Thoughts Are Not Always True (The Third Commandment of Self-Brain Surgery)

Spiritual Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren

May 26 2024 • 27 mins

You have tens of thousands of thoughts per day. Most of them are not true.

Today, the third in a series of looking at each of the Ten Commandments of Self-Brain Surgery in more detail. The third commandment is, "I must believe that most of my thoughts are untrue."

Here are some tools to challenge bad thoughts, and how to manage them.

Scripture: II Cor. 10:5, Psalm 34:8

The Ten Commandments of Self-Brain Surgery (Updated 3/8/2024; corollaries coming soon)
1.I must relentlessly refuse to participate in my own demise.

2. I must recognize that feelings are not facts, they are chemical events in my brain.

3. I must recognize that most of my thoughts are untrue.

4. I must love tomorrow more than I hate how I feel right now.

5. I must not treat bad feelings with bad operations.

6. I must stop making an operation out of everything.

7. I must not perpetuate generational thought or behavioral issues in my family or start any new ones.

8. I must love my brain and live in such a way as to improve it.

9. I must believe that what I’m doing I’m getting better at.

10. I must understand that thoughts become things.



Leave a voicemail with your question or comment!


Five Ways You Can Support this show:

  1. Pray for us!
  2. Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!)
  3. Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts!
  4. You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.
  5. Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day):

Other Helpful Links:

Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs!

Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose!

Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book!

Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!
All recent episodes with transcripts are available here!

  • (00:09) - Self-Brain Surgery Saturday
  • (03:21) - Let's Get After It
  • (05:43) - The Intersection of Science and Faith
  • (10:37) - Ursula Le Guin's Three Writing Questions
  • (16:40) - Examining Thought Biopsy Results
  • (25:45) - Changing Your Mind, Changing Your Life

You Might Like

Osho Hindi Podcast
Osho Hindi Podcast
Mahant Govind Das Swami
Shiva - Narrated by Jackie Shroff
Shiva - Narrated by Jackie Shroff
Fever FM - HT Smartcast
Mahabharat
Mahabharat
Fever FM - HT Smartcast
एकांतिक वार्तालाप
एकांतिक वार्तालाप
Shri Hit Premanand Govind Sharan Ji Maharaj
Bhagavad Gita (English)
Bhagavad Gita (English)
Swami Adgadanand
Joel Osteen Podcast
Joel Osteen Podcast
Joel Osteen, SiriusXM
The Ramayana Podcast
The Ramayana Podcast
Adithya Shourie
The Arun Pandit Show
The Arun Pandit Show
Astro Arun Pandit
Krishan Bhajans
Krishan Bhajans
Rajshri Entertainment Private Limited