Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Nyse Collins
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR00030A
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00:10 Welcome to Celebrating Life in Recovery I'm Cheri your host.
00:13 And today we are going to look at the fact that in 00:17 recovery everything matters. 00:18 Hypocrisy's once said let food be your medicine and 00:22 medicine be your food. 00:23 So we are going to look at the healing value of food. 00:26 Come on and join us this is going to be good stuff. 00:55 That's brilliant, welcome back. 00:57 I love doing this show, I love bringing stuff to the 01:01 table, I love talking about issues and today we're going 01:04 to do something a little bit different and it is 01:06 going to be a lot of fun. 01:07 I'm not even going to tell you I'm going to 01:09 surprise you with it. 01:10 First of all I want to start out with the book for 01:12 this season Exalting His Word by Shelly Quinn. 01:15 And in one of the section she covers the fact that God 01:17 is a God of new beginnings. 01:19 And that is right God is a God of new beginnings. 01:21 His love and compassion never fail, Lamentations 01:24 3:22,23, say that His mercies are new every morning. 01:28 I am so grateful for that because I'm a mess. 01:30 And if it wasn't the fact that God says today, new day 01:33 let's start over, I don't know that I would be able to 01:36 survive all the different things that I have to do. 01:38 And I want so badly to convince my friends in recovery, 01:41 convince you that every single thing matters. 01:44 That for one you can't stay up for 3 or 4 days at a 01:47 time, I'm talking to my Meth addict friends out there, 01:49 and have it not make you crazy. 01:51 In fact for people that are more normal you can't stay 01:54 up until 11, 12, 1, 2 in the morning and think you are 01:57 going to function the next day, or actually the next few days. 02:00 Because our body has to catch up on itself so everything 02:03 you do matters. 02:05 I'm going to say that a lot this show. 02:07 Like me for instance, I want to be skinny and in health. 02:12 I want to be fit, but I also want to eat ice cream every 02:15 single day, and lots of it, you know what I mean! 02:18 God is trying to show me, you know Hon, and He shows me 02:22 through the Holy Spirit, the Bible, through teaching that 02:24 ice cream is fighting against the goals I have for health. 02:28 In some the things I'm doing maybe fighting against the 02:32 very goals I have in recovery. 02:34 So He is just trying help me pay attention. 02:36 I talk with sex addicts that are just damaged and that 02:40 is our ministry and we work with all kinds of different 02:42 addictions, but talking with sex addicts or porn 02:45 addicts they will say, you know what I want to so not 02:48 get messed up with all that junk. 02:50 Then I tell them just tell me what your day is like. 02:55 They say by the end of the day 11 or 12 at night I will 02:58 sit at the computer, I'm thinking shut up. 03:01 So out of 11 or 12 at night you will sit at the 03:04 computer, that is where you start your surfing and 03:07 you don't think you're going to end up on 03:08 some really goofy sites? 03:09 I'm telling you that everything matters. 03:12 Don't turn the computer on after 8 if you have a 03:14 porn addiction, don't do it! 03:16 Because before 8 we have more control and 03:18 I just think that is true. 03:19 I want to tell you a story about a guy in recovery. 03:24 He has some sexual addictions, he is trying his 03:28 hardest and white knuckling it. 03:29 He is doing whatever he can to not act out sexually. 03:34 He is having some stress at home, the stress is 03:38 getting worse and worse and he tends to act out if he 03:41 is being disrespected or get stressed out. 03:43 All of a sudden his boss is on him, his wife, 03:46 he is distancing himself from her, 03:49 because of the stress at home. 03:50 He says one day after work I'm just going to go and get 03:53 myself a Pepsi, and so he goes to the normal store that 03:57 he always goes to. 03:58 The Pepsi is right there and he walks 04:01 over and grabs it. 04:02 Right next were the Pepsi is in some of those magazines, 04:06 you know what magazine I'm talking about. 04:08 Magazines with a lot of women in it, a lot of sexual stuff 04:12 and he picks up a magazine. 04:13 So he buys the magazine and a Pepsi and goes home. 04:16 Within hours he's acting out and doing things he shouldn't do. 04:19 He gets in his car and is cruising around town looking 04:23 at prostitutes and all that kind of stuff. 