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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.
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expressed are
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Hello, I'm
Shelley Quinn and welcome
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to Wonderfully Made.
You know, David wrote:
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Oh! I praise the
Lord for I am fearfully
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and wonderfully
made. And we are,
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but there are so
many things that we do
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to ourselves that
actually can ruin our health.
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And today we're
gonna be talking about
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something that you're
gonna want to hear about.
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And this is, our
topic today is stress,
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and how to prevent
it and, how to cope
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with it, how to
over come it? And we have
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with us an expert,
he's a cardiologist from
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the Chattanooga,
Tennessee Heart Institute
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and his name is Dr. Jim Marcum.
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Jim, thank you so
much for being here today,
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thank you. Now,
when we get started on
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this topic I know
that we're gonna have an
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audience that is tuned
in and listening because
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everyone it seems is
experiencing stress in
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today's world, what
do you think that is?
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Well, that's right well
there's lots of problems
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that are contributing to stress.
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And you know you
think about well,
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what is stress?
You know, where is it
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around me and today
getting back to your
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question what's causing
it? Well, our lifestyles
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you know, we're
running we think we have to
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work harder and do
more. We think we have to
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stay up later at
night, we think we have to
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pursue the almighty
dollar. You know in some
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parts of the world
people are scrounging right now
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to stay out of wars,
people are having to fight
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to get the food
they have, there is many
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different reasons that
cause stress on our body.
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You know as you were
saying that I just had
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a thought there are
people that are sitting
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at home that are
lonely, but maybe they've lost,
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I mean they don't have
that fast paced lifestyle.
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Maybe there's a slown
down because slowed down,
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yeah, because of
either their age, or maybe
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an illness, but that
change can cause stress too,
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can't it? Yes,
change can cause stress,
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loss of a loved one
cause stress, not being happy
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at your job can cause stress,
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sin in your life can
cause stress. Amen, amen.
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The food you eat in
your life can cause stress;
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the things you do and
don't do can cause stress.
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The list goes on and
on and on and I bet you
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sometimes when I
talk about the subject
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the people just hearing
of it, they start to get
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stressed from
hearing about stress.
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And sometimes when
you hear about stress
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over and over and
over you start to get
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stressed and I'm,
I'm going to apologized
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I know some people at
home right now are getting
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stressed about it, but
this is a topic we must
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talk about because
stress is truly a disease.
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Amen. Stress leads to
disease and I'm afraid
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right now we don't
hear enough about it,
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we don't recognize it,
we don't have a game plan
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in dealing with
stress. That's what we want to
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do today with this
program is get people
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a game plan to think
about stress as a real disease.
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Now, you are a
cardiologist Jim, yes and
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I would like for you
to explain what that is to
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our audience?
Well, a cardiologist is a
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doctor that's trained
in Internal Medicine and
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specifically they
trains to deal with the
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diseases of the
heart and blood vessels.
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What got me
interested in stress?
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Is that stress plays
a role in so many these
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chronic cardiovascular
diseases, it plays a role
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in high blood
pressure and heart attacks,
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it plays a role in
people's diet. Did you know
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that some people just
a food they eat causes
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and to have stress,
but it's truly something
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that is you're
gonna hear a lot more
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about the next few
years. And I guess what
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really tipped me
over is my own life.
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I assessed you
know what's going on and
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I said well why don't
I feel as good as I do,
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you know why can I do
more, why I'm not more
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sharp than I should be?
Well, I looked at things
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and I was having a lot
of stress in my own life,
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so then I really
got to the basics of it.
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Well, that's good and
I know that I probably
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need to reevaluate
some things as well.
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Well, Jim also
has a ministry called
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Heartwise Ministry,
and he teaches people
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how to be wise about
their lifestyle choices.
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And because of this
ministry we have questions
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that have come in from
all of around the world.
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And we're gonna be
reading some of those
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questions that
deal with stress today.
