Hello! We generally
think of eight laws of health
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but actually when we start
counting the laws that we know
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we find there are more.
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There are more
than maybe fifteen,
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there may be even more than
twenty, we'll be talking about
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some of these
overlooked laws of health,
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or frequently
overlooked laws of health.
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We hope you will join us, we
think you will enjoy considering
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some of these frequently
overlooked laws of health.
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Welcome to Help Yourself to
Health with Dr. Agatha Thrash
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of Uchee Pines Institute,
and now here is your host
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Dr. Thrash.
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I love living by law, I
love knowing about laws,
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think what it would be
like if we didn't know the laws
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having to do with sleep, with
rest, with food, with fresh air,
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we would be at sea with the
health, so I love living by law,
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I love studying about law.
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Not only physiologic law
that has to do with health
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but all manner of law, I like
to study the law that has to do
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with the starry heavens,
and I think if we enjoy studying
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about law, we can know
more about the nature of God
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because He has a character
that has a transcript of law,
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and so we would like to invite
you today to join us as we
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consider some of these wonderful
things about law the things
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having to do with
sort of overlooked laws.
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I'd like for Rhonda Clark
to join me and thank you Rhonda
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for being on our program today.
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- Glad to be here.
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- And you are going to talk with
us about some very interesting
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aspects of an overlooked law.
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- Yes!
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- What are you
going to talk about today?
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- Well I wanted to talk
about the principle of dress,
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It's interesting that how
we dress has a great deal to do
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with our health, and
there are principles of dressing
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that we have received through
Inspired Writings that science
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is showing are very important.
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What I specifically wanted to
focus on is how important it is
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that we dress with even
coverage over our bodies,
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not having a lot more layers
in one place with no layers
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in another,
especially important in covering
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the extremities.
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Our arms and legs have large
blood vessels that are intended
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to bring a rich blood
supply to our hands, fingers,
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all through our arms and legs
and yet often we leave these
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extremities completely uncovered
making those blood vessels
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stay in a state of constriction.
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When we have many layers
Dr. Thrash, I know you know
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that's where we have
vessels that are open, dilated,
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lot's of warmth there in those
areas, and then the areas where
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we have very few
layers, the vessels constrict,
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some of the little capillary
beds where oxygen and nutrient
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delivery takes place are
actually completely bypassed
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when the vessels are constricted
and things are very chilled.
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- It's interesting that
the anatomical structure of the
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blood vessels of the face which
is expected to be out in the
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open, that these vessels
are all together different from
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the vessels on the neck
which are down just below...
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just inches away
from the face and yet the
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architectural
pattern is different
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from the face to the
neck, so I think that
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is an indication to us that
the creator intended that we
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should respect certain parts of
the body by being more careful
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about the dress.
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- Yes, you know it's
not uncommon in someone
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who has left their
extremities uncovered frequently
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or regularly that they will have
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high blood pressure, and part
of this is because the heart is
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constantly having to push harder
to deliver blood through areas
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that are
tightened and constricted.
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It's also a common cause of
headache, uncovered extremities
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the way that the blood is
distributed has been changed.
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- Have you read about these
studies of certain polar bear
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clubs where they...
now my understanding is
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they take a warm sauna,
they are breathing warm air,
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they get all sweaty and then
if I'm not mistaken they run
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out and roll in the
snow or bathe in the ocean,
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and a study was done of these
individuals and it was found
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that among these athletes,
these hardy ones, these very
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macho people, that they
had more hypertension than the
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general population by far
more than double the population
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of hypertensives.
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- Hmm that's so interesting.
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- That helped me to know I was
on the right track by keeping
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my extremities warm and
by not enjoying a cold plunge
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into icy water.
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- It makes me think to
when our extremities are chilled
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not only can we not
deliver a good circulation,
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our heart is trying very hard
to push some circulation there
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for oxygen and nutrients to
be delivered to these tissues
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but waste products in
those tissues accumulate.
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One of the ones that is
most concerning is potassium,
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when the extremities accumulate
levels of potassium and then
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they become warmed, large
amounts of potassium can enter
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the blood stream and as
these reach the delicate organs
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especially the heart,
they can cause an irritation.
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The heart can actually beat
irregularly as a response to the
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re-warming of the extremities
that have been chilled for
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some period of time.
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This is another reason why
tight bands in our clothing
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are concerning, they act
very much as chilling does,
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to restrict circulation
to parts of our bodies below
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that band allowing very limited
delivery of oxygen and nutrients
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and restricting the
release of waste products to be
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brought back up in
normal volumes and eliminated.
