The following program
presents principles designed
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to promote good
health and is not intended
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to take the place of
personalized professional care.
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The opinions and ideas expressed
are those of the speaker.
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Viewers are encouraged to
draw their own conclusions
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about the information presented.
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Let me ask you a
question, why exercise,
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eat right and drop a few pounds?
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There are many reasons.
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Some make sense, some are
down like dangerous, stay tuned.
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I am Dr. James Marcum.
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Are you interested in
discovering the reason why,
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you want solutions to
your healthcare problems.
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Are you tired f
taking medications?
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Well, you are about to be give
the "Ultimate Prescription."
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Today we examine the
philosophy of health.
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I bet you've never
seen a television program
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on that topic before.
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Why we do something and often
be as important as what we do.
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Gaining and
maintaining optimum health,
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the goal of any same person
must confirm to certain rules.
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And those rules have their roots
buried in a long ago garden.
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Dr. Marcum the fact
that you want to talk about
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the philosophy
of health must mean
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that you see some dangers here.
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Yeah, Charles. I
think this is very important
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that we talk about this
because we have many listeners
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out there, viewers
that are watching today
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and they have health problems.
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And no one knows where to start.
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You know,
sometimes, you go to the doctor
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and it's just overwhelming.
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You know, you have to
do this, this and this.
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You have to eat
right, you have to exercise
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and you have to
take this medicine,
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and you have to go to this,
and everyone's just overwhelmed.
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And one of the things
that I have discovered,
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we have to have a
overlying philosophy
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to understand why we do,
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what we do and
make some changes.
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Anyway, we have a lot of
programs out there on health
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and some focuses on
lifestyle and that's great.
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Some focus on
exercise, you saw that
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'Biggest loser show' right -
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Absolutely, yes.
I like that show.
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It's a good show Good show.
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But it just
focuses on loosing weight.
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Other's just focus
on modern medicine,
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you know, what's the latest
greatest procedure out there?
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Well, in changing
people you have to sort of meet
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them where they are.
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And you have to sort
of learn to know them
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and get to know them
and to talk about well,
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why do you have a problem,
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you know, why are you sick?
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And in my search
for truth in medicine,
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you know, I was
trained this way,
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Charles, if you can't
sleep at night, take a medicine.
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If you have acid in your
medicine, take a medicine.
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If your blood pressure
is high, take a medicine.
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Type-2
diabetes, take a medicine.
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If you hurt your
arm, and it's swollen,
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take a medicine.
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If you have a bug in
your eye, pull the bug out.
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So they get that one right.
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As there is no bug medicine.
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But the point is
this, in medicine,
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they call it medical school,
because it dealt with medicine.
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And I've learned that
there's so much more to healing.
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Now there is a
place for modern medicine,
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don't get me wrong,
there's place for medicines,
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but usually it's for
an emergency situation,
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get you over the
crisis and as Apocrates said,
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let the body heal itself.
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Yes, yes. Let me know,
let's get back to normal
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physiology so the
body can heal itself,
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so I am looking
for a philosophy,
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I've realized
that, a lot of the stuff
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that I was taught
in medical school,
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didn't really solved problems.
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You know, we treated symptoms,
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but we didn't fixed problems.
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So I went
searching for something
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that I could bring my
patients to an understanding
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of why they're
sick and that went
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to the real medical
text book and I was searching
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when I was at the
University of Texas,
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and there is, on
one of the towers there,
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you sure know the
truth, I went back to the Bible
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to use that as my
medical text book.
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Now the fact that
you say, you went looking
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for truth,
weren't you hearing truth
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in medial school
or wasn't it there?
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Well, you know, it was
like, we talked about it early,
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you know, some people have
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a little bit of
that, some people have
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a little bit of
this, some people
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have a little bit of that.
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But you want to
put it all together.
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And yet my patients would
come in to me in different sizes
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and shapes and I had
to give them something
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that would sort of meet them
where they are at. For instance,
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Charles, if you had 12 things
that needed to be changed,
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that I could
identify, I wouldn't hit you,
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if I told you to
do it all at once,
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you would be overwhelmed.
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That's true.
I've got to love you,
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and not judge you.
