Hello! Stress is a
normal component of life
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and some people
handle it well, some people
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don't handle it so well.
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If you would like to
learn more about stress
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and how you can deal
with it, stay with us
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I think you will
enjoy our program today.
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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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Stress affects
people in different ways,
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some people take it right in
stride, they are what we call
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laid back
people, but other people,
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even a small amount of stress
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just really
affects them strongly.
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Now how can we be
those who are laid back,
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who have no problem with stress?
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Well let me just talk with
you some about the way that
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people handle stress,
and also what we can do
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to alleviate some of the
actual diseases that we get
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from having excessive
stress, and also the diseases
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that come on because we
don't handle stress well.
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Some stresses are stresses
whether we handle them or not.
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But, I would like for us
to understand a few things
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about stress that can
make handling it much easier.
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I order to do this I
have asked my colleague
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at Uchee Pines Rhonda
Clark to be with me today
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and Rhonda
welcome to the program,
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and I would like to find
out what you do at Uchee Pines.
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-Well I work in
the Lifestyle Center
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in the office doing telephone
counseling with people who call
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with medical questions.
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- Very good, you have a
qualified background for that
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being an R.N., very good,
you will talk with us about
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something
concerning stress today.
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- Yes! Some of you
may have heard the saying
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exercise neutralizes
stress, and I wanted to share
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today a little bit
about why that is so.
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Indeed exercise is the
perfect antidote for stress,
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but to understand
why, we need to understand
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a little bit about what
happens physiologically to us
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as we undergo stress.
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When we see of are exposed
to something that elicits
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a stress response to us,
our body makes stress hormones
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adrenaline, nor-adrenaline,
are a couple of examples.
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These pour into our
blood stream, and they make
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our muscles tense so that
we have quicker reaction times,
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they make our senses keener,
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they suppress the digestive
system so more blood and energy
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can be provided to
the muscular system,
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and raise our blood
pressure, our heart rate,
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our respiratory rate,
even our blood sugar elevates
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to provide more fuel for muscles
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This is gearing our bodies up
for what you may have heard of
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fight or flight.
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In prolonged stress conditions
another stress hormone
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called cortisol is released,
cortisol continues to keep
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the blood sugar level
elevated to continue providing
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a source of fuel, but it
does another interesting thing,
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it makes the cells
themselves resistant to insulin.
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Insulin is a hormone that
takes glucose into the cell
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to be used for fuel, and I
liken it to under an emergency
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situation, gathering
the resources, but then
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putting the cells on rations
because the body interprets this
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stressor as a long haul.
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If stress is prolonged,
disease conditions can result,
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if your constantly
elevated blood pressure,
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elevated blood pressure,
elevated blood pressure
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with stress, you can
develop a chronic hypertension.
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The constant levels of
elevated blood sugar can lead to
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diabetes, weight gain,
the muscle tension leads to
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chronic headaches, chronic
aching and pain syndromes,
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a TMJ, where the jaw muscle
is tight and grinding the teeth
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at night, these are
things that can result.
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The suppression of the digestive
system can lead to ulcers,
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constipation, or chronic
conditions of the abdomen.
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So why then this
exercise so effective,
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exercise is the
perfect neutralizer of stress,
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because it does the very
thing that the body has been
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gearing up to do.
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The body has been gearing up to
fight or to escape the stressor,
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both of which are
physically active responses.
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When we have a
normal stress reaction,
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something frightens
us, or gives us stress,
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these stress hormones
come into our body into our
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blood stream, as we have
the opportunity to escape
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or get away from the stressor,
these hormones are burned off
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and we return to a normal state.
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In chronic stress, we have
the stressor but we get hung up
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in this cycle, we have more
of these hormones pumping in
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constantly,
constantly, with no relief,
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exercise brings the relief,
when we exercise our body
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undergoes the same
physiological conditions it does
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under stress, with
exercise our heart rate goes up
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our blood pressure goes up,
our respiratory rate goes up,
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our blood sugar is elevated
temporarily for the purpose of
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helping us burn it off.
