Life is stressful, but
most of us have grown accustomed
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to it, so we adjust to our
stresses and we think this is
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normal but if your stresses
bother you then you might like
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to stay with us for this program
because we're going to be
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discussing some very
interesting things about stress.
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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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I've often wondered what heaven
is going to be like with no
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the stress having to do
with noise, with television,
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with all sorts of problems in
life, what will heaven be like
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if we don't have to
deal with these stresses?
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I think that my almost entire
life has been spent dealing
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with stresses one way or other.
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Let's just take the stresses of
television, now I don't have TV
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in my home so I can't really
attest to the fact that it's
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highly stressful
because in my home it isn't,
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but when I watch commercial
TV I find that the television
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itself is stressful, it moves,
it blares at you, it flickers,
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and it flashes and things
are going on all the time,
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and you are sort
of dizzy watching it.
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Of course I understand
that people that don't watch TV
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an hour or so every day, that
they don't really get inured
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to the TV and so when the TV
is moving they are glued to it
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and I have found that this is
the fact with me when I'm around
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commercial TV I am fascinated
by what's going to happen next,
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is something going to hit me
from all these flashing lights?
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Well at any rate those
thing can be stressful.
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What about newspapers?
Newspapers come in every day
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and they have all sorts of news
that's upsetting, things that
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have to do with people's crimes,
with what's going on in the
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world today, all of these kinds
of things can be very stressful.
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Have you noticed that a
lot of machinery in the house,
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machinery is whirring or buzzing
or squealing and when it's
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turned off, it's awfully nice.
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Some times in the rural
area where I live at Uchee Pines
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when the electricity goes off
it's so nice because the house
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is so quiet, it's normally
quiet in the woods but now
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the house becomes quiet
too, and it's so peaceful.
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Then when the electricity
goes back on everything starts
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whirring again and it's amazing
that you become accustomed
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to that and you hardly
even know that it's there.
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No what about light?
Light can also be stressful,
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they found in doing some
laboratory tests that people
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who were doing a project had
set things up in a certain way
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and they got a certain expected
result from the laboratory
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animals, but then another time
they set up exactly the same
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program and the animals
didn't react in the same way,
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so they were studying what was
different this time that made
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it so that it didn't react
as it did before, the only thing
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was the presence of a
little light in the laboratory.
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So what they did, they set
it up again and had two groups
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of animals, one with a little
light, the other with no light
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at all, and they found that the
results were quite different.
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So we know that light
does have an effect on the
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animal mechanism, so if we
consider all these things we
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will not be surprised at the
great list of things that can
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happen to us from great
stresses: depression, anxiety,
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irritability, fatigue, inability
to cope, just sort of quit,
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insomnia, panic attacks, reduced
immunity, sweaty palms, nausea &
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vomiting, digestive problems,
increased blood pressure,
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trembling when you are not cold,
and a host of other things,
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just all sorts of things can
be the result of having stress.
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So since we make a physiologic
response to stress I have
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Dr. Don Miller here who is
going to talk with you now about
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some responses that the body
makes to stress, Dr. Miller!
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- If you talk to an evolutionist
they say well this stress
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response is a result of back
when we were the prey and being
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preyed upon by the big animals
but God has given us stress
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as a gift and I'm thankful for
it, there has been times in my
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life that I've been very
thankful to have what happens
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during the stress response.
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We find that during the stress
response, the body responds
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the same way as it does during
exercise, and you might find
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this out, what happens when
you exercise, let me just read
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off a few things that are going
to happen within your body:
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Your heart rate, your blood
pressure and respiration are
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going to go up, you say that's
a no brainer, the same thing
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happens when you go into
a stress response, you find
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yourself in a stressful
situation and you find yourself
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all of a sudden breathing
more rapidly and your heart rate
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has gone up and your
blood pressure has gone up,
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your sugar goes up when
you are in a stress response
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or exercising, the adrenals
sends a message to your liver
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releases glucose from the
glycogen and pretty soon you
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got a large amount of sugar
circulating through your system,
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the same thing
happens from your muscles.
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The muscle converts it's
glycogen into glucose and you
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have the energy to
do what you need to do.