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And that's what I
learned in the Bible as a manual
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for healing, not
only, how to do this
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and what would apply
but how to approach people.
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You know, the system, you
know, you look at what's going
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on right there now and
our world's getting sicker.
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You know, the cancer,
heart disease, chronic disease,
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the numbers aren't going down.
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So if you look at
all that, you'll say,
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listen are we doing this right?
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And we are taking
all these medicines.
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Yeah. And we are
taking all these pills.
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4 billion medicines a
year then over the counters,
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there are more drug
stores than our churches now.
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So you say, there's
something that's not right.
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Not only is the
philosophy may be not right,
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but may be our approach.
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Our approach to people,
our approach to patients
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to each other, may be
that's part of the problem too.
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May be it's also, in
addition of physical problem,
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may be we have the
mental disconnect now.
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May be there, all the answers
is not in all the technology,
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the apps, the cell
phones, may be there's something
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more that we need to look into.
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And our approach is tied
directly into our philosophy,
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I think I hear you saying.
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Exactly, Charles.
And where do you get
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the philosophy in healing?
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Where do you go?
Now we've got lots
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of great
prescriptions in the Bible.
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God tells us how to
live in the Garden of Eden.
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But not only
that, one step further,
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He also tells how
to approach healers,
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and also to how to
approach the ultimate physician.
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Now, Charles,
picture this, picture this.
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You go to a
doctor's office, okay.
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You walk in the
front door, okay.
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You walk in there and
the receptionist meets you
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and she says, you know, Charles,
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I am glad you're here.
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We're just glad you're
here and she just welcomes you
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and she loves you and she says,
Charles, no forms to fill out,
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no forms, no co-pay,
no co-pay at all, okay.
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In fact, all these other people
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don't even
wonder why you're there.
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You can go right
back and see the doctor.
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So you walk back
and see the doctor
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and you don't have
any flimsy robe to put
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on where your bottom hangs out,
you don't have to wear that.
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you know, nurse
plugging you and prodding you,
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and you just sit there
and it's nice and relaxed.
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You don't have to
wait any time at all,
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the doctor comes right out
there and he is right with you.
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And he says,
Charles, what's the problem?
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And guess what, you
can talk, and talk and talk
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as long as you
want. He is there.
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He's not, does not
have his hand on the door.
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He doesn't keep
checking his watch.
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No, he doesn't keep
looking in his watch,
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he's not there at
the computer. Right.
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He's not already out
writing your prescription
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as you talk, he
doesn't do all that.
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He listens, and he
listens and he listens.
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The approach is a
little bit different than
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what you've had
before so you are surprised.
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This is a new
approach to healing.
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But I sort of like it,
and you talk on and on,
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and you talk
everything that's wrong
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and then when you're
finished, he asks, Charles,
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you have any questions?
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You know, do I need
to clarify anything.
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And you say, no
I think that's it.
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And he gives you this
wonderful treatment plan.
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He says, Charles, this
is what you need to do.
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But I don't want
to overwhelm you.
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I just want to give you
one thing that you can work on.
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Just one thing and it's
going to help you do better
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and when that goes well, you can
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go to number two
on the list, okay.
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But let's just go
slow here, you know,
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Rome wasn't built
in a day, he tells you.
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So you're feeling really good.
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So you go out, you
know there's no wait
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when you go out,
everyone's not looking
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in the lobbies and --
what's wrong with that guy.
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So you go out and you
start to live your life again.
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And guess what, you do
all the bad things again
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and you start
getting sick again.
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And you forget everything
that doctor's told you.
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But you know what,
you have a relationship
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with him and you know
something's not right,
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so in fact, your
relationship is so good
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that you don't mind
going back the next day.
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You are not afraid to go back.
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No, you are not afraid
to go back the next day.
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No fear and no judging.
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So you go back to
that office the next day.
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Guess what, the
receptionist goes, Charles!
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You're back again.
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And you go, well, I
don't want to be here,
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but I am back again.
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And she says, oh, that's okay.
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This happens all the time.
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He says, are you
ready to see the doctor now?
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And you go, yes.
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And you pull out, no co-pay,
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just go right back and
guess who is waiting for you?
