Before Solomon
concluded that "all is vanity,"
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he made an
astonishing statement...
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"As a man thinketh in his
heart, so is he".. Proverbs 23:7
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Today, science
agrees, stay tuned...
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I'm Dr. James Marcum
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Are you interested in
discovering the reason why?
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Do you want solutions to
your healthcare problems?
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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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Mind - body interaction has
long been the focus of attention
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in both the
spiritual and physical world.
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We know there's
a connection there.
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When we're
afraid, we can't eat...
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When we're
happy, we eat too much!
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Running from a tiger in
the jungle creates a very
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different body response
than running from a grandchild
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on the lawn
during a game of tag.
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The ONLY thing that has
changed is our attitude.
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Dr. Marcum, something
tells me that we're just
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hitting the tip
of the iceberg here.
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Yeah, I think we are just
hitting the tip of the iceberg,
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and this is very exciting
to talk about this today.
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A lot of people understand
the place for modern medicine,
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you know, the medications,
the treatments, the operations
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and there's a place for that.
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We're really understanding
better nutrition now,
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more so than ever.
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But also now, we're
going to start understanding
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the brain more as time goes on.
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And what's been very
exciting is these are scriptures
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that have been given
us years ago that tells us
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where we're going to be heading
in the treatment of disease.
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Remember Solomon, "As
a man thinketh, so he is"
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Remember in Daniel's day,
after a short period of time,
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Daniel's friends
were 10 times smarter.
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You know, so those IQs of the
fellows that work for the king
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were 120,
Daniel's were up to 1,200.
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Part of it was about
food, but it was also
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about the way they thought
and the way they worshipped.
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So we are now learning more and
more that the mind, the brain,
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how it affects our
genes, our genetics;
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how it affects the medicines;
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how it affects healing;
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how it affects our whole
process is very important.
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In fact, I wrote in my
blog on heartwiseministries. org
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about this article that came
out "The Journal of Science"
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and in these, we had doctors
from Harvard, from Princeton,
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and they reported this...
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That people worrying
about money to pay bills
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lose the
equivalent of 13 IQ points.
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So if you worry
about paying your bills,
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you've lost 13 IQ points.
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To stress, causes
all sorts of problems.
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But they also, beyond
that, looked at real life
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farmers in India.
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And these farmers in India,
they only get paid once a year,
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and, you know, they had
to take loans out before
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they paid for their
goods and they found that,
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after payday, after
the worries stopped,
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their intellect improved 25%.
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Their intellect - their ability
to think and reason. YES!
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Their IQ improved 25%. Okay
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So here are 2 studies
that show that stress,
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at least financial
stress, changes the brain.
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Changes the
chemistry of the brain.
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Now if you think about the
rudimentary parts of the brain,
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the thinking part is up
front, the prefrontal cortex.
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So if you're not
thinking as good,
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that part of the brain
is not working as good.
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So stress causes that part
of the brain to make it simple
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to work poorly.
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The STRESS part of the
brain, the parts that we have
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in common with animals, the
reptilian brain, so to speak,
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we have a lot of stimulation
of things called the "amygdala,"
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the stress part of the brain
that turns on all the adrenalin,
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all this inflammation that
activates the immune system -
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that keeps us under
chronic stress all the time.
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That is not good,
Charles, and now we're learning,
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just learning that health is
much more than a bunch of pills.
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It's about the way the
brain reacts with the body,
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about how the brain
reacts with our genetics.
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There are many different
things and this is another
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evidence that the mind and body,
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in stress, affects the brain.
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Now if you think
about it, stress, Charles,
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there are so many
stressors going on nowadays.
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You know, what is a
definition of stress?
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You know, you
would think that stress,
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and a lot of people
believe that stress is something
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that's happening in your
life that is causing you to
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have worry or concern, or
sadness, but you're saying,
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I think I hear you saying
here that there's more kinds of
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stressors than we actually
realize and we may not even KNOW
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that we have some stresses
that are happening to us.
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And all of them have
some type of response. Yes
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These are inputs
that change our chemistry.