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Our senses are keener, our
muscles react more quickly,
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exercise begins that same
cycle, but brings it around
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to completion.
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When we exercise, we
burn off those stress hormones
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we burn off that extra
blood sugar, and bring our body
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back down to a normal state.
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If we exercise regularly
we begin to condition our body
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to respond better to
stress, to more easily recover
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from stressors.
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This is why exercise is such
a perfect antidote to stress,
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not only after exercise you may
have noticed that you feel warm
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and relaxed, you have
a clear mind, in addition
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to just helping to get
relief a good exercise session
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helps you sweat, which helps
relieve waste from the body
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time spent out exercising,
can be time that you commune
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with the Lord, or process
through things that are giving
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you stress, so for many
reasons exercise is the perfect
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antidote for stress Dr. Thrash,
and I appreciate the opportunity
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to share that with you today.
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- Yes it's a very needed thing,
and people need to understand
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that exercise can
indeed neutralize stress.
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I have another colleague
who has made a study of stress
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and he will talk with you
about some of those things
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that can really help
you with the stress process,
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that is Dr. Don
Miller, thank you for being
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on the program today, and
you are going to talk with us
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something about attitudes.
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- Attitudes has a
lot to do with stress,
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and the best way to
talk about it is to give you
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basically some of
my own case histories.
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You have a thing called stress,
Rhonda just talked about stress
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Dr. Thrash just talked
about stress, we are surrounded
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by things called
stressors, it's our reaction
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to the stressor,
that causes us stress.
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There are some things
that don't bother other people
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and so it doesn't
cause them stress,
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let me just give you
one example to begin with.
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I was in the Marine
Corp for many years,
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got out and moved
to a farm in Missouri,
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outside my second story
bedroom window there was a large
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cedar tree, now I don't know
what it was doing in that tree,
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it sounded like
it was in that tree,
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it might have not been
in that tree, but out there
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somewhere in the
darkness was a Whip-poor-will.
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This Whip-poor-will
had a constant call,
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you know what they sound
like, it would do that non-stop
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for hours, that
caused me unbelievable stress
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because I like it dark, quiet,
cool and neat it my bedroom.
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That bird drove me crazy, it
was causing me lots of stress,
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and that went on for some weeks.
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One day I received
in the mail a magazine,
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I was living in Missouri,
they've got a magazine for
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everyone who
lives in Missouri called
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The Missouri Conservationist,
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in that magazine, was an
article about that very bird
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giving me the
stress outside my window
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and one of the things
it said in this article
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is that the Whip-poor-will in
one night eats more mosquitoes
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than a purple
martin does, in a lifetime.
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Stress was gone, because
there is nothing worse to me
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than that buzzz sound at
night time, with the mosquitoes
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flying by your ear, and so
as soon as I changed my attitude
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about that bird, it kept
on singing that same song,
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it would sing it as non-stop,
it would sing it just as loud,
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it would sing it every night,
it never again caused me the
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problem, my mind was changed,
now that was not so much
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a voluntary thing,
that happened from reading.
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But after
learning this principle...
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I was in a hotel one
time, late at night, I am asleep
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I like my sleep, I
like it quiet when I sleep,
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in the middle of the
night someone on the other side
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of the wall, no more than
twelve inches from my head,
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clicked on the
television set, loud, some show
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that had a lot of laughing
going on, so all you hear is
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Oh, ho, ho, ho, going on,
just twelve inches from my head
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stress levels rising, I'm
getting upset with this problem
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and then I thought wait a
minute, now I've got to find
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a way to turn my
distress, into you stress.
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I've got to look what is going
on in the other side of the room
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from the person watching
this program's stand point.
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So I started putting
myself in his shoes, I say ok,
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maybe he's like me, he travels
a lot, he just came across many
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zones, he is in serious jet
lag, he's laying there in bed
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at 2:00, 3:00 in the
morning, nothing to do,
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turns on the television, to
help him get through the night.
