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Your brain doesn’t believe what’s true.
Jan 6^th, 2026 at 2:57am

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Your brain doesn’t believe what’s true.
It believes what it repeatedly experiences. 🧠
What you rehearse, picture, and repeat starts to shape your life.
When your body feels unsafe or overwhelmed,
your brain goes into protection mode.
Thinking narrows.
Energy drops.
Not because something is wrong with you
but because your brain is keeping you safe.
That’s why calm has to come first.
Calm changes what you do.
What you do changes what you believe.
And what you believe is what you keep repeating.

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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 55130 Gender:	Re: Your brain doesn’t believe what’s true. Reply #1 - Jan 6^th, 2026 at 4:19am America invented Psychology. Australia invented "No worries"
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Re: Your brain doesn’t believe what’s true.
Reply #2 - Jan 6^th, 2026 at 8:25am

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 6^th, 2026 at 2:57am:

She's really good, I like her

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Your brain doesn’t believe what’s true.
It believes what it repeatedly experiences. 🧠
What you rehearse, picture, and repeat starts to shape your life.
When your body feels unsafe or overwhelmed,
your brain goes into protection mode.
Thinking narrows.
Energy drops.
Not because something is wrong with you
but because your brain is keeping you safe.
That’s why calm has to come first.
Calm changes what you do.
What you do changes what you believe.
And what you believe is what you keep repeating.

The Pocket Psychologist's post

If you want practical psychology tools you can keep in your pocket
my mini course Psychology Tools in Your Pocket is live.
Link in Bio for all the Mini Course details.

"Your brain doesn’t believe what’s true.
It believes what it repeatedly experiences"

This is a very silly but pervasive glimpse into pop psychology. Who is observing your brain? Who is making the judgements about you when you self-psychologise? Yourself. And then who reflects onthat self that is making the observatin? another you.
Endless mirrors.

Constant self-observation - self-psychologising - is a narcissistic trap. As Kafka said, "Never again Psychology."

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Vladimir: That’s what you think.

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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 55130 Gender:	Re: Your brain doesn’t believe what’s true. Reply #3 - Jan 6^th, 2026 at 8:29am For all of its psychology. America can't figure out why it has an illicit drug problem.
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Reply #4 - Jan 6^th, 2026 at 10:16am

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False memory is a psychological phenomenon whereby an individual recalls an actual occurrence substantially differently from how it transpired or an event that never even happened.

Interference, leading questions, obsessive-compulsive disorder, false memory syndrome, and sleep deprivation can cause false memories.

False memory has manifold real-world implications ranging from false convictions in court proceedings to accidental manslaughter.

False memory could either be an entirely imaginary fabrication or a distorted recollection of an actual event. Moreover, false memories are distinct from simple errors in recollection.

Firstly, an individual who holds a false memory maintains some certitude in the veracity of the memory. Secondly, a false memory deals not with forgetting something that actually happened but with remembering what had never taken place.

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