All-In: Fear is a Liar, but Doubt Can be Helpful

Good morning my friend, I hope you're doing well. It is August the 10th, believe it or not, 10th August 2023 and we are one third of the

way through all in August.

I hope things are going well for you and I'm excited to announce if you're in the central

Nebraska area we're having a book signing at the Great Plains Health gift shop.

It's called the Gift Box and the great folks over there are having a book signing today

from noon at Central Time, of course, we're right on the border of Central and Mountain Time.

So Central Time, noon to 2 p.m. today, we'll be there with the wonderful folks from the.

Gift box at Great Plains Health. Come by and grab your copy of Hope is the First Dose.

And today I'm going to give you an episode that we did last fall and August called basically

a self-brain surgery tip on how to handle doubt.

It turns out that doubt is not the problem. You know, if you've read my book, I've seen the interview, you'll recognize that dealing

with doubt is not a bad thing.

Doubt can sometimes trick us into thinking that we're not doing well, and it can push us towards fear.

Now, fear is a liar. Fear is always your enemy, but doubt can lead you towards the questions you need to really

be asking, which can then help you land on faith.

So doubt is not a bad thing. So this is a short episode today about how to handle doubt, how to avoid fear, and how

to land on faith.

We've got music from Zach Williams, his amazing song Fear is a Liar in there.

But I just wanted to give you one little compassionate thought.

I've been out on the prayer wall a lot lately, and there's some pain out there.

There's some people going through really hard things, people who have been through hard

things, people who are struggling with relatives who have glioblastoma or other major health issues.

And there's people who have been through major traumas and abuse, and they're going through

relationship issues. And I just want to remind you that when your brain is experiencing hard things.

There's several things that you need to do to get through it.

If you want to go all in and make your brain behave and learn how to change your

mind so you can change your life. The first thing is be kind to yourself.

Understand you need to be trauma informed towards yourself. Don't ask what's wrong with me.

Don't say, why can't I figure this out? Why am I unable to handle this?

What's the matter with me? Don't say that.

Say, what happened to me? Be informative and inquisitive towards yourself and understand what you've been through and

what you're going through.

That will set you on the path to trying to solve the problem instead of just beating

yourself up over the problem or falling into despair over the problem.

And when your brain is under great stress, you don't make decisions as well as you normally

do and you don't process things as easily as you do. So be patient with yourself.

I say this to people with traumatic brain injuries all the time.

Be patient with yourself.

Give yourself some space to heal. Understand that it's going to take a little bit longer to get things squared away in your

head and that's how you start to change your minds, to be patient with yourself.

Love your brain. Understand that your brain and your heart and your mind have been injured here.

Even if it's not a physical injury, you didn't get hit in the head with a bat, you got hit

in the heart with losing someone that you loved and that's still that grief, that pain,

trauma that whatever you're going through is an injury that you're having

to process in addition to having to try to navigate your own life. So be patient

with yourself, love your brain, understand there's an injury, there's a traumatic

experience here, but don't be victimized by it. Be active in your own recovery.

Remember the tenets of self brain surgery. The first one is first no harm.

Just like when we go to medical school, we take this oath. First no harm, primum

non nocere. And as I say in the book, Marcus Green taught me this amazing lesson, relentlessly refuse to participate in your own demise.

We do that through the Romans 12 to magic of not being transformed,

not being conformed to what the world wants us to think and feel and how the

world wants us to behave, but to be transformed by the renewing of our mind.

And we do that through the power of the self brain surgery biopsy.

That's second Corinthians 10, five take captive every thought and bring it into submission.

Don't let your thoughts push you around because feelings aren't facts and not

every thought you have are true,

and transform your life, change your mind, and change your life, and remember that healing takes hope,

and hope takes action.

Healing takes hope and hope takes action and hope is always achievable through the dual,

components of memory and movement you remember This isn't the first time you or other people have been through hard things and it won't be the last time and God has been faithful

In the past and it's just time to get after it and move forward and that my friend is why I always say,

Let's get after it and let's start today. Those are the those are the things so that's what you need to do with yourself

If you're ready to go all in and finally get this thing under control and move forward in your life,

And some of you are dealing with the very fresh massive thing the very fresh,

It just happened. You're right in the throes of it and yesterday. I had one of the most incredible conversations

I've ever had with Erwin Raphael McManus Erwin McManus is an author a pastor,

He calls himself a mind architect this guy Coaches CEOs and world-class athletes and he's spoken in over 70 countries to millions of people his books have sold over a million copies

He's he is just an unbelievable guy and I told you about him last year,

we read his book the genius of Jesus still just one of those books that bends my mind and,

His new book coming out is all in our alley it's in our lane about cognitive neuroscience and neuroplasticity and all these things except he just handles it from the.

The the lane of a pastor doesn't get into all the brain science He gets into here's what you do to change your mind and change your life

It's coming in October and I'm gonna release the full episode right before the book comes out

But I want to share with you as we were finishing up I said Erwin as a pastor as a mind architect as somebody who knows how to help people get their thinking under control,

Somebody listening has gone through or is going through the most massive thing they've ever been through in their life

What do you have to say for them?

I'm gonna leave you with this thought from Erwin McManus Then we're going to get into the episode about how to deal with doubt and land on faith and remember that fear is a liar

And I'm going to be back with a full-length brand new episode for you tomorrow.

