Neurosurgeon: How to stop living in the Past

I'm a brain surgeon. Give me a couple of minutes and I'll tell you why it feels like you're stuck in the past. 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 something that's really happening and something you're just imagining or remembering. Neuroplasticity means your brain automates structurally changes in response to things that you think about and turns them into patterns, programs without you having to think about them much next time. So the more you rehearse your past, something you're imagining, the more likely you are to automate that. That's because of two things. Your brain doesn't know the difference that's happening and something you're just imagining or remembering. Neuroplasticity means your brain automates structurally changes in response to things that you think about and turns them into patterns, programs without you having to think about them much next time. So the more you rehearse your past, something you're imagining, the more likely you are to automate that. Your physiology will organize it and it'll become part of who you are. The ninth commandment of self brain surgery must I believe that what I'm doing, I'm getting better at. That things you're doing with your mind, brain living past about imagining things you can't control, better feeling. So knock it off. You can't edit the past, but my friend, you can stop rehearsing it. You can stop building a brain that keeps you living in it, replay rehearsal, brain at rehearse. So let neuroplasticity us against. We brain surgery. It's not easy at first, hard work, but remember, you get better, you do. Philippians 3:13 in the Bible says it this way: Forget what lies behind, strain towards what lies ahead, not what happened, refusing to keep reliving and performing it. There's future, not a brain that lives past about imagining things, control, better feeling. So knock it off. You can't edit the past, but my friend, you can stop rehearsing it. You can stop building a brain that keeps you living in it, replay rehearsal, brain at rehearse. So let neuroplasticity us against. We brain surgery. It's not easy at first, hard work, but remember, you get better, you do. Philippians 3:13 in the Bible says it this way: Forget what lies behind, strain towards what lies ahead, not what happened, refusing to keep reliving and performing it. There's future, not a brain that lives past. Dr. Lee Warren, your surgeon. Follow. Build that oriented future that God wants for you. Get after it and we'll get better together. God bless you.