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So, this first question
is from Brenda in New York,
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and here's what she
writes. My friend Lorry
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works at the desk
next to mine, she says I'm
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stressed out, how
do you know if you're
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stressed out? Oh!
Brenda excellent question,
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most people in fact
don't know that they're
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stressed out. One of
the worst things you know
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at work, if you're
stressed at work and
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don't even know it
you could have this stress
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disease for years
and not even realize what
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it's doing
internally to your body.
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There is a stress you
know about the conscious
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stress, but every
input that your body gets
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from anywhere. Every
in put stored in your
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brain in the subconscious.
So, the subconscious
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is working even when
you're conscious doesn't
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know about it and it
can create physiologic
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manifestations. So,
your mind and your body
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are so tightly
connected and then all these
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chemicals start to go
that deal with the stress,
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the stress hormones.
Now, I wanna throw up
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our first graphic
today. These are some,
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you know she ask
if how do you know
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when you might have
stress. Well, some of the
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common symptoms of
stress could be are you
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having headaches,
do you have unexplained
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chest pain, are
your muscles tight,
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are you having
problem sleeping, do you have
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acid that bubbles
up from your stomach,
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are you having
high blood pressure,
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are you having
palpitations, or are you
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shortness of
breath? All of these Shelley
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can be symptoms of
stress, but I think this is
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the best one that I
have for the audience
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in a person that I
think having lots of symptoms,
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you know, you go
to the doctor and say,
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oh! My chest hurts
and I do a lot of tests
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I can't find anything
wrong. And I think well
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maybe they have
the disease of stress.
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Well, one of the
uniform symptoms is they
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don't sleep well at
night. So, I always asked people
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do you sleep well
at night? And if the
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answer is no, you
have to say well maybe
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an addition to
everything else they're having
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some underlined
stress. So, Brenda back to your
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question, how do you
know if you're stressed?
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Well, do you have
any of these symptoms and
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secondly are you
sleeping well at night?
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Oh! It would be good one
and it's interesting that
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often people around us
are the ones who recognize
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it you know, my
husband told me once,
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honey I think
you're over working you're
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getting
stressed out. And I said,
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that's ridiculous,
but I went to a doctor
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and as I was talking to
him he said, you're gonna
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burn out your adrenal glands.
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He said, you are
going at high speed 24x7
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and he said
you're killing yourself.
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So, I took it
seriously. Okay, the second
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question comes from
Andrew in Australia and he says,
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my job in Sydney requires
travel four days a week,
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I know this kind of
schedule is not good for
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my body, what does
stress actually do to the body?
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Andrew, that's a good
question and I appreciate
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I've had quite a few
comments from Australia,
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so I know the people
in Australia are very
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interested about
their health, but stress
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and I'm gonna step
on a lot of toes here.
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Especially that my
friends the truck drivers,
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I see lots of them
they also go, the salesman,
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the people that
travel, the people that are
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on the go a lot
they frequently have
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high levels of stress.
And now, stress can come
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from anywhere, it
come from relationships,
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it can come from
pain, it can come from
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you know the things we
eat, the things we think
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about change, loss of
love ones, divorce is a
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big cause of stress, job
is a big cause of stress.
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Not having good
relationship with people,
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but there's two types
of stress that I want to
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talk to Andrew about,
one is the acute stress
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you know the fighter flight.
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Someone's threatening
you know to, to kill you,
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okay you're gonna
get your muscles up and
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you're gonna battle
with them, and you're gonna
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battle and battle
that's the good type of stress,
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that's a kind
of stress you want.
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But in chronic stress
your body is doing that
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all the time. One of
the hormones that your body
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makes is called
epinephrine or adrenaline.
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And this is the
hormone that does all sorts of
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things in your body.
For instance, it constricts
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blood vessels; it gets
the body ready to fight
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so all your muscles,
all throughout the body
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get tense, 'cause
you're ready to fight a battle.
