The following
program presents principles
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designed to
promote good health and is
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not intended to
take the place of
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personalized professional
care. The opinions and
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ideas 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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Hi and welcome
to Wonderfully Made.
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My name is Sheryl
McWilliams. Today,
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we are talking
about a subject that is
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interesting for me
because sometimes I
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say that I want
to do one thing and
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then it seems that I
end up doing the exact
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opposite of the very
thing that I have said
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that I wanted to do.
To help us discuss this
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today is Dr.
Timothy Howe from Parkview
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Adventist Medical
Center. Welcome Dr. Howe.
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Thank you Sheryl
it's good to be with
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you on this
program. So, I say I wanna
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lose weight and I
sit down and eat half a
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bag of Oreo
Cookies. Why do I do that?
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I'm not sure Sheryl
maybe we should talk
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about this further.
This topic of making changes,
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I think is one of
the most important.
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It's important for
me because you know I
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talk about these
things quite frequently, but
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then going home
in the evening, do I
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always do them.
Well not always. You see
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I'm human too and
this problem of not doing
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what we know we
should is not new.
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You remember the
Apostle Paul said that
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which I would I do
not and that which I
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would not that do I. That
was in the spiritual realm,
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but you know it's
true in the physical realm
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as well. It's a
natural problem and yet it's
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for today as well.
Making changes is difficult,
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but I think at the
bottom of it we have to
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realize and
recognize with Paul that we
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are in a battle. A
battle not only for our
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souls, but for our
bodies as well. And I feel
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that because I've
known the healthful behaviors
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and healthful choices,
but I don't know always
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make them and
sometimes I know when I'm making
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an unhealthy choice
and I do it anyway and so
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this topic I think is
important for everybody
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because you know
we tend to know when
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we are not doing
well and we do it anyway.
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You know I
remember my family and I
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where in Nepal in
1998. We worked for
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Adventist
Frontier Mission for a time
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had a wonderful time
there in Nepal. I grew
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to love the Nepali
people there, so open
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and so warm as
one of them said to me
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when I had first met him,
he said let's have a talk,
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but let's talk about
deep things. It's almost
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characteristic of the
Nepali that they want to
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brush aside the
superficial and go right
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to the heart of
the matter. It was so
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wonderful to be in a
culture like that perhaps
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we could learn
something from their culture
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and go to the
heart of the matter more
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frequently. I
realized that I wouldn't be
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in the valley there
very long and thought
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it would be best if
I spend time educating
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the people that
would be there when I left.
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As we read in the
book Ministry of Healing,
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A true physician
is an educator and I'm
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wanting to be a
true physician I took up
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the education. I
would speak with the high
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school teachers
through an interpreter most
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afternoons
during the week. On one
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occasion, the first
time actually that I
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had spoken at the high
school to the teachers.
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At the end of the
lecture, a man stood up
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and through the
interpreter said I
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understand very
clearly now why I
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should make changes in
my life. I'm convinced of
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the truth of what
you say. I see how it
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will work physiologically
and how I would be a
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better man if I
made these changes, but
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already within
myself I sense a fighting
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against what you
have told me. Why is that?
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Isn't that the most
important question that
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any of us could ask.
Why is it that I feel that
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struggle in myself?
I want to do and yet I
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don't. The same
thing that the Apostle Paul
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expressed this
wonderful Nepali high school
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teacher expressed
when he was first exposed
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to health in a
better way of living.
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Interesting so how
do I go about changing?
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I think the first
and most important thing
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Sheryl is to remember
that we are in a battle.
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When I'm
confronted with wanting to do
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something that I
know is not the best
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for me. Let's say
something simple like
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oh its morning time
and I know I should go
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out and exercise,
but bed feel so good and
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I really have had
enough sleep. Who is it
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prompting me to get a
little more rest? It isn't
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Jesus who wants
me to be healthy,
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so who is it? I'm
afraid sometimes often
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it's not only my
lazy self, but the devil
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himself tempting
me to not exercise to
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overeat, because he
is intensely interested
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in destroying me.
You know, I heard one
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person say. You are not
just, let me rephrase it.
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You don't have a
body, you are a body.
