Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

How can we use mental time travel to reverse a memory from a negative one to a meaningful one to support us in the present so that we make

better decisions now and in our future. That is the big question. Let's go. So we've got,

I give you 100 answers, but I'll give you like the shortest version, which is to keep in mind that that moment of mental time,

when I recall something, I hear a song and it just brings me back to my childhood, and I just flash back to, like, I don't know, the summer of 1984 or whatever.

I'm like 13 years old, let's say it's not high school, junior high, but go with bandas, right?

So I flash flash back to this

period terrible time in my life i'm feeling bad but then i keep in mind that that sense of mental

time travel is just a few bits and pieces it's a set of fragments and then i'm making a narrative out

of it i'm making a story out of it. I'm making a story out of it. And that story is going to be shaped by my beliefs, right? You know, I'm not going to construct a story about things that were impossible that just could never have happened, right? That pigs are flying around. Yeah. Unless I'm at a Pink Floyd conference or a concert or something. But, you know But I'm not going to construct all these things that couldn't have happened.

So we impose our beliefs and our knowledge in the present, right?

So if you go into this with the sense that I'm a failure or nobody likes me,

you can certainly find that, find evidence for that in this memory.

Yeah, and you can build that story. But you can also find things that are inconsistent with that.

And that was the big part that, I mean, that's why therapy, when I was doing, I only spent a few

years doing clinical work in my graduate training. It was like six years, but it just dramatically influenced my way of thinking about things.

Therapy work.

Therapy work.

Because it's all about sharing memories.

And no matter what we were doing, what people, I had somebody, my first patient came in with a driving phobia.

But even after he was okay to drive, it wasn't really until we

processed this big, big memory of his that we really made progress. But it's not about just

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