Participants: James Marcum & Charles Mills
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP00052B
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00:01 As the song says... "Don't worry, be happy"
00:03 and that's why we're trying to do today. 00:05 We're trying to learn how to be happy, 00:07 and we have to realize we're 6,000 years from the 00:09 Hand of the Creator, but even under these circumstances, 00:12 there are ways that we can bring joy 00:14 and happiness into our life, and Dr. Marcum has outlined 00:17 7 beautiful ways of doing that. 00:19 Let's get to our questions now and see if we can apply 00:21 some of those principles to these questions here, okay? 00:23 I like giving people things that they can do that 00:26 that's positive! It makes you happy! 00:28 You know and when you go to the doctor, 00:30 and you give them a pill or a prescription or something 00:33 ...you know that's not as fun as saying, 00:37 "I'm giving you this to do to change your chemistry, 00:40 give it a try and report back to me" 00:42 So that makes me happy when I can give someone else 00:44 something they actually WANT to do and it can embrace 00:47 to change their chemistry. I like it 00:48 Okay, here's our first question from 00:50 heartwiseministries. org 00:51 "Is it possible to treat depression without medications?" 00:55 Just how powerful is happiness? 00:58 Yeah, the answer to that - it is possible to treat 01:01 depression without medications and there are some great doctors 01:04 and psychiatrists out there that have written lots of things 01:08 about this and a lot of people don't realize that medications 01:11 aren't as successful as people think they are. 01:14 Just because you're on a medication, 01:16 doesn't mean your depression is going to be cured. 01:18 So it's not that high of a percentage of people 01:21 that are actually helped by the medications. 01:23 But, they've done things like improving your brain chemistry, 01:27 exercise, proper nutrition, meaningful things... 01:32 There's something called cognitive therapy 01:34 where you're learning to think and train your brain to 01:38 do these things right. 01:40 There are some biblical counselors that are helping 01:42 along those lines. 01:43 All these things make it possible that in some people, 01:46 it is possible not to take medicines for depression. 01:49 Now some people, have it so bad, genetically, that they do 01:53 need medicines for depression. 01:55 Some people need more than one medicine for depression. 01:57 Some people need extra therapy for depression, 01:59 but in some people, it is possible. 02:01 And right now, when so many people are on antidepressants, 02:04 I have to wonder a little bit, well maybe they didn't try 02:06 some other things FIRST and they just jumped to the 02:09 medicine because that might have been 02:10 the easiest thing to do at the time. 02:12 But I think it is possible to be off medicines, 02:14 and I think that a lot of other people would agree with me. 02:17 Here's a question again... "I have migraines every week, 02:23 what can I do for help?" 02:25 Is happiness a migraine attacker? 02:28 Well, it's not going to hurt, but you know, again, 02:31 what causes migraines? 02:33 That's a vascular headache usually caused by a 02:36 spasm of a blood vessel. 02:37 Sometimes it runs in families, sometimes we have 02:41 triggers that turn it on. 02:42 Migraines have lots of triggers. 02:44 Sometimes that trigger might be caffeine, a certain food, 02:48 doing a certain thing, a lack of sleep. 02:50 Things that might help lower the risk of having migraines 02:53 that I found to be very useful, now this is pretty dramatic... 02:57 But go to drinking nothing but water; 03:00 go to a plant-based diet, get all the chemicals out of 03:04 your diet - ALL of it out; 03:06 get on a regular exercise program to improve your 03:10 vascular tone and see what happens. 03:14 And there are some great medicines we use if you do have 03:17 genetic migraines, but I've had a lot of people that 03:19 just do that and guess what? 03:21 VOILA! It was something they were eating; 03:23 it was some chemical that they had in their diet. 03:26 They were maybe not getting enough sleep. 03:27 Something tended to trigger their bad genetics 03:30 to trigger these migraines, but that's the way to start, 03:33 and if that doesn't work, there are some medicines 03:35 that can be added on to that. 03:36 Here's a question that sort of goes along with this... 03:39 "Certain foods make my GI tract very unhappy" 03:41 Here are foods attacking a different part of the body. 03:44 Do I need to see a specialist, if you have an unhappy GI tract? 03:49 Well, it's according - I'm telling people, 03:51 as a general rule, if you see blood coming out, 03:54 if there is blood coming out, if you've lost a lot of weight, 03:58 if you can't swallow in your GI tract, 04:01 or if you're having pain regularly in your GI tract, 04:04 you need to have someone evaluate that. 04:07 That could be something serious from a bleeding ulcer, 04:10 to a lot of other more serious things in the GI tract. 