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And that is so
true and the devil knows
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that by attacking
our body he attacks our
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soul as well. Well
I certainly feel him
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attacking me from
time to time. You once
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told me a story
about some skunks and I
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would like you to
share that story for
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our viewing
audience because it made a
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distinct impression
for me. Okay well this is
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an interesting story
it took place in Maryland
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that's where I grew
up and it's one of my
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favorite stories
and we will draw the
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conclusions at the end
of the story. There was a
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lady whose we will
call Aunt Edith and
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Aunt Edith had many
children. She had six
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children now that's
not many by some standards,
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but it's many since I
only have three. Well,
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Aunt Edith was very
busy with her children
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as you might
expect and she didn't get
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much time to talk
to her neighbor, but
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she loved to talk
with her neighbor, so
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one day the
children were out in the yard
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playing and they
lived in a rather rural area
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in Maryland and she
looked out at the window
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and she saw the
children and they seemed happy
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and busy, so she went
over to her neighbor's
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house and decided
she would just talk with
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her neighbor. She
spent sometime there and
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then as mother's
know it seemed to get a
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bit quite outside and
she didn't hear the children
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talking quite as
much and she said to her
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neighbor you know
I better check on the
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children and so she
looked out at the window and
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there at the window,
where all the children
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gathered together
peering at something and
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she couldn't see what
it was. They were hurdled
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together, they weren't
be misbehaving, she was
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thankful for that at
least, so she went out
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the door and there
the children were just
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standing there in
a hurdle looking at
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something and Aunt
Edith she parted the
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children and she
look down and she saw
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something black
and white and she said
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children run and
you know those children
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didn't run, but
they each grabbed a baby
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skunk and ran.
You imagine what those
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children smelled like
because even baby skunks
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are well
equipped, but you know when
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we are talking
about change. Sometimes I
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think it's important
to think of Aunt Edith's
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children. Have you
ever met someone who
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had that smell
about them. They had a
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trouble, but when
trouble had come they
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had clunged with
their trouble and you
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know they have that
peculiar smell of trouble
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about them. You
can meet them today,
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you can meet them
in a week, you can meet
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them in two
weeks and you know what
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they will talk
about. They will talk about
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that time when
someone did something to me
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and they have that
smell of trouble about
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them no matter
when you meet them.
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You know when we
were making changes in
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our lives sometimes
the first thing to do
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is to let go of
past wrongs and past
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bitterness and to
start to forgive people
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to clear our
minds, so that we can
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then make good
clear decisions to move
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ahead on the
pathway to health. Too many
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times, we define
ourselves by what
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people have done
to us. You know if
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you think about
it, the person that you
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don't forgive is the
one that you handover
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the most control of
your life. Have you ever
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met someone like
that? Every time you
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talk to them they
say you know I just
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can't forgive. I've
even heard people say if
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that person is
gonna be in heaven I don't
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wanna go there.
Wow. That is sobering.
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We need to remember
those skunks and not
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hold onto our
troubles because that peculiar
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smell clings to us
if we hold on to those
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grudges and
grievances and they keep us
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from making those
changes in our life
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that are so
important for our health both
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mental, physical, and
spiritual. Absolutely, I
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tend to live a
very busy lifestyle and
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sometimes it seems
that my very lifestyle
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prevents me from
doing some of the
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things that I
wanted to do. I'm so busy
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with e-mail and voice
mail and junk mail and
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answering phone
calls and people walking
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into the office
that sometimes it seems
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difficult to find
the right path. You know
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that also is very
important when we are
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making changes. It's
very difficult to add
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more to your life.
You go to the doctor and
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he says alright
Sheryl you need to exercise
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and you say well I
already get up at 5:30
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to do my hair and
then I have to prepare
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breakfast and then
I want to spend some
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quality time with
my daughter and then I
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have to get in my
private devotions and
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then I have to
leave for work. How am I
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ever gonna put in
exercise. I guess I'll
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have to get more
sleep. What I encourage people
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to do is this. Look
carefully at your life.
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You know, stress is
often simply busyness.
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I like to liken our
lives to a small bridge
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in the country
and that bridge maybe
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designed for lets say
15 tons. Year after year
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after year that
bridge will hold up very well
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with cars and small
trucks passing over it.
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It may stand up to
two to three to four
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cars at a time,
but if you put 20 cars
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on that bridge at a
time. It's going to have
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major trouble. It's
going to sag and start
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to buckle and maybe
tilt a little bit and it's
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gonna have real
trouble. Sometimes when we are
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about to make changes
in our life, the first
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thing we need to do
is kick a couple of cars
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off the bridge and
simplify our lives. What
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I try to do is say
are there things that
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I'm doing that
are using up time that
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aren't helping
me achieve my goal.
