Hello, for very active people
rest may seem to be a waste
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of time, but many
people understand the benefits
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of rest and for
them it's a blessing.
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I'm Agatha Thrash
from Uchee Pines Institute,
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there we recommend that
people get plenty of rest,
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so we hope you will join us
as we discuss the whole topic
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of rest as well as we
can in the next half an hour,
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join us, won't you.
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Welcome to Help
Yourself To Health
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash
of Uchee Pines Institute,
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and now here is
your host Dr. Thrash.
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Probably the most important
thing to a life of restfulness
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is trust in God.
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Certainly our love for God,
our trust in Him brings a life
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of restfulness, but
there are some things that
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you can do also.
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You can make your life,
you can make your surroundings,
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you can make your home,
your car, and your schedule,
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you can make these all
very regular, very orderly,
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very balanced, and as you do
that, you'll find that your life
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does have a great
deal of restfulness.
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I would like to show you my
schedule, while it may not be
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ideal, and it may not be
something that will fit you
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I hope that as we go
through my daily schedule,
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you will that I have tried to
make it as regular as possible.
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Notice that I try to get
up at five in the morning,
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and I immediately get
ready for outdoor exercise.
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This outdoor exercise is going
to be vigorous so I want the
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proper clothing for
outdoor exercise, very vigorous
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and sometimes it
is even hard labor.
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Then right away at 5:05,
generally I can begin devotions,
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and my devotions will
usually last until it's time for
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family worship at about 6:45.
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Then we have a breakfast around
7:00 every morning when worship
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finishes, we don't cut it
off exactly, but when worship
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is finished then we have
breakfast, and usually I can
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count on breakfast lasting
about an hour from the time
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we sit down and get served,
eat, brush teeth, and everything
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is ready for us to take
our leave from the house,
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usually I can count on
about an hour so at about 8:00
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I can expect that I can
go outside for outdoor labor.
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Now you will notice in the
next graphic that I will be
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showing you here that
after hard labor, then at around
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10:00 in the morning I
come inside from hard labor
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where I have gotten some
sunshine and some relaxing
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and sometimes very difficult
labor and shower and dress
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and go to the office.
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Then during my office time
it's usually rather busy but
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about 1:00, most of the
time, fairly promptly at 1:00,
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sometimes a little bit before,
sometimes a little bit after
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1:00, I get the opportunity
to go to my home and have
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some quiet time.
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At that time I may have
prayer or read the Bible,
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or take a short nap.
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I like to take a nap before a
meal rather that after because
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after a meal naps are inhibiting
to the digestive process
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so we don't want to do it after
a meal but rather have the body
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relaxed and
rested before the meal.
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Then I can expect that
about an hour will be occupied
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in the whole process of lunch
time, then back to the office
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around 2:30 until some time
after 8:00 I'm in the office,
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then I go home
for evening devotion.
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Evening devotion may last a
little longer than until 9:00
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but usually bed time is
at 9:00, and bedtime is then
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a time that has followed a
regular and fairly relaxing day.
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So as you see as this kind
of schedule may give you some
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ideas as to how you can
make a schedule for yourself.
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I have not mentioned in
this schedule any interruptions,
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and you may think oh that
would be very boring if I had to
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get up the same time
every day and do the same thing
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all the time.
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I just wish it were possible
to do that very thing and to
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maintain the schedule so
accurately as I have put it
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there, but if you will
have a schedule, then those
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interruptions that come...
I did not mention the five
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telephone calls that
may come during breakfast,
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or the two people who
may come to visit me during
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the time I'm
doing outdoor labor.
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So I try to account for
those in some way, I try to make
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certain that I attend
to telephone calls in a way
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that will make it so
that I can use as little time
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as possible in that, and
maybe make an appointment
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later for a more extended call.
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Or if people come to
visit me during my outdoor labor
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I'm very happy for that because
I just give them the extra
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shovel that I have
there for that very purpose,
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or an extra hoe, or I put
a watering hose in their hand
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or something of that nature.
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I don't mind people visiting
during my labor time because
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it just gives me
an extra hand at work.
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I do not stop to visit,
for the most part it has to be
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an extremely unusual person
for me to actually stop my labor
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to entertain somebody,
usually that will be a sick
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child, I will stop for that.
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There are many more things about
restfulness than just being
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regular about your habits, and
I have here with me Don Miller,
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and Don Miller is a lifestyle
counselor at Uchee Pines
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and he will talk with you
also about some things having
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to do with rest. Don miller!
