By General Conference Health Ministries Department Seventhday Adventist
By: General Conference Health Ministries Department Seventh-day Adventist Church Copyright © 2003 General Conference Corporation SDAs Produced by the General Conference Health Ministries Department All rights reserved 1
The operant of our sanity. Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 2 2
The plane was crowded. The seats were cramped. Passengers were irritable. The friendly voice of the young woman sitting next to me brought me back to the reality of the pending flight: “Do you mind if I test my blood sugar”? We struck up a conversation. Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 3 3
She was vivacious, bright, and cheerful. “I have had diabetes for 22 years. I am so blessed to have had such a wonderful life and so much opportunity. ” she said. She then witnessed further about her faith in God and her commitment to Him. Fill your life with Celebrations 4
This encounter highlighted the observation. Often those who carry the greatest health burdens complain the least (or not at all!). Optimism makes all the difference! Fill your life with Celebrations 5
An optimist tends to look at the bright side of life. Fill your life with Celebrations 6
Two look out through the prison bars • One sees mud. • The other sees stars. Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 7 7
§ Optimist § Pessimist Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 8 8
§ Through the eyes of an optimist, stars are seen that brighten the night. Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 9 9
Through the eyes of a pessimist They will see the dirty mud outside and further depress the mood. Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 1010
Through the eyes of an optimist Glass seen as half full. Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 1111
Through the eyes of a pessimist Glass is half empty. Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 1212
Optimism = Face of faith Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 1313
• Hope and trust in God. • Belief that He can work things out for our best. Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 1414
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God. ” Romans 8: 28 Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 1515
Allows us to laugh even when things do not turn out as we had expected. Laughter is powerful medicine. Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 1616
“A merry heart does good like a medicine. . . ” Proverbs 17: 22 Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 1717
Dr. Norman Cousin Anatomy of Illness Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 1818
Norman was diagnosed with a serious connective tissue inflammator y disease. Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 1919
Symptoms were distressing • • Skin changes -difficulty in moving his fingers. Had trouble moving his limbs or turning over in bed. Lumps covered his body. His jaws became locked. Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 2020
Howard Rusk Rehabilitation Clinic, New York Confirmation “collagen disease and ankylosing spondilytis” Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 2121
He was treated by traditional means, with many pain medications Aspirin Phenylbutazone (butazolidine) Codeine Colchicine Various sleeping pills Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 2222
He was given maximum dosage § § 26 aspirin tablets 12 phenylbutazone These gave him severe side effects. Fill your life with Celebrations 23
HIS SIDE EFFECTS • • Hives all over his body Feeling like skin being bitten by millions of red ants!! Fill your life with Celebrations 24
* 1 out of 500 will recover. * Often fatal Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 2525
Finally Norman confronted his doctor: “I’m tired of these medications I really want to stop It all and try to make myself happy!” Fill your life with Celebrations 2626
So he called Allen Funt, producer of “Candid Camera” Fill your life with Celebrations 2727
He discovered: every l 0 minutes of good belly laughter gave him two hours of pain-free sleep! Fill your life with Celebrations 2828
The results were remarkable. . . • Sed-rate blood tests dropped from 112 to 15 mm/hour. • He could move his thumbs without pain. Fill your life with Celebrations 2929
• The gravel-like nodules on his neck began shrinking. • He recovered enough to return to full-time work at the Saturday Fill your life with Celebrations 3030
As the years passed he could improve his mobility until he could. . . Fill your life with Celebrations 3131
As more time passed his mobility improved until he could. . . Fill your life with Celebrations 3232
Ultimately his mobility improved until he could. . . Fill your life with Celebrations 3333
As the years passed he could. . . Fill your life with Celebrations 3434
He improved to the point that he was able to. . . Fill your life with Celebrations 3535
Benefits of laughter/ positive thinking Fill your life with Celebrations 36 36 your with Celebrations
• Exercises your lungs. • Stimulates circulatory system. • Increases oxygen intake into lungs and blood. • Acts long term as an internal jogger. heart rate, breathing & circulation are speeded up pulse rate & blood pressure decrease (long term) skeletal muscles relaxed Fillyour life with Celebrations 3737
Research in UCLA showed that Genuine Laughter • Stimulates the sympathetic nervous system to produce catecholamine. Anterior lobe of the pituitary gland will be stimulated to produce endorphins. • Fill your life with Celebrations 3838
Effects of Endorphin Natural opiates /Sooth and relax the mind. /Endorphin relieves pain (more effective than morphine). /Endorphin elevates the mood. /Endorphin increases activity of immune cells. (1 pico gram=one trillionth gram increases NK cell activity against tumor cells. Fillby 42%) Fill your life with Celebrations 3939 /
We can be truly happy and have genuine laughter with complete trust in Him knowing He is in control of our lives ! Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 4040
Drs. Belloc and Breslow Department of Public Health Berkeley, California /6, 928 adult residents in Alameda County. /Those unhappy had death rate 57% higher than those happy. Fill your life with Celebrations 4141
• It is not possible to always be happy and laugh continuously. Positive attitude can be selected. • Just by thinking positively one impacts the immune system. Fill your life with Celebrations 4242
Positive emotions can impact the immune system • Suggested long before Dr. Fawzy launched his study showing the connection between. Positive emotions. Improvement in conditions of seriously ill patients. Fill your life with Celebrations 4343
Study by Dr. David Mc. Clelland Fill your life with Celebrations 4444
Picture shown of couple sitting on bench by A river Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 4545
Each student was to write a story This was to gain insight into each student’s subconscious perceptions and projections. Fill your life with Celebrations 4646
Those with positive outlook pictured couple: • • • Happy In trusting relationship Helping each other Respecting each other Sharing warm loving feelings Had higher levels of immune antibodies. Reported fewer infections during the preceding year. Fill your life with Celebrations 4747
/Those with negative outlook pictured couple: • Manipulative. • Deceiving and abandoning each other. /These lower levels of antibodies. /Experienced more illness during previous year. Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 4848
“. . . a broken spirit dries the bones. ” Proverbs 17: 22 (NKJV) Fill your life with Celebrations 4949
Harvard University Student’s Experiment Fill your life with Celebrations 5050
Comprehensive personality test Measured: • Tolerance • Confidence • Self-esteem Fill your life with Celebrations 5151
Blood sample drawn Fill your life with Celebrations 5252
Then NK (Natural killer) cells were exposed to cancer cells for four hours to measure the results. Fill your life with Celebrations 5353
NK cells from the positive students destroyed more tumor cells than from any other personality group. Fill your life with Celebrations 5454
The NK cells from depressed students were the least active in destroying cancer cells. Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 5555
Positive thinking people who can laugh and see the better side of every situation may have better immunity. Fillyourlifewith. Celebrations 5656
To be healthy. We must be free from negative thoughts. Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 5757
“Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. ” Proverbs 3: 7 & 8 Fill your life with Celebrations 5858
Before discovery of modern science, the Bible has implied that the bone marrow could be healthier if one departs from evil thinking. Fill your life with Celebrations 5959
Let us live a healthy lifestyle, which includes having an optimistic view of life towards ourselves as well as towards others… Fill your life with Celebrations 6060
So God can fill our lives with Fill your life with Celebrations your with Celebrations 6161
The End Fill your life with Celebrations 6262
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