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Stephen Cavit has a
wonderful square that
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he uses where he
divide things into urgent,
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not urgent, important,
not important. Many of us
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find that we spend
a lot of our lives as
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far as time is
concerned in the not important,
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urgent or in the not
important, not urgent.
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Think of
television watching, think of
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sorting mail, looking
at catalogs, magazines.
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How many of those
things can you carve
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out of your life
simplifying it, so you
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can have time to put
in the important things
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and what's most
important in your life.
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Do you schedule
that? It's so easy for me
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as a physician; I
spend much of my time
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in the urgent
category. My beeper goes off,
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it's a stat call. I
have to run like mad
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for the car drive,
well we won't tell you
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how I drive, but
to get there and its
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urgent and
important, but how about those
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not urgent, very
important things like
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time for exercise,
time for meal planning,
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time with my wife,
time with our children. Do I
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schedule those
in, so when I get that
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telephone call. I
really could use your help
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now I can say. I'm
sorry I have a prior
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commitment. I think
it's so important for us to
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schedule the
important not urgent things
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into our lives. Bible
study, time with family,
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time with friends,
exercise and you know
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that's been very
helpful me if I can
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combine those
things together and make a
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better use of my
time. That's why my
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exercise almost
always is walking with my
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wife. I can't
spend enough time with my
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wife. I would like
to spend more and when
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I retire maybe I
will, but today I can't
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take a walk with her,
we can talk while we are
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walking, we can have
very good time planning
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the day and
that's why we walk first
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thing in the
morning almost everyday.
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It's doing two
things at once it's more
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efficient and it's a
great time I wouldn't
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miss my walks with my
wife. When my children
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are home, they have
left home now, but we often
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walk with them too.
Why do we walk because
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I can't keep up with
them running any longer,
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so its walk time
hiking and we can have two
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things at once and
it's so good to do. You
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mentioned Stephen
Cavit I've read some of
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his work and one
thing that was helpful
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for me in regard to
this subject was the
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telephone. My
telephone rings of the hook on a
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rather consistent
basis and I would in the
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past run right over to
it and pick it up. Well,
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I have learned
now that whoever is on
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the other side of
that line they may feel
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that their issue is
important and urgent,
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but that doesn't
necessarily mean that
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their urgent
issue needs to become my
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urgent issue and
take away time from
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my family from
Bible study from that sort
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of thing that was
helpful to me. It's
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very important to
manage the communications that
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we have in our world
today. We have beepers,
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we have cell
phones, we have instant
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messengers, there
are so many ways to
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get a hold of us
these days. You know,
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I often say I
can't wait till when I
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retire. I'm going
to take my beeper and
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I'm gonna go out in
a boat somewhere and
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I'm just gonna
heave that thing into that
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you know ocean deep
six it because it's such
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an electronic
leash, but how many of us
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have these electronic
leashes that are jerking
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us with the
urgent, but so often it's a
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telemarketer or
something else that's
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not important and
it keeps us from the
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important
lifestyle changes that we
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really need to
make to make progress
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toward health.
Absolutely, from the
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perspective of
scheduling time and this
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was another thing
that I learned. I have a
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four year old daughter
and she is a lot of fun,
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but I quickly
learned that if I did not put
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family time into
my schedule then my
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adorable secretary
would put something else
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into that time, so
I literally have to
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schedule time to
spend with my family or
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schedule time to be
physically active and
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that really has been a
blessing in my life with
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that, so when a
person decides that they have
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clarified what it is
that they want to do and
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they begin taking
steps towards achieving their
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goal in variably
bounce appear in the road
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and we get easily
distracted. Yes, I think
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that is one of the
devils main ways of
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keeping us from
achieving our goals is
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to get us
discouraged. Remember when you
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learn to walk and I
remember when my boy
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started to walk.
They didn't walk perfectly
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from the first
step. I'll never forget my
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eldest boy. I had
him all set in the chair
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and I want to take a
picture of him in this
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cute little chair and I
focused the camera and I
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got it all ready and
then he disappeared. He
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was only ten months
old and I thought where
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could he have gone
and there he was walking
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toward me with his
arms outstretched. I was so
00:19:05.95\00:19:08.75
excited, I put the
camera and didn't get
00:19:08.78\00:19:10.71
the first picture
unfortunately, but do
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you think he ever
fell after that. Of course
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he did, did I get
mad because he fell? No
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I said keep trying,
good work and you know
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he can run and jump
better than I can now.