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Ok! I just want to tell
a story first Dr. Thrash.
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When I was first at Uchee Pines
years ago, a brand new worker
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and one evening she says brother
Don, I need to talk with you
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tomorrow morning at 8:00
at my son's home, I said fine,
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I will be there.
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So at 8:00 the next morning
there I was standing at his
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step just waiting for Dr.
Thrash to show up, I was new and
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and I was going to
talk with Dr. Agatha Thrash,
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and I was waiting, and I
said she is not a very punctual
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woman is she.
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I kept looking at my
watch, pretty soon I heard
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Brother Don, and I heard
it coming from down the hill
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in the bush and I looked
down there, and there she was
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just a whacking the
bushes and calling my name.
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I walked down there
and she handed me a hoe,
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she said ok let's talk, for
the next two hours we talked
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and we worked in that woods,
so if you ever go to visit
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Dr. Thrash between 8:00
and 10:00 in the morning
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wear your work clothes because
that may be what you are doing.
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There are many types of
rest and I think back to my
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military experience, in the
military they tell you there are
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four types of rest, there
is Parade rest, at ease rest,
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and fall out.
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We learned how to do all of
those things, if we could only
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learn to do as well the
four types of rest that God has
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given to us, we would
be a whole lot better.
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The first type of rest
is just the relaxing rest
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where you have had a busy day,
you just sit down and relax,
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you may lay in the hammock,
you may sit in the chair,
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it's just a change in pace rest.
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The second one is
the meditation rest,
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we are going to fill each
one of these out as we go along
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but that meditation rest
where we rest in the Lord,
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He said come unto Me all ye
that labor and are heavy laden
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I will give you rest.
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The other one is to rest
in sleep where at night time
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and it's best at night time,
we lay down and let our bodies
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fully get a good night's rest.
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The forth type of rest which is
the most precious type of rest
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there is, is the Sabbath rest
and I'm going to fill that out
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a little bit later about
this great thing called the
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Sabbath rest.
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So God has given us four
ways to rest and we need to have
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all four of them to truly
be balanced people Dr. Thrash.
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Yes, and meditation is one
of those that I like very much.
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Meditation is a state of the
mind in which a person allows
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the mind to focus on one thing
and you hold that one thing
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in the mind for quite a while.
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Now anyone who has
studied brain physiology knows
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a topic cannot be held at one
spot in the brain for very long
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we sort of wear out
the chemicals to think
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in that particular area,
so then we need to transfer it
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to another.
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As it is transferred there we
enrich it with things that come
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from various parts of the brain
that have been stored there
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in other parts of the brain
so that we bring the entire
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brain, or we can bring
the entire brain into focus as
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as we engage in
the meditation process.
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When I meditate I like
to take a Bible with me,
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my very favorite to meditate
is to take a Bible, go into
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nature in some
way, either by a stream,
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that's my preferred place,
or in the deep woods and there
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sit on a log or a stump and
read a passage in the Bible.
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Let the mind savor that
passage and think about it
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from all angles, this angle,
and that angle, another angle
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and all the time bringing in
various aspects of those stored
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thoughts and stored information
that I have through a
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life time of experiences.
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Now I'm very fortunate some
times that I have someone else
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who will go with me.
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Perhaps a friend or a
relative who will go with me to
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my meditation spot and
then that person also meditates
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at the same time.
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Somehow it enriches
your meditation experience
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if you have someone
else with you who is also
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reading the Bible, and
will occasionally share
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a passage, but not just
keep up a constant chatter.
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That's not the time
when you are meditating,
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it's not the time
for a constant chatter.
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Just a shared passage
occasionally with a gem
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of thought that the other person
has that may be also for you,
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something that is
enriching to the mind.
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Sometimes you will see
something in nature that
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you just want to share with
someone, see a little animal
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or an ant, or a mineral
perhaps beside you that you just
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like to share with someone.
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So it is nice if you have
someone with you in those times
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in your meditation process.
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Prayer is often a part
of meditation, so you pray,
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you read a passage, and
you say dear Lord this is a
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very high standard, how can
I possibly meet this standard?
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Then you talk with the Lord
about that, then you meditate
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on ways and the Holy
Spirit brings to your mind ways
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that you can accomplish what
is mentioned there in the Bible,
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or will enlarge to
your understanding something
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about the spiritual
world where God lives,
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or the work that God
has given to us to do.