04:25 He comes home and is acting out some more and he starts to 04:29 have really some horrible guilt. 04:31 By the end of the day he's acted out like crazy, 04:34 he's guilt kicks in and all that kind of stuff. 04:36 So he goes to his accountability partner and you know 04:39 what they tell him? 04:40 Anybody want to, you want to, 04:42 what do you think they tell him? 04:44 Hang in there or something. 04:47 You'll love what they actually tell him, stop drinking Pepsi. 04:50 Is that right - yeah! 04:52 Wow - so everything starts when you buy that Pepsi, 04:55 don't buy that so again everything matters. 04:59 It's not so much the acting out at the very end of 05:02 something, it's not so much the first bite of ice cream 05:04 I take, it is that every single little thing matters. 05:07 There's, what's that saying? 05:10 There's a saying that little foxes destroy the field 05:13 or something, I mean it's just the little things. 05:15 So everything matters and I want to introduce 05:17 you now to Nyse Collins. 05:19 Nyse I've been waiting for this show forever, I love your 05:23 ministry, I love what you are going to bring to the 05:24 table for us and I want you to just say a little bit 05:30 about what your ministry is and what got you into that. 05:33 Ultimately we are NLC, what we are basically medical 05:39 missionaries turned evangelist, we bring it into the nutshell, 05:41 under a consultant umbrella. 05:42 Our goal is to work with different businesses, groups, 05:45 and churches and stuff like that. 05:46 To provide the information where they can live a 05:48 healthier lifestyle - so healthier lifestyle so you 05:52 can give me a pill or something? 05:53 Oh no it's not that easy - Oh! shut up! 05:55 It is not that easy. 05:56 If it was that easy there were be no disease in this world, 05:58 I mean all of us just eat some apples and we're good you know. 06:02 It is not that easy because diet is one part of it, 06:05 but especially when we are working with different 06:07 addictions and items like that. 06:08 After we do our session, because in a workplace you 06:11 cannot talk about Christian views and stuff, 06:13 we offer consultations. 06:15 Then when we work with individuals on a one-to-one 06:17 basis, than it is like we open up a can of veggie worms, 06:21 you know what I mean! 06:22 It just starts popping out and person who had high 06:24 blood pressure or something like that is not just 06:27 because they have been eating too much salt. 06:28 Maybe they had another situation - porn addiction 06:32 porn addiction or other situations that when stress 06:35 is involved in it, stress alone will cause 06:38 the pressure to go up. 06:39 So we looked at that and try to identify the true core, 06:42 the true character of that situation, then by God's 06:44 grace let's eliminate that problem and then we 06:48 can look at some things in our diet and stuff like that 06:50 You're going to hate the next thing I have 06:51 to say to you - okay. 06:52 You are just a baby, you're just a baby, what got you 06:55 into this - let's say that we are all children 06:58 of Christ, so I figure I'm in the same category. 07:01 Yes! I'm not as mature if you want to put it 07:05 that way - as blessed in years. 07:07 Right! Right! But what happens is I've had a chance to 07:10 taken advantage of the opportunity of my mom. 07:13 Even though I did not turn out the best, she did 07:15 anything and everything on the block. 07:17 5 kids, 4 dads, that only tells you about one addiction. 07:21 She tried every and any drug, a matter of fact even when 07:24 she was pregnant with me, she was out 6 months drinking. 07:28 She fainted and the bartender said Miss, which is more 07:33 important to you, that Vodka or what's in your stomach? 07:37 Your baby - or the baby and it was a little 07:40 wake-up call for her. 07:41 If you notice I'm off a little bit, if something is 07:45 wrong here you'll understand why, I'm just kidding. 07:47 So to me the fact that you have that background so 07:52 you'll understand that what I am saying, everything matters. 07:54 In addiction and recovery everything matters. 07:56 When I first got into addiction and the recovery what 08:00 was really interesting to me was, somebody said, 08:02 you have to drink more water. 08:04 I'm thinking oh yuck! Give me some Tequila. 08:06 That is definitely true we work with a lot of our 08:10 clients who, as a matter of fact I just came back from 08:13 one of my clients, they were severely dehydrated. 