There's an old American-Indian
saying that goes like this...
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Health is the #1
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Power is zero Wealth is zero
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Without health,
you've got nothing!
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So let's talk about
#1 today, stay tuned...
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I'm Dr. James
Marcum, are you interested in
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discovering the reason why?
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Do you want solutions to
your health care problem?
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Are you tired of
taking medications?
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Well, you're about to be given
"The Ultimate Prescription"
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If you are a regular
viewer of this program,
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you know that we've been
spending a lot of time lately
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talking about your heart.
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You only have one and
when it goes, so do you!
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That fact must be on the
minds of many of our viewers
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because of the type of
questions we receive at
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heartwiseministries.org
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Cardiologist, Dr. James
Marcum, is here to answer
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some of those queries and
something tells me, Dr. Marcum,
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that you don't
mind doing that one bit.
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You know Charles, I've
been answering questions
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for quite a long period of
time, and what I really like
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about answering questions
is it makes me learn more...
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Because, you know, I
don't have all the answers,
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and frequently I have to
go look for the answers...
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And, my answers to
people's questions, as you know,
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has changed
throughout the years.
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As you learn more, you see
things from different angles.
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They've expanded...
They've expanded, okay
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And, you know, you're
trained a certain way,
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but as you learn,
then you want to share
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those with other people. Yes
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Most of the questions we receive
at heartwiseministries.org
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sometimes there
are no answers to.
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But most people just
want to know that there's
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someone out
there that will listen;
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that there's someone
out there that will care;
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that there's someone out
there that will pray for them.
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And just having that feeling,
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there's some
healing benefit in that.
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And also letting them
know that there's a God,
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a Savior out
there that loves them,
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and even though things
might not be perfect now,
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that someday
things will be perfect.
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And that's the message
we try to get out there,
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in addition to
answering the health questions.
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And I found that sometimes when
you meet someone's needs first,
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that opens up the
avenue to have a relationship.
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And that relationship
leads them to, of course, the
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ultimate relationship,
so, yes, I love answering
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questions and there are so
many varieties of questions,
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but what I've learned
is... many of these questions
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have sort of
the same themes. Yes
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And, you know, when
you treat modern medicine,
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you're given a diagnosis and
the treatment for the diagnosis
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is pretty much cookbook. Yes
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But what I've learned is
that it's not that simple.
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We try to make it
simpler than it is,
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but our bodies, our
minds, nutrition, our treatments
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are much more complex.
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Even our relationships
are much more complex,
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and yet, we're
trying in our world
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to take the energy
from our relationships.
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We're moving more technology.
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Several years ago,
when I started the practice
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of medicine, I used to spend
75% of my time with patients.
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But as time has
gone on, that time
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has been
shrinking and shrinking.
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I spend a lot of time with
computers, typing stuff in,
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but less time
getting to know someone;
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getting to know
the way they think;
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their belief system;
what drives their thoughts;
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what makes them scared...
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And by answering questions,
I feel like I can at least
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touch base with that
and have things that I can,
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in a very short period of time,
offer my patients to have them
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have greater treatment options
and greater healing options,
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and like I said earlier,
there's a difference between
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medicines and healing. Yes
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And we all, when we
affect someone else,
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we all, in the healing process,
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the words you use, the
way you relate to people;
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the way you touch people;
the way you make them feel...
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All that's involved
has a chemical reaction.
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So we can all be
solutions and all be healers
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or we can be also destroyers.
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And it is very important that
we realize this when we interact
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with people and we
realize that God helps us...
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for all of us to
have some healing effects
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on the world that we live in.
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That is so important, I
know that when I am facing
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a medical issue,
one of the things I want
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most is reassurance that
everything is going to be okay
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or at least we're going to be
able to do something about this.
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We're going to
be doing some work;
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we're going to
moving toward a goal.
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That reassurance is
very important to me,
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and so that's what I hope that
we're doing in this program.
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I hope that we're providing
you with some reassurance
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that there are
things you can do;
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there are avenues you can
take that will help at least
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mitigate the problem and
that's good news I think...
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And that's only what's unique
about "Heartwise Ministries"
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is that reassurance is
built in with the technology,
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and that's important I think.
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Right. All right. Yeah.
You got a question there?
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I do, we have a lot
of questions here from
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heartwiseministries.org
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and this one fits right
into what we're talking about.
