The following
program presents principles
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designed to promote
good health and is not
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intended to take the
place of personalized
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professional care.
The opinions and ideas
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expressed are
those of the speaker.
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Viewers are
encouraged to draw their own
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conclusions about the
information presented.
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Hello, welcome to
"Wonderfully Made."
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My name is Dr. George Guthrie,
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Medical Director of
Lifestyle Center for America.
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The scripture says the joy
of the Lord is my strength.
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Here to talk about it
today with me is Dr. Tim Arnott.
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Hi, Tim. Hi, George it's
good to be here with you.
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It's good to be here.
The joy of the Lord is
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my strength, now I
often wondered talk about
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strength, physical
strength I can lift,
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I can move
things that's strength
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and then the joy of
the Lord is my strength
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emotionally when I am
under stress I can be,
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the joy of the Lord can
give me strength in that area.
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I understand that we
are learning from science
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that there are
lots of benefits from a
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positive thankful spirit.
That's right in fact this
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whole topic that we
are dealing with in this
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program might be
entitled healing emotions.
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Those emotions
that sometimes we don't
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always have in our sphere,
but science is telling us
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that if we do have them
we will have a lower risk
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of some of the most
important diseases that
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we face
everyday in this country.
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So those negative
emotions like anger
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or kind of stress
affect our bodies in a negative
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sort of a way and
maintaining a positive
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joyful attitude
does bring health.
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That's right, Dr.
Jonas and colleagues at the
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National Center for
Health Statistics in Atlanta
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actually found
that those individuals
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who are the most
relaxed and the most
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cheerful actually had
the lowest risk of developing
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high blood pressure
later on compared to those
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individuals who are most
tense and least cheerful.
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Well, I suppose
that makes sense because
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the stress hormones
themselves tender constrict
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the blood vessels and
make the blood pressure go up.
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Absolutely and also
it's important to remember
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that high blood pressure
is one of the most important
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risk factors for
coronary artery disease
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or atherosclerosis,
hardening of the arteries
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if you will and so one
of the three main causes
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of heart disease is
high blood pressure,
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the other is of
course. Stroke is also more
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likely people who
have high blood pressure.
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Absolutely, so blood
pressure is a big important
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risk factor for the
number one and three killers of
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Americans and other
individuals in Western society.
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I've noticed in my
office when people come to
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see me sometimes
just my white coat makes
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their blood
pressure go up a little bit.
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We have a name for
this we call it white coat
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hypertension and maybe
that's just been a little
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nervous, from being a
little nervous when they
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come to visit me.
Absolutely, in fact,
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individuals will discover
that their highest blood
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pressure will be
when their physician takes
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their blood pressure
in the office wearing a
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white coat. These
studies have actually been done
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and in fact, the next
lowest blood pressure will be
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when the nurse takes
your blood pressure in
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the office and the next
lowest will be the first
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two weeks that you
are taking your blood
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pressure in your
home, and after two weeks of
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taking your blood
pressure in your home
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you will actually see
the lowest possible baseline
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blood pressure for
you, so actually home
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blood pressure monitoring
is very important and we
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would actually recommend
that for those individuals
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who either are at risk
of high blood pressure maybe
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carrying some extra
weight in the middle area
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or those who
already have the diagnosis.
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So when I go to visit or
when you go to see the doctor,
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keep a positive thankful
attitude for the healing
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that's coming
rather than being afraid.
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Is that the take
home message here?
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Exactly. Okay. Now
other benefits of the healing
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emotions were
discovered by Dr. Williams
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and his colleagues at the
Center for Disease Control
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and Prevention at Atlanta,
and what he found, well,
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what he did was to
measure the trait anger
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scores for
individuals who are less then
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16 years of age.
They have different tests
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they can measure
how much trait anger
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you have by how
you answer these tests
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and individuals with the
lowest trait anger scores
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were actually at 1/3 the
risk of a stroke compared
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to those who had the
highest trait anger scores.