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I can understand that,
my stress level went down
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or maybe the person in
the next room has just had a
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real tragedy in his life,
he's in a hotel because his wife
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just kicked him out, or
he's had a death in the family
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and he's there for the
funeral, whatever it could be,
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the person is having a
struggle, and so the laughter,
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which we realize is a great way
to make yourself feel better,
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is helping him over
this hump in his life.
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That made my
stress level down to zero,
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now neither of those
things may have been true,
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he may have just wanted to
watch television in the middle
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of the night, but that was
ok, it was my conscious decision
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to look at the
problem in a different way.
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So what we have to do,
is when we see a stressor
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and we've got them all around
us, we've got to find out a way
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to turn it from something
that is going to hurt us,
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because stress damages
the body, we get in stressful
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situations as Rhonda described
we have a stress response
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and that is good, short
term stress is good for us,
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it's been put into
our bodies for a purpose.
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I will give you
another example if I may,
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I was walking down
the street one morning
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early in the
morning, out by Uchee Pines,
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there is a large country
road, I like to take my morning
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prayer walks, and I
recommend this for you.
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If you wake up in the
morning and you are praying,
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and you are kneeling there
by your bed, and you are praying
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and [snore], you are back
to sleep again, you wake up
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an hour later, that's not
so nice to fall asleep in front
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of the King, and so I have
a short prayer to begin with,
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get dressed and then I
take what I call my prayer walk.
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So I am walking down the
street having a good time,
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it is early in the morning,
it is dark, there is a house
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right up ahead, and there
is a fence around this house,
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the fence is still there, a
high fence, for a good reason,
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inside the fence dwells a
Rottweiler, and if you know
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what a Rottweiler is,
it's one of those types of dogs
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that would like to eat a
person like me for breakfast.
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So I'm walking down the road,
and I just casually glance over
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they have a night light in
their yard, and the gate is open
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stress begins to
leak in, a few more steps,
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I hear the sound of both
the dog running and that low
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thunderous issues forth
from his chest, my stress level
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now is maxed out, my eyes
are dilated, my blood pressure
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just went up, my respiration,
my heartbeat is raising,
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my blood is going to my muscles,
I am blanched, my digestion
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has stopped, everything
is ready for fight or flight,
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I know I can't outrun
this dog he is right there,
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and I can't fight the dog, I
could try but probably have a
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hard time with it, so now
what do you do with this stress?
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Yes exercise would be
good in this case, to run
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but you just sit there
and run just ahead of those
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gaping jaws, which
will finally get you.
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So I try to do something else,
and if you have a hard time
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with stress,
stressful situation,
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here is what I recommend
you do, you go to the Lord,
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He has promised to
deliver us from our problems
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and so what I did with this
dog is I quoted a Bible verse,
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It's found in Exodus 11:7,
and I paraphrased for the dog
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because he didn't understand
King James and so I said
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the Bible says, I held up
my hand and said the Bible says
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an Egyptian dog shall not wag
his tongue against an Israelite,
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and that dog stopped
right there dead in his tracks,
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he just stopped right
at the edge of the road,
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and I just walked on by.
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So when you get into
these stressful situations
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and we're all surrounded
by them, no matter what it is
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we're to go to the Lord,
and say Lord I can't handle
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this piece of stress,
whether it's something happening
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in the family,
something in your environment,
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take it to the Lord, and
say Lord help me look at this
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thing a little bit differently,
if we can place ourselves
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in someone else's shoes,
and find out what might...
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Because usually our stressors
are coming from other people,
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put yourself in their
position and try to look at them
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in a little bit different light,
and I have found for myself,
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it really helps.
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You are driving down the road...
we have this thing called
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Road Rage, you've all heard
about this, well work keeps you
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from getting into road rage.
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As you are driving down
the road, and all of a sudden
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this car [zoom] pulls
over right in front of you,
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and that usually makes
your knuckles get real white
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and you are wanting to
say a few choice words.
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But you have to look
at it in a different way,
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maybe this is somebody
who themselves is under
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great stress, or on
their way to the hospital,
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whatever it might be,
look at them in a different way
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or just back off and say
Lord help that poor person.
