Are You Always Getting What You Don't Want?
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2017
⏱️ 8 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
It's no secret that visualization can be a powerful tool for motivating and inspiring us to achieve our dreams. Your brain makes happen what it sees, whether that vision is what we want or what we don't want. Therefore it's important to pay attention to what we think about, and to spin negative thoughts into empowering, positive ones.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm Tanna Aeman. Here we teach you how to win the fight for your brain to defeat anxiety, depression, memory loss, ADHD, and addictions. |
| 0:17.0 | The Brain Warriors Way podcast is brought to you by Aaman Clinics, |
| 0:21.0 | where we've transformed lives for three decades using brain |
| 0:24.8 | spect imaging to better target treatment and natural ways to heal the brain. |
| 0:29.8 | For more information, visit Aaman Clinics. |
| 0:33.3 | The Brain Warriors Way podcast is also brought to you by Brain MD, |
| 0:38.6 | where we produce the highest quality nutritical products |
| 0:41.6 | to support the health of your brain and body. |
| 0:44.8 | For more information, visit brainMDhealth.com. |
| 0:49.6 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. |
| 0:58.0 | So we are back and today we're going to talk about getting what you don't want. |
| 1:01.0 | Are you getting what you don't want? How often have you said something like, |
| 1:05.0 | I can't get sick before my trip? I can't oversleep. I'm not going to eat donuts tomorrow. |
| 1:12.0 | Or I'm not going to lose my temper with my kids and |
| 1:15.1 | then you do exactly the thing that you say you're not going to do. |
| 1:19.1 | Don't you see people do this all the time? |
| 1:20.6 | All the time. |
| 1:21.6 | So... Because the brain doesn't hear the negative. |
| 1:24.0 | It doesn't hear the negative. |
| 1:25.2 | And what's really interesting is that in order to have a thought, any thought, like, I'm not going |
| 1:31.9 | to eat donuts tomorrow. In order to have the thought, I'm not going to eat donuts tomorrow in order to have the thought |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr Daniel Amen, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Dr Daniel Amen and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.