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I have also heard that
strokes are not uncommon
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when someone is in a
very angry state that is
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the blood pressure
raises up, the stress hormones
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increase and it's more
likely, we have a blood
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clot break loose
and go to the brain.
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Absolutely, George and in fact,
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it's also associated
with the release of the stress
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hormones in a fight
or flight situation,
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where the blood is
more likely to clot as well
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and most strokes and
nearly every heart attack
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is the result of
formation of a blood clot.
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But we see here that
just having the lowest trait
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anger score can
significantly lower the risk of
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stroke, only a 3rd
the risk and in fact,
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what they found was that
this was the most significant
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risk factor for
stroke in individuals
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who are otherwise at
lowest risk of blood vessel
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diseases such as
heart attacks and strokes.
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So that angry episode,
in fact, George I remember
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a patient of mine who
recently came into the
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office there at the
Lifestyle Center and
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this individual had
developed some chest pain
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and they called me
emergently out of a lecture
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and I raised up and we
did an EKG on this individual,
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electrocardiogram and
we looked at his electrical
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impulses through the
heart and fortunately
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he apparently was not
having a coronary event
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and his chest pain
subsided after they gave him a
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little bit of nitroglycerin,
but it was interesting as
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I did a further
history on this gentleman,
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I discovered that the
chest pain began after
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he had an angry
phone conversation
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and he was enraged
during this conversation
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and then the chest pain
began, so this is real this
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happens individuals
who are involved in a high
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intensity, negative
emotion event can increase their
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risk of some of these events.
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So, there are
some choices to be made
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when something
happens to one that might make
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the anger rise up
inside. It would be better to
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choose to look for
something to be thankful
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for rather than to
letting the anger rise.
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To think positively
rather than to let the negative
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emotion roll over our
bodies. We are counseled
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that it is a positive
duty to resist those negative
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thoughts and so dismissing
negative thoughts can be
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something that can
be very, very helpful.
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We will talk about
more of the health that can
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come to us at the
end of this program.
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We don't want
people to get discourage
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and develop a
negative emotions by listing to
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all of this information.
About negative emotions.
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About negative emotions.
Now Dr. Williams and his
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colleagues there at
the CDC found some other
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very interesting information,
individuals whose anger
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experiences were
brief infrequent and of low
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intensity were
actually at less than one-half
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the risk of a heart
attack or death from coronary
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artery disease compared
to the those individuals
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whose anger experiences
were intense and frequent,
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and much more
vigorous, and so again low anger
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intensity, infrequent
anger, very protective for the
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heart and for the
brain. So the person who feels
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the anger rising has
an opportunity to check it
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before it actually
blows up completely,
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and the shorter
and the less frequent,
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less chance of
problems, so that's good news,
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anything else. Well, I
think it's important again
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to summarize what Dr.
Williams feels is the basis
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for this connection
between anger and heart disease,
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heart attacks and strokes
and he believes as George
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mentioned that when
you're enraged in those
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you have that
anger response the stress
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hormones go up, the
blood vessels constrict
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and if there is cholesterol
in the artery wall there
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can be fracturing of
the wall of the endothelium,
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the lining of the
artery and that cholesterol can
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rush out into
the blood flow space,
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a clot form and
you've got a heart attack
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or very frequently a stroke.
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Well, let's look at
some more information about
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how healing
emotions can help lower our
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risk of some of these
very important diseases.
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For example; Dr.
Gillette and his colleagues at
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Duke University
Medical Center there in North
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Carolina, found that
you could actually decrease
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or I should say in
another way increase the amount
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of blood get into the
heart if you had the lowest
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tension and the
lowest frustration.
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In another words, individuals
who already have heart
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disease they were
studied and in situations
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where they were at
the lowest attention,
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the most relaxed,
the least stressed
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they had an greater
blood flow to the heart
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muscle compared to those
patients with heart disease
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who were stressed,
who had more anxiety and
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frustration, and so
again the importance of healing
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emotions keeping
the stress hormones low,
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so you have maximal
blood flow to the heart muscle.