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Same thing has
happened in the stress response,
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muscle function increases,
your senses become keener
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your pupils dilate and you
see better especially at night,
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these things happen in a stress
response, they happen also
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in an exercise response,
breathing becomes more rapid
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and more shallow, that's a
stress response and an exercise
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response, digestion is
suppressed, we find that
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a person goes into a stress
situation and I bet that most
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of you have found the situation
out, you've been eating
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or you've just eaten and you
get into a stressful situation
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and it feels like the food
is laying there for a long long
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time, and so the stress and
exercise both suppress digestion
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because of a reason the body
needs the energy in the exercise
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or the stress situation and
digestion takes a huge amount
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of energy from the body
so it sort of just stops
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and also stress hormones
go up in the body in a stress
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situation and in
an exercise situation.
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Why is this significant, well
it's very significant for this
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reason, if we exercise
from 30- 60 minutes every day
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or quite frequently our body
goes through the entire stress
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response as a result of
exercise, the same physiological
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things happening in exercise.
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If we teach our body to do this
by going through this exercise
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when you get into the stressful
situation, it has learned to go
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through it's cycle and be
back to normal within one hour.
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Some people carry their
stress for long periods of time,
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they get into a stressful
situation and it stay with them
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for hours and sometimes
days, but if we could get that
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exercise, now there is a saying
that I want you to say right
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there where you are sitting,
"exercise neutralizes stress,"
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say it again,
"exercise neutralizes stress."
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We find that if we get into
a stress situation we need to
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exercise, now what happens,
you are on your way to the
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airport and you look at
your time and you get to a point
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where you know you are not
going to make it, the traffic
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is stacked up and you are
now in a stressful situation,
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you really can't exercise
at this point so what you need
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to do is relax and do something
else I'm going to talk about
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in a little bit, but for right
now exercise is a blessing,
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stress is a blessing.
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I remember a few years ago
I was down in the country of
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Zimbabwe and I got out of my
vehicle and I was taking a walk
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down a road and there was a
male lion, and the male lion
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got up like he was going
to come for breakfast and the
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stress response was immediate
in my body, my senses were
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keener, my blood pressure
went up, my pulse rate went up,
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my glucose shot into my system,
and I was back in that vehicle
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so fast, I'm thankful for the
stress response we just have to
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learn how to manage our
stress, and there are a few tips
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that we can do from there to
learn how to manage the stress
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but Dr. Thrash has a few things
now she wants to say about
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stress and I'll get back to
some really good suggestions.
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- Yes, I'd like to talk with
you about how diet is related to
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stress, you might think
well it's not very much related
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I eat and I don't feel stress,
or I eat and I don't feel
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sedated, but we do respond
quite a lot to the stresses
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of eating, if we eat to much
that's going to put excessive
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stress on us, if we use a lot
of sugar, that also puts a lot
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of stress on us, fats put
stress on us, now these kinds of
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stresses are not psychological,
they are bio-chemical stresses,
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they are just as real,
just as important to us and the
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total process of dealing with
stresses, just a important to us
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as those external stresses
that come through the mind
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or that come to us as a
whole person so pay attention
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to those.
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Now another thing is alcohol
and tobacco, if we use alcohol
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and tobacco we can be certain
that when the effect of these
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first sedatives and then
stimulants that you are going to
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be in stimulated
portion at some time.
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Tobacco first has a little
stimulatory phase and then a
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stress phase then a relax phase
and then a stress phase again,
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so it's stress, relax,
stress, so it goes in that way.
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You may have noticed when
you took that first smoke,
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that first puff, the first time
you ever smoked, you immediately
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had a sense of nausea, that's
because of the immediate stress
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portion of the tobacco response,
but eventually you are going to
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have that stress again, and
so what you need to do is leave
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off tobacco, alcohol,
caffeinated beverages and
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all of those and maintain
a very healthy body weight.
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Now to maintain a healthy
body weight is also something
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really easy to do if you
just want one thing that will
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help you to loose weight,
cut out the free fats, that's
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margarine, mayonnaise, fried
foods, cooking fats, salad oils,
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and even nut butters until
you are of a proper weight.