04:14 If you just eat some food and it makes you feel bad, 04:17 then maybe you should experiment with eating healthier foods, 04:20 maybe you have a food allergy, a food that would trigger that. 04:23 Unfortunately, what I've seen is a lot of doctors 04:26 don't pay attention to nutrition. 04:29 What I like to do is, as soon as I make sure it's 04:32 nothing something terrible, 04:33 I say, "Well, let's do this FIRST, rather than 04:35 order a bunch of tests. " 04:38 "You know, you're not having bleeding, 04:39 you're not losing weight, you don't have an infection... 04:42 let's just try maybe switching some foods around, 04:44 maybe cutting back your dairy or cutting back 04:47 meat or cutting back this and see how you feel, 04:50 and if your body responds to that, 04:52 maybe nothing more needs to be done. " 04:54 So sometimes the food acts as an allergen 04:57 that stimulates the body to attack inside... 05:00 A lot of diseases we see that are like that. 05:03 We're talking about being happy here and here is 05:06 someone who is not happy at a certain time of the day. 05:10 "I am grumpy when I do not get sleep as well as 05:14 work too many hours at work" 05:16 In other words, you don't get enough sleep, 05:17 and you have too much work. 05:18 "I cannot quit my job" and then the question is... 05:22 "What energy drinks help?" 05:24 Is this a prime candidate for one of those little 05:27 5- hour energy drinks? 05:29 We talked about that energy drinks before. 05:32 The real solution is to find out why they don't feel good. 05:37 The energy drink is not the answer, 05:40 it's just treating a symptom. 05:42 The symptom is "I'm not feeling good" 05:44 Well, why am I not feeling good? 05:45 It sounds like this person is not getting enough rest. 05:49 So they're going to have to figure out how to rest more 05:52 in their lives and get it done. 05:55 Americans aren't resting anymore; 05:58 you know, we're staying up all night, 05:59 we're not taking our weekly rest, 06:00 we're not taking our nightly rest, 06:02 but when I encourage people to make it a priority, 06:05 and say, "Listen, I want you to dedicate yourself to having 06:08 a weekly rest, I want you to work harder 06:10 at resting at night" 06:11 "Do that for me for one week and see how you feel, 06:16 and if you start feeling better, having more energy, 06:18 ...almost everyone does, that gives you your real answer" 06:22 You don't need a quick fix that doesn't get at the problem. 06:25 You don't need a quick energy drink. 06:27 You need to get at the cause of the problem... 06:29 And that's what we have to do in medicine and in life, 06:32 we have to understand the causes, 06:33 not so much WHAT we do, but WHY we do the things; 06:37 what is the cause. 06:38 When we do that, we can truly find solutions. 06:41 Very good. That a great question I agree with you, absolutely! 06:43 This is from heartwiseministries. org 06:45 the website where you can bring 06:46 your questions in to this program. 06:48 Okay, here we go - oh yes... "I always feel happy 06:51 when I go out with friends and drink; however, I know this 06:55 is NOT good for me - will a drink or 2... 06:58 I'm assuming this is alcoholic beverage, 07:01 ...Will a drink or 2 be a problem for my health?" 07:03 Just a little bit? Yeah 07:04 It could be a problem for your health. 07:06 And I see a lot of people that go out in happiness 07:10 and, you know, they look for 07:12 all sorts of things that make them happy. 07:13 Will it be... you know, lots of different things are out there, 07:16 bad things, drugs, alcohol. 07:18 They look for things that bring them 07:20 temporary happiness but it doesn't really bring them 07:23 long-term happiness and I think that that's why 07:27 in my list of 7 things, I think people need to really 07:30 understand - Well, what does God define as happiness? 07:37 The world defines happiness different than 07:39 God defines happiness. 07:43 And the Lord, when He was here, He spent a lot of time 07:45 helping people, visiting with friends, loving on people. 07:49 You know, I'd like to think that He was happy in His service. 07:52 Serving our Master Creator, that should be the definition 07:55 of happiness! Shouldn't it? One of the definitions. 07:57 So I want to encourage this person to not do that 08:00 alcohol - you know, it could lead to a bad habit, 08:03 and go back and look for real, honest truth of happiness, 08:08 not what the world teaches is happy, 08:10 but what is the definition of true happiness. 08:12 All right, very good. 08:13 I like this question right here and I'm sure there are people 08:17 listening and watching who can identify with it. 08:20 "I was in the dumps and bought a boat" OKAY! 08:24 "Still feel no better; everything is okay at home; 08:28 I was started on medications for blood pressure a month ago, 08:32 could this be changing my moods?" 08:34 Now, are we talking about the boat 08:35 or the blood pressure medicine? 