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We don't know
what the stress is,
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but we know we're
changing because of it.
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In this article, we
have evidence that it lowered
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the IQ points, so
the stress can hurt us.
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Now if we think about stress
is, you know, everyone asks,
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"Well, what is your
definition of stress?"
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Well, when we went back to
the way God made us perfectly,
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I don't think
there was much stress.
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So anything that sort of
deviated from that perfect plan,
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I say, could put
stress on the system.
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When stress is
placed on the system,
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it turns on this chemical
cascade including the brain,
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including the prefrontal
cortex, the way we think,
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including the adrenal glands,
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including our entire
body and entire health
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based on the way we're stressed.
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So we talked about
the mental stress from
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worrying about money,
but what about stresses like
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not getting enough rest?
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What about not
drinking enough water?
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What about the stress
from eating the wrong foods?
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What about the stress
from not having a relationship?
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Remember, we weren't
ever designed to be alone.
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We were designed to be with
others, the stress of loneliness
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What about the
stress of not being outside?
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You know, we were designed
to be outside and not inside.
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What about all the
stress from all this multimedia
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that affects our brains -
that disrupts the creative
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part of the brain versus the
entertainment part of the brain.
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THAT can create stress -
not to mention all the toxins
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in our world - all
that can create stress.
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So if you add it up,
there are lots of things
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that are going on that are
creating stress in our system.
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That stress causes some
type of chemical pathway
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and it also
affects our entire body.
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So not only do I want people
to think of health involving
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the food we eat, the treatments
we get, but it also involves
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the thoughts and the stresses
that come into our body.
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When our thoughts
then are stressed,
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when we have concerns or worries
or sadness, or loneliness,
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you're saying then that these
stressors are just as toxic
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to the body as a chemical,
as a medicine, as a drug...
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These things can be
just as damaging to us as
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the physical
things that happen to us?
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Yes, and let's
look at the evidence...
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One of the
evidences here in this study,
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these fellows had study people
that just worried about finances
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and their brain
function went down quite a bit.
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They didn't see a tiger.
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They didn't see a
snake coming at them.
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They were worried about finances
but the same thing happened!
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Right and if they would
have studied them doing other
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stressors, I'm sure we would
have seen the same phenomenon
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and it's a chemical change.
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There are different
neurotransmitters that are made,
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different ones
that are turned down.
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There are different neurons...
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Neurotransmitters being
those in the brain where we
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process information.
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Yes, that helps us think better.
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There are different actual
brain structures that conform.
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They can actually get smaller
if they're being stressed.
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All these things are
going on within the brain.
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That's why that text,
"As a man thinketh, so he is"
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God knew what He was
saying when He thought,
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this mind thing
matters a great deal.
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Now, if it doesn't stop there,
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there has also been
some exciting research about
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how we can improve our brain.
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It only makes sense if we're
going to stress our brain out
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by all the
things that goes against
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the way we were made to be.
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If we started moving back
to the way God made us to be,
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we could actually
improve our brains,
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improve our chemistry,
turn down some of the stress.
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Our thoughts have side
effects, is what you're saying.
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Exactly... both good and bad,
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but for instance, if we could
do things the way God made us...
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When we rest more, that
lowers stress, helps our brain,
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helps our chemistry.
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When we get outside,
that helps our chemistry.
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When we serve other people,
when we love and not judge,
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THAT helps our chemistry.
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Oh, I wish I
had studies on every
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single one of these, Charles.
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But Dr. Newberg at the
University of Pennsylvania
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has done some
great research recently.
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He takes PET scans and
he looks at scans of people,
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and he has them
do different things.
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One of the things
he had was to worship.
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These were PET
scans of the brain?
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PET scans of the
brain - that's to see the
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metabolism of the brain,
how the brain is working.
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We haven't been able to
do this for years and years.
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And this would have
worked for this study too,
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the one that they did.
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He takes pictures of CAT scans,
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and he showed that
people that worship...
