As the song says...
"Don't worry, be happy"
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and that's why
we're trying to do today.
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We're trying to
learn how to be happy,
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and we have to realize
we're 6,000 years from the
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Hand of the Creator, but
even under these circumstances,
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there are ways
that we can bring joy
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and happiness into our life,
and Dr. Marcum has outlined
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7 beautiful ways of doing that.
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Let's get to our questions
now and see if we can apply
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some of those principles
to these questions here, okay?
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I like giving people
things that they can do that
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that's positive!
It makes you happy!
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You know and when
you go to the doctor,
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and you give them a pill
or a prescription or something
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...you know that's
not as fun as saying,
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"I'm giving you this to
do to change your chemistry,
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give it a try and
report back to me"
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So that makes me happy
when I can give someone else
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something they actually
WANT to do and it can embrace
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to change their
chemistry. I like it
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Okay, here's our
first question from
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heartwiseministries. org
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"Is it possible to treat
depression without medications?"
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Just how powerful is happiness?
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Yeah, the answer to that
- it is possible to treat
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depression without medications
and there are some great doctors
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and psychiatrists out there
that have written lots of things
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about this and a lot of people
don't realize that medications
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aren't as successful
as people think they are.
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Just because
you're on a medication,
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doesn't mean your
depression is going to be cured.
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So it's not that high
of a percentage of people
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that are actually
helped by the medications.
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But, they've done things like
improving your brain chemistry,
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exercise, proper
nutrition, meaningful things...
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There's something
called cognitive therapy
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where you're learning to
think and train your brain to
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do these things right.
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There are some biblical
counselors that are helping
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along those lines.
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All these things make it
possible that in some people,
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it is possible not to
take medicines for depression.
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Now some people, have it so
bad, genetically, that they do
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need medicines for depression.
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Some people need more than
one medicine for depression.
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Some people need extra
therapy for depression,
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but in some
people, it is possible.
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And right now, when so many
people are on antidepressants,
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I have to wonder a little
bit, well maybe they didn't try
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some other things FIRST
and they just jumped to the
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medicine because
that might have been
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the easiest thing
to do at the time.
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But I think it is
possible to be off medicines,
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and I think that a lot of other
people would agree with me.
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Here's a question again...
"I have migraines every week,
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what can I do for help?"
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Is happiness a
migraine attacker?
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Well, it's not going to
hurt, but you know, again,
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what causes migraines?
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That's a vascular
headache usually caused by a
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spasm of a blood vessel.
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Sometimes it runs in
families, sometimes we have
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triggers that turn it on.
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Migraines have lots of triggers.
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Sometimes that trigger might
be caffeine, a certain food,
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doing a certain
thing, a lack of sleep.
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Things that might help lower
the risk of having migraines
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that I found to be very useful,
now this is pretty dramatic...
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But go to
drinking nothing but water;
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go to a plant-based diet,
get all the chemicals out of
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your diet - ALL of it out;
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get on a regular
exercise program to improve your
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vascular tone
and see what happens.
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And there are some great
medicines we use if you do have
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genetic migraines, but
I've had a lot of people that
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just do that and guess what?
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VOILA! It was
something they were eating;
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it was some chemical
that they had in their diet.
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They were maybe not
getting enough sleep.
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Something tended to
trigger their bad genetics
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to trigger these migraines,
but that's the way to start,
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and if that doesn't
work, there are some medicines
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that can be added on to that.
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Here's a question that
sort of goes along with this...
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"Certain foods make
my GI tract very unhappy"
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Here are foods attacking a
different part of the body.
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Do I need to see a specialist,
if you have an unhappy GI tract?
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Well, it's according
- I'm telling people,
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as a general rule, if
you see blood coming out,
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if there is blood coming out,
if you've lost a lot of weight,
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if you can't
swallow in your GI tract,
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or if you're having pain
regularly in your GI tract,
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you need to have
someone evaluate that.
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That could be something
serious from a bleeding ulcer,
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to a lot of other more
serious things in the GI tract.