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If you will do that and
have two meals a day nothing
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in between meals, I can almost
guarantee that you will be of
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normal weight eventually
depending on how much you
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weigh at the beginning.
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So I hope that these things
can help you to know how food
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is involved.
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Now Dr. Miller has another very
interesting part, I'm going to
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let him tell you what it
is, it has to do with your
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expectations.
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- Ok! I'm going to give you two
things right now dealing with
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stress which are vitally
important, if you remember
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these two things besides the
thing I have already said about
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exercise neutralizing stress,
you are going to find a whole
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new way of looking at stress,
one is goals and expectations.
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We all set goals in our lives, I
remember when I was in graduate
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school a number of years ago
at the University of Okalahoma
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and the first test came, big
test, and my goal was of course
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always the goal is to Ace
the test, and that was my goal.
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But because the way I was,
I didn't know this right then
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this principle right then but I
was sort of working in this area
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anyway, my expectation was
very low, I want to get an A but
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I bet I failed this test, and
I remember the day they passed
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the test back, I'm sitting there
whimpering almost and the guy
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next to me, they passed the
test out, he looks at mine first
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he says what's your problem?
He passes the test to me,
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I had gotten a 98, now had
I set my goals extremely high
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and gotten a 70 and I
was expecting to get an A
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and I got a 70, I would
have been crushed, but as it was
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I was really happy when I saw
the fact that I had got a good
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grade on my test.
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So the goals and
expectation are very important.
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Some time ago I was traveling
I was down in Florida going
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back up to Alabama to Uchee
Pines and while I was gone they
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were working on a project
building a house that I was some
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day going to occupy and my goal
was that by the time I got back
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certain things would be done
but I had learned while I was
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in Florida taking a seminar
on stress, that if you set your
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goals really high and you don't
meet the goals it's going to
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cause stress.
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So my goal was a conscious
goal, we are to set high goals,
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you should have high
goals for yourself, my goal was
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that it would be almost
done but my expectation was,
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I shot really low, they didn't
even get to it, I was gone for
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a week they didn't even have
time to get to it, and so when
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I walked into the house, when
I saw that they put in a couple
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of windows and started some
insulation, I was unbelievably
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overjoyed.
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Now if I had kept my
expectations, my goals where
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the were with no low
expectations I would have been
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greatly disappointed, we
need to do that in our lives,
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set your high goals but realize
that you are not going to attain
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all your high goals, everyone
is not going to love you so
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when someone doesn't love you
don't be crushed by it because
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your expectation is people are
people, and humans are humans,
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and it's not
going to work that way.
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That was the first great
thing I want to give you,
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now here is the second one,
it's how we process our stress
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situation.
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Stress comes in two flavors,
we can have distress and
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we can have eustress,
distress is the negative type
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of stress, eustress is
the positive kind of stress,
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now I will tell you this
that all stress can be harmful.
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I heard about a woman one time
she had won some big lottery
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and it was one of those things
that they drive up to the door
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knock on her door and
she opens the door and say:
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"You just won this big prize,"
and you think that would be
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wonderful, great, you think
that would be eustress but she
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passed out and she died, she
died of a coronary because of
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this unbelievable amount of good
news, and bad news both could
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have the same response on the
body, so the deal is how do you
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process the stressful situation?
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It's not so much that you
have stress, because if you have
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stress you are going to
have a reaction to the stress.
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I was in a hotel not long
ago and I try to go to bed at an
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early hour, I was in bed
probably before ten o'clock,
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about one o'clock in the morning
I woke up because the person
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on the other side of the
wall had their television on
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pretty loud and I could hear
everything going on in there.
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Now my typical reaction to this
is what's wrong with this person
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why don't they turn down
their TV, bang on the wall,
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call the desk, do something,
but instead of doing this
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I processed it through some-
thing else and this is what
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it is, I lay there in bed I
say the person is really lonely
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I'm so thankful I'm not so
lonely, then I say well maybe
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the person is really in a
jet lag, they just came from the
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other side of the
world and they can't sleep.