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worship for
prolonged periods of time,
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they actually GROW the
parts in the prefrontal cortex,
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called the "anterior cingulate
cortex" - the god-part brain.
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So we actually can
make new neurons by worship.
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But does that surprise
you... because we were designed
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to worship God. Absolutely!
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And when we worship other things
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guess what that
does to our brains?
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We weren't designed
to worship other things.
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That could actually hurt our
brains, could hurt our chemistry
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It could actually put stress on
us by worshiping other things.
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Now here's a big one that is
out there in the world, Charles
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This word called "FEAR"
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What do you think fear
does to a body's chemistry?
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I know fear does so
many things to people;
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stomachaches, headaches,
trembling, high blood pressure,
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all kinds of things happen
when you're simply afraid.
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ANYAHA! That kind of fear?
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No, and I get you every time.
You do EVERY time you do this
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It's not that type of
fear, it's the day-in, day-out.
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The fear that I need to do this.
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The fear that I'm not
going to have enough money.
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The fear that I'm not
living my life good enough.
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The fear that I'm
going to get sick.
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The fear that's all around us.
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Now, there's a
treatment in the Bible
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that has to do with fear.
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There's a
treatment in the Bible.
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A biblical prescription in the
Bible that has to do with fear.
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And it says,
"LOVE casts out fear"
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So when you have the
chemistry of fear in your life,
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which turns on the stress,
the adrenalin, the epinephrine,
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all that bad stuff,
the cortisol, turns on your
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immune system so it's attacking
everything indiscreetly.
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Just attacking good
things as well as bad...
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When it's doing this day-in
and day-out, that type of stress
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from fear, guess what?
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There's a chemical treatment
for that and that treatment
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is called "LOVE"
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Love turns down
that fear that we have.
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"Perfect love casts out fear"
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So that's why when
I'm looking at medicine,
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when I say we're all
healers, when we change
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someone's chemistry, when
we change the way we think,
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we relate to
them a different way,
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we're literally
giving them a prescription.
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Now when we're not doing things
correctly, we're hurting them!
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You know, Charles, if I
scared you to death today...
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Again? No, I
mean big-time scare.
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If I said, "Charles, You have
cancer, I can see it in your
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left ear, and I think
you're going to die in a year"
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That might create fear in you.
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Yes, absolutely!
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And people have that happen
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to them all the
time... They're scared!
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People are scared
about relationships,
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they're scared about what's
going to happen to the country.
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They're scared about what's
happening with their finances.
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They're scared
about all sorts of things.
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We weren't made to be scared
all the time... No, not one bit
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We weren't made to be that way.
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And as we've gotten
those feelings in us,
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and it's turned on
these chemical pathways,
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as they say, "As a
man thinketh, so he is"
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all these things are happening
and the only real solution
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to a lot of this
chemistry is getting back
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to the way God
designed us to be.
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MY... it just
underlines again and again,
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talking with you Dr.
Marcum, how important it is
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that we keep our minds
as well as our bodies inline
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with what God had in mind.
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If you look at
Eden and you look at the
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world today, what a difference!
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There was no fear in Eden.
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There was companionship.
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There was hope. There was love.
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There was comfortableness,
There was homefulness.
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It was all there in Eden.
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Today, we live in
such a fear-ridden society.
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It is not surprising
that our minds and our bodies
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which are
connected, are going crazy.
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Yeah, but that
reassurance, that hope,
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that treatment, that
ability to connect with
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the Ultimate Physician
that will be there to show you
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the way things
are supposed to be,
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THAT is what we going to
have to be teaching the world.
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That's what I want
everyone to get out,
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and let people
know the good news.
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We have an Ultimate
Physician that's going to take
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are of all this for us.
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Oh my, and He's going to
start doing it in this world.
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We don't have to
wait until heaven.
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It can happen here.
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We're going to take a short
break and when we come back
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we get a lot of questions
on heartwiseministries. org
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and I invite you to send
some in and maybe we'll talk
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about them right
here on the program at
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heartwiseministries. org
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So when we come
back, your first question
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with Dr. James Marcum -
so stay right where you are.
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