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He determined he
was gonna be a walker,
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no matter what and
when we are making changes
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in our lives it's so
important to remember.
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We are human, we
will make failures or
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we will have
failures. Don't get discouraged,
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there is no reason
to. The other thing is
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chose achievable
goals. Small steps at first.
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My son didn't say
daddy I can walk, but I'll
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never be able to learn
to ride a bicycle today
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will I. No, that
didn't enter his head although
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he can ride a
bicycle now two small steps.
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As we, I often tell
my patients let's start
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with just one
thing drink water, just
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drink six glasses a
day for the next two
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weeks and see what it
does for you. That small
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change will make a
big difference. Try
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exercising not a half
an hour, try ten minutes.
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Try taking the
stairs rather than the
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elevator, small
changes make a big difference
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in the long term
and you can make the
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changes if you will.
Sometimes they feel that
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self concept or
when spiritual connection
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has a part in this
process. What part do
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you think that plays
in helping us to chose
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healthy goals and
actually stick with it.
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I think that has
a big part to play.
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I think of people
who come to see me as
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their physician and
sometimes I hear these
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words. Well when
it's your time it's your
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time. There is
nothing you can really do.
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That's what we
called fatalistic. You know
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that is not helpful
and it's not the truth.
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You can make a
difference in your life
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and in your
health by the choices you
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make that is so
clear. We do not have to be
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fatalistic certainly
God knows the number of
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our days, but he has
left it to us to some
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degree at least the
ability to shorten those
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days much more
than he would desire and
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although we may
live short or long we can
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always choose to be
thrivers to chose to
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make the very best of
life even in the worst
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of life. I think of a
patient that I attended
00:22:01.66\00:22:06.49
recently she is
now deceased. She had a
00:22:06.52\00:22:09.74
genetic liver
disorder, alpha-1 antitrypsin
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deficiency, that
liver disorder in her and in
00:22:14.11\00:22:18.75
many people will
take their life from liver
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disease. Her
brother had died of this.
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Her sister had died
of this and she knew
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that she would
inevitably die of this
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disease. She was admitted to the
00:22:31.74\00:22:34.20
hospital. She was
swollen terribly and
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you would think
well she will be nearing
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death and she will
be dying and not very
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alive. I walked down
to the room the first
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time I met her and
you know I have never
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seen a more alive
person than this woman
00:22:50.30\00:22:54.84
who would go on to
live not weeks, not months,
00:22:54.87\00:22:59.70
but merely days. I'll
never forget the time;
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it was around
Halloween this year. I walked
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into her room and
she had one of these
00:23:06.84\00:23:09.46
things on her head.
They called them a cone head,
00:23:09.49\00:23:12.37
stuck onto her head
and she looked up at me
00:23:12.40\00:23:15.65
with sort of a
quizzical look in her eyes and
00:23:15.68\00:23:18.50
she said doctor I
have noticed the strange
00:23:18.53\00:23:20.96
swelling. Well, she
was swollen all over and
00:23:20.99\00:23:24.75
I said have you
been swelling more and
00:23:24.78\00:23:27.48
then she pointed to
her head and she said
00:23:27.51\00:23:29.11
yes its here can
you help me? And I said
00:23:29.14\00:23:31.81
well sure and I
just reached over and
00:23:31.84\00:23:33.83
pulled it off. Her
family was there. They had
00:23:33.86\00:23:36.27
a big laugh, you
know amazing how alive
00:23:36.30\00:23:40.57
this woman was, it
was almost as in her dying
00:23:40.60\00:23:44.10
she was giving life
to us all and even in the
00:23:44.13\00:23:48.88
midst of dying or
if you are in a prison
00:23:48.91\00:23:51.94
cell if you have a
chronic disease, if you have a
00:23:51.97\00:23:56.29
terminal condition.
You know, though that
00:23:56.32\00:23:59.16
where terminal
condition, none of us
00:23:59.19\00:24:01.88
who are living in
Jesus have a terminal
00:24:01.91\00:24:06.03
condition. We have
life eternal promise to us
00:24:06.06\00:24:10.12
us and it is
worth making changes for
00:24:10.15\00:24:14.39
this life and for
the life to come. This
00:24:14.42\00:24:18.42
woman taught me
that in any situation I
00:24:18.45\00:24:22.04
can chose to have
life and have it more
00:24:22.07\00:24:26.14
abundantly that's
part of being human you
00:24:26.17\00:24:29.07
know the ability to
make choices, Christ death on
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the cross
guaranteed that you can make a
00:24:34.85\00:24:39.13
choice and your
choice will be meaningful
00:24:39.16\00:24:43.10
and real. It will
make a difference. It's so
00:24:43.13\00:24:47.64
important for us to
internalize that truth.