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I find that as I give
these things to the Lord,
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and as I quit looking
at them in a negative way,
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my stress is not nearly as high.
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Stress makes you
get older faster,
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stress makes you get
sicker more, stress has a lot
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of problems, it wears out
the forces, and Dr. Thrash
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time goes fast enough as it
is, I don't think we need to
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make it accelerate
it any by getting into
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stressful situations.
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- Yes, I quite agree, I
think that what you have shared
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is really quite good,
and taking things to the Lord
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may not result in a miracle
for you as it did with the
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stopping of the Rottweiler,
but certainly taking it
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to the Lord can give
you through His guidance
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the path that you should take,
in order to avoid being stressed
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by the stressor.
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Let us take a look at some
of the things of the nervous
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system that can help us to
know why this thing of stress
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can have such a
pervasive effect on the body.
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Let's just take a look
at some of the things that
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we have here: The first
thing is the spinal nerves,
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we have all of these
spinal nerves that come out
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from the spinal column,
and they have been traveling
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through the spinal cord,
which is a cross section of
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which is shown here, some of
these nerves are coming out from
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but some are going
into the spinal cord,
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you can see how
many of these there are,
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they are throughout the
body, in fact what we are seeing
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here is just a mere fraction
of how many there really are
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in the body, then on this
side, we see something else.
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Here is this spinal
cord, this is the mid-brain,
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and here we have the spinal
cord, and then we have these
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ganglia that you can
see here on both sides.
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These have to do with
the running of things,
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the first ones that I
showed you had to do with
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motor activity, or the
working of our muscles,
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and the receiving of sensory
impulses from the outside.
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But these have to do with the
running of the various organs
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of the body, the pancreas,
the liver, the stomach,
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the colon, the small bowel,
even such things as the heart
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beat and respiration, all of
these are under the influence
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of this part of
the nervous system.
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So you can see why it
is that so much of the body
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the skeletal system, the
muscles, as well as all of the
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internal organs, these are all
involved in the nervous system.
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But the part that is the
cap of it all is the brain,
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here we have a most
marvelous mechanism,
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in fact some who have spent
a lifetime studying this organ,
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say that it is more complex,
than the entire universe.
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If it is then we can expect
that one person would never
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learn it all, in one lifetime.
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Let's just take a look
at some of the anatomy,
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the function of it, and
even the microscopic anatomy:
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Even the gross description
of this organ, is more...
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we just don't know
what so much of it means,
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but here is one hemisphere
and here is the other,
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with a portion cut
off from the front part.
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Here is what is called the
hind brain, or the cerebellum,
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and the cerebellum has only
to do only with, maybe only,
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with the
coordination of movements,
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and the way that we
can do a smooth movement
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is under the
control of the cerebellum.
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Now you can see a faint shadow
right here, this is what we call
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the hippocampus and it
has to do with... and the
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thalamus, and this has to
do with various parts of the
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control of many of our functions
like blood pressure, thoughts,
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and anything that comes
into the thalamus, can make
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quite and important
change in the way that we think.
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Notice how complex the
blood vessel system is,
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here we have the vertebral
arteries that come up to make
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the vascular artery, and then
we have three major branches
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of this vascular artery,
as it makes what is called
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the Circle of Willis, not
only the vertebral arteries
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are involved here, but also
the internal carotid arteries.
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So there are four places where
the Circle of Willis can get
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its blood supply.
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Why did the Lord give us such
an elaborate way to just see
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the blood supply of the brain?
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Well it is because without
this elaborate blood supply
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we could get a serious
problem by blockage of just
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one of these, let's say we have
one of the vertebral arteries
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cut, then we still have three
other ways that we can supply
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blood to the Circle of Willis.
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Now we also have several
coverings, the meninges are here
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the dura is here,
it's absolutely marvelous.
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But let's take a look at
what is done in various areas,
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Broca's area, that's this area
right here, is where speech is
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interpreted, but where we
do speech, is with the tongue
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the larynx, the lips, in this
area, so we do, do speech here,
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we understand what
speech is about here.