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These are some things about
meditation that I think will be
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beneficial to you.
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Rest is not all just
meditation and lying down,
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but some of it is, some of
it is relaxation that might come
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that one might
have with a foot rub.
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I have with me Valerie Schreiber
who is one of my co-workers
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at Uchee Pines, a Lifestyle
Counselor and one of our
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educators there and with
her is my granddaughter Melissa
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and Melissa is going to
have a great good fortune
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of having a foot rub. Valerie!
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Thank you! At
our home foot massage
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has been a big part of our
life, in fact we were massaging
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our children's feet when
they were little and even though
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they are in their 39 and 40
year old now, they still love
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their feet to be massaged.
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In fact we were just
on a vacation together and
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my daughter said, before
you go home I have to have
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my foot massage.
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So I want to show you
how you can massage feet
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and relax the person.
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We had a patient recently at
Uchee Pines that was suffering
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from drug withdraw, and
she would be very nervous
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and very agitated, so I went
in and just started massaging
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her feet and talking to
her and before long she would
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just start to clam right down.
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So Melissa you come here
and I'm going to show you
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how we do it in our home.
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First we take the feet and I
kind of circle them like this
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and then I circle them the other
way, and then I push them up
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and do a stretch on them,
and stretch them back like this.
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Many times I go up the leg
and just massage up the leg,
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it feels real good to them
to massage up the leg like this,
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you just kind of cupping
it like this, just going up
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and it feels sooo good.
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The I just take my hands
and I start doing little circles
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down the feet...
In fact many times
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I just go down the feet
this way, and then do the toes,
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the toes somehow when
you massage on the toes,
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and you kind of circle them
around and massage around them,
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it relaxes them, your body
somehow to massage the toes
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it just feels good and kind
of relaxes you a lot better.
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So I circle down the toes,
circle them, go across them
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like this, many times I just
shift hands and I go right down
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the feet just
like this, and massage.
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Then you get underneath the
feet, and underneath the feet,
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again you would take
your thumb and you do circles
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like this, and you just
circle all around like this.
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Some people can be ticklish,
and if they are ticklish
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then you would do a flat move.
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A flat move would be just like
this, you would take your hand
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and you would go down the feet
like this and down like this,
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and across.
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Or you can take your fist
like this and go right down
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just like this, and that can
also relax them depending upon
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whether they
are ticklish or not.
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Otherwise you just
start kneading the feet
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with your fingers, moving
them up like this and go across
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this way, and I get
way over here in the arch,
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and work the arch real
good, then I pick the leg up
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and I do the heel, I massage
all around the heel and turn it
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a little bit and massage.
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Oh, it feels so good!
Some people like it firm
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and some people like it
more tender, so you can do more
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of a soothing stroke.
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I used to tickle my
mom's feet a lot when she was
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feeling bad, and I would just
tickle them and do just like
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this with them, and I
would tickle up her legs and
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it would just relax her
and put her right to sleep.
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So you can do this in
various ways, no set method,
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just get in there and use
your hands and work on the feet
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and you will get results, and
see the person calm right down
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and go right to sleep.
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Are you ready to
go to sleep Melissa?
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I don't know if I can talk
about sleep right after seeing
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that very nice relaxing massage.
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Wouldn't that make
you want to go to sleep?
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Let me talk with you
just a little bit about sleep.
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Sleep is sort of a
mystical thing and we don't know
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exactly what sleep
is, we just know this
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that it is relaxing, that
it is refreshing both to body
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and to mind, it is
also relaxing to the spirit.
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If you have something that
is really weighting down on you
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and you are able to make a
good sleep time, then you can
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awaken being very refreshed.
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There is a kind of rest
that we want to understand
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better than we do, and
that is the Sabbath rest.
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How to observe this wonderful
day, that we might receive the
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blessings from it.
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I think one of the best reasons,
maybe the biggest reason
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to obey beyond that of wanting
to please our Heavenly Father
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is to want to receive the
blessing that He has put it that
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Commandment for us. So
when He says "Remember"
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my Sabbath Day, I want to
remember it in the very way
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that He says "Remember
it," knowing that He knows best
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what that blessing is.
Don Miller would you talk
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with us some
about the Sabbath rest?
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The Sabbath rest is a great
gift that God has given to man.
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We look back at creation
week, God was very busy that
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first week, He made all
the things in the universe
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that first week, and on
the sixth day He made man,
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the crowning
act of His creation.