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So, the blood vessels
are actually open better,
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the blood flow is
better when someone is relax
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and peaceful. Absolutely.
Now Dr. Kubsanski and his
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colleagues at the
Harvard School of Public Health
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found that those individuals
who were worried least
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about world
conditions about the economy,
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about the
recession. Now you are getting
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pretty close to home.
That's right, and about
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the countries future
those who are worried least
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about these things
they had a 60 percent
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lower risk of developing
a non-fatal heart attack.
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That will be a heart
attack that you have,
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but don't die from,
60 percent lower risk
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if you are least
concerned and worried about the
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economy, about the
recession, about the situation,
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the political situation
and the world conditions,
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and also these
individuals least concerned,
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least worried about
the economy, about these
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different issues
that facing our country
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they had a 30 percent
lower risk of all coronary
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heart disease, in fact,
they found that there was
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dose-response the more
worried you were about the
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economy about world
conditions about the
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future of our planet,
the greater the risk of
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a heart attack and
coronary artery disease.
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So, understanding and
knowing that God cares
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for us and has a plan
for our lives they were not
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alone in this world can
actually make us healthier.
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We don't have to worry
about the world around this
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because we know God
in-charge that's a good
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news. Dr. Blumenthal
has more good news for us.
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Healing emotions
they are important.
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We want to, we
want to cherish them.
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We want to ask the
creator to share with us to give
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us those healing
emotions. Dr. Blumenthal at Duke
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University Medical
Center actually studied some
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individuals who had
some negative emotions
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they had had a heart
attack. They were depressed or
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they had a very
little social support.
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They didn't have a
strong family surrounding them.
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He wanted to know
if these individuals,
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what their risk of
another heart attack would be
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and so he studied them.
He gave them a questionnaire
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to fill out and he
found that those individuals
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who had a heart
attack, who were depressed
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or had just a small
amount of social support.
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If they were
exercising regularly they were
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actually a 30 percent
lower risk of having a repeat
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mild cardiac
infarction or heart attack.
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And so here we see an
antidote against negative
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emotions, exercise,
regular physical exercise can
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actually undo some
of the negative effects
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of the negative emotions.
We may even have a good
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explanation for this.
The adrenal gland lets these
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hormones, the stress
hormones into the blood,
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adrenaline is one of
them and noradrenaline is the
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other. Noradrenaline
is the one that comes out
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with emotional stress.
It tends to constrict the
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blood vessels in the
muscle, driving up the
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blood pressure increasing
the risk of heart attack.
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The stress hormone
that's released from
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the adrenal glands
during physical exercise is
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adrenaline and it
opens up the blood vessels
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in the muscles,
improving the blood flow and
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apparently here decreasing
the risk of a heart attack,
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so that's good
news. Now Dr. Kubsanski
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and his colleagues at
Harvard University found
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another benefit
to healing emotions.
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What they've studied
is the effect of optimism.
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They studied men and
found that those with
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the most optimistic
actually had the best
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lung function, yes, lung
function was best in those
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who were optimistic.
They also found that these
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men who are optimistic
had the slowest decline in
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lung function overtime
and so if you want to get
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more oxygen to your
body if you want to get more
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oxygen to your frontal
lobe and be able to think
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more clearly you can
have better lung function
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if you have an
optimistic spirit.
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And so this is
another benefit of the healing
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emotions. Now my wife
tells me that I am the optimist
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and she is the
pessimist, I mean the realist.
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Yes. So there may be
some benefit just to kind
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of thinking at the
positive side of things.
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Absolutely. Good,
the thankful side.
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Dr. Maritza and his
colleagues at Mayo Clinic
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actually found
other benefits to optimism
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and they studied individuals
and tested them with a
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test the MMPI tests and
found out their optimism,
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pessimism score and
what they found is that
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individuals who were
the most optimistic had the
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lowest mortality,
the lowest risk of dying
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over a 30 year period
and so if you want to live
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longer, if you
want to have more oxygen
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and be able to think
more clearly have lower risk
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of heart attack and
stroke and better lung function,
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optimism and
healing emotions are very,
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very important. A 30
years living longer with
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optimism that's, there
must be some affects on the
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immune system as well,
cancer and other things.