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- This then could account
for the increased probability
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that we will have arrhythmias
or heart rhythm disturbances,
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they complain of it
more when they go to bed.
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- Yes!
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- It's not only that
they can be more aware of it
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because there are fewer
distractions, but it is also
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because there are actually
more arrhythmias, the potassium
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coming back into the
blood stream goes to the heart,
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triggers an arrhythmia.
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- Yeah, it's important to
keep our extremities covered
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and to dress in layers where
we have equal layers, having
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to many layers in an
area can be equally harmful,
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there is some interesting
research being done in
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breast cancer, that as there
are heavier layers over the
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chest, and the breasts are
kept warmer than the other areas
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of the body, there's a greater
increase of breast cancer.
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So having equal coverage
over the course of our body
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is really that which is
best for our good health.
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- I often tell people who
come to the south, they say oh
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how can you stand this
heat, well when I see the way
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they dress, I can understand
why they are having a problem
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with the heat in the south
because the first thing they do
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in the morning, they wake up
and they think oh this is cool
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and nice, this is shorts
and halters weather and so they
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put on their shorts and halters
and their limbs are exposed
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to the air, and if you
just go up and touch their arms
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in this area, you can
tell that the back of the arm
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is a little chilled, so I
tell these people who come from
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other parts of the
world to the south.
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In the morning dress as
warmly as you possibly can,
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not to be so uncomfortable
that you are just pouring off
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sweat, and if people will
do this on a regular basis
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they will find that by 3:00
in the afternoon when it really
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gets hot in Alabama, then you
can remove the outside clothing
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that you've put on and
you feel quite comfortable.
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But if you acclimatize
your extremities to the Arctic
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at 7:00 in the morning,
by 3:00 in the afternoon
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you have nowhere to go, you
just hope you can retire to the
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air conditioning and
be comfortable in it.
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So I think that's an
illustration of how we dress
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in a wrong way, whereas
if we studied the matter
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and dressed accordingly we
could be much better at this
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matter of finding some
of these hidden laws, these
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frequently overlooked laws
of health, and that is one,
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thank you so much.
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- You're sure welcome.
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- I appreciate that.
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Now another thing I like to
do is to put on multiple layers
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such as might be with these
leg warmers, now leg warmers
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can be simple like these, or
I've seen them where they are
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quite fancy with gold threads
or silver threads and lots of
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embroidery and really
quite elegant garments but these
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leg warmers are simply
utilitarian and I don't guess
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they look to bad, but
these can be layered on
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over long johns and then when
it warms up then these can be
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removed, or if you go indoors,
you've been outdoors and you've
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needed these then when you
come indoors, just as a sweater
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these can be taken off
the legs and then you can keep
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the extremities
quite warm in this way.
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Warmed extremities are
healthful in a number of ways
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just as Rhonda pointed
out, breast cancer and other
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breast diseases are known to
be more common in women who have
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customarily chilled extremities.
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Now Dr. Donald Miller is also
going to join us with some of
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these frequently overlooked
laws of health, Dr. Miller
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I see that you have a problem.
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- I have a sore foot,
- You have a sore foot.
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- I have a sore foot. -
How long has it been sore?
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- Well that's a good question,
that's a good question to be
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asked, whenever someone
tells me they have a problem
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the first thing I say
is, how long have you had it,
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did anything happen at
the beginning of it that might
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precipitate
what your problem is.
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Now this is going to be a law
of health that I have not really
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spoken about when I teach this
class, but as I think about it
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this is a very
important law of health.
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Let me just explain
what this person's problem is
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the person has a sore foot,
and so he goes to the doctor
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and says doctor my foot
hurts and the doctor says,
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I've got just the thing for
you we'll give you a little shot
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of pain killer and that
will take care of your problem
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and the guy says I really
don't want to take any shots
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of pain killer.
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So he goes to a second doctor
and he says doc I've got a very
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painful foot, and the
doctor says I got just the thing
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for you, take a handful of
these pain medications and that
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will take care of your problem
of the pain in your foot.
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He may have thought I don't
want to take all of these pills
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and so he goes to a third
doctor and the third doctor says
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here just the thing you
need, here's a nice cane,
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when you walk you can lean
on it an don't put quite as much
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pressure on that foot and
it will make you feel better.
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He may have thought I don't
want to have to carry a cane,
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I've got a pain in my foot,
so he goes to the fourth doctor.
