Lewis HowesYour Personal 24/7 Greatness Coach

Stop Giving Enemies Power Over You

1 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this self‑help monologue, Lewis Howes explains how continuously focusing on an "enemy" keeps negative emotions alive and drains personal energy. He advises repeatedly lowering the emotional intensity associated with that enemy, which gradually erases its hold on the mind. By reclaiming that energy, a person can redirect it toward healing and creative pursuits. Howes further suggests that by repeatedly relaxing into the heart area, the heart can signal the brain that past conflicts are over, effectively resetting the brain’s baseline. This heart‑centered state opens a creative channel that allows the listener to imagine new possibilities and feel the emotions of a desired future. He emphasizes that where attention goes, energy follows, and by consistently pairing thoughts, images, and feelings of the future, one can condition the brain and body to experience that future as if it has already happened.

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If you're no longer putting your attention on your enemy and you're lowering the volume of that emotion over and over again, you're going to forget about them. Mm. And you're going to call energy back to you. And now there's energy to heal. Now there's energy to create. And a person can actually relax into the present moment by relaxing into their heart. If you can do that enough times, the heart all of a sudden tells the brain, "Hey, the past is over." It resets the baseline in the brain. Now the heart is the creative center. Dream of a new possibility. And all of a sudden you start thinking thinking about possibilities you'll never have thought about before because you're feeling the emotion of that future. And where you place your attention is where you place your energy. Keep making that thought and that feeling, that image and that emotion, that stimulus and response. And now you can condition the brain and body to look like the future has already happened.