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If you just eat some food
and it makes you feel bad,
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then maybe you should experiment
with eating healthier foods,
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maybe you have a food allergy,
a food that would trigger that.
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Unfortunately, what
I've seen is a lot of doctors
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don't pay
attention to nutrition.
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What I like to do is,
as soon as I make sure it's
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nothing something terrible,
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I say, "Well, let's do
this FIRST, rather than
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order a bunch of tests. "
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"You know, you're
not having bleeding,
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you're not losing weight,
you don't have an infection...
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let's just try maybe
switching some foods around,
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maybe cutting back
your dairy or cutting back
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meat or cutting back
this and see how you feel,
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and if your body
responds to that,
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maybe nothing more
needs to be done. "
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So sometimes the
food acts as an allergen
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that stimulates the
body to attack inside...
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A lot of diseases we
see that are like that.
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We're talking about
being happy here and here is
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someone who is not happy
at a certain time of the day.
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"I am grumpy when I do
not get sleep as well as
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work too many hours at work"
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In other words, you
don't get enough sleep,
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and you have too much work.
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"I cannot quit my job"
and then the question is...
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"What energy drinks help?"
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Is this a prime candidate
for one of those little
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5- hour energy drinks?
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We talked about that
energy drinks before.
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The real solution is to find
out why they don't feel good.
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The energy drink
is not the answer,
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it's just treating a symptom.
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The symptom is
"I'm not feeling good"
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Well, why am I not feeling good?
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It sounds like this person
is not getting enough rest.
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So they're going to have
to figure out how to rest more
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in their lives and get it done.
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Americans
aren't resting anymore;
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you know, we're
staying up all night,
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we're not
taking our weekly rest,
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we're not taking
our nightly rest,
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but when I encourage
people to make it a priority,
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and say, "Listen, I want you
to dedicate yourself to having
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a weekly rest, I
want you to work harder
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at resting at night"
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"Do that for me for one
week and see how you feel,
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and if you start feeling
better, having more energy,
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...almost everyone does,
that gives you your real answer"
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You don't need a quick fix
that doesn't get at the problem.
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You don't need a
quick energy drink.
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You need to get at the
cause of the problem...
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And that's what we have to
do in medicine and in life,
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we have to
understand the causes,
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not so much WHAT we do,
but WHY we do the things;
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what is the cause.
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When we do that, we
can truly find solutions.
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Very good. That a great question
I agree with you, absolutely!
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This is from
heartwiseministries. org
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the website where you can bring
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your questions
in to this program.
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Okay, here we go - oh
yes... "I always feel happy
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when I go out with friends
and drink; however, I know this
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is NOT good for me
- will a drink or 2...
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I'm assuming this
is alcoholic beverage,
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...Will a drink or 2 be
a problem for my health?"
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Just a little bit? Yeah
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It could be a
problem for your health.
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And I see a lot of
people that go out in happiness
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and, you know, they look for
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all sorts of things
that make them happy.
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Will it be... you know, lots of
different things are out there,
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bad things, drugs, alcohol.
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They look for
things that bring them
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temporary happiness but
it doesn't really bring them
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long-term happiness
and I think that that's why
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in my list of 7 things, I
think people need to really
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understand - Well, what
does God define as happiness?
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The world defines
happiness different than
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God defines happiness.
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And the Lord, when He was
here, He spent a lot of time
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helping people, visiting
with friends, loving on people.
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You know, I'd like to think that
He was happy in His service.
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Serving our Master Creator,
that should be the definition
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of happiness! Shouldn't
it? One of the definitions.
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So I want to encourage
this person to not do that
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alcohol - you know, it
could lead to a bad habit,
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and go back and look for
real, honest truth of happiness,
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not what the
world teaches is happy,
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but what is the
definition of true happiness.
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All right, very good.
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I like this question right here
and I'm sure there are people
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listening and watching
who can identify with it.
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"I was in the dumps
and bought a boat" OKAY!
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"Still feel no better;
everything is okay at home;
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I was started on medications
for blood pressure a month ago,
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could this be
changing my moods?"
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Now, are we
talking about the boat
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or the blood pressure medicine?