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I've been there and I know what
it's like, so they are watching
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the television or maybe they
are anxious about something,
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or they've had some great
sorrow or tragedy in their lives
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and this is the only way they
can block out the pain because
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whatever it was that they
are playing, I heard a lot of
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laughter from the television
so they just needed to be
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overjoyed or encouraged so
as I processed it through the
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filter of this person has a
problem, my stress went away
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and I found my reaction
was praying for the person
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in the next room.
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Another situation, I was
traveling one time, I had taken
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someone to the airport in
Atlanta, turned around and
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heading back to Uchee Pines
in Alabama and as you come down
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the road, there is a place
you can either go on down to
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Interstate 85 or take 285
up to the west side of Atlanta,
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and for some reason I turned
north on 285 and immediately
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the stress response was there,
you fool why did you do this
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stupid thing and I remember
as soon as I started berating
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myself in the stressful
situation and I processed it
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in a different way, I
talked to the Lord I said Lord,
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I realize that when we get to
heaven you are going to show us
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all the reasons why things went
wrong in our lives and sometimes
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there a great blessing but I
say just once I'd like to see
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this happening in my life,
I would like to know why I do
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these stupid things, I
took the next exit crossed over,
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got right back on, went
down 285, as soon as I got on 85
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a man let a hitch
hiker out and the Lord says,
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"That's the reason."
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The reason why I took the
exit wrong was because God had
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something planned for me, a
few minutes later had I been on
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down the road I would have
missed this opportunity and I
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picked up this hitch hiker
and we had the most wonderful
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conversation, I took him
all the way to the city that he
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was going, way past my exit,
and was able to talk to him
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about the Lord, and by the time
we got done with this particular
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trip, he said you know I
was coming down here to do thus
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and such but I think I need
to go back home again and get
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back with the Lord.
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So my distress was turned to
eustress because I learned how
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to process it
through a better way.
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A number of years ago you might
remember an airplane crashed
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upon taking off from Miami
into the Everglades and after
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that happened you hear about
a number of stories about people
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who had not made
their flight that morning,
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one man in particular, he
was on the way to the airport,
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he wanted to make this
flight, I think it was going to
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Birmingham or maybe Nashville
and on the way to the flight
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he got a flat tire, the guy
was completely stressed out.
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Now had he known these
principles he could have said
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there is a reason for this flat
tire and I'm not going to allow
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the stress to become distress,
I'm going to say Lord there is
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something in this, well he
missed his flight and then when
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he heard on the radio a
short time later that his flight
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that he missed because of
his flat tire, completely buried
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itself in the Everglades,
he now had a new way to process
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his stress.
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Driving down the road, how many
times did this happen to you
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you are driving down the
highway and someone cuts you off
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immediately your
reaction is Urrr! you get angry,
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you want to sit there and pass
them and cut them off perhaps,
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you are not that far in
your Christian walk, or whatever
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it might be, but I have
this happen quite often.
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I've learned how to process
it differently now and here is
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the way I process it,
one way it could be well,
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it's a little old lady,
and it could be my mother,
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let her do it, put someone
that you love in that car
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you are going to find that
you react to it a little bit
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differently, or they just
didn't see me they don't know
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what they are doing, or
they are in a hurry, they are
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stressed out this morning,
back off and let them go,
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but another one that really
helps me is how many times
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have I done that stupid
thing so what I do, I will pray
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for the person up there.
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Sometimes if they go speeding
by me and cut me off and keep
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on speeding I turn it into
eustress by saying he's going
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to run interference for
me and he will get the ticket
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by the highway patrolman parked
up there and I'll be able to
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drive right on by
smiling in my eustress.
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So there's a way to process
stress that will help us not
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to make it so damaging to the
body because when we get into
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stress situations if we handle
it wrong it suppresses our
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immune system, it weakens our
whole body, it sets us up for
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diseases and we don't need
diseases, we need to let the
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Lord tell us Dr. Thrash, this
is happening for a good reason
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and I'll take care of you in it.
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- Very good! Now I also
hope Brother Miller that you
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apologize to the Lord
for calling yourself a fool
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because that makes you have
stress when you think bad things
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about yourself, that makes you
have the kind of stress that is
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best not to have, it's difficult
to process that kind of stress.
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So as you make mistakes realize
that that is the lot of human
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beings and we're
going to make some mistakes.