Lisa and I are praying for you. If you have a chance to swing by the bookstore today at the

Great Plains Health gift shop, come by 10 to, I'm sorry, noon to 2 central time and meet us,

shake our hand, take a picture, sign the book and get after it because you can't change your life

until you change your mind. Here's Erwin McManus to tell us how to get it done. So somebody that's

listening to the show today has just gotten that news like you did, has just gone through the

hardest thing they've ever going to go through. They've lost a child, they've gotten a bad

diagnosis. What does Irwin McManus say they ought to do next? Whenever you've

gotten bad news, one, I hope you have people in your life that you can share

the weight of that pain or that burden or that disappointment, which I do.

I've been married for 40 years and I have two kids that are 35 and 31.

They've become my best friends, not just my children. I have a community of

friends and people in my life that if I call them, they show up.

Yeah. And I actually think people who have sustained success make relationships their.

Highest value because relationships are really the most important commodity for true wealth. And,

but if you lack that in your life,

one of the things I would do is I would step back and realize that no matter what

you're facing, it's not your whole story.

It's not, as learned optimism says, the failure isn't permanent, it's not personal,

and it's not pervasive. And I think Zeligman talks about that.

And so I step back and always look at everything good in my life.

I step back and look at things that I'm really grateful for.

I step back and make sure the environment from which I'm absorbing this pain is gratitude,

because what I've discovered is that gratitude is far more powerful than disappointment.

And when I am thin on gratitude, the smallest difficulty or tragedy or hardship brings me down.

And when I'm rich in gratitude, I'm incredibly resilient and I can face pretty much anything in the world.

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.

That place is called self-brain surgery. You can learn it, and it will help you become healthier,

feel better, and be happier.

And the good news is, you can start today.

Thanks, Lisa. Hey, so glad to have you listening today. I'm Dr. Lee Warren, and I live in Nebraska

in the United States of America with my incredible wife, Lisa,

my father-in-law, Tata, and the super pups, Harvey and Louis.

I'm a neurosurgeon and an author, and I'm here to help you harness neuroscience,

the power of your brain, faith, the power of your spirit, and good old common sense to help you lead a healthier,

better, happier life.

Listen, friend, you can't change your life until you change your mind,

and I'm here to help you learn the art of self-brain surgery to get it done.

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I'm Dr. Lee Warren, and I'm here to help you change your mind so you can change your life. Let's get after it.

Good morning, my friend. 345. I hope you're doing amazing. I got self brain surgery tip number eight for you today. Self brain surgery tip number eight,

Doubt is not a symptom of faithlessness. It says doubt says I don't know. It's a fork in the road.

If you let doubt morph into fear says no feel fear will say you can't do this. You're never gonna be okay

God's not with you. You're not good enough. You're not strong enough. You're not smart enough. You're not pretty enough

enough. Fear will tell you no. Doubt says, I'm not sure. I'm not sure I can get this

done. I'm not sure it's going to be okay. But if you let doubt become faith, if you

push it towards faith says, yes, God loves you. Yes, God cares about you. Yes, you can

do this. Yes, God is with you. Yes, you're strong enough. Yes, you're smart enough. Yes,

you're good enough. Doubt isn't weakness. It's an opportunity to trust in the yes. Romans

Number 18, says against all hope, Abraham in hope believed.

So faith lives in the gap between against and hope.

That's where doubt starts. Doubt can become faith if you find that gap

and thread the needle and let doubt morph into faith.

But if doubt morphs into fear, then you're losing because fear is a liar.

We're gonna play a song in a minute by Zach Williams called Fear is a Liar, and it is, it's a liar.

Self-brain surgery tip number eight, doubt is not a symptom of faithlessness.

It says, I don't know, it's a fork in the road.

Fear says no, faith says yes.

Doubt isn't weakness, it's an opportunity to trust in the yes, Romans 4.18.

Friend that's self-brain surgery.

Tonight I'm going to speak to a high school football team and this is what I'm going to tell them.

It's okay to doubt when you're lining up against the guy crossing you if he's bigger than you

or he looks stronger than you.

It's okay for you. It's normal. neurochemical for your brain to say I'm not sure I can beat this guy. If you let,

that thought morph into paralyzing doubt.

Then you're going to get run over. I can't beat this guy. I'm not good enough.

This snap's going to happen. He's going to take you out. You're going to be on the ground.

He's going to score the touchdown, right, or sack your quarterback.

But if you say, hey, I'm not sure I can beat this guy. He's bigger than me.

He's faster than me. And then you use your brain, your frontal lobe, and your spirit to say, wait a minute.

He might be bigger than me, but I can get a better angle on him.

He might be bigger than me, but I've seen the tape. I know what he does here.

I'm going to make a good move and get around this guy, right?

You can think your way and believe your way to victory, even when doubt is making you wonder.

Let faith fill that gap between against and hope. That's where faith lives, okay?

Friend, I'm gonna play this song by Zach Williams. I know you're dealing with something today.

There's something that's gonna make you doubt.

Can you handle no-slip November? Can you make it? Can you overcome this problem?

Can you recover? Can you restore the relationship? Can you find your way back to God?

All those things, whatever it is going on, can you make it through financially?

It's okay. Doubt's gonna make you ask the questions. Doubt is a road, a fork in the road for you.

It's not wrong to doubt. It's good to doubt.

Just don't let it become fear. Fear is a liar. Love you, friend.

Stop worrying so much about doubt and start trying to find the way to take doubt into faith and start today.

Music.

Okay, my friend, go out and conquer this day. God bless you, be with you, and we are praying for you.

Let doubt be your friend. Let doubt be a fork in the road.

Let doubt help you find your way to faith and avoid fear. And friend, you can do it. I'm proud of you.

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