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Yeah. You mobilize your
food from different places
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'cause you're
getting ready to fight,
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you're not you know,
you're gonna get the food,
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so that acid is in
the stomach just churning
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'cause you're
ready to digest whatever
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energy you can.
Your immune system,
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we don't need an
immune system in this course
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and we're gonna move our body
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energies in order
to fight. Your mind,
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it gets it's just racing
a millions times a minute.
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Your heart starts
to speed up okay, your,
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the muscles around
your eyes tight 'cause
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you're getting ready
to try the thing yourself
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to stay alive. Another
hormone that goes up is
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called cortisol and
this helps you know,
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in our food
process, it helps you know,
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the sugars in our body
and things of that nature.
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Well, this hormone
also changes, when these
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changes occur chronically,
chronically not acutely,
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but over the long term
your body can't deal with it.
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Lets stop there for
just a moment. Yeah.
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Because those are
words not everyone is
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familiar with. Okay.
But when you're talking
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about the acute
stress reaction that means
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when it just it
happens rapidly, it's a sudden
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on slot of this and if
it, if you require that
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fight or flight
that's good, but if this is
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something that you are
living in this condition
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chronically means that
if it's a chronic condition
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it's ongoing and
then you are wearing your
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body out because
there's all of these chemical
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changes going on in
your brain and in your body
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and you may not be
aware of that, but you're
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really killing yourself,
that's right, with stress.
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And that's why I call
this disease; this is really
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a disease because
clearly your chemical makeup
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is dramatically changed
from this chronic stress.
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I think of a patient
that I had not too long ago
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and get back to
Andrew's question.
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He was a truck
driver, he didn't sleep well
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at night, he ate
poor foods, he was having
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some relationship
problems, he had lost a
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loved one with
this chronic stress just
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drove him crazy. His
chemicals all change in
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body, his blood
pressure went up, he had acid
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and indigestion. And,
and finally when he was
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able to realize he had
this and worked through
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this stress one step
at a time his symptom
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started to improve,
'cause this is a terrible
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disease that we have.
And so, Andrew what does
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stress actually do in
the body? Well, it changes
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your entire
chemical makeup. Not only the
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chemicals that fight
acute stress, but the way
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you think. Have you
ever been under stressful
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situation? Your brain
just doesn't, it works
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differently it's not as
logical, it's doing things
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drastic things to stay
alive, it's not thinking
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that logical pathway
that you would get in
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non-stressful
situation. So, you overreact
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that point. Yes
usually, usually good. Okay.
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Well, let's go
onto Marlene's question.
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And Marlene is from
Ohio, and she writes I know
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I'm under stress,
there are too many things
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going on in my
life to list them all,
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what should I do
to combat the stress?
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Well, Marlene the
first thing that you've done
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is recognized that you
have stress, and that's
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very important, and the
second thing that you've
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done that is so good
is you're seeking help.
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Many people that are
under stress first they
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might admit they have
it, but then they won't do
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anything to change
what's going on in their lives.
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They say, oh! My
job is too demanding,
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I'm working two and
three jobs. I'm doing
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this, I'm doing that.
I'm staying up at night,
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but they're not
willing to make a change.
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And they're thinking
that, you're in and you're out,
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they're gonna feel
great, but sooner or later
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this stress is
gonna take up for you.
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Now, I want to talk
about the way people
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do deal with stress,
'cause there's different
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types of ways people
do. And now, everyone
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has stress and you're
dealing with it one way
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or the other Shelley.
Right. I mean you just
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can't ignore it, but
let's, let's throw up a
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graphic, about in
what ways some people
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deal with stress?
And see, if people in the
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audience might do
some of these mechanisms
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in order. One is
eating, do you know anyone
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that eats when
they're stressed out? I know,
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a lot of people do.
Okay, overworking, some people
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just work more-and-more
when they're stress,
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and some people do
the opposite, they say,
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well I'm not gonna
work at all, I'm just gonna
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lay at home in
bed and do nothing.