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It says here, "Every time
my neighbor goes to the doctor,
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she comes back scared to
death on another new pill.
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How can I help her?"
And this is the neighbor
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saying, "How can I help my
neighbor who goes to the doctor
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and comes back scared to death
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with that new
pill, what can you do?
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And that is a question, a
variation of that question
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I hear all the time.
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People are scared... you
know, they're scared to do this,
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they're scared
of this diagnosis,
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they're scared of the
x-ray report that was abnormal,
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the lab report where the
potassium was a little bit high,
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and a lot of the fear is
that people don't understand.
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And medicine uses
these big, gigantic words,
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you know, they don't call
it "chest pain from the heart,"
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they call it "angina" and
they don't call a "sore throat"
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a sore throat,
it's "pharyngitis."
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All these fancy words to
have this cloud of mystery...
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The medicines
what they do, you know,
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all this mystery and
you have a little lump here,
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everyone is worried about it and
it's important to be concerned.
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I like the word "concerned."
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Be diligent about these things.
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Diligent about those -
the words are very important,
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but when you're scared and fear,
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it turns on a very dangerous
chemical cascade in the body.
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Brains want to be safe... our
brain says, "I want to be safe."
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And if a car was
coming at me head-on,
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I would turn on these
chemicals to protect me
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from that car to
protect my brain.
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We go to that part of
the brain that we share
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in common with reptiles and
that lives in the here and now.
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"I want to protect
myself from danger.
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I want to turn on the chemicals
and the neural pathways
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that protect me
from being killed.
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I want to protect my existence."
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And that's sort of a
very selfish instinct
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that we're born with.
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We're born with
that in our bodies.
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It's very useful if
we're facing real danger,
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but what if we're
not facing real danger?
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What if there's not
really a truck coming at us,
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and we automatically
turn on that because we fear
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a diagnosis or a test result.
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We turn on that chemistry.
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You're facing an
emotional danger. Yes!
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And yet we're turning
on all these chemicals
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and it's not good for us.
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So, what I try to tell people
that have lots of fears...
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First of all, we try to reassure
them... this is not dangerous.
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People are scared
because they're either usually
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overreacting or
they're taking things personal.
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And said, "Well is
there a real danger here?
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No, there's not.
Maybe you're overreacting
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because we don't have
knowledge on this situation.
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If the doctor has time to
do that and that's the problem.
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The doctors don't have time.
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They could say, "Here's what I
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found in you,
here's what you got."
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"Goodbye, I'll see you
later, here's your pill." Yeah
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But doctors don't
have time for reassurance!
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And that's why I'm
talking here so this person can
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go back to her neighbor and
sort of explain things to her.
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You know, let's not be concerned
until we have to be. Okay
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And let's get more
knowledge and more information.
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So as we get more
information and more knowledge,
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sometimes just
having the reassurance...
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"No, this is nothing serious,"
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or "These are
some steps you can do."
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And we're going to talk
later about a very important
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biblical prescription
that will help with this,
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but what I tell people
first is to get reassurance...
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If it's danger, we want
to be concerned about it,
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and take the steps
1-2-3, but if it's not,
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what are some
things that this person
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can talk to their neighbor.
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Well first, get all of
the information you can
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and see if what you're
concerned about or fearful about
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has a legitimate
problem, and realize that fears
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damage the body...
fears and concerns.
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And when we think about fears,
fears, anxieties, phobias...
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1 in 3 Americans have some
type of anxiety disorder now,
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and as you move up the ramp,
you hear about post-traumatic
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stress syndrome;
we hear about the
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broken heart syndromes.
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All of those are
terrible conditions,
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these are
actually medical problems.
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We might not have a diagnosis
for some of these thoughts
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that we have, but
these are real diagnoses.
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Just because a physician
can't give you a diagnosis,
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doesn't mean you
don't have a problem.
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We just don't know and
everyone is afraid, Charles,
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of saying, "I don't know." Yeah
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I don't know what to
do about what this...
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Everyone is so afraid of that.
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Well, sometimes we don't
know and that's why sometimes
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we have to leave it to
the "Ultimate Physician."
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But, I would advise this
person, first, to make sure
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that you have a legitimate
fear, then get all the knowledge
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that you have about this.
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Ask your doctors, go watch
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television
programs, educate yourself.
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And then, when you feel yourself
having lots of fear and anxiety,
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take some deep breaths,
hold it for 3 or 4 seconds
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then blow it out - s
l o w, do that 10 times.