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The best gift that he could
give to man was the Sabbath
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the very first day, man's first
full day was the Sabbath day
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and he could spend
that day alone with God.
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What a special blessing,
and God still wants man to have
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that experience with Him.
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We realize that the year
is based on how long it takes
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for the earth to go
around the sun, the month
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is based upon how long the
moon to go around the earth.
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The day is based upon how long
it takes the earth to go around
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on it's axis, but
what's the week based on?
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The week is based on creation.
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We say that there is
nothing astronomical about that,
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there is nothing physical
about that but science has found
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that there is a
seven-day cycle in nature,
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there is a
seven-day cycle in man.
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We know about the 28 day
cycle, the eighteen month cycle,
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there are many hair cycles
that we have, but there is
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a number of
studies a Dr. Hallberg from
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The University of Minnesota in
charge of the chronobiology lab
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has studied with a number
or scientists around the world
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and he said that there is a
Circaseptan Rhythm, a seven day
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Circadian rhythm
as we can call it.
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Three studies that they have
found I want to just mention
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very briefly here.
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They had one study, they had
a man, they place him in a cave
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for a number of months
so the nothing was affecting
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his internal clock.
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Nothing was around him
to do anything stressful.
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The sun didn't come
up, the sun didn't go down,
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he was just monitored
as far as his heart rate,
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after a number of months they
found that his heart followed
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a seven-day cycle.
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They took another man
for 15 years, a healthy man,
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and they measured the
stress hormones in his urine.
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Every day they
measured those hormones,
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and after a 15 year period
they found that there was a
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definite pattern in the stress
hormones every seven days.
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They took a group of 70 young
men who had their wisdom teeth
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pulled, they measured
their faces and their jaws
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and you would expect that
at first there was swelling
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and slowly the
swelling would go down.
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But they found that every
seventh day, for the first two
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cycles swelling would increase
seven days and at 14 days.
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They find that people
who have kidney transplants,
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their biggest crisis
day is the seventh day,
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the second biggest
crisis day is seven days later,
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that means that we do have a
seven day rhythm that we follow.
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Now away from that they have
found in nature, certain insects
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and animals that not
only keep a seven day cycle,
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they keep the seventh
day cycle on the Sabbath,
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The seventh-day
Sabbath, the Biblical Sabbath.
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Certain insects and
animals do no work, there is a
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certain type of bee that on
the Sabbath doesn't make honey,
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doesn't go out there
and gather pollen, it rests
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on the Sabbath day.
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I believe that God
has in nature, examples
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for us to follow.
God gave us the Sabbath
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as a rest, a day in which
we spend that special time
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with Him.
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I can't even imagine
Adam on that first Sabbath day
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saying ughh! I am going
to do some lay activities.
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No! I think he spent
that whole day alone with God
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from as soon as
the sun went down until
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that sun went down at
the end of the Sabbath.
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He spent special hours,
special time with the father
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and I think that's exactly,
no, I don't think, I know
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that is exactly what
God wants for us to do now.
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He gave us the Sabbath as
a gift, He said the Sabbath
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was made for man,
not man for the Sabbath
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and He says I want to
talk with you this day.
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I believe on the Sabbath
day God has special blessings
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in store, I believe that He
wants to pour out His richest
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blessings, as a matter of
fact I believe that on the
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Sabbath day God is more busy
than any other day of the week,
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because it's on that day
that we spend more time talking
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with Him.
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More time requesting
things of Him, and on this day
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God is always trying to
show us that He loves us with an
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everlasting love, so if
you have not yet experienced
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the Sabbath rest
I think you should.
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A few years ago there
was a couple at Uchee Pines,
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that came to Uchee Pines,
they were sort of counseling
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with me about some marital
problems and I don't know
00:23:02.54\00:23:05.14
anything about marital problems
so I went to talk to Dr. Thrash
00:23:05.17\00:23:08.32
and I said Dr. Thrash,
they've got these problems
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what should I do?
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She said ask them how
they observe the Sabbath?
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I believe just like
flying in an airplane...
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I'm a pilot and if your
plane goes into a spring,
00:23:19.45\00:23:21.69
they say the best thing to
do is to let go and it will
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right itself.
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I believe that if our lives are
out of control, let go on the
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Sabbath and let God hold
you that whole Sabbath day
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and I think you are
going to find some real rest
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and some real
healing Dr. Thrash.