08:17 All they want is Pepsi, they love, I can't call the 08:23 name, but a certain kind of drink that they mix up. 08:25 They will drink every other poison and they are 08:28 concerned about drinking tap water. 08:31 There are too much contaminants in the pipes, I'm 08:34 like wait a second you just drank that Pepsi and 08:36 the first ingredient is acid. 08:38 So why are you not concerned about that? 08:40 But yes it's definitely all involved, for those who 08:44 are recovering, they may skip out on that item they 08:48 were dealing with, that addiction before but have 08:50 substituted now with the biggest addiction which 08:52 is probably caffeine - right! 08:54 Or sugar or different items like that, or - so you are 08:57 saying now you must have been to a twelve step group. 08:59 Twelve step group I came in, but clouds of smoke that 09:04 came out of that room was amazing. 09:05 People were slamming coffee, smoking cigarettes and 09:08 eating like pastries or chips. 09:10 I'm thinking, I can even use my brain, I can't even 09:14 think and I need to stay in recovery. 09:17 I am begging people now to pay attention to that because 09:21 you cannot, you are going to trip yourself up just by 09:24 coffee, cigarettes, caffeine and all that kind of stuff. 09:27 True recovery is not eliminating just that one 09:32 situation, true recovery is not just transitioning 09:36 your past addiction to another addiction 09:38 if you follow me there. 09:39 True recovery is abstaining or freedom from all other 09:43 items, not substituting my drugs, or my alcohol. 09:47 Some people don't realize that shopping is an addiction. 09:49 Oh stop! Your off the show. If I known you were going 09:56 there you wouldn't even been invited - I'm sorry. 09:58 And the reason I mention that, the reason I mention that 10:01 it's because a lot of times I work with certain clients, 10:03 ladies, who have severe high cholesterol. 10:07 Why do I have high cholesterol I'm eating right, I'm a 10:10 total vegetarian and we look at the whole situation, 10:13 come to find out they have to work 17 hours a day. 10:16 So they can pay their credit cards off - so ask the 10:18 question, why do you work so much. 10:20 Well I have over $8,000 dollars in credit card bills. 10:23 Which credit card, a certain store brand, 10:26 and I'm like is that really necessary? 10:29 So we helped them - everything matters - right 10:31 everything matters we can help them with their 10:32 cholesterol but that did not solve the problem. 10:36 We could have helped them with heroin, we can helped them with 10:38 crack or whatever, but what is the true cause, 10:40 what is the true cause of that problems? 10:42 So once you identify the true cause that is there, then 10:45 they won't, because what happened with that certain 10:47 client, she switched from shopping to eating. 10:50 So not she's not spending big money on clothes, 10:53 but what happened now she is spending big money 10:56 on going out to restaurants. 10:57 I'm like we didn't - and gaining weight, and adding on 11:00 those extra blessings you know what I mean! 11:02 Which causes low self extreme which causes you want to 11:04 shop - and then what happens it comes right back around 11:07 and she ends up doing the same thing again. 11:09 It's a whole picture, she said what shall we do. 11:12 Number one yes we have to pray, God has given us certain 11:16 guidelines to accept Him and remove yourself from these 11:19 things, but remember you have to have a plan. 11:21 If you don't have a plan you're just setting yourself 11:24 up for trouble - Amen! 11:25 What I love, when I first saw you administering as 11:29 far as health goes, I kept thinking I have to have 11:31 you on the show because I love the fact of giving 11:34 people freedom to understand that everything matters. 11:36 If I'm going to stop a certain addiction, never drink 11:41 anything but water for the first month. 11:43 That sounds like it's really going to kill some one, 11:47 but actually it's going to give you health. 11:48 It is being able to say that just add one or two 11:52 things in that actually will help you to start to get 11:54 your body thinking clearly again. 11:57 Your addictions will then fall off easier. 11:58 Here's another situation, you remove yourself from that 12:01 problem but then you predispose yourself because now 12:05 you're doing all the chocolate cakes in the world. 