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I think it's a no;
there is no question about it
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George that when we
have negative emotions there
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is a depressant
affect on the immune system.
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We will be looking at
that in just a few moments.
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In fact, we will be
learning about a cell
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that actually fights
cancer, it's called the NK-cell,
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the natural killer
cell. This cell actually does
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surveillance
against cancer in your body.
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It looks at cells and
to see if they have had a
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cancerous transformation
and if they have it takes
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that cell out, it
destroys it, and these cells are
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actually responsive to
emotions as we will find
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out in a few
moments. Now Dr. Bolli and his
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colleagues at the University
of Plymouth in the United
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Kingdom looked at this
whole issue of optimism
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and pessimism in
individuals going for surgery.
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Patients were going
for hernia operations
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and he found that the
most patients that were the
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most optimistic actually
were able to return to their
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normal activities
much more quickly,
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muck earlier than
individuals who were pessimistic
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and in fact he found
that pessimism strongly
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correlated with delayed
return to normal activities
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after a surgery, so
even something is simple as
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getting back to work
after a major operation
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can be affected by our emotions.
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So, healing itself
appears to occur faster
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when we have a
positive thankful spirit.
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Dr. Levy and his
colleagues at the University of
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Pittsburg Medical
Center actually studied breast
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cancer survivors.
They found individuals
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who had breast cancer
and they followed them
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for a number of
years and found that those
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who are the most optimistic
were the most likely to
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still be alive four
years after their breast cancer
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was initially found and
so optimism can actually help
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you even after
you've been diagnosed with a
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dreaded
illnesses, a serious illness,
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for example; as cancer
in this case breast cancer.
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So as always the
approach cancer diagnosis from
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a positive, we are gonna
link this attitude actually
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are able to live longer
to fight the cancer better,
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great. Now the
Author Hoffen in his book
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"Mind Body Health"
the effects of attitudes,
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emotions, and relationships.
He reports a study of
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several oncologists
about 649 to be exact and they
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were actually talking
about their experience with over
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a 100,000 cancer
patients and the thing that they
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cited as the single
most important issue
00:20:07.53\00:20:11.95
when it comes to
successful treatment
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of a cancer patient
is an attitude of hope
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and optimism that's
what 650 oncologists cited
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as the most important
factor for successful treatment
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of cancer over a
100,000 cancer patients.
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Even more important in
the chemotherapy itself
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is the attitude with
which people approach.
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Absolutely, Dr. Pert, at
the National Institute of
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Mental Health is the one
we were eluding too early.
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He discovered
that white blood cells,
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monocytes in this case
are actually sensitive to
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neuropeptides, neurochemicals
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that are coming out of the
limbic system of the brain.
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Now the limbic system
is the system of the brain
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that deals with your
emotions and so when you have an
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emotion, when you have a
positive emotion there are
00:21:04.19\00:21:07.33
chemicals made by the
cells of the limbic system
00:21:07.36\00:21:11.27
which then are put
into the blood stream and go
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and attach to the
white blood cells encouraging
00:21:15.08\00:21:18.95
increasing their ability
to do the job of protecting
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us from
disease. On the converse,
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if you have
negative emotions you have a
00:21:26.25\00:21:28.55
similar
production of these chemicals
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and it has a negative
or depressive effect on the
00:21:31.90\00:21:35.27
white blood cells
or the immune system.
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Reminds me of the Bible
text, "A merry heart doeth good
00:21:38.36\00:21:42.36
like an antibiotic."
Like an antibiotic, yes,
00:21:42.39\00:21:46.68
like a medicine,
and a merry heart that's
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exactly right, you know,
the wisest man that ever live
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knew the benefit
of healing emotions.
