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ABC Prayer Crusade

Stop Worrying, Begin Living

Glenn Coon

1 - Conquering Worry and the Anatomy of Stress

2 - Peace, Stimulants and Stress

3 - Squabbles and Emotional Quiet

4 - Addicts, Diet and Stress

5 - Triumph, Exercise and Stress

I understand that the topic tonight has to do with the relationship between the body and the mind.

And surely that is the way we should introduce a series like this, isn't it?

Because we're talking about worry and how to stop worrying.

I've understood it in a small way as a layman in health, that there's a tremendous relationship between the body and the mind.

Would you spell that out for us a little more tonight?

Yes, well, the human brain is a very marvelous organism.

It weighs something like 45 to 50 ounces, yet it does so many varied functions for us.

It not only moves your muscles so you can put your hands where you want, pick up things, walk without thinking about it.

It also does a lot of other types of integrating functions.

It stores information so that you will be able to make decisions based on what you were presented with.

It runs a biochemical laboratory inside of your brain that samples the blood level of hormones and then the brain thereby adjusts the different glands of the body to just secrete the right amount of hormones for you.

Your brain also helps you in the decision making process.

Penfield during brain surgery would electrically stimulate different parts of the brain, and when he would stimulate a certain side of the brain, an individual would have a particular recollection of something out of the past.

The body-mind relationship is an inseparable entity.

I have people who tell me, well, I have chest pain, but perhaps it's in my mind.

They forget that the body and the mind are really a unit.

That when you're physically ill, you're going to feel emotionally depressed.

If you overwork and lose sleep, you're going to feel irritable.

If you have physical illness, you'll actually be emotionally unstable and irritable.

It's not uncommon for us in the coronary care unit to find people who, during the first few days of their event, when they're having a lot of chest pain after their heart attack, will actually become amnesic for that time period.

Some individuals have such a stressful episode in the coronary care unit that they actually, for a temporary time period, will become mentally ill or psychotic.

And this is something that's actually reversible.

Now you can go the other way around and say, well, how does the mind affect the body?

If you're emotionally tired, you're going to feel physically tired.

If you've put in a long, hard day doing desk work, you'll come home and feel physically tired.

When I get emotionally exhausted, I'm physically exhausted too.

And later on, in 1 of the other nights, we're going to talk about what you can do to correct that.

If an individual is under stress for prolonged periods of time, we know that there are recognizable changes that may occur in the body.

People who are acutely ill, such as people who have been burned in an auto accident or something, may develop ulcers just almost instantaneously.

Over a prolonged period of emotional stress, we know that individuals will develop ulcers.

People will also have problems with palpitations.

And this is particularly my area of interest, since my specialty is that that deals with the heart.

We know that if they admit normal people into the coronary care unit who have no known heart disease, but just do this as a test, they start having signs of irritability of the heart just by putting them in a stressful situation where they're in the coronary care unit.

We know that stress will oftentimes be a factor that may precipitate the actual event where a person has a heart attack.

I have more than once had an individual tell me that I can remember now that you mention it, that I've been under a lot of stress lately, and this may be the thing that actually precipitates the heart attack.

And of course, stress is recognized as 1 of the long-term events that may lead to the development of heart disease and eventually a heart attack.

There are, of course, other things such as headache and high blood pressure that are also related.

But stress, the mind, the body, all this is a very finely integrated system.

So we're going to show this week what they need to do physically as well as mentally to keep from stress, right?

And you know, I was interested also in your notes, as you were with us some years ago in a program something like this, as you were telling about the tremendous brain, the mechanism of the brain, and you're telling something about if a man, if it were possible for people to do an artificial brain that could accomplish what our brain does accomplish.

Well, of course, This estimate was made in the days prior to microcircuitry, but it was estimated that if you were to reproduce the brain, you'd have to house it in a building as large as the Empire State Building in New York.

And it would take all of the water flowing over Niagara Falls just to cool it, to keep it operational.

And then this brain wouldn't be able to decide whether or not it wanted pancakes or eggs for breakfast.

We're fearful and wonderfully made, aren't we?

My, we certainly appreciate that special counsel.

Now, then this week, we're going to be able to give people concrete suggestions of how they can relate the body to the mind and the mind to the body.

And you mentioned something about, you know, in a talk you gave when we were together before, something about some of the things that can actually produce physical effects, like I think you mentioned a lemon and would you share some of those?

Well, a long, some years ago, a doctor, Dr.

Pavlov in Russia, demonstrated that if he were to ring a bell every time he would feed dogs, the dogs would salivate and get ready to eat.

Eventually, he came to the place where he could ring the bell alone and the dog would salivate even though he didn't produce the food And anyone here tonight if you stop and think about it now and clear your mind of everything else If you were to picture in your mind a fresh yellow lemon, and now picture cutting this in half, and then taking half of this lemon and putting it up to your mouth and licking on that, venture to say, just about everyone here is salivating right now, including you.

We know that conditioning has a lot to do with what goes on with the human mechanism and there are individuals who condition themselves to always look on the dark side of any issue that they get involved in.

They can retrain themselves to look on the positive side of the issue, and that's what you've been very active in, and that's what's kept me very much interested in your work.

If you keep at it, You can teach yourself in the conditioning process to look on the bright side of the issue that you're facing.

They had a great big well, dry well, you know, and they put him out on retirement.

He fell down all 4 feet in that well and he was a pet.

They didn't want to kill him and yet they couldn't get him out so they decided to bury him alive and every time they shoveled the dirt in he was a little higher.

So instead of his looking at the problem, he walked right out.

So we don't have to be buried with our problems, right?

And You'll be with us again tomorrow night.

Thank you and now Don and Nancy I Wonder if you'd Sing 1 more of those beautiful songs.

Is this, would you tell us the number, the name of it, the title?

It's entitled, Cast your burden upon the Lord, He will sustain you.

He will not permit the righteous to be moved.

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in Him.

Cast your burden upon the Lord, He will sustain you.

Oh, that is the beautiful promise of the Lord.

And friends, that brings us right to the subject of tonight.

I hold in my hand the most wonderful book in all the universe.

The Christian religion, the religion of the Bible, is the most beautiful religion known to this planet.

In this book, we have a promise that no matter what our past life has been, whether it's been vicious, whether we have destroyed our lives by vile habit, the maker of this book, the author of this book says, look, I'll give you a lily-white light.

And and if it's true, and it is, then no matter what situation we find ourselves as far as the past is concerned, we can say, wonderful, there's a page that's covered over my page, my crimson page, my vile page of the past, and I'm looked upon by the author of this book as though I'd never committed a sin in all my life.

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Stop Worrying, Begin Living

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