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The doctor. And
you know this time,
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Charles, this time when you walk
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in the room, the doctor
says, Charles, I love you,
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and he gives you a big bear hug.
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You sort of feel
a little bit bad,
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but because you know,
you didn't do anything right
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but he told you and
he's spent all that time
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with you yesterday,
he did nothing right,
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but the first thing
he says is, Charles,
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I love you with all my heart.
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What happened yesterday?
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Tell me what happened.
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And then you sit down and
you go through it all again
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and he listens
all again and he takes
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all the time in
the world and he says,
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Charles, you know,
yesterday wasn't a good day
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but today would be a good day.
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In fact we might have
five bad days in a row,
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but you can come
back and see me every day,
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I will be here and I'm
going to give you a hug
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and I'm going to love
you, and you know what,
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sooner or later, this
is going to happen here,
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we're going to find
our path to healing.
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And you go out
and then guess what,
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this time you're able
to do something different.
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You are able to
follow something on the list,
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but at the same time, you
know, you can always go back
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to the ultimate
physician everyday.
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Well, what I saw in medicine,
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Charles, is this
is what we needed.
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Everyone knows about
the food we need to eat,
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we know about that.
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We know the modern technology,
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when to use modern
medicine, we know that.
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We know about lifestyle but
it 's the approach to healing,
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it's the ultimate physician
having that relationship
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with Him and
letting Him also guide,
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guide this decision
making, the approach to healing.
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This was
something very important.
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And in our philosophy of health,
you have to deal with people,
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you have to deal
with this and I found out
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that in those texts, that
medical texts in the Bible,
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not only did it give
me great ways to learn
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how to change a
person's prescriptions
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but it gives us an
approach to each other,
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a loving approach and
also it gives us a picture
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of the ultimate
physician that we have
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to keep in the healing equation.
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You know, when I
hear you talk about,
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going and seeing God and
spending time with Him like
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you described there,
suddenly you want to be healthy,
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not only for yourself but for
the someone who is loving you.
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You want to be a
healthy for this,
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this physician,
this doctor, this God,
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who is showing
you this kind of love,
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who is saying that you are
special that you can beat this,
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you can make mistakes but
I'll be here for you then,
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suddenly the love for God that
you feel in your heart becomes
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a motivator for what
you do in your own life.
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That philosophy then
washes over you and you say,
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I want to be healthy, I
want to do the right things,
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I want to go to the second
mile here for myself because
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I have a doctor who
loves me, who cares for me
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and so I can trust
what he is telling me,
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I can trust the rules that
he has put out here for me,
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because he loves me and
when someone who loves me,
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gives me a rule,
that rule has got
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to be a good rule, even
though it may be hard on you.
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I hear you saying that in this.
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Right. And you know there's
many other health programs out
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there and they do great things,
don't get me wrong, but our,
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at Heartwise
Ministries in these program,
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we want to focus on
the ultimate physician
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as the top of
the healing pyramid,
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even if you can't
do everything right,
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even if you can't
make all the changes.
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As long as you're in
that healing relationship
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with Him at some
point, healing will occur.
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And I can only assume,
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I can notice from
experience to with it.
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The more you love God
and the more you realize
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what God has done for you,
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the more you
begin to love yourself.
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And so you may begin wanting
to be healthy for the God
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who cares for you but
then you say, well you know,
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I must be pretty valuable
here, I must be something
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that I need to take
care of because I am loved,
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and I love myself,
and we sort of care
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for things that we love.
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And we're going to discover
as we move on to the programs
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that when we have
this relationship,
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when we have this,
there are real chemical
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and physical changes that happen
in the body and in the mind.
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It's just fabulous.
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When David asked for create
me a new heart, a new mind.
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Yeah. There's real
when God does that,
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when He is the ultimate
physician in healing your life.
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There's physical and chemical
changes that actually occurred,
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Charles, that's more
important than a pill,
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that's more
important than any procedure,
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so we want to include
this type of treatment,
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this type of approach
into the healing triangle.
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We'll take a short
break and when we come back,
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we're gonna
answer some questions
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that have come in to
the Heartwiseministries.org
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that you have sent in.
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Thank you very much and we'll
look at those in just a moment,
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so stay right where you are.
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