The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast
Neurosurgeon and award-winning author Dr. W. Lee Warren, MD delivers daily prescriptions from neuroscience, faith, and common sense on how to lead a healthier, better, happier life. You can’t change your life until you change your mind, and Dr. Warren will teach you the art of self brain surgery to get it done. His new book, Hope Is the First Dose, is available everywhere books are sold.
Episodes
It's Mind Change Monday!
We're continuing to learn a new way to pray and learn to use our minds to change our brains, and help us seek the abundance and peace Jesus promised us in John 10:10!
Quantum physics gives us two principles of how constantly looking at a situation can keep it stuck in that state, and the same is true in our lives. Learning to shift our viewpoint, relax, and trust God's promises can help us change our...
Does Your Mind Exist Outside of Your Brain? Or Are "You" Really Just A Bunch of Neurons?
Join me for a fascinating conversation with author and brain imaging scientist Dr. Sharon Dirckx to answer the question. It's a great talk that's full of awe, wonder, and hope!
This was the last episode of season 9, re-releasing today to get you ready for a week of learning about the mind-brain problem and its surprising solution. This w...
Learning to Biopsy Our Thoughts is a Key to Healing
But sometimes, we biopsy those negative thoughts, and they turn out to be true. What then? Today’s dose of hope is learning what to do when your trauma, tragedy, or other massive thing has filled your head and heart with harmful thoughts, especially when the harmful thought is based on something true.
Scripture: II Corinthians 10:5
Is Multitasking Good For Us? Is it Even Possible?
It's Frontal Lobe Friday, and today we're taking a look at the science behind multitasking, and some surprising facts that may just change your mind.
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Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things Impact Our Brains and Can Sink Our Hope
Here's a one-hour talk with my friend Max Lucado about how we can re-engage our faith, get our brains unstuck, and find hope again.
Full-length video available from Baker Book House here.
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When did Noah build the arc?
Before it started raining.
Look, storms happen in life. Hard times come, but when things get hard, strong people get busy. And when great opportunities come, we need to be ready.
Let’s pick up the hammer and start building that ark. Because the rain is coming. Because something great is coming, and we need to be ready. Something hard is coming, and we need to get our feet on more solid ground, ev...
We plan for almost everything, but most of us do not have a plan for what to do when life gets hard.
Today, I'll give you some tools to put on your emotional crash cart to use when you face trauma, tragedy, or any massive thing.
Scripture: Psalm 19
Book mentioned: Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
Music by Tommy Walker
(Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP...
Tara-Leigh Cobble Changed Her Mind About God
It's Mind-Change Monday, and today's guest is the host of The Bible Recap Podcast. Tara-Leigh Cobble helps millions of people read, understand, and love the Word of God every day. But before she could do that, she had to change her mind. This is a perfect conversation for self-brain surgeons, because you can't change your life until you change your mind, and learning to l...
It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday!
Today, a reminder that gratitude overwhelms overwhelm.
Check out this incredible post from Ann Voskamp!
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It's Frontal Lobe Friday!
Today, a quick thought on the difference between viewing the world from the left side of your brain versus the right, and the better path of integrating the two.
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It's Theology Thursday!
Today, a mind transplant we can learn from the Old Testament prophet Habakkuk to help you change your mind and change your life.
Learning to transplant THOUGH and YET for the thought cancers IF and WHEN, will help you have faith and joy no matter what you're going through.
Part Two is six more things we can learn from Habakkuk, and it is available now on The Spiritual Brain Surgery Podcast.
Here's a Brand-New Self-Brain Surgery Operation for You: The Mind Transplant!
For Wildcard Wednesday, our most ambitious operation yet: we're going to change our minds, literally!
Scripture: Psalm 37:4, Philippians 4, I Corinthians 2:16, II Corinthians 10:5, Isaiah 30:15
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What do you do when God seems far away? How do we learn to hear God? How do we pray when life hurts?
These are BIG questions! It's Mind Change Monday, and today's guest is Pete Greig.
Pete's official bio and links:
Pete Greig is the Senior Pastor of Emmaus Rd church, and the bewildered founder of 24-7 Prayer, an international, inter-denominational movement of prayer, mission and justice operating in more than 100 countries....It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday!
We're all taught in school that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution explains how we got here. But the truth is, modern molecular biology continues to struggle to prove even the most basic elements of that idea. Survival of the fittest is an obvious truth, but survival does not explain arrival, and since Watson and Crick gave us the molecular structure of DNA in the 1950's, the pict...
It's Frontal Lobe Friday!
Today, our last look at perception and perspective, a new way to look at suffering, and learning how to separate circumstance from happiness.
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It's Theology Thursday!
Today, I'll give you a tool to help you document your self-brain surgery progress every day, which will help you become healthier, feel better, and be happier in your life!
SOAP stands for subjective, objective, assessment, and plan.
Scripture: Romans 12:3, I Peter 5:7
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It's Wildcard Wednesday!
Today, a look at the quantum physics principle that what we observe becomes the inevitable reality of the observed thing. This idea will help you understand how trauma and tragedy (or any massive thing) can become either A THING in your life, or THE defining issue of your whole life. Choose wisely.
Scripture: Isaiah 43, Hebrews 12
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The Opposite of Depression Is Not Just Feeling Better, It's Leaning to Live Better
Dr. David Carreon is a psychiatrist and expert on helping people with depression learn not just to feel better, but to actually learn to live fulfilling lives. And what he's learned will help all of us become healthier, feel better, and be happier in our lives.
Even if you're not depressed, many people are simply worn out and weary. Dr. Carreo...
It's Mind Change Monday!
Here's a look at what scripture and neuroscience (and some old quantum physicists) have to say about how changing your perspective can get you unstuck and help you solve problems when you feel stuck. (From Season 9, getting you ready for a week of perspective shifts!)
See transcript for scripture references.
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Further Thoughts On the Difference Between "Self-Help" and Renewing Your Mind
Today, the second part of a response to a reader's letter about whether it's us or God who provides to power for our ability to change our minds and change our lives. This episode will:
- Relieve you of the burden of thinking that it's all up to you
- Answer your question of, "What am I supposed to do now?" when life throws massive things at you
- ...
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