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Then we have the
nose, the eye lid, the brow,
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the fingers and the
index finger is a large part
00:21:08.44\00:21:13.33
of the brain, and all these
other parts, have to do with
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the movement of the brain,
then the sensory portion of
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the brain which senses
the various sensations that we
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can sense from
the outside world.
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Many different places
where we do specific things
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in the brain, and the
little brain cells themselves
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are complex enough that we
could spend probably two days
00:21:39.81\00:21:43.74
just studying the complexity
of the brain cells themselves
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to say nothing of the total
gross anatomy of the brain,
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what a wonderful thing
that it is that God made mind.
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So with this background
of Anatomy and Physiology
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let me just tell you
what Dr. Hans Celia who was a
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Canadian physician
back in the 1940's,
00:22:08.27\00:22:12.37
did a lot of study on
stress and he found a number
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of disorders and conditions
that were related to stress
00:22:17.59\00:22:22.15
angina, asthma, various cancers,
cardio vascular disease,
00:22:22.18\00:22:29.10
auto-immune diseases,
colds, depression, diabetes,
00:22:29.13\00:22:34.66
headaches, hypertension,
reduced immune system function,
00:22:34.69\00:22:38.46
irritable bowel syndrome,
menstrual irregularities,
00:22:38.49\00:22:42.08
pre-menstrual
syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis,
00:22:42.11\00:22:45.39
ulcerative colitis,
ulcers, and on and on.
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There's hardly an end to
the things that can be caused
00:22:48.46\00:22:54.09
by stresses, therefore if
you have some kind of strange
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disorder in your body, you
wonder why you are having it
00:22:57.94\00:23:02.14
look at this matter
of stresses in your body.
00:23:02.17\00:23:05.82
See if there are those things
that you need to change your
00:23:05.85\00:23:09.74
attitude about, as Dr.
Miller was saying, that
00:23:09.77\00:23:13.02
just a change in attitude
can sometimes make quite
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a difference in the
way that you are stressed,
00:23:16.49\00:23:20.10
by a certain stressor.
00:23:20.13\00:23:22.10
Now we have learned through
the years since Dr. Hans Celis
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back in the 1940's
first described stress,
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and all of it's ramifications,
we have learned a number
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of things to do,
one thing is the diet,
00:23:34.02\00:23:36.55
cut out the caffeine, and it's
relatives, that would be coffee,
00:23:36.58\00:23:41.68
tea, colas, and chocolate.
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These can intensify the reaction
that you have to stress,
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then alcohol, refined foods,
those foods that are stimulatory
00:23:48.85\00:23:54.67
like hot spices,
those should all be cut out,
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if you know any food
that you are allergic to,
00:23:58.02\00:24:00.18
you should cut that
one out, because that can
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intensify the reaction
that you have to stress.
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Be regular, in all your
habits, go to bed on time,
00:24:05.94\00:24:10.26
get up on time,
eat your meals on time,
00:24:10.29\00:24:12.36
exercise on time,
go to work on time,
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do as many things on a
timed schedule as you can.
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Now you may say, but I don't
know how to handle my time,
00:24:19.63\00:24:23.24
well there are some tips
that I can give you about
00:24:23.27\00:24:26.06
how to handle time:
one is set your priorities
00:24:26.09\00:24:30.32
for what you can do,
you can't do everything,
00:24:30.35\00:24:32.34
but there are some
things that you can do
00:24:32.37\00:24:35.69
in the time that you have.
00:24:35.72\00:24:37.86
Pray for guidance, that
the Lord will help you to know
00:24:37.89\00:24:41.28
what is that most important
thing that you should do now
00:24:41.31\00:24:44.91
and as you do that you can
set priorities through prayer.
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Then organize your day, you
can do that with a pen and paper
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those thing that you must
do they must be done today
00:24:54.10\00:24:57.27
without fail, put those
things at the top of the list
00:24:57.30\00:25:00.04
and you will recognize
that you will need to do those
00:25:00.07\00:25:03.21
before you go to bed.