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And perhaps even say a prayer
while you are exhaling. Yes
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And feel your
body start to relax.
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Let your mind have some peace.
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Another thing that you
can do when you have these
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fearful thoughts
is find a nice prayer.
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You know - "God, please
relieve this fear in me."
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You know, say that several
times as you take deep breaths.
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Let some of that stress go out.
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Another thing is be thankful;
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find 3 or 4 things
to be thankful for.
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It's hard to be
fearful when you're
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truly appreciative of something.
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Another thing that might
help is laugh and very hard.
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Find something to laugh
about, but if you have these
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downloaded into your
brain, and so when you have a
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fearful or stressful
situation, if you can go through
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these steps, you have
an automatic coping system,
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and sometimes that
alone will keep the fear out.
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Because you know,
if I don't have fear
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I'm just going to do this
and it's going to go away.
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And then if you
still have that thought,
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and you know it's
not doing you helpfully,
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you bury that thought and say,
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"I'm not going to
think about this again,
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I'm going to bury
it, it's hurting me,
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so I'm not going to
give it a second thought."
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"I'm just going to put it
away, I'm just going to bury it,
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and I'm going to
throw away the markers,
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I'm done, I'm not going
to think about it again,
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it's done, it's over."
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So those are some simple things
if you want to help you neighbor
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and it's a big deal.
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A lot of people now
are fearful, are anxious...
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You know, I hate to say
this, but it additive too,
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you know, you're fearful
about the news that going on...
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Some people are fearful
that they eat the wrong food.
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The news makes things scary,
these conspiracy theories,
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and these new treatments...
"My doctor, I'm scared."
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People are walking
around in fear. Yes
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This is not something that
we should do and it's a disease.
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And, it can lead to higher types
of fear that we've talked about,
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the anxiety, the
phobias and all this.
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So just wanting to
help your neighbor,
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that's a good
treatment for that person
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because when we serve
people, we move our brains
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to a higher level - we're
not into that selfish mode,
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we're more into the service
mode and that's being more
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working towards just where
we've talked about before...
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and that's this
word called "love."
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When we work towards love,
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we turn off this
negative stressful chemistry...
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And serving is
one way of loving.
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So this person,
when they are scared,
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another thing they say is,
"Well find someone to serve,
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find someone to love,
find someone to help out."
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This might also
help your being fearful."
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And when we look at
some of the biblical examples
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of what people
did... they turned to God,
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they tried to find faith
in Him, but not only is this
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important right away,
but over the long term,
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if this is not dealt with,
these fears, these anxieties
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this chemistry
turns on bad genes.
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It makes us make bad decisions.
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It affects our entire health
over time - it's additive.
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You might not see it right away,
it's sort of a hidden disease.
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And if it's not
treated one year after another,
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it leads to coping
mechanisms, and sooner or later
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our genes, our
bodies are damaged;
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the stress can
lead to poor behaviors,
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it can turn on genetics
that lead to heart attacks.
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All sorts of bad
things can happen, Charles.
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Well if we're
changing our genes,
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we're also
changing what's going to
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happen to those
who come after us...
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our children and
our grandchildren. Yes
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We are changing our
DNA with this stuff.
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You heard it, like some
things run in the family. Yeah
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You know - "My mom is a nervous
person, it runs in the family."
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Well, these are some
genetic things that have been
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passed down, but we can
affect our genes in many ways,
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and one of the ways
we're finding out is
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through this chemistry
of fear, phobias, stress,
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we can do a lot
better with that.
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Now in the margin
here of this question,
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you put Philippians 4:6,
why did you put that there?
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Well, I'm hoping we
could talk about that,
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it might be a text that
comes up that we could share
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with our readers later.
All right let's do that.
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We want to be living a
life that doesn't have fear.
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We want to make sure that what
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we do has with
it some confidence,
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and the only place that
we can find confidence...
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The only place where we
can find a fearless living
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is for us to be involved
with the God of victory,
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the God of understanding,
the God of love...
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And we do that by
getting to know Him
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in the words of Scripture.
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And when we come
back, we have a really nice
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little text that we
would like to share with you,
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as well as Philippians
4:6, that will help us
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do that very thing.
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God's pharmacy is
open... The Bible is open,
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and inside we find all
kinds of medicines for our cure,
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so stay right where you are.
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