The Bible to capture every thought and take it captive. If it’s of God it will prove itself otherwise stop the negative loop. 🙏🏼 2 Cor 10:5 Have you read The Bait of Satan? Great book.

Yes, I love John Bevere.

✅✅✅💜thank you! This alone can shift souls to healing!

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This is so cool. Thank you! Jesus said remember Lot’s wife? Don’t look back! He also said those whose hands are on the plough and look back are not fit for the kingdom of God. What you are saying lines up. HalleluYah! 🙏🏼

Thank you.

Doc, these nessages are so encouraging. Thank you. Would you consider touching on OCD and agorahobia someday?

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Hey that’s my life verse Phil 3:13-14!

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This is very helpful

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Rumination is a tool of the enemy. God created our bodies to heal themselves! I hope to learn more about the brain and its full capacity. What a wonderfully creative God we serve.

I have complex trauma from violence in the home as a child. Trying to heal that inner child. Thank you! I'm working on this.🙏❤️❤️

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It’s ok to go into the past to grab what you need, but don’t linger there ❤️

Thank you for this. Truly. Thank you.

You're welcome

You keep hitting it out of the park.😊❤️🎯

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That’s incredible-but for me, it’s virtually impossible to not replay conversations and fears in my mind. It’s been this way since I was a boy and it has never ended. I’ll try to be mindful but it’s just my dna… not in my dna, I was once told that I “was” anxiety, not have it…

Tons of help for this on my YouTube channel

Outstanding!! Thanks for explaining what I’ve done in the past on some major things. I’m now working on the current one! ❤️👍🏻💪🏻

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Good stuff!

Anyone who doesn’t believe that child molestation harms the victims mind is wrong. It does. Face it.

No one would argue with that, in my opinion.

you are MOST definitely my most favorite brain surgeon!! This really hit me hard, Dr.! Thank you!

Thanks!

Agree- accident where I was burned due to “shoulder pillow exploding”. I knew I could not both keep notes and tell the story to sue manufacturer and keep myself sane

Thank you sir! I was on ssri drugs for 15 years and now all the hurtful words said to me in the past 15yrs and the waisted years have been torturing me. Horrible feelings of depression. I will memorize this scripture. Please pray for me

This is extremely helpful, what’s a good tool to use to stop the process of reliving a tragic loss. To redirect my thinking patterns.

And if you can consciously redirect this behavior in a dream, then you have integrated it. “ awaken from your dream and remain together”… scientifically the physiology of reality and imagery are different. The physiology of dreaming and reality is the same…(except for the muscle paralysis).

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“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2 ⬆️ Your video reminded me of this awesome verse! I needed to watch this!

Yes!

Thank you 🙏 thank you for bringing our attention to reading the bible 🙏

Excellent info. here! Thank you.

Enjoying these Doc!

Thank you sir, Just what I needed to hear this morning!

🙏🙏🙏 thank you, Heavenly Father, for putting this man on earth when myself and others so desperately need these teachings and encouragement.

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This is very insightful. Thank you very much!

Thank you

You are a wonderful man of God. Thank you for taking the pain of losing your son and using it for the good of others and for God's glory. Continued prayers for you and your family's healing. I delight in the fact that God is proving His purpose and plan for you through this. 🙌

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Love this. Thank you

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Soooo true

It is so true!

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Thank you