In this solo motivational video, David Brimacombe addresses why many people recovering from post‑concussion syndrome (PCS) feel trapped in a cycle of brain fog, irritability, fatigue and nausea. He argues that the core obstacle is mental rumination: roughly 95 % of thoughts replay past events, creating a subconscious “elevator music” that drowns out the small but crucial positive thoughts needed for healing. Drawing on a concept from Joe Dispenza called “remember the future,” Brimacombe explains that vividly rehearsing a desired future creates new neural pathways, because the brain cannot distinguish a lived experience from a vivid imagination. He provides a step‑by‑step visualization protocol—choose a future timeframe (5, 10, 15 years), find a quiet, distraction‑free space, use calming music or binaural beats, and mentally walk through an entire day in rich sensory and emotional detail, starting with a single event and gradually expanding. Repeating this practice builds a mental “cleared path” that the brain can later follow, leading to increased presence, motivation, momentum and a more optimistic outlook. Brimacombe emphasizes that the technique is not a one‑off fix but a habit to be cultivated daily, and he ends with an empowering call to viewers to become the change agents of their own recovery, encouraging subscription and community engagement.
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If you feel stuck right now, there's a good chance you're trying to solve a problem that's already happened. You get up, you have the brain fog, you have the irritability, the fatigue, the nausea, and many days you just want to go right back to sleep. You want to avoid the future. You want to avoid the current situation that you're living in. Now, this is not abnormal. For someone recovering from post-concussion syndrome. It is an invisible illness that has powerful symptoms for many people. But those powerful symptoms a lot of times lie in past thoughts, in past events. Then understand, if you're maintaining to live in the past, thinking about what happened, what life was like, how I wish, wish, wish, wish, wish I could be the person I was, you're going to continue to have pain in the present. You need to focus on working on the future so that you can become a better version of yourself. Understand that 95% of your thoughts are based on past events, past thoughts, past feelings, past experiences that are now part of that ruminating subconscious that plays in the back of your mind like elevator music. Now, the problem with this elevator music is that for someone suffering with post-concussion syndrome, it can be a constant reminder Constant reminder of what happened before, of the turmoils of your recovery that you cannot fix. Now, that thought— it doesn't matter how much you want to recover if those thoughts continue to circulate, because they're always going to drown out those positive thoughts, that positive 5%. Those 95% don't even have to align with your current beliefs. They don't have to align with that current mindset. Because they're things that you've thought of for years and years and years. So how do we change those thoughts and that pattern? We'll talk about it in this video. One of the most powerful thoughts and concepts that I ever heard that shaped the path of my recovery was said by Joe Dispenza. He said, you need to remember the future. And it, and it blew my mind. Initially, I was like, excuse me, remember the future? What is this, like Back to the Future? I'm going to hop in the DeLorean and go ahead and visit my future self. But when you really think about it, remembering the future is all about rehearsing where you want to go and providing that neural connection, that neural pathway, so that it makes it easier to actually walk that path. Now, understand that in recovery, Your brain is like an unpruned trail. There's weeds everywhere, there's tree branches hanging low. So to actually traverse through all that to get to that endpoint is really difficult. Now, anytime you're going to rehearse where you want to go— so in this case, you're rehearsing the life that you want to live in the future— it's actually going to be like someone going with garden shears and cutting back all those trees and clipping the grass and making it more accessible. For you to actually walk down that path, to see the route you need to go. Now, understand the brain can't tell the difference between a lived experience and one that is vividly imagined. Now, think about that. So for me, I can actually rehearse where I want to go, the protocols I want to apply, the life I want to live in the future, and my brain is going to think that I've actually lived that. Are you kidding me? When I heard that, It blew me away. It absolutely blew me away because the hardest thing to do when you're struggling to get up, struggling to go to work, struggling to lead the life that you want to lead, but when you rehearse it in your mind, it becomes all the easier. So what exactly does it mean to remember the future? Now, remembering the future requires you to be very specific. Choose a timeframe. Is it 5 years? Is it 10 years? Is it 15 years down the road? What exactly are you doing? What I would do is I would go ahead and I'd lie down in a comfortable space. I'd make sure it was free of distractions, i.e., kids and dogs not at home. Okay. I would have typically some calming music in the background. A lot of times it would be natural sounds or it could be binaural beats or something that would get my brain in a state where it was receptive to change. And then what I would do is I would start thinking about what the perfect day would look like in 5 years or 10 years or 15 years. Okay, I would think about it from the moment I got up to the moment I went to bed. Now, this takes some time, and again, I started really small. When I started this process, I would start by just thinking about one event, one specific exciting event. Then I started to scale up and I added Layered upon layer upon layer. And I eventually got to the point where I was actually envisioning my whole day. Now, the important thing is to envision every little single detail, all the emotions, all the positivity, pull all those in. Again, you're convincing your brain that this has already happened so that that path is clear, that path is open so that you can walk it. I would get up, I'd pretend like, think about it, I'm getting up, birds are chirping, The sun is coming through the clouds. And I would envision that day. I would envision it with so much depth and so much clarity. And I would focus on the things that I want that I didn't currently have. I would get up and I'd work out. I couldn't do that right now. I'd get up and eat whatever I want. I couldn't do that right now either. I'd get up and I'd be the person who is present, who is patient, who is the role model for my kids. That I wish I was, which I wasn't right then. But again, I kept doing that, and it took a while to convince my brain that that was actually possible, but I would do it. And then over time, what I noticed in my real life was that I would have more days of presence. I'd have more days where I got up, I put my feet on the floor, and I could actually say today was going to be a great day with a smile on my face instead of a smirk and a wry smile. It was a serious, sincere Comment that I was making because I was rehearsed. I had already rehearsed that in my mind. The path had been laid and I was now just walking down it. Again, this is not to say that as soon as you rehearse your future, you remember your future, that everything will be easy. What you're doing though is that you are providing a path. You're providing a way out. You're convincing your system, your mind, your brain that there is safety in me. There is potential in this future. And it gives you motivation, gives you momentum. It gives you belief. And much like everything else I talk about on this channel, this is not something that you do once. It's something that you build and you do all the time. And again, I started to look forward to this because again, I was still stuck in a state I wasn't happy with. I wasn't the person I really wanted to become. I didn't have that energy, that capacity. I couldn't work out. I couldn't be present, but I was slowly building it up. And so I looked forward every morning to doing this. To thinking about, I have a path that I'm going to walk down in my mind so that I can walk down it in reality. And I just, I looked forward to that so much because it meant that it was possible and it was a matter of time, not if this was going to occur. Remember, if you're stuck in the past, if you're stuck about worrying about what happened, okay, your incident, how your symptoms have stagnated and your recovery has stalled, You're not going to heal. You're not going to move towards the person you want to be. You got to think about where you're going. You got to create that path in your mind so that you can walk down it on your own. I hope this video resonated with you. I really appreciate you watching to the end. Make sure that you have subscribed, you commented below. I love hearing from the people who watch these videos and believe in yourself. And just remember that you are powerful in your recovery. You can be the change agent that determines the course of path that you're going to take. Have yourself a great day.