12:07 And then I love that - I'm sorry, so now you are 12:12 doing all the chocolate cakes in the world and you 12:13 have an increased amount of sugar which sends 12:15 you on a super high real quick. 12:17 In a couple minutes or an hour you will come crashing 12:19 right back down, now you are depressed again. 12:21 Actually some people switch it out with - but 12:24 you don't have to worry about that because 12:25 I can take an antidepressant. 12:27 You see there we go again, we consider medication a mop 12:31 to the problem. 12:32 Me and my buddies always say if you go inside of a 12:34 kitchen in the sink is clogged up in the water faucet 12:38 is on and the water is overflowing, what is the first 12:40 thing we are going to do? 12:41 Are we going to start mopping, are we going to turn off 12:43 the faucet, are we going unplug the faucet, which one? 12:45 It's like hopefully I'm going to go and try to unplug 12:48 stuff - right so you can unplug which is one solution. 12:52 Medicine comes in and just start mopping. 12:55 What we suggest is to get to the source of the problem. 12:57 Let's turn off the what? The faucet! 13:00 Then un-plug, and that I'm plugging is what we are going 13:03 to be talking about detoxifying. 13:04 We unplug this situation, cleaning out the body, then we 13:08 are going to go ahead and mop up. 13:09 So we got to the source of the problem and what the 13:11 medication does it keeps mopping. 13:13 What happens, it keeps overflowing. 13:14 So we are into 2008 now, right! 13:17 I just saw a study in the study was showing how the 13:21 antidepressants are so not working, you know most of the 13:25 country is taking different antidepressants. 13:27 And I'm exaggerating for sure a lot of people are taking 13:30 them and the studies are showing that they did just kind 13:33 of mop up the water. 13:34 Didn't do anything else - it didn't solve the problem. 13:36 It didn't solve the problem and so the fact that we 13:39 really can solve the problem if we pay attention. 13:42 Pay attention and start doing some simple things. 13:45 That is the ultimate goal. 13:47 What do you mean by a schedule? 13:48 Man there is nothing better than every morning spending 13:51 that little quality, said little it should be a lot of 13:54 quality time with God. 13:56 If you don't do that you just might as well quit. 13:59 You might as well run to the local store by all the junk 14:01 food or do this because you set yourself up, 14:04 so that quality time is the most important. 14:06 Second item, lowers tell people sometimes like to 14:09 exercise before I spend that time. 14:11 And the reason why is that a lot of people wake up n the 14:13 morning and grab their Bibles and say Lord I'm going to 14:16 study Your work today and an hour later they are asleep. 14:20 They are in the word literally. 14:21 So we say go out and get some fresh air, clean your 14:24 system and eliminate the toxins - get the sun on your 14:27 skin - yeah and get that run in and start off with a 14:30 good solid, solid breakfast. 14:33 So we start with the spiritual food and now we need to 14:35 make sure we at the physical food. 14:37 Now I don't want to miss this one thing I didn't realize 14:39 in recovery is I think for years I didn't breath. 14:44 You know my breathing was so shallow and when somebody 14:47 said let me teach you to breath, and I'm thinking what 14:49 are you talking about, how crazy is that. 14:51 Talk about just breathing when you go out and walk and 14:53 take a breath, what kind of things does that do? 14:56 Oh it clears out the whole system, expands the lungs and 15:00 you get good breaths as well. 15:02 Once you get fresh air, or oxygen getting into the 15:05 system, you have better circulation. 15:07 A lot of people if you look a lot, those that are 15:11 dealing with depression, you barely see them outside. 15:14 Real shallow breaths, you just, when you take a deep 15:18 breath you don't have no choice but to rise up. 15:21 So people say wait a second, rise up physically and also 15:24 you have a whole new outlook and that is one item. 15:27 Did you also know that the air inside of your house, 15:30 is more likely contaminated than the air outside? 15:33 So I just came from the city New York city. 15:36 Everybody says I can't go exercising, I said why not? 15:38 Because it's polluted outside. 15:39 It is more polluted inside your home and if you stay 15:41 inside your home you may jump back on the computer, you 15:44 may jump on the refrigerator, there is a whole bunch of 15:48 things that happened. 