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Some people were turn
to drugs such as alcohol,
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cigarettes,
caffeine and cocaine.
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Some people take
medications for stress;
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they'd rather take a
chronic medicine like
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Valium and Benzo. I
know some people the way
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they deal with
stress is they spend money.
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You know, they run
up the credit card debt.
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And you hate to
blame every you know,
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spending money on
stress, but it could be
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a symptom of stress.
People have to deal with
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stress in some way
the other. When you have
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stress in your life you
just, you just sound say,
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I've stress and not
deal with it. Now, you've to
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look at yourself
honestly and say, well if when I
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have stress how am I
dealing with my stress?
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And you know it
occurred to me as we're
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going through this
list that every one of those
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things, if you're
eating because you're stressed
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it makes you
more stressed. Right.
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Because you're, you
start gaining weight or
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you're having these
problems, if you're out
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spending money and
running up your credit
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card because you're
stressed and when those
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bills come in you're
more stressed. And certainly,
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if you're dealing or
if you're using some kind
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of a drug to help you
or caffeine or stimulator
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or something
like that, it ends up
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making the
problem worse, doesn't it?
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It does, but most
people nowadays, when you
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think about it they
are dealing with stress
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in maladaptive
ways. They're literally
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destroying the
bodies that God wonderfully
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made for them. And
that's why when you
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think about stress
getting back to the good
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ways of dealing
with stress. You know,
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we have to focus on I
think biblical ways in
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dealing with the
stress. You know, casting our
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burdens on someone
else, not trying to take
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everyone's burdens.
Let's show the graphic
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about some of the,
the good ways to cope
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with stress. One, this
is I think the only true
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way to deal with
chronic stress is an active
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spiritual life.
Amen. You have to cast your
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burdens on your
Lord. Amen. If you look
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the way when
Christ dealt with stress,
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He went to His Father
in prayer over-and-over.
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That's the way He
dealt with stress. He prayed,
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He cast His
burdens, He got them off Him.
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So, you have to have
an active spiritual life
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to deal with stress.
Another thing that helps
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stress immensely is
exercise, 'cause exercise
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increases all of
the hormones that help
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fight stress. Proper
nutrition is another very,
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very important way to
deal with chronic stress.
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And it only make
sense and, if you put good
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gas in your car.
Right. The car is only
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gonna run better.
Now, we see examples of
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this biblically
throughout all times,
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if you think back to
Daniel and his friends
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of another reason we
have to also recognize
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that we have stress
and those are some of the
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things that we
need to talk about.
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Another thing that's
very important is getting
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appropriate rest, getting
away, changing a scenery,
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getting your mind
away from all those things,
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letting your minds
recharge are all important
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things in dealing
with chronic stress.
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Now, let's for a
few seconds talk about
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some things. You
bet. Anyone jump out that
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you that see way of, productive
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way of dealing with stress?
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Well, I know that
my only way really of
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dealing with stress at
the time is just turning
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my eyes on the Lord,
I need to do some more,
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I need do exercise
more, I definitely need to
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just get away with
a change of scenery,
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change you know,
rest more. The interesting
00:16:06.88\00:16:10.47
thing about being
in ministry is that
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often on the Sabbath. Oh! Yeah.
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Which is the rest day
I'm ministering, so it's
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not and I love doing
it, but that doesn't mean
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it ends up being
really restful for me because
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there's a lot preparation
time that goes in and
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then you spend
maybe four to six hours
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speaking, it's not
necessarily a day of rest.
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Right. So, I can
say a lot of things
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I need to change. Well, you know
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I agree so much
with that day of rest.
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You know, and God
knew when He setup,
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setup this world that
it was gonna be stressful.
