I am having heart surgery in the morning.
Please pray for God to bless the surgeon and nurses as I am in His hands.
Hopefully it will be 4 hours or less in surgery.
Thank you all.
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.
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Neuroscientists documented something strange: people who become "unnaturally intelligent", they run 5 daily protocols that restructure the brain. Most look too weird to take seriously.
1. Reverse Learning
Read the last chapter of every book first. Your brain calls this a "mystery gap", it switches into active reconstruction mode, firing more neural connections. This is how prodigies read. From the answer backward.
2. Theta State Immersion
Also called Sensory deprivation thinking
20 minutes daily in complete darkness with earplugs. Within 8-12 minutes, brainwaves drop into theta, the state Einstein called "combinatory play." Breakthroughs appear from nowhere. Not because you thought harder because you stopped blocking the signal.
3. Neural Cross-Wiring/Pattern interruption - Write with your non-dominant hand 10 minutes daily. Neuroscience calls this "contralateral activation." You force new pathways unused since infancy. Result: dominant thinking sharpens, you've broken the loop you were trapped in.
4. Cross-Domain Collision/Strategic Confusion.
Study something unrelated to your field weekly. Medieval poetry Monday. Quantum physics Wednesday. The brain begins "conceptual bridging" — connecting impossible dots into insights no specialist sees. This is how every genius thought. Not deeper. Wider.
5. Cognitive Inversion/Argument reversal
Defend the opposite of what you believe 15 minutes daily. Out loud. You're building "steel-manning" holding two opposing truths without collapsing. Your original position becomes unshakeable because you've seen every angle used to attack it.
Here's what no one tells you: intelligence isn't fixed. It's a frequency your nervous system tunes into or blocks. Most block it with the same 3 mental loops on repeat. Break the loops, and the intelligence was always there waiting.
The truly awake aren't smarter. They've stopped interfering with the signal.
She was pregnant every two years for twenty years. Ten children all lived to adulthood. Poor family, husband was a construction worker most of his life. Refused welfare. Hunted. We ate it all from deer to groundhog. But we never starved. She held it all together. Canned hundreds of bottles of veggies and fruit every year to get by. Fed us and ate less herself. Never learned to drive. Died five months before her 70th birthday. She was a saint. This is a tribute to you mom. You made us both literally and figuratively. The world is worse without you.
If demons are real, how does an ordinary person actually fight them? @cardinalrlburke warns that demonic activity is on the rise, that "Satan is never happier than when we think he's not around," and that anyone who tries to battle the devil on their own will be defeated. He breaks down the spiritual weapons the Church gives every believer, from invoking St. Michael the Archangel to the sacraments and the Rosary, and walks through exactly how to pray the Rosary for anyone who's never prayed it in their life.
@ShawnRyan762@cardinalrlburke confession weekly my friend… stay close to the church… and know that they are on a leash and God uses them to grow in holiness. You will be a St Paul —-leading many to Christ and proclaiming the good news.
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 two, make sure you watch part one also. Let's scrub in and get it done.
Unhealed Wounds Get Rehearsed, Not Just Remembered
Every time you replay a painful memory in anger or self-pity instead of truth, you’re not just remembering it, you’re practicing it. And practice strengthens whatever pathway you’re using.
Neuroscience nugget: Neurons that fire together wire together. Rehearsing a wound with bitterness deepens the very neural pathway that keeps the pain alive, making the hurt easier to access and harder to escape. Don’t violate the 1st commandment of self-brain surgery (No self-malpractice) by letting neuroplasticity work against you.
Remember the 9th commandment of self-brain surgery (”What I’m doing, I’m getting better at”), and rehearse the healing rather than the hurt.
Self-Brain Surgery Procedure:
Catch yourself the next time you start replaying an old hurt for the hundredth time. Stop mid-rehearsal and say, “I will not practice this pain today.”
Replace it with one true, hopeful thought and hold that instead.
Scripture: “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable... think about such things.” Philippians 4:8, NIV
This is self-brain surgery. Hard and holy work.
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 Self-Brain Surgery.
Note: this is not medical or mental health advice. See your provider if you're having trouble.
Prayer, gratitude, and purpose activate the same brain networks that therapy and cognitive training target: the dorsal anterior cingulate and prefrontal areas that calm emotion and drive adaptive behavior.
Faith doesn’t replace science; it fuels it.
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Today, I’m going to give you ten years of therapy in two minutes.
I'm a brain surgeon, and I'm gonna show you how to make rapid progress in healing 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. Let's scrub in and get it done.
Here's a Fact: Your Wound Lives in Your Brain, But Your Healing Lives in Your Mind
When something hurts you, your brain stores it. The sights, the sounds, the sting of the words, the shape of the moment. That storage is real and physical.
But here’s where the hope of healing lies: your brain doesn’t get the final vote on what that memory means to you. Your mind does. And your mind is not the same thing as your brain.
Neuroscience nugget: Emotional memories get encoded in circuits involving the amygdala and hippocampus, but each time you recall a memory, it becomes temporarily unstable and gets rewritten via a process called reconsolidation. That means every time you revisit a wound, you have a fresh chance to change how it’s stored.
Self-Brain Surgery Procedure: The next time an old wound surfaces, don’t just relive it. Instead, reframe it while it’s “open.” Ask: What is the truest, most redemptive way to understand this moment now? Speak that new understanding out loud before you let the memory close back up.
Scripture: “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” Psalm 147:3, NIV
This is self-brain surgery. Hard and holy work.
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 The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery, my NYT bestselling book.
#selfbrainsurgery #neuroscience #neuroplasticity #grief #healing
BREAKING: Another Princeton philosopher has announced his conversion to Catholicism as a result of studying miracles.
Noah McKay joins Joe Schmid as the second philosopher to convert at the prestigious university.