08:37 Hmmmm, so it sounds like this fellow was in the mood, 08:41 so he bought a boat to make him feel better. Yeah 08:43 And in the process, I don't know which came first 08:46 with the boat, but yes, all the medications can have 08:49 side effects. 08:51 Well I guess if the boat didn't work, 08:53 he tried the medications, I guess. 08:54 I don't know, I don't know which came first on this fellow, 08:56 but you know what, it's possible any medication 08:59 could have a side effect. 09:00 But don't we do that, don't we say, 09:01 "I'm feeling bad, so I'm going to go buy something" 09:03 I'm going to get a new something into my life 09:05 that's going to make me feel good. 09:07 And when we don't feel good, we say, 09:08 "Oh my goodness, what is WRONG with me 09:10 that I have this nice, cool boat or car or iPhone 09:15 or widescreen TV, I don't feel any better. 09:18 I better go see the doctor for some medicines. " 09:19 Right, and that's when they go to the doctor for the medicines 09:23 ...That we say, "Listen, why don't you feel good?" 09:26 Make sure there's nothing, of course, physical wrong. 09:29 But maybe the brain is not feeling wrong, 09:31 maybe that person is not happy. 09:33 Maybe that person has something in their life that is unresolved 09:37 And that's when those things have to say, 09:39 Listen, well what can we do about those things? 09:41 How can those things be forgotten and forgiven? 09:45 What's the path on that type of treatment? 09:49 And that leads them back, I think, into that relationship 09:52 going back to the Bible, learning what God has to say 09:55 about it - that help, that forgiveness that comes. 09:58 It might help with meeting with the pastor or friend 10:01 or a doctor or someone that can 10:02 help them along this journey because not everyone 10:05 knows how to have a relationship with God. 10:08 Not everyone knows how to read the Bible. 10:10 Not everyone knows how to pray. 10:12 And these are things that we have to let people 10:15 know how to do these things. 10:17 So this fellow's happiness, I don't know exactly 10:20 what the problem was, Charles. 10:22 But the boat didn't take care of it. 10:24 No, the boat didn't take care of it, 10:25 but, you know, sometimes I don't have the answers for people, 10:28 and I have to say, "I'm sorry I don't know. " 10:31 But one thing that I always can do is I can pray to God 10:35 who knows everything and who can take care of problems, 10:38 so I can always offer a prayer and I'm going to offer 10:41 a prayer to this fellow as well. Absolutely! 10:43 Very important, I think that the message that comes through 10:46 by what you're saying today, Dr. Marcum, 10:48 is that happiness is NOT connected to things; 10:52 it's not connected to events and jobs and people, 10:57 it's connected to our relationship with God, 10:59 and how we identify with Him and how we can 11:02 spend time with Him in nature and in prayer, at church 11:06 and in worship - there's where happiness comes from! 11:08 We'll take a short break and when we come back, 11:10 we will pray to that Great Physician, 11:12 so stay right where you are. 11:27 We spoke earlier about this treatment for disease 11:31 as well as a way to prevent disease found in Proverbs... 11:34 "A merry heart does good like medicine" 11:37 I did dig up some research about the different 11:39 chemicals that increase when we're in a happy state, 11:43 and I gave you 7 ways that you can maybe try to be happier. 11:46 Most of you are probably doing all those and you probably 11:49 could send me some more ways to be happy, 11:51 and I want you to send them to our website that is 11:54 heartwiseministries. org 11:57 and I want you to share your ways with being happy 12:00 with many, many other people. 12:02 I think it's real important for our chemistries 12:05 that we think about being happy and that we 12:07 strive to be happy in our lives. 12:09 I want to pray for you at this time 12:11 that we might all find happiness and fulfillment. 12:15 Father in Heaven... We want to thank You 12:17 for bringing us together and I want to pray 12:18 for everyone that's watching today - that You give them 12:21 such happiness and joy in their lives and that You be 12:24 so close to them, Father. 12:26 Bring healing into their lives and help them to 12:29 take their light and shine all over the world and make 12:33 others happy and bring others closer to you... 12:35 is our humble prayer... Amen 12:38 Many of you wanted to know how to get a hold of me 12:41 you can go to our website that is... 12:42 heartwiseministries. org 12:45 You'll find some interesting things there. 12:47 There is a place you can pray for each other. 12:50 There are some interesting articles. 12:52 You can read some blogs. 12:53 We now even have a place where you can review 12:56 healthy restaurants for other people. 12:58 That's a way you can serve. 12:59 Thank you so much for joining us and I want each one of us 13:03 today to have the most happy day ever! |
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