Latest / Just For Today / 172. Emotional brain
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- Cindy Marler: I hope you are having as much fun with this podcast as I am. It's really, really fun for me. All right, make sure and tell a friend about it too. It's more fun to do things together. All you have to do, whether you're listening on Apple Music or Spotify or YouTube, is just share this episode and say, hey, this has been really fun to add into my daily mornings. you should try it too. Okay. One thing that stops us from being able to think is when our emotional brain is turned on. So when our emotional brain is turned on, our thinking brain is turned off. That's just God's design. I can't help you with it, but that's how God designed it. When we're thinking emotionally, when we're using our emotion brain, our emotional brain, our thinking brain is turned off. So we have to learn how to take our emotions out of our thinking process when they're not needed. Sometimes your emotions may be needed in your thinking process. A lot of the times they're not. More often than not, we're bringing in our emotions into our thinking. And the problem is our emotional brain, when it's turned on, our thinking brain is turned off. How do you get out of your emotional brain so you can get your thinking brain turned on? Well, this would be one of those like pros cons lists. Get pen to paper, get out your notes, ask for advice, seek some wisdom, ask someone else. Hey, I don't want to make an emotional decision here. I'm a little too close to the problem. I'm a little too close to the situation. Can you? Because someone else can think without emotion about our lives. Our life is emotional to us, but it's not emotional to someone else. I always say other people's pregnancies go by so fast. Have you ever seen a pregnant woman? She's like, I'm pregnant. And then the next time you see her, she's like, I'm due next week. I'm like, wow, that flew by. My own four pregnancies, in fact, did not fly by, especially at the end. Every day felt like five days. Right. So someone else's experience doesn't have our emotions in it. So we're able to think clearly in order to seek wisdom, you should always be seeking someone that loves you, loves the Lord, and has your best interests in mind because we don't want their emotional brain turned on. For you teenagers out there listening, sometimes that's not your parent because our emotional brain is turned on with you because we love you so much. You can't ever know. We just want to squeeze you and hug you and love you forever. So sometimes we are not actually the best person to give you an emotionless. advice about sometimes in your situation. but we are your best mentor, advocate, and support system. Okay, so just remember, when your emotional brain is turned on, your thinking brain is turned off. So today practice just for today, using a little bit more of your thinking brain and a little bit less of your emotional brain when it comes to decision making. You've got this just for today.