A Packet of Hope for Pre-Hab

Good morning my friend, I hope you're doing well. Dr. Lee Warren here with Cell Brain Surgery School.

I just want to give you, it's Sunday, I don't normally record on Sundays, I try to give

you a day off, but I got a packet of emails from MyBridge Radio.

Shout out to Gordon and Jill and Carolyn and the whole team over at MyBridge Radio.

If you're looking for some great prehab, we talk about the treatment plan for how you

we can overcome trauma, tragedy, and other massive things.

And one part of the treatment plan is having some good prehab,

some things that are in your heart

that pop up and remind you when things get difficult who God is, who you are,

and some decisions that you've made, that you're not in this alone,

that other people have been through hard things before.

Those prehab points really help. And one thing that I use is great music and scripture

and insightful comments from other people.

And MyBridgeRadio, if you want a 24-7 way to pack some prehab into your heart to prepare,

give you some resilience when you're going through something hard, MyBridgeRadio.net, MyBridgeRadio.net.

Shout out to our friend, Dr. Carolyn Sorenson, who a couple of years ago now hooked us up with MyBridge

and introduced us to the players there and said, hey, I think Dr. Warren's message might be

a good interview for y'all.

And then she said to me, hey, I think you might consider creating some content for MyBridge

and giving some people encouragement.

And I've heard from so many listeners who heard the couple of interviews that I've done

with Stan and the whole team over there now. And then I've done these insight spots for them.

I've played a few of them for you before, but in the past four months,

as we got up to the release of my book, Hope is the First Dose,

MyBridge was incredibly gracious to do four more insight spots for me.

They just gave you a little taste of what the treatment plan looked like and how to use self-brain surgery

to find your hope again when life gets hard.

So I thought this morning, in lieu of a full-length episode.

I would just put those four recent spots together for you back to back, and then at the end of that,

I'm gonna give you one worship song.

This is just good prehab for you, okay?

One worship song from my friend Tommy Walker, and that'll be it for today.

I hope you're worshiping with your people, having some Sabbath, some downtime,

recreating yourself and being ready for whatever God has in store for you next week.

These four spots will help you kind of get your head on straight,

It might be a good place just to put them all in one spot for you to come back to again and again

when you need a little quick dose of prehab or even self-brain surgery, even rehab,

if you're going through the massive thing.

Remember, friend, life is hard, but life is also beautiful.

But you can't change your life until you change your mind and I just have one question for you today,

Hey, are you ready to change your life? If the answer is yes, there's only one rule you have to change your mind first and my friend,

There's a place where the neuroscience of how your mind works smashes together with faith and everything starts to make sense

Are you ready to change your life? Well, this is the place self-brain surgery school. I'm, dr

and this is where we go deep into how we're wired.

Take control of our thinking and find real hope.

This is where we learn to become healthier, feel better, and be happier.

This is where we leave the past behind and transform our minds.

This is where we start today. Are you ready?

This is your podcast. This is your place. This is your time, my friend.

Let's get after it.

Music.

This is Dr. Lee Warren, neurosurgeon, podcaster, and author of Hope is the First Dose on My

Bridge Radio, helping keep you connected.

All of us go through hard things in life, the massive things that hurt and leave us

questioning our faith.

Jesus told us this plainly in John 16, 33 when he said, in this world you will have trouble.

However, he also promised in John 10.10 that he came here so that we could have abundant lives.

When we face such challenges, it can feel impossible to square up those two things Jesus

said and to find our way forward.

Just as my patients need me to give them a plan for the surgery that can help them be

well again, we all need a treatment plan to rediscover the light after life plunges us into darkness.

Thankfully, the Bible makes it clear that there is a treatment plan, and it involves

is learning to transform our minds to frame our circumstances properly,

swap out harmful and negative thinking for the solid ground of God's promises,

and learn to lean into adversity as an inevitable part of this brief portion

of our eternal lives.

But the treatment plan is unavailable to us unless we are willing to reach for it when life hurts.

Our great physician holds it in his hands, but it requires one thing on our part.

We must have hope in his plan and his ability to doctor us through the pain,

because without hope, we will lack the drive to receive the help we all so desperately need.

There is a treatment plan, my friend, and hope is the first dose.

I'm Dr. Lee Warren, and my new book is Hope is the First Dose.

Remember, friend, you can't change your life until you change your mind.

The good news is you can start today.

This is Dr. Lee Warren, neurosurgeon, podcaster, and author of Hope is the First Dose on MyBridge Radio,

helping keep you connected.

When I tell a patient that they need surgery for their back pain or some other problem,

I send them to the physical therapist first for what we call prehab to help them get stronger

so that they'll be able to handle the stress of surgery better and heal more quickly.