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Yes! It's a more important
item than we have understood.
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Now we cannot exhaust the whole
topic of rest but I have asked
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John Champen if he will
make a discussion for you
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of some of his observations
of the topic of rest.
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This is John Champen
who is one of my co-workers
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at Uchee Pines, a Lifestyle
Counselor and an Educator there
00:23:57.16\00:24:02.78
and works in Administration
also, so at this time
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John Champen.
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One of the most
interesting aspects of rest
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that I have found is that
we need to be able to give
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our guilt away.
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People are not able to
rest at night or during the day
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because they feel guilty,
their minds are not at ease,
00:24:19.48\00:24:23.24
their conscience bother them,
they try to push these things
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to the side, or they try to
get a friend, or someone else
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to sit down and
share these things with.
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When I finished junior
high school my mother wrote
00:24:31.82\00:24:36.85
in my autograph book these
words: "What's in your heart
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let no one know, nor to
your friends your secrets show.
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But when your friends become
your foe, then all your secrets
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they shall know. "
There is something to that,
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God wants you to
bring these things to Him,
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bring your problems to
Him, bring your concerns to Him,
00:24:56.77\00:24:59.79
and give your guilt away.
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In a little book
entitled Steps To Christ,
00:25:02.01\00:25:04.85
the chapter entitled
Give Your Guilt Away,
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the rest that we can
have depends quite a bit upon
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giving our guilt away.
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Let the Lord take those
things that are bothering you,
00:25:13.88\00:25:17.21
those thing that are not
right in your life, and you know
00:25:17.24\00:25:20.27
they are not right, let
Him take them and you can enter
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into the Sabbath rest
and enjoy all the rest
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that God has for you Dr. Thrash.
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Yes! Just as with all
other activities of life,
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rest can be over done, we
can rest so much that the body
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begins to be sick in some way,
or to degenerate in some way,
00:25:38.15\00:25:43.45
and we can also recognize
that as we rest to much the mind
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begins to malfunction.
00:25:48.19\00:25:50.48
People who sleep to much
and have to much leisure time
00:25:50.51\00:25:55.08
they often have a superficiality
of their character
00:25:55.11\00:25:59.99
and their personalities
begin to express themselves
00:26:00.07\00:26:03.55
in a sort of giddiness, and
also some people who are not
00:26:03.58\00:26:08.08
so disposed as others
in their mental expression,
00:26:08.11\00:26:11.66
others may get a
depression from too much rest.
00:26:11.69\00:26:15.81
Also resting to much or sleeping
to much is actually a sign
00:26:15.85\00:26:20.72
or depression, if a person
tells you they sleep all day
00:26:20.75\00:26:24.98
then they can go to bed and
sleep all night, the next day
00:26:25.01\00:26:27.98
they can do the same
thing and just get up to eat
00:26:28.01\00:26:30.71
and go to the bathroom,
these individuals may be
00:26:30.74\00:26:33.63
sick with depression.
00:26:33.66\00:26:34.85
If they are, there is a certain
special program that you should
00:26:34.88\00:26:39.01
give to them, and one is
to tell them to go to bed
00:26:39.04\00:26:41.91
two hours earlier than
they put their bed time.
00:26:41.94\00:26:45.65
Then eight hours later they must
get up, then they put themselves
00:26:45.68\00:26:49.14
in a very brightly lighted
room and stay there until
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the sun rises.
00:26:52.96\00:26:53.94
When the sun rises they
should get out into the sunshine
00:26:53.97\00:26:56.92
and there have their
circadian rhythm sort of re-set,
00:26:56.95\00:27:02.89
so this can be a help to
the person who has depression
00:27:02.92\00:27:06.89
to know that to much
sleeping can also be a problem,
00:27:06.92\00:27:10.60
then people can find that their
rest, relaxation, their sleep
00:27:10.63\00:27:15.47
is robbed by such things as
coffee, tea, colas, chocolate,
00:27:15.50\00:27:22.15
even highly spiced food
can rob people of their sleep.
00:27:22.18\00:27:26.85
Recognizing these things
can help the person who has
00:27:26.88\00:27:31.05
a problem sleeping to
know how to have a diet that
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will cooperate with them
in making certain that they
00:27:34.42\00:27:39.42
have the best
opportunity for rest and sleep.
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Now we hope that these
things that we presented to you
00:27:42.59\00:27:47.31
will be for you a help in
your total obedience to the
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eight natural laws of health.
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