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Right. You know,
and God work six days
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and He literally
took a day off for rest
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not only
spiritual, spiritual rest,
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but a physical
rest. We could rejuvenate
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our body. Now you
know, you might say,
00:16:56.41\00:16:58.90
well if I'm not truly
spiritual and physically
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resting on that day,
can I really have the
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blessings of that day? I
don't know it's something
00:17:04.45\00:17:06.94
to think about. Well,
I do know that as far as
00:17:06.95\00:17:10.16
the priest
ministering in the temple I know
00:17:10.17\00:17:12.06
I'm not breaking
the Sabbath. Yes, right.
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But it is something
that I do realize that from
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time-to-time I
think about because I am
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ministering on that
day I should maybe take
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another day off too,
but there is a lot of things
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that people are not
doing because we are
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caught up in this high
tech fast paced society
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and it seems to me
that I don't know about you,
00:17:33.70\00:17:36.90
you may not be old
enough to remember,
00:17:36.91\00:17:38.30
but I can remember
when federal express and
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UPS first came out and
you could get something
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somewhere overnight,
we thought it was amazing.
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And then the fax
came out Jim and it first
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it was like oh! We could
send a document like that.
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And it was so astonishing,
but within just months of
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getting your fax,
pretty soon you're sitting
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there and you're
drumming you know,
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I thought to myself
jut drumming my fingers.
00:18:01.36\00:18:03.39
Yeah. On the counter
waiting for something
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because we want it
now and we're getting to
00:18:06.32\00:18:09.20
aware we expect
such immediate results
00:18:09.21\00:18:12.86
that we're stressed
when we don't have them.
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Yeah, well you know in
me as far as my personal
00:18:15.14\00:18:18.06
life goes the one
that, that I thought its
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help me more than I
thought it would be,
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it would be just the
process of getting away.
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Yeah. You know,
moving from your environment
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that you're in
everyday, day in and day out
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and getting away
whether that be you know,
00:18:29.96\00:18:31.74
just sitting
alone somewhere taking a
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trip of vacation. In
fact, one of the ways
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I treat chronic
stress. You know, in addition
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to the biblical ways
and in addition to resting
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is I tell somebody I
say, Shelley you're really
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stressed. And if we
don't do something now
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it's gonna get worst.
Well, why I'm suggesting?
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Is Wednesday afternoon
that you take off from,
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from 1 O'clock to 5
O'clock that your time,
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you can do whatever you want;
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no one can get to
you. Now, if you chose to
00:18:58.47\00:18:59.52
work it's your
choice, if you wanna lay down,
00:18:59.53\00:19:02.07
it's your choice, if
you wanna read a book,
00:19:02.08\00:19:04.32
if you wanna write
those are all of your choices.
00:19:04.33\00:19:06.33
And what I think this
does is let your subconscious
00:19:06.71\00:19:09.69
know that no
matter how hard it gets
00:19:09.70\00:19:12.00
during the week, I
may have a release valve.
00:19:12.01\00:19:14.30
I have something to
look forward to and I can
00:19:14.67\00:19:16.69
sort of rejuvenate my
brain batteries in order
00:19:16.70\00:19:19.89
to make it to the
next time which probably
00:19:19.90\00:19:22.07
is gonna be a
Sabbath, when I can sort of
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rejuvenate myself
again. I think that getting
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away mentally and
knowing that that vacation is
00:19:26.74\00:19:29.45
there has helped me more than
00:19:29.46\00:19:31.23
anything in dealing
with chronic stress.
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You know, I was
thinking there was a
00:19:33.29\00:19:35.12
young lady that I
was ministering to that
00:19:35.13\00:19:37.73
she was a young mother
of three, Homeschooling
00:19:38.16\00:19:40.84
all three
children. 'Cause she was with
00:19:40.85\00:19:42.86
her children 24 hours
a day, seven days a week.