Just as we all must go to the doctor sometimes to deal with things that happen to our bodies,

All of us face emotional traumas, tragedies, and other massive things in life too.

Jesus promised us this in John 16, 33, when he said that this world would sometimes bring us trouble.

Since we know that, it's smart to put ourselves through a prehab process for these types of pains also.

Grief and other emotional wounds press us down and threaten to change the shape of our lives.

But the Bible gives us the secret to learning to find hope again.

Romans 12 too says, we don't have to let the world's troubles conform us to their shape.

Rather, we can let God transform us by renewing our minds and learning to see

how he keeps his promises, even when life hurts.

Prehab is the practice of keeping our minds full of things that turn our eyes from the pain and onto the healer.

Like the praise music you hear on my bridge and things that are always true,

like God's vow to be with us when we're brokenhearted, to reunite us with those who have gone before

and to wipe away all our tears.

We learn CPR and how to change flat tires so we'll be ready for those situations when they arise.

Doesn't it make sense to prehab our hearts for the emotional traumas we all face too?

Having a plan in place will increase your resilience and help you hold onto hope no matter what you're facing.

I'm Dr. Lee Warren. Remember friend, you can't change your life until you change your mind.

And the good news is you can start today.

This is Dr. Lee Warren, neurosurgeon, podcaster, and author of Hope is the First Dose on MyBridge Radio,

helping keep you connected.

The Bible says we're fearfully and wonderfully made, and it's true.

Your brain contains almost a trillion cells that are connected through trillions of synapses

to create you, your mind, memory, personality, everything.

And of all the creatures on earth, humans are the only ones with the incredible gift,

of selective attention. That's the ability God gave you to decide what you're going to think about

and how you're going to respond to it.

But the brain is hardwired for negative thinking, which helps us avoid harmful things

like touching a hot stove more automatically.

The problem is that negative bias can creep into all our thoughts and feelings

if we're not careful, especially when life brings us trauma, tragedy,

and other massive things.

These difficult times tend to automate the negative thoughts and can make us feel hopeless,

and afraid it will never get better.

But it's amazing that of every living thing God created, we're the only ones who can decide

to separate our circumstances from how we feel.

And our neurochemistry, our mood, our emotional state will reliably improve when we make the conscious choice

to direct our thoughts more positively.

Of course, the Bible told us this a long time ago. Paul in Philippians 4 gives eight things to think about,

to reduce anxiety and change our own minds when life is hard.

This, my friend, is self-brain surgery, and you can do it whenever and wherever you are.

It's part of the treatment plan to help us find hope again, even when you're hurting.

Self-brain surgery to think about your thinking is a superpower that will help everything feel better.

I'm Dr. Lee Warren.

Remember, friend, you can't change your life until you change your mind.

The good news is you can start today.

This is Dr. Lee Warren, neurosurgeon, podcaster, and author of Hope is the First Dose on MyBridge

Radio, helping keep you connected. When you're going through a hard season in your life,

whether in relationships, work, finances, emotions, your health, spiritually, or anything,

else, it's so easy to believe that your circumstances control your emotional state.

That can make you believe that what's happening to you will define how you always feel. But the,

The truth is, hopelessness can only grow if you give in and stop moving forward.

The writer Eugene Peterson once said, Hope commits us to actions that connect with God's promises.

I say it like this, hope is a verb, an action word, and its component parts are memory and movement.

We remember other times when it felt like we wouldn't make it, and that somehow God

showed up and got us through anyway.

And then we just move a little. We start walking forward, taking actions to nudge our brains and our spirits a little

closer to believing that God will get us through this time too.

When our hearts are hurting, we need the great physician.

His treatment plan has everything we need to help us press on in faith, tell a better

story with our lives, and hold on to his promises.

But of all the ways Jesus doctors us, hope is the first dose.

Hope is a verb. Remember what God's always done and that he promises us he won't ever stop and move toward,

that promise. That's self-brain surgery my friend and it's the best cure for.

Hopelessness. I'm Dr. Lee Warren. Remember friend, you can't change your life until

you change your mind. The good news is you can start today.

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Hey, thanks for listening. The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is brought to you

by my brand new book, Hope is the First Dose.

It's a treatment plan for recovering from trauma, tragedy, and other massive things.

It's available everywhere books are sold, and I narrated the audio books.

Hey, the theme music for the show is Get Up by my friend Tommy Walker,

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I'm Dr. Lee Warren, and I'll talk to you soon. Remember, friend, you can't change your life,

until you change your mind, And the good news is you can start today.

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