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And you know we can
ask, we are told in scripture
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that we have not
because we ask not.
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God says ask and
it shall be given,
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I am just I would say
George that we could probably
00:22:07.30\00:22:10.52
ask our creator to give
us a optimistic outlook,
00:22:10.55\00:22:14.68
to give us his
positive emotions and I am sure
00:22:14.71\00:22:19.33
that he won't tell us
to hold on that request.
00:22:19.36\00:22:24.41
The Bible goes so far to
say that we are saved by hope
00:22:24.44\00:22:28.36
and looking forward the
positiveness what God is
00:22:28.39\00:22:32.37
doing for us has
done for us, saves us,
00:22:32.40\00:22:35.82
sometimes also in
scripture saving and healing are
00:22:35.85\00:22:41.12
actually the same
word it mean very similar.
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So, the salvation
there is healing and hope.
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In fact, we were told
in Hebrews that the savior,
00:22:47.32\00:22:51.49
but for the joy
that was set before Him
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he was able to endure the
cross, despising the shame,
00:22:55.63\00:22:59.85
and so hope is important
if you are dealing with
00:22:59.88\00:23:03.29
a difficult situation, a
cross experience look at the
00:23:03.32\00:23:08.08
joy that the
creator has set before us
00:23:08.11\00:23:11.71
and that can have powerful
healing properties for you.
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Dr. Burns and his colleagues
at the University of Miami
00:23:16.61\00:23:20.03
was the physician that
I've mentioned earlier.
00:23:20.06\00:23:24.11
He studied women and
found that those women
00:23:24.14\00:23:27.17
who were the most
optimistic had the highest
00:23:27.20\00:23:30.90
natural killer cell
activity, in another words women
00:23:30.93\00:23:35.50
who were the most
optimistic about their
00:23:35.53\00:23:37.73
lives had nuclear natural
killer cells who were able
00:23:37.76\00:23:42.76
to best do their job of
looking for cancer cells
00:23:42.79\00:23:46.68
in your body to knock
them out and to destroy them
00:23:46.71\00:23:49.26
before they could get
a foothold and a cancer
00:23:49.29\00:23:52.12
develop. So, not just
those that fight infection,
00:23:52.15\00:23:55.22
but cells that fight
cancer directly are encouraged
00:23:55.25\00:23:58.17
by this positive
thankful attitude.
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And this wasn't
just one study George.
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Other researcher such
as Dr. Segerstrom at UCLA
00:24:04.08\00:24:09.65
found similar findings
those who are most optimistic
00:24:09.68\00:24:13.94
have the most powerful
white blood cell affect,
00:24:13.97\00:24:18.51
at the white blood
cell whose job it is to look
00:24:18.54\00:24:21.86
for cancer cells
that have had a cancerous
00:24:21.89\00:24:24.80
transformation and to
take out those cells to
00:24:24.83\00:24:27.46
destroy those cells.
Optimism helps your body
00:24:27.49\00:24:30.61
fight cancer. This is
a powerful recommendation
00:24:30.64\00:24:34.79
for the healing
emotions. Is there anything else
00:24:34.82\00:24:37.29
that positive
emotions does for us?
00:24:37.32\00:24:39.60
Well, yes, there are
number of different things,
00:24:39.63\00:24:42.51
in fact, Dr. Seligman
and his colleagues at the
00:24:42.54\00:24:45.56
University of Pennsylvania
found that those who were
00:24:45.59\00:24:49.04
the most optimistic,
those adults who were the most
00:24:49.07\00:24:52.14
optimistic actually had
the strongest immune system.
00:24:52.17\00:24:55.74
So, now we are not
looking just at the
00:24:55.77\00:24:57.98
natural killer cell that
does cancer surveillance,
00:24:58.01\00:25:00.70
but we are looking at
all the white blood cells
00:25:00.73\00:25:03.25
and as they
studied the immune system,
00:25:03.28\00:25:06.20
they found that individuals
who are the most optimistic
00:25:06.23\00:25:10.12
actually had the
strongest immune systems,
00:25:10.15\00:25:13.08
they also found George
that those who were the
00:25:13.11\00:25:15.62
most pessimistic had
the weakest immune system.