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Now there are treatment things
that we can do for the symptoms
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that we get from stress and I
have a number of these I'd like
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to just go over with you,
one is that for a person who is
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really suffering with their
stresses try using some ways
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of handling sleep difficulties.
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If you have insomnia there are
several things you know to do
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one is exercise, so for stress
you exercise, you also know
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that if you have a comfortable
bed this can help you to deal
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with a sleep problem, it
will also help you with a stress
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problem, if you have some
herbs that you take for sleep
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they will also help you with
stress problems and some of the
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herbs that I like to use
for sleep are Catnip, Hops,
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Skullcap, Valerian
Root, and St. John's Wort.
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Now St. John's Wort is probably
my favorite prescription for
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people who have a sleep
problem, if they will make their
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St. John's Wort just a
one time a day dose instead of
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all through the day it will
help them greatly with their
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sleep.
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Sometimes people who
have stresses they take
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St. John's Wort for depression
all the through the day,
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that's fine, but if it's just
sleep just take it at night.
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The next group of things
to do is that that has do with
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anti-inflammation, since we
become inflamed with the stress
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process then a neutral
bath or a hot bath can be very
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helpful to dissipate
inflammation, again there are
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some anti-inflammatory
herbs one of those is flax seed
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and flax seed oil, two
tablespoons of freshly ground
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flax and that should be freshly
ground because if it's ground
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and stored for awhile, the
storing of the flax causes the
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rather tender fat of flax to
make some changes that are not
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so helpful, so you need to
take it while it is very fresh.
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Then some sedative herbs,
sedative herbs are a little
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different from the sleep
herbs in that they are sometimes
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milder, but catnip is probably
my favorite set of the sedative
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herbs I like that very much,
but you can also use Lobelia
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in small doses, that's very
good for it's sedative factor.
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Valerian root is also very
good in small quantities can be
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nicely beneficial there.
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For the depression we mentioned
St. John's Wort, that is a very
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good one for stress, for the
depression that comes in stress
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but you can also use a
number of others: Kava is a very
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good one, sometimes some
like Couch Grass can be used,
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and Marshmallow Root, that
can be used, it's very good for
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stresses.
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Now those things that are good
for the brain, since the problem
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with stresses is largely a
nervous system problem then
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anything that can improve the
functioning of the brain would
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certainly be helpful in stress.
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Let me mention just Evening
Primrose Oil, very good for the
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brain, but especially good
is Ginkgo, now if you have read
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some reports in the medical
literature that Ginkgo is not
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effective, you can forget those
because Ginkgo is effective
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and medical doctors are not
usually capable of setting up
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a very well designed program
or project for examining an
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herb, they should let
those who are agriculturists and
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horticulturists and herbalists
be the ones who set up those
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kinds of projects because most
of us who are medical doctors
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don't really understand
herbs well enough to be able to
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make a good report, or a good
project on the testing of herbs.
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So feel free to use Ginkgo,
it is non toxic you can use it
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nicely it is used for a number
of different kinds of things.
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Now I mentioned for you
the non-stress foods, there are
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a number of those, largely they
are vegetarian foods, the people
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who are vegetarians tend
even as national vegetarians,
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they tend to be more calm
than people who eat a lot of
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heavy spices, especially hot and
irritating spices, irritating
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vinegars and a lot of animal
products, but in countries
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where animal products are
used very little and the diet is
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largely composed of fruits,
vegetables, whole grains, nuts,
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and seeds, in these countries
and in these families tend to be
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more calm than in families or
in countries where they tend to
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eat a stimulatory
and inflammatory diet.
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Don't forget that there are
a number of beverages that are
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inflammatory and stimulatory
these include all the brown
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drinks coffee, tea, colas,
and chocolate they are naturally
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stimulatory, they also have
some anti-physical properties
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that make them so that they
deteriorate the physical health
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such as increasing our
risk for getting cancer and
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increasing our risk for
certain mental disorders.
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Now in dealing with the matter
of stress bear in mind that it
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is self limited, when the
Lord comes, and He's coming soon
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our stresses will be all done,
we will then just have a happy
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experience of going home to
be with our lovely Savior until
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we have fulfilled all eternity.
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