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And I gave her the
advice that you gave her,
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and she said, oh! But
I feel like I would be a
00:19:49.00\00:19:51.05
horrible mother if I
took an afternoon off
00:19:51.06\00:19:53.31
for myself. And
I told her I said,
00:19:53.32\00:19:55.23
the worse mothers are
those who do not spend
00:19:55.24\00:19:57.76
enough time with
their children, or those who
00:19:57.77\00:19:59.73
spent too much time
with your children because
00:19:59.74\00:20:01.85
you do need that
break. Right. I know she loved
00:20:01.86\00:20:04.44
her, her babies, but
it's something that to
00:20:04.45\00:20:08.00
constantly have that
much demand on you personally
00:20:08.01\00:20:12.00
where you never
have a second for
00:20:12.01\00:20:13.51
yourself that really
causes a lot of stress.
00:20:13.52\00:20:16.57
That, that's a good
point, I think the mothers
00:20:16.58\00:20:18.75
at home they
deserve to have this.
00:20:18.76\00:20:21.10
Another point I
wanted to touch on here
00:20:21.49\00:20:23.62
is nutrition.
Nutrition is a treatment for
00:20:23.63\00:20:26.69
chronic stress and
if you think about go,
00:20:26.70\00:20:29.03
go look at home
tonight at some of the packages
00:20:29.04\00:20:31.72
you have and look at
all the chemicals that are
00:20:31.73\00:20:33.54
in the packages, all
the preservatives, all the
00:20:33.55\00:20:35.78
things that you put in
there that you can't even
00:20:35.79\00:20:37.53
say tonight Glutaraldehyde
or ethylene you know,
00:20:37.54\00:20:41.01
I saw ethylene glycol
the other day, on a big
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Frank can, but all
these chemicals God did not
00:20:45.40\00:20:48.52
make to put in our
body. You know these are not
00:20:48.53\00:20:51.44
you know they
weren't in the Garden of Eden
00:20:51.45\00:20:52.97
giving us these
chemicals to take.
00:20:52.98\00:20:54.56
We don't know how
they affect our chemical
00:20:54.57\00:20:56.77
nature in the
body. And everyone that I
00:20:56.78\00:20:58.92
told to try to get off
process and extra foods
00:20:58.93\00:21:02.81
with these
preservative and they have felt
00:21:02.82\00:21:04.77
better because they're
eating more natural diets,
00:21:04.78\00:21:07.76
our body is able to
handle these chemicals
00:21:07.77\00:21:10.20
it doesn't it helps
the whole chemical balance.
00:21:10.61\00:21:13.56
And I doesn't want,
one thing I want, another
00:21:13.57\00:21:15.29
thing I want to
push people through is
00:21:15.30\00:21:17.04
getting adequate
nutrition, especially water.
00:21:17.05\00:21:19.20
You know what you just
said it just occur to me,
00:21:19.58\00:21:21.94
there are some
things that we do eat that
00:21:21.95\00:21:24.21
stress our body,
and if it stresses
00:21:24.22\00:21:26.72
our body it's
gonna stress your mind.
00:21:26.73\00:21:28.29
You know what
used to stress me is
00:21:28.68\00:21:30.43
I probably shouldn't
tell on myself, but I used to
00:21:30.44\00:21:32.68
love to eat
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts.
00:21:32.69\00:21:34.90
And that stress me
out and they were so
00:21:35.59\00:21:37.75
delicious and it was
like, I could not eat just
00:21:37.76\00:21:40.29
one of them and that
was what stressed me.
00:21:40.30\00:21:42.11
I would eat one and
it would taste so good
00:21:42.12\00:21:43.91
I want to eat
another one, and want to eat
00:21:44.32\00:21:46.14
another one. So, I
was just better off
00:21:46.15\00:21:47.38
replacing that habit
with a good habit and this is
00:21:47.39\00:21:50.97
stress from just
not even one that just
00:21:50.98\00:21:52.97
drove me crazy. So, I'm just,
00:21:52.98\00:21:54.15
I just have to stay
way from Krispy Kremes.