00:25:15.65\00:25:20.27
So, it does make a
difference the thoughts
00:25:20.30\00:25:23.33
of our mind. It's an
interesting field that
00:25:23.36\00:25:25.39
is just blooming now
and I think they call
00:25:25.42\00:25:27.77
it psyconeuroimmunology.
How the mind affects the
00:25:27.80\00:25:34.61
body's ability to deal
with the cancers and infections.
00:25:34.64\00:25:39.90
Now in the time
that we have left George,
00:25:39.93\00:25:43.41
we want to deal with
this whole issue of well,
00:25:43.44\00:25:47.01
okay, I have a lot
of negative emotions,
00:25:47.04\00:25:50.40
I am anxious, I am
worried, I am angry a lot,
00:25:50.43\00:25:53.31
I fly off the handle.
How can I have these healing
00:25:53.34\00:25:56.85
emotions? How can I
be at rest and at peace?
00:25:56.88\00:26:00.57
How can I have low anger
level? How can I have more
00:26:00.60\00:26:06.71
comfort and more
hope and more optimism?
00:26:06.74\00:26:10.45
How is it possible
that we can change from
00:26:10.48\00:26:14.06
having negative
emotions to healing emotions?
00:26:14.09\00:26:17.55
Well, we have been
given many wonderful
00:26:17.58\00:26:20.98
promises to help us
escape these negative emotions.
00:26:21.01\00:26:25.85
Promises of help
in time of trouble,
00:26:25.88\00:26:28.78
promises of care when
it seems like no one cares,
00:26:28.81\00:26:33.75
if we high those scriptures,
00:26:33.78\00:26:36.04
those promises in our
mind, those can come to
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the surface, be
brought back to our memory.
00:26:39.15\00:26:41.25
We can choose to
say them to ourselves.
00:26:41.28\00:26:44.70
I know for me personally
in times of stress has
00:26:44.73\00:26:47.80
been helpful to say
the Lord is my shepherd.
00:26:47.83\00:26:50.75
I shall not one. When
I am wrestling with it
00:26:50.78\00:26:54.14
that for me is a time
of rest. Scriptures help us
00:26:54.17\00:26:58.37
with that. Then one of
the scripture that I have
00:26:58.40\00:27:01.10
found very comforting
when I am in a situation
00:27:01.13\00:27:04.77
that is trying to
increase my negative emotions,
00:27:04.80\00:27:09.53
I remember the
scripture what time I am afraid,
00:27:09.56\00:27:14.15
I will trust in thee. And
there are other scriptures;
00:27:14.18\00:27:18.96
2 Corinthians 10,
verse 4 and 5, it says,
00:27:18.99\00:27:22.77
that the weapons of our
warfare are mighty through
00:27:22.80\00:27:28.02
God bringing into
captivity every thought.
00:27:28.05\00:27:31.61
God is promised to
take captive our thoughts
00:27:31.64\00:27:35.71
and if he is taking
captive our thoughts
00:27:35.74\00:27:38.39
you know that out at
the other end will come
00:27:38.42\00:27:40.75
positive
thoughts, positive emotions.
00:27:40.78\00:27:43.80
We were also told that
as we behold the savior,
00:27:43.83\00:27:47.33
we will become more
and more like him in his
00:27:47.36\00:27:51.14
presence his fullness
of joy. So, we want to
00:27:51.17\00:27:55.68
encourage you if
you are struggling with
00:27:55.71\00:27:57.97
negative emotions take
time every morning to come
00:27:58.00\00:28:02.32
into God's presence, for
he has promised that there
00:28:02.35\00:28:07.09
we have joy and we will find
00:28:07.12\00:28:11.09
how wonderfully we are made.
00:28:11.12\00:28:14.00