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Hmmmm, so it sounds like
this fellow was in the mood,
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so he bought a boat to
make him feel better. Yeah
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And in the process, I
don't know which came first
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with the boat, but yes,
all the medications can have
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side effects.
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Well I guess if
the boat didn't work,
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he tried the
medications, I guess.
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I don't know, I don't know
which came first on this fellow,
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but you know what,
it's possible any medication
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could have a side effect.
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But don't we do
that, don't we say,
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"I'm feeling bad, so I'm
going to go buy something"
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I'm going to get a
new something into my life
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that's going to
make me feel good.
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And when we don't
feel good, we say,
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"Oh my goodness,
what is WRONG with me
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that I have this nice,
cool boat or car or iPhone
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or widescreen TV, I
don't feel any better.
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I better go see the
doctor for some medicines. "
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Right, and that's when they go
to the doctor for the medicines
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...That we say, "Listen,
why don't you feel good?"
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Make sure there's nothing,
of course, physical wrong.
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But maybe the brain
is not feeling wrong,
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maybe that person is not happy.
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Maybe that person has something
in their life that is unresolved
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And that's when
those things have to say,
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Listen, well what can
we do about those things?
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How can those things
be forgotten and forgiven?
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What's the path on
that type of treatment?
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And that leads them back, I
think, into that relationship
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going back to the Bible,
learning what God has to say
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about it - that help,
that forgiveness that comes.
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It might help with meeting
with the pastor or friend
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or a doctor or someone that can
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help them along this
journey because not everyone
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knows how to have a
relationship with God.
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Not everyone knows
how to read the Bible.
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Not everyone knows how to pray.
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And these are things
that we have to let people
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know how to do these things.
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So this fellow's
happiness, I don't know exactly
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what the problem was, Charles.
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But the boat
didn't take care of it.
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No, the boat
didn't take care of it,
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but, you know, sometimes I don't
have the answers for people,
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and I have to say,
"I'm sorry I don't know. "
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But one thing that I always
can do is I can pray to God
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who knows everything and
who can take care of problems,
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so I can always offer a
prayer and I'm going to offer
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a prayer to this
fellow as well. Absolutely!
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Very important, I think that
the message that comes through
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by what you're
saying today, Dr. Marcum,
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is that happiness is
NOT connected to things;
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it's not connected to
events and jobs and people,
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it's connected to our
relationship with God,
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and how we identify
with Him and how we can
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spend time with Him in
nature and in prayer, at church
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and in worship - there's
where happiness comes from!
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We'll take a short
break and when we come back,
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we will pray to
that Great Physician,
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so stay right where you are.
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We spoke earlier about
this treatment for disease
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as well as a way to prevent
disease found in Proverbs...
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"A merry heart
does good like medicine"
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I did dig up some
research about the different
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chemicals that increase
when we're in a happy state,
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and I gave you 7 ways that
you can maybe try to be happier.
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Most of you are probably
doing all those and you probably
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could send me some
more ways to be happy,
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and I want you to send
them to our website that is
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heartwiseministries. org
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and I want you to share
your ways with being happy
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with many, many other people.
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I think it's real
important for our chemistries
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that we think about
being happy and that we
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strive to be happy in our lives.
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I want to pray
for you at this time
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that we might all find
happiness and fulfillment.
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Father in Heaven...
We want to thank You
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for bringing us
together and I want to pray
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for everyone that's watching
today - that You give them
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such happiness and joy in
their lives and that You be
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so close to them, Father.
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Bring healing into
their lives and help them to
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take their light and shine
all over the world and make
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others happy and bring
others closer to you...
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is our humble prayer... Amen
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Many of you wanted to
know how to get a hold of me
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you can go to our
website that is...
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heartwiseministries. org
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You'll find some
interesting things there.
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There is a place you
can pray for each other.
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There are some
interesting articles.
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You can read some blogs.
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We now even have a
place where you can review
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healthy
restaurants for other people.
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That's a way you can serve.
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Thank you so much for joining
us and I want each one of us
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today to have the
most happy day ever!
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