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Our choice is thanks
to God's grace make a
00:24:51.36\00:24:57.35
difference. It seems
that the choices that
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we make with
regard to health are often
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influenced by a
persons' philosophy of health.
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Tell me a little
bit about that and what
00:25:06.18\00:25:09.26
perhaps your
philosophy of health might be.
00:25:09.29\00:25:11.31
Philosophy of
health is really the way we
00:25:11.34\00:25:15.75
think about health or
a belief system. I have
00:25:15.78\00:25:18.54
mentioned one of them a
fatalistic. When it's your
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time, it's your time.
There is really nothing
00:25:21.83\00:25:23.92
that you can do about
it that's one philosophy.
00:25:23.95\00:25:27.81
Another philosophy
is genetic or hi-tech
00:25:27.84\00:25:31.44
it's in my genes.
You know they say obesity
00:25:31.47\00:25:34.98
is genetic. I don't
know if it is or not,
00:25:35.01\00:25:38.31
but you can sure
see it in the genes. Not
00:25:38.34\00:25:42.47
everything is
genetic and even those that
00:25:42.50\00:25:45.45
are modifiable with
choices and the hi-tech
00:25:45.48\00:25:49.42
oh I'm waiting for
a new pill or the new
00:25:49.45\00:25:52.46
treatment just out.
Sir William Osler once said
00:25:52.49\00:25:56.12
use a medication
while it works. You know
00:25:56.15\00:25:59.27
so many of our medicines
seem not to work after a
00:25:59.30\00:26:03.03
while as people lose
interest in them, but
00:26:03.06\00:26:06.38
it is important
for us to have a good
00:26:06.41\00:26:08.54
philosophy of health.
It's not a fatalistic,
00:26:08.57\00:26:11.28
it's not a wait for
the latest, it's not what I
00:26:11.31\00:26:16.27
call new age which is
just getting tune with
00:26:16.30\00:26:20.01
the harmonies of the
universe. Yes, we want
00:26:20.04\00:26:22.73
to be in tune with
God, but that God is not a
00:26:22.76\00:26:26.58
non-specific
depersonalized force.
00:26:26.61\00:26:30.04
Our God is a personal
God. Yes, I believe in
00:26:30.07\00:26:34.76
selflessness, but I
do not believe in lack of
00:26:34.79\00:26:39.72
personhood or down
plane individuality that
00:26:39.75\00:26:44.66
belongs to God or
individual nature in God
00:26:44.69\00:26:47.90
alone. He loves us the
way we are and as we see
00:26:47.93\00:26:51.31
how valuable we are
to him that gives us the
00:26:51.34\00:26:55.93
wonderful ability to
change. If you know you
00:26:55.96\00:26:59.80
are valued you will
take care of yourself, well
00:26:59.83\00:27:04.12
just like your car. If
you value your car you will
00:27:04.15\00:27:08.49
wax it, you will wash
it, you will change the oil,
00:27:08.52\00:27:11.79
you will take good care
of it. If you value your
00:27:11.82\00:27:15.24
body it's the same
thing. What a wonderful
00:27:15.27\00:27:17.92
gift he has given us
in these complex and yet
00:27:17.95\00:27:22.49
simply beautiful
bodies. We can be so thankful
00:27:22.52\00:27:27.53
and we need to take
care of them. Remember the
00:27:27.56\00:27:30.03
scripture, you are
not your own, you are
00:27:30.06\00:27:33.02
bought with the price.
Therefore glorify God in
00:27:33.05\00:27:37.61
your body. Yes,
we should. We should
00:27:37.64\00:27:41.26
glorify him in what
we eat and what we drink
00:27:41.29\00:27:44.83
and in everything we
do because our choices
00:27:44.86\00:27:48.70
make a difference both
for now and for eternity.
00:27:48.73\00:27:54.24
Our bodies truly
are gift from God and a
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Merry Heart Doeth
Good Like a Medicine.
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Thank you Dr. Howe
for joining us today and
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thank you audience for joining
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us on Wonderfully Made.
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