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Worry and Its Physical Toll
00:04:24
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| So, my question to you is, what happens to the brain when a person is on hyper alert all the time? | |
| You know, Lori, thank you for your words and your kind comments. | |
| Not long ago, I was looking at a property and I was walking around it with one of my friends, a realtor, and we came up on the back side of the house and there was a snake. | |
| And I didn't see it, but he saw it. | |
| And he turned and said, look, there's a snake right there. | |
| And I jumped back, you know, and as I jumped back, that snake literally came at me. | |
| And I like walked on water out of that place. | |
| When you think of being afraid and anxious for a moment, you know that feeling you have when a snake's coming at you? | |
| Your whole body shifts into hyper alert? | |
| That's what we're often talking about when people get into that tipping point of fear and anxiety. | |
| Your body reacts at a level where the amygdala fires and gets into an overload in your brain and it won't turn off. | |
| And what's challenging is at times when you get into that irrational fear and the anxiety piece that's overloading you, you don't, there's not a snake there. | |
| It's something you're thinking about. | |
| And you don't, there's nothing to run from or no place to go. | |
| It's just your body and your mind is racing. | |
| A lot of the concern we have in mental health too is when this kicks into another level, it keeps going deeper and deeper for people. | |
| And there's a word that really concerns us when people get into a spin, and that is rumination. | |
| That's sort of like your mind, your brain won't turn off. | |
| I don't know if you've ever experienced that or you've been around people who talk about that, but I know there have been times in my life where you wake up at 2 or 3 in the morning because you're overwhelmed with worry, concern, and more, and it just won't turn off. | |
| That's the piece we're trying to help people understand that we need to manage that peace in our life, begin to calm that peace down so we can get to a place of freedom in our heart, peace in our mind and hope in our heart. | |
| Yes. | |
| And you know, so many people commit suicide because they've lost hope or they give up and they just stop life and because they've lost hope. | |
| And to have the peace in our mind and hope in our heart is a perfect title, especially with everything that everyone's gone through with this whole pandemic time and everything else that's going on in the world today. | |
| But you know what else I loved? | |
| You know, I'm just going off the top of my head from reading your book. | |
| In the first chapter, how you distinguish and talk about the difference between worry and anxiety. | |
| Could you just speak into that a little bit? | |
| Sure. | |
| So worry, when your kids are out at night, you have concern that everything's going to be okay. | |
| And you may pick up the phone and call them or what have you. | |
| Worry kicks it into another level. | |
| Worry is a thinking issue. | |
| It's where you can't turn the brain off and you're constantly consumed with maybe things that aren't even going to happen, but your mind won't stop. | |
| It just keeps going and going and going. | |
| And learning to control that peace, to do thought stopping. | |
| Hey, I've got to get this under control because this is really eating me up. | |
| This is really consuming me. | |
| And you know what? | |
| It probably isn't even true, but I'm just consumed by it. | |
| Anxiety takes it to that place where now my body, everything is kicked into a whole nother level, and I'm really feeling this. | |
| I'm on edge. | |
| I'm getting consumed by it. | |
| And you can even develop what are known as anxiety disorders, where you get overwhelmed by it and it begins to affect your everyday life, your normal activities and more. | |
| It starts consuming you. | |
| And I think we've all been to a place where that's been a part of who we are. | |
| And no wonder the scripture speaks to calming ourselves down. | |
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Learning To Trust
00:00:32
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| I remember as a boy, you all, that I struggled at night to go to sleep. | |
| I would get afraid. | |
| I just worried about someone breaking in or something going bad, and I had to calm myself. | |
| And I taught myself as a boy and listened to my dad, who was a pastor. | |
| He said, listen, take those things to the Lord. | |
| And I learned to pray and say, God, listen, I'm afraid. | |
| Help me. | |
| Help me to trust you. | |
| And I would begin to quote scriptures is what I would do. | |
| And I would calm myself down. | |