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I would hate to go to this
doctor if I had a headache,
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so he goes to the fourth doctor
and says I've got just the thing
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for you, what we'll do is
we'll just take the foot off
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and you'll have no
more pain in the foot.
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Well I'm glad I don't have a
headache, the guy goes jumping
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out of the office on that one.
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He goes to the fifth doctor
he says doctor I got this pain
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in my foot could you help me?
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The doctor says hmmm!
How long have you had this
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problem, and then he says
how about lets remove your shoe
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and he takes the shoe off and
what do we find down in the shoe
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but a large stone, that
was the cause of the pain.
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So what's the law of health
here, the law of health is
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reason from cause to effect.
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Try to figure out using
your common sense, why don't I
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feel well, now we can
start to drink lots of water,
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going to sleep on time, we
should be doing these things
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anyway but the curse without
a cause the Bible says will not
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come, we look back
and try to find the rock.
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What was it in my lifestyle,
what was it in the last few days
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that caused me to have
this problem, once we find that
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problem out, we have a better
opportunity of removing what
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ever that cause was.
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You know I see people, and
I used to do the same thing
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I would get sick and I
really don't do anything else
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about it, I don't look back
and see the fact that I just
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pigged out on ice cream
or candy a couple days before
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and so I continue these
things, as a matter of fact I'm
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always amazed, I remember
one of my earliest memories
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I had had a tonsillectomy
when I was a child unfortunately
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and I remember being in the
hospital bed, I must have been
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two and a half, three years
old but I still remember this.
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The person came to my bed
and said, after the operation,
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what would you like to
eat, you can have anything?
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- What's a three
year old going to say?
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- I don't know what it was that
I said but I told him something
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and he said you can't have
that, you can only have Jell-O
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and I said ok I'll take
it, and I told him my favorite,
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probably lime Jell-O, and
he said you can't have that,
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it boiled down to
one type of Jell-O.
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But when you think about what
Jell-O is, it's highly sugared
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gelatin in a water base which
basically is going to cause
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the same problem that caused
my tonsils to swell up to try to
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fight whatever's problem because
my immune system was suppressed.
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- Colored
flavored sweetened water.
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- That's what it is, and
gelatinized which means that it
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has the bones, tendons,
ligaments of some type of a
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dead animal in there to
make gelatin, so I thought well,
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maybe the best thing to do
in my life is to try to find out
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what's causing this persistent
problem, and when people have...
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I get a stomach ache once in a
while, I say keep a food diary.
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For me especially when I
travel in Eastern Europe,
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it seems like Eastern Europeans
have a hard time cooking legumes
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well enough, and if I
have an uncooked legume,
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a bean that has not
been properly cooked
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I know it's going to hurt me.
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So what I do now, whenever I
have any food with a bean in it
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I'll take one out and I will
put it in my mouth and I will
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taste it, and if it has
that little bit of crunch,
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that little bit of mealiness,
I might sacrifice that one
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and swallow it, but I
will not eat another one.
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We have to be careful
with people to enjoy their
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hospitality, but we have to
also be very careful with this
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machinery God has given us.
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- Yes! - And
making sure we're not
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going to hurt ourselves.
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- With partially cooked foods,
beans are just one of them
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but grains can also be partially
cooked and that can also make
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a problem, we may not feel
it internally but it can cause
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a general problem
for us of inadequately
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hydrolyzed starches.
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- Well that's another
one of these unknown laws,
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or unspoken about laws
that we have but there's a
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wonderful book
called Ministry of Healing
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and on page 301 it says,
grains used for porridge or mush
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should have.
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- Several hours of cooking.
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- Ok! So I go to Europe
and what do they serve muesli
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which is raw oats, and
I'm sitting there thinking,
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now in medical hypothesis
I think about 1989 came out
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with a study that said that
probably the reason why many
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people over 30 have many
lacunar scars in their brain
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is incomplete breakdown of the
starches from incomplete cooking
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of the grains, now you did
an experiment in your kitchen
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about this didn't you?
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- We did in the laboratory
at Uchee Pines, we took a number
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of pots set them to boiling
with different kinds of cereals,
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oatmeal, whole grain oats,
oat groats, and cracked wheat,
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rice, corn grits, and corn meal,
and every 10 minutes for the
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first hour we took a
little alley quote from each pot
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and we examined it for
hydrolysis and we found
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that there was very little
hydrolysis in anything except
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the corn meal which was very
finely ground, and by the end
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of two and a half
hours millet was all done.