00:21:54.16\00:21:55.81
Alright, and you
watched children in a
00:21:55.82\00:21:57.30
birthday party and
some of they, if they eat,
00:21:57.31\00:21:59.14
have eaten too many
sweets and you see the
00:21:59.15\00:22:00.88
stress factors on
their body. Yeah. You know,
00:22:00.89\00:22:03.17
sugars in it. You know,
one thing I didn't notice
00:22:03.18\00:22:06.54
on your list is
coping with stress.
00:22:06.55\00:22:08.59
Now, for me music can
either cause stress or
00:22:08.99\00:22:12.87
it can alleviate my
stress. Yeah. I'm very,
00:22:12.88\00:22:15.98
I'm noise sensitive.
So noise, if I have too
00:22:15.99\00:22:19.62
many conflicting
noises around me it makes
00:22:19.63\00:22:23.96
me that's the time when
I feel the most stressed.
00:22:23.97\00:22:26.74
And so, either I want
it to be totally quiet or
00:22:27.51\00:22:30.96
I want something
soft, something simple not
00:22:30.97\00:22:34.89
complicated in
the line of music.
00:22:34.90\00:22:36.80
So, music can if it's
too jive, or too much beat
00:22:36.81\00:22:42.34
it can make me feel
stressed, but if it's
00:22:42.35\00:22:44.43
something slow and
nice acoustical guitar
00:22:44.44\00:22:47.17
or piano solo or something that
00:22:47.18\00:22:49.24
can make me feel
real calm. You know there
00:22:49.25\00:22:50.83
couple other, you
know the list goes on
00:22:50.84\00:22:52.48
and I think each
individual has to you know
00:22:52.49\00:22:54.46
sort of decide
what treats themselves,
00:22:54.47\00:22:56.27
but I had a lot of
people tell me that heat
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that helps them, helps
their, their treatments
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of stress.
Whether that be heat from
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you know a water
pool, some people like
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massage you know
as a way of relaxing
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the muscles, but
that's another way that some
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people are dealing
with some other stress
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you know, your muscles
are tight all the time,
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if you can just sort
of relax them all the time
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that sort of that
feeling that you get,
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there's lots of you
know, good positive ways,
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but most people
aren't thinking about ways
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to actively treat stress on a
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daily basis, they
just let it happen.
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You know this the song
"Sweet Hour of Prayer,"
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"Sweet Hour of
Prayer." Oh! What needless
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toils we bare
because we don't take him to
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the Lord and
prayer. That for me prayer
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is one of the
greatest distressors because
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when I can go to God
and just pray earnestly
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and, and really focus
my eyes on the problem
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solver rather
than on the problem,
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exactly, it really
changes. Well, and that's,
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that's the biggest
solution to stress, and
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that's why I don't see
how people that don't have
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a relationship with
Christ can deal with stress.
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In the way Christ
dealt with stressed,
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every time he had a
stressful situation,
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what did He do? He
went to His Father.
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He went to His Father.
So, that's the true answer
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to that. Amen, okay well
I'm glad Marlene that you
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wrote this question
in. This one comes to us
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from J.R. in Oklahoma
and he writes, I recently
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got divorced and
lost my job in a matter of
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three months.
Bless your heart J.R.,
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I saw my doctor and he
put me on a nerve pill.
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I must admit I feel
"chilled." How do you
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feel about nerve
pills? Whoa! Now, would you
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say nerve pills
he's probably talking
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about a tranquilizer?
Yeah, he was probably
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talking about Xanax,
or Valium, or Ativan or
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those many ones
that are out there.
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I think the true
treatment of any disease
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is getting at the core
of it. Okay and what they
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have not done is got
at the core. And people
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they just give a pill
right away, now some people
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truly do have
chemical imbalances, okay true.
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Some people really do
need it, and some people
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have anxiety
disorders and stress disorders,
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but I would say
that's probably the minority.
