Jim Bakker Show - Hyper Alertness And Its Dangers - Dr. Tim Clinton on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2020-07-08
Duration: 04:42


=== Worry and Its Physical Toll (04:24) ===

[00:00:00]  So, my question to you is, what happens to the brain when a person is on hyper alert all the time?
[00:00:10]  You know, Lori, thank you for your words and your kind comments.
[00:00:13]  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.
[00:00:24]  And I didn't see it, but he saw it.
[00:00:27]  And he turned and said, look, there's a snake right there.
[00:00:30]  And I jumped back, you know, and as I jumped back, that snake literally came at me.
[00:00:36]  And I like walked on water out of that place.
[00:00:40]  When you think of being afraid and anxious for a moment, you know that feeling you have when a snake's coming at you?
[00:00:47]  Your whole body shifts into hyper alert?
[00:00:50]  That's what we're often talking about when people get into that tipping point of fear and anxiety.
[00:00:56]  Your body reacts at a level where the amygdala fires and gets into an overload in your brain and it won't turn off.
[00:01:04]  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.
[00:01:16]  It's something you're thinking about.
[00:01:19]  And you don't, there's nothing to run from or no place to go.
[00:01:22]  It's just your body and your mind is racing.
[00:01:26]  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.
[00:01:35]  And there's a word that really concerns us when people get into a spin, and that is rumination.
[00:01:41]  That's sort of like your mind, your brain won't turn off.
[00:01:44]  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.
[00:01:58]  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.
[00:02:14]  Yes.
[00:02:14]  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.
[00:02:26]  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.
[00:02:43]  But you know what else I loved?
[00:02:46]  You know, I'm just going off the top of my head from reading your book.
[00:02:49]  In the first chapter, how you distinguish and talk about the difference between worry and anxiety.
[00:02:56]  Could you just speak into that a little bit?
[00:02:59]  Sure.
[00:03:00]  So worry, when your kids are out at night, you have concern that everything's going to be okay.
[00:03:07]  And you may pick up the phone and call them or what have you.
[00:03:11]  Worry kicks it into another level.
[00:03:14]  Worry is a thinking issue.
[00:03:16]  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.
[00:03:24]  It just keeps going and going and going.
[00:03:26]  And learning to control that peace, to do thought stopping.
[00:03:32]  Hey, I've got to get this under control because this is really eating me up.
[00:03:36]  This is really consuming me.
[00:03:38]  And you know what?
[00:03:38]  It probably isn't even true, but I'm just consumed by it.
[00:03:42]  Anxiety takes it to that place where now my body, everything is kicked into a whole nother level, and I'm really feeling this.
[00:03:51]  I'm on edge.
[00:03:52]  I'm getting consumed by it.
[00:03:54]  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.
[00:04:03]  It starts consuming you.
[00:04:05]  And I think we've all been to a place where that's been a part of who we are.
[00:04:09]  And no wonder the scripture speaks to calming ourselves down.

=== Learning To Trust (00:32) ===

[00:04:12]  I remember as a boy, you all, that I struggled at night to go to sleep.
[00:04:17]  I would get afraid.
[00:04:18]  I just worried about someone breaking in or something going bad, and I had to calm myself.
[00:04:25]  And I taught myself as a boy and listened to my dad, who was a pastor.
[00:04:29]  He said, listen, take those things to the Lord.
[00:04:32]  And I learned to pray and say, God, listen, I'm afraid.
[00:04:35]  Help me.
[00:04:36]  Help me to trust you.
[00:04:37]  And I would begin to quote scriptures is what I would do.
[00:04:41]  And I would calm myself down.