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But rolled oats did not
get done for 90 minutes, that's
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an hour and a half, and
corn grits do not get done for
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five hours, oat groats do not
get done for five to six hours
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and whole kernel rye didn't
get done for about 6 hours,
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barley also
took about that long.
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- How about minute oats?
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- Minute oats, we found
that that required about
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20-30 minutes, the quick
oats required 45 minutes to get
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well done.
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- And if we don't do
that then we have these large
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chain starches and they
can get into our blood stream,
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they do get into our
blood stream, and can affect our
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brains, get into the small
capillaries and cause little
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lacunar scars, a
little bit of tissue death,
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into our kidneys, our bones,
our adrenals, it can cause havoc
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in the body and we never
even know it and wonder why
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our memory is slipping,
could it be part of our
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memory problems?
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- I think so, I think one of
the reasons why, in fact it was
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postulated, it has been
postulated by those who have
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studied this, that one of the
reasons for slippage of memory
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and old age is because of years
of eating inadequately cooked
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grains.
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- I read another place about
some very large loaves of bread
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being made that were very
heavy and moist on the inside
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so the servant girl who
had made these things feeling
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oh my master won't like
this, so she took it out and put
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it in the pigs trough, the
guy had a couple great big sows.
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Well the next morning he went
out and do you remember what
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happened to both those sows?
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- Yes! Umm! - They died.
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- They had died
during the night, yes!
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- And he looked in the
trough and there was some crumbs
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of this bread left and
the woman confessed that
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I put the bread there.
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Our loaves should be
small well baked loaves,
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so that they could be dry on
the inside, and that browning
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on the outside, some
people cut away the crust,
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the crust is one of the
healthiest parts because that
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has the Maylard reaction,
it has started the complete
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hydrolysis and it chain
reacts down into the bread.
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I like to toast my bread,
when it first starts to get
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a little bit of a brownness
that means that is has good
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hydrolysis is going
to be much better for me.
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- Very good and I'm glad when
you said when it first starts
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to get brown, because if it
gets very brown, then we have
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advanced glycation and products
and that can also cause a
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problem, it accelerates the
rate at which we age and also
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makes is so that we are more
susceptible to such things as
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cancer and
hardening of the arteries.
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Now another thing that we
have found to be a frequently
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overlooked law of health,
people think that it's a law
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of spirituality, and it
is, but prayer and meditation
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and work that we do in
church with our characters,
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these are also laws of health,
they are not just spiritual laws
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and I have asked Rhonda
Clark to join me again and talk
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a little bit about meditation
and it's benefits as a
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health giving activity.
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- I'll be happy to, you
know when I first heard of this
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principle of meditation, I
was thinking of sitting in the
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corner and humming and I
didn't understand really this
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principle of meditation
in the Christian perspective.
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I have learned that it is just
really taking time to ponder
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and roll around in your mind
a principle that you have found
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in scripture, something that
you have heard from a sermon
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that meant a great deal to you,
and really looking for ways that
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you can apply
that in your own life.
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- So that little word Selah
in the Psalms is really "Stop
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and Meditate," think
about this factor, so that's
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sort of what you
are thinking about.
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- A little description
meditation right there.
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As I was a student at Uchee
Pines, one of our instructors
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Dan Viss let us know
about a ministry that he had,
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it's called Fast Ministries
and he teaches a principle
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about meditation and
application, he actually teaches
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you how to meditate on a
spiritual thought and apply
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that into your life.
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This meant a great deal to me
so I appreciate the opportunity
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to share with the folks who
are watching the show today.
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This principle of meditation
and application is so simple
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as you read the
scriptures or a devotional or
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inspiring message that
you are finding in a book,
00:22:02.58\00:22:05.00
that's speaking to your
soul, take in small bits,
00:22:05.03\00:22:08.51
as you read a verse in
the Bible or a short passage
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in the Bible, stop, spend some
time looking for principles,
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concepts, things that are spoken
about the character of God or
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principles that you can
apply into your daily life,
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that's that process of
meditation, taking something
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very short, simple and then
pondering on it thinking on it,
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and the very best way to apply
that into your life is to think
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about how can I today
make this real in my life.
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Maybe you will read a
passage that has something about
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how important it is for us
to keep our thoughts on the Lord
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and so you will think ok today
every meal I'm going to stop
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before I have my meal
and spend a few moments
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thinking about the Lord,
praying to Him, pondering
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on things about this day that
I am grateful for that He has
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given, I mean simple things,
the sky is the limit with this
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and I like it because it's
very individual to each of us.