00:25:03.24\00:25:05.04
Then you should
decide what can be neglected,
00:25:05.07\00:25:08.93
there are a few things
that you don't have to do today
00:25:08.96\00:25:12.50
they can be done
at some later time.
00:25:12.53\00:25:14.91
Make a list of
those, they have to be done,
00:25:14.94\00:25:17.39
they should be done in
the next day or so perhaps,
00:25:17.42\00:25:19.67
make a list of those, but
they don't have to be done today
00:25:19.70\00:25:22.57
if you get some of them done
fine, but otherwise you may need
00:25:22.60\00:25:27.38
to put those off
to a much later time.
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If you need to hire
an assistant to help you,
00:25:29.99\00:25:33.70
perhaps you need some
help with housekeeping,
00:25:33.73\00:25:35.34
you seem somehow not to be
able to keep your house neat
00:25:35.37\00:25:40.14
and clean and orderly,
you may need an assistant.
00:25:40.17\00:25:43.50
If you get such an
assistant, help them to know how
00:25:43.53\00:25:46.58
you want things done, because
an assistant who does things
00:25:46.61\00:25:50.68
in a way that you don't
like that may be worse than not
00:25:50.71\00:25:54.06
having an assistant at all.
00:25:54.09\00:25:55.88
You should accept the way
that others interact with you,
00:25:55.91\00:26:00.97
let's say that your neighbor
is always going to ignore you
00:26:01.00\00:26:04.52
at certain times,
don't let that stress you out
00:26:04.55\00:26:07.80
just think about that but
some of these days she will be
00:26:07.83\00:26:10.97
nice and socialable and
I'll wait for that time,
00:26:11.00\00:26:16.37
an I'll work for that
time but in the mean time,
00:26:16.40\00:26:18.84
I'll accept the fact that she
is just not maybe very social
00:26:18.87\00:26:22.94
or maybe she just
doesn't like me for some reason.
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If there are some tough
jobs that you have to do today
00:26:27.09\00:26:33.61
when you pick them up don't put
them down before you do them,
00:26:33.64\00:26:37.88
sometimes you
will pick up something,
00:26:37.91\00:26:39.60
yes I know I have to do this
today, but I won't do it right
00:26:39.63\00:26:41.90
now, I'll put it down.
00:26:41.93\00:26:43.12
That's usually not the best
thing, if you have to pay a bill
00:26:43.15\00:26:48.03
or you have to answer a letter,
pick it up, you are already
00:26:48.06\00:26:51.41
handling it, while you
are handling it, go ahead and
00:26:51.44\00:26:54.51
finish it up, and put it
aside, chances are pretty good
00:26:54.54\00:26:58.43
that you will spend
less time on it if you do it
00:26:58.46\00:27:01.37
when you first pick it
up, then you will if you
00:27:01.40\00:27:04.62
just put it aside and hope that
some later time you will do it.
00:27:04.65\00:27:09.42
Hanging up clothes is
this way, take off your jacket,
00:27:09.45\00:27:11.87
hang it up, don't lay it
down, because when you have to
00:27:11.90\00:27:15.46
pick it up again and hang
it up, it will take longer.
00:27:15.49\00:27:18.74
Then another thing is to avoid
the drowsiness of the afternoon
00:27:18.77\00:27:25.17
put some running
around, maybe doing some errands
00:27:25.20\00:27:28.70
because if you start doing
your letter writing at that time
00:27:28.73\00:27:32.09
it will take much longer.
00:27:32.12\00:27:33.77
So do those things
that you can do on your feet
00:27:33.80\00:27:37.93
or going about and it
will be very pleasant for you.
00:27:37.96\00:27:41.95
Now I hope some of these
things on how to handle stresses
00:27:41.98\00:27:45.92
will be of eternal benefit
to you, because it can help you
00:27:45.95\00:27:49.87
to deal with this life,
and to draw closer to our Lord
00:27:49.90\00:27:53.70
may He bless you
in these matters.
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