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The majority of
people that I think deal with
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chronic stress has a
type of stress that it needs
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to be treated in
the, in the way we just
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talked about. Find good coping
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mechanisms distress.
And I like to refer people
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back I said, listen
let's not jump to a medication,
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okay let's take step
back, find out what's
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causing your stress?
For instance, if it's
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stressful to drive
to work a certain way,
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well maybe you
should change the way you go
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to work, if it's, if
someone, a colleague at
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work is just
irritating you all the time.
00:25:44.96\00:25:46.87
Well, maybe you
should move round that
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colleague, if you
are prayer life and your
00:25:49.14\00:25:51.69
religeous life it's
not what it should be.
00:25:51.70\00:25:53.56
Well, maybe you
should resolve some of those
00:25:53.57\00:25:55.21
conflicts. Right. If
you know, you do all those
00:25:55.22\00:25:57.78
other things you
can first and then after
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every other thing is
exalted, exhausted then
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I would say, well do
I really have a chemical
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imbalance or have I
change my chemicals enough.
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And I wanna mention
this study, they did a
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study recently and
they compared people
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that who are
under chronic stress and
00:26:12.44\00:26:14.09
specifically depression.
And they compared them
00:26:14.10\00:26:17.10
to those that took
medication, okay and
00:26:17.11\00:26:19.86
took medication for
one year and they're also
00:26:19.87\00:26:22.03
compared those that did
lifestyle changes and at
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one year they grated
the amount of depression
00:26:24.56\00:26:27.08
and stress they had.
And the people that had
00:26:27.09\00:26:29.28
lifestyle changes were
just as happy with their
00:26:29.29\00:26:32.95
overall level of
satisfaction and they
00:26:32.96\00:26:34.71
dealt with the
cause and the people that
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took medications.
And there certainly are
00:26:36.16\00:26:39.37
cases that there
are some people, yes,
00:26:39.38\00:26:43.12
who have depression,
who if such a chemical,
00:26:43.13\00:26:46.02
strong chemical
imbalance that they
00:26:46.03\00:26:47.70
have to take that
medication and we don't
00:26:47.71\00:26:49.47
want to give you the
idea if you're one of those
00:26:49.48\00:26:53.29
people that there's
anything wrong with that
00:26:53.30\00:26:55.07
as long as you're
trying the lifestyle
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things as well.
This is in addition.
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This is in addition,
right so. Well, we have
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got so many stress
factors that are contributing
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to our society and it's
not just the United States,
00:27:07.26\00:27:11.30
Japan, Africa,
India around the world.
00:27:11.31\00:27:15.98
You know, we look at
ourselves and think we're
00:27:15.99\00:27:20.30
the ones with the
problems, but some of
00:27:20.31\00:27:22.34
our problems are
not those basic life
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threatening issues. I
think about the Middle East,
00:27:24.57\00:27:26.99
can you imagine
having the stress of just
00:27:27.00\00:27:29.22
going to work and? A
mother, I just think about
00:27:29.23\00:27:31.03
a mother with
the children, yeah,
00:27:31.04\00:27:32.31
was that's going on over there.
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But, but it's truly
a worldwide problem and
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it's, it's something
that we need to be aware of.
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And the things
that I want the audience
00:27:39.47\00:27:42.12
worldwide to look at
today and these are things
00:27:42.13\00:27:44.78
that I want to just
leave, just two points that I
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want you to take home
is number one recognize
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stress, if you don't get
anything out recognize it,
00:27:50.80\00:27:53.44
if you're under
stress. And two, develop a
00:27:53.45\00:27:56.03
game plan to deal
with your stress and get
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some help. Amen,
well I hope you've enjoyed
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our program today with
Dr. Jim Marcum and if you
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have stress in your
life and hit your knees
00:28:05.14\00:28:07.91
and pray, turn
all of your burdens
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over to the
Lord. Amen, thank you.
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