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Sometime he would give us
an assignment to take the same
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verse and we would come
back the next day and share
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the applications that we had
found as individual students.
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It was interesting to see how
with one verse, all of us would
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have something different,
all of us would have found a way
00:23:25.51\00:23:28.32
to apply that in our lives
that day that was very unique
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individual and made the Bible
seem very rich to me, very rich.
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- Well it's been interesting
to me for many years to read
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medical reports that
people who are deeply religious
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have much better health,
they recover from surgery,
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from amputation of legs, from
childbirth and many other things
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better if they are deeply
religious, and I think it's not
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just that they are more relaxed
and happy, I believe that there
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is a physiologic process that
occurs that comes from the faith
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that we have, from the
exercises that we do of a
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spiritual nature.
00:24:11.20\00:24:12.17
And concerning church
attendance, there have been
00:24:12.18\00:24:15.25
several studies that have
been done showing that people
00:24:15.28\00:24:19.38
who attend church are
more likely to recover from
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heart attacks very quickly,
so that's another good thing
00:24:24.15\00:24:27.88
that we can recognize, is a
law of health, it's not just
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a spiritual law but can be
engaged in because we know that
00:24:33.17\00:24:38.13
the Lord wants us to
take care of His equipment,
00:24:38.16\00:24:41.16
and so entering into these
spiritual exercises is a part of
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the way that the Lord wants
us to take care of the equipment
00:24:47.32\00:24:51.79
that He has
entrusted to our care.
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Another of the frequently
overlooked laws of health is
00:24:54.33\00:25:00.09
cleanliness and
order in the home.
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Some people feel that
they can just live in squalor
00:25:03.96\00:25:10.44
or in disorder and disarray
all the time and that this is
00:25:10.47\00:25:15.75
alright, it's not the externals
that matter to the Lord
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but I can say that from
the standpoint of a physician,
00:25:20.62\00:25:24.36
people who live in these
surroundings are more likely
00:25:24.39\00:25:29.23
to become upset in
the immune system as well.
00:25:29.26\00:25:33.18
The immune system and the
nervous system are very closely
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related to each other,
and people who are not orderly
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tend to become a
little disordered in the mind
00:25:41.24\00:25:44.24
that disorders
the body secondarily.
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Another thing is being
creative, a number of years ago
00:25:47.93\00:25:53.09
a study was done on people who
were being creative and whether
00:25:53.12\00:25:58.65
that acted as something to
prolong the life, and it was
00:25:58.68\00:26:03.21
recognized as the study
progressed that people who
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were more creative
tended to be in better health.
00:26:09.63\00:26:13.24
Then another thing I like a lot
is the Bible's idea of our doing
00:26:13.27\00:26:20.24
charitable acts, doing
charitable acts will do good
00:26:20.27\00:26:24.66
for those for whom we
do that charitable act,
00:26:24.69\00:26:28.67
but the charitable act
also reacts upon ourselves
00:26:28.70\00:26:34.03
and gives us a beneficial effect
in the health, where as the
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converse of that is also true,
that is if you do evil things
00:26:41.11\00:26:45.79
to other people, it
reflexively reacts upon yourself
00:26:45.82\00:26:50.30
and you find that because you
have done things that are evil
00:26:50.33\00:26:54.58
to others, your own health tends
to suffer, so we need to pray
00:26:54.61\00:27:00.07
that the Lord would help us
to have this good law of health
00:27:00.10\00:27:04.28
that's frequently
overlooked, that law of doing
00:27:04.31\00:27:07.19
charitable deeds for others.
00:27:07.22\00:27:09.35
We had a patient a Uchee
Pines one time who had severe
00:27:09.38\00:27:12.59
diabetes, she also had a lot
of serious physical complaints,
00:27:12.62\00:27:17.75
she was nearly blind, she had
difficulty in digesting her food
00:27:17.78\00:27:23.58
and a number of other
difficulties, we suggested
00:27:23.61\00:27:27.24
to her that she stop
thinking so much about herself
00:27:27.27\00:27:31.42
and start giving
herself to her neighbors.
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This dear lady began
to be Mrs. charity itself,
00:27:34.65\00:27:40.87
and the interesting
thing to us was as she promoted
00:27:40.90\00:27:45.06
charity to others, her
own heal began to return,
00:27:45.09\00:27:48.95
and her life was made
sweet not only in the community
00:27:48.98\00:27:52.76
that she lived in, but in
her family and in herself.
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