15:49 So we need to get outside and there is something about it. 15:51 People say well should I go to a gym? 15:53 Gyms are okay, but God has given you a free gym, 15:58 go outside, do you know what I mean! 15:59 You know some gyms charge you 50, 60 dollars and 16:02 you can use that money to support God's Ministry, 16:04 3ABN or something, you know. 16:06 Go outside and get the fresh air, get in the sunlight. 16:08 The sunlight hits the skin and converts that into 16:11 nice vitamin D, it's helps the whole system the 16:13 bones and items like that because a lot of 16:15 people who deal with depression sooner or later are 16:16 going to deal with weak bones. 16:18 Let me just say for people that, and I really want to 16:22 say for people that are not in good shape, that really 16:24 have physically got themselves into a place where walking or 16:27 getting outside and exercising is just beyond what they 16:29 can do, go outside and sit on the porch. 16:32 Go sit on a step in it, if the first step is just to 16:37 sit, sit with the sun hitting your skin. 16:39 Get up and get out, people say huh! 16:43 Get up and get out, if that is all you do you will have 16:47 done something good there. 16:48 Huge difference, and take a deep breath, and literally 16:52 for some of us that first couple times taken a deep 16:55 breath and getting used to that, it literally hurts your 16:57 lungs because you aren't used to expanding it like that. 17:00 We have to open up items like that so people don't 17:02 come if you don't take deep breaths for extended 17:05 periods of time sooner or later when you get a cold or 17:07 something pneumonia says in there in a heartbeat. 17:09 That is definitely one aspect that is crucial, crucial 17:14 I have to say, because some people will even 17:17 say to me, Cheri aren't you over exaggerating 17:21 the importance of this, and I just want to beg you 17:24 I wish that we could show a PET scan 17:26 of our brains, and the amount of activity 17:29 in our brains when we are strung out and 17:32 not exercising we are not using our frontal lobe's. 17:35 When you start doing a little bit of exercise, a little 17:38 bit of going outside and taking some breaths, we start 17:40 our frontal lobes working again. 17:41 All that starts to improve in every single decision we make 17:46 in my recovery come from our frontal lobe. 17:48 If my frontal lobes aren't working it is 17:50 harder for me to recover. 17:52 Not impossible but definitely harder and 17:54 I going to relapse more often. 17:56 We can't express how important it is to do that. 18:00 As a matter of fact, I know some people don't like it, 18:02 but they have even shown that those who have drink and 18:05 smoke but exercised on a daily basis are sometimes in 18:10 better health than those who eat right their whole lives. 18:14 Total vegetarian whatever you want to call it, vegan 18:17 whoever, but never exercise. 18:19 Can you believe that! Shut up! 18:20 I'm like wait a second, you're telling me that 18:22 these past ten years, preaching the health message 18:25 but never smoking and telling people if they need 18:28 to do better, but because I don't exercise that 18:30 those who are drinking and smoking but exercising 18:33 are in better condition than me? 18:34 I said man that is serious - so this shows the 18:37 importance - all that matters. 18:39 Everything is involved, we are not saying go out drink 18:43 smoke and then exercise - because you know I was just 18:45 going out and buy some cigarettes because I love the 18:47 smoke - I have to put that disclaimer in. 18:49 I'm not going then - but that is one aspect. 18:54 So of course we have to trust in God, 18:56 that is the most important thing. 18:57 Then we went out and got some fresh air and exercise, 18:59 were following a schedule, but now after we did all that 19:02 we come back home and pop a certain donut company, 19:06 can't say any names but we're popping donuts - you know 19:08 what he is talked about and you know what I mean nice 19:10 sweet ones that burn my teeth and I'll still eat more. 19:14 we'll pop that and then take some coffee and wash it down. 19:18 Is just like the law is you mess up all one you mess up 19:23 on the them, however we are not saying to just give up 19:26 just because you haven't done everything, because everything 19:27 is new every day. 19:28 Right all matters, I love that, if you don't mind I'll use 19:31 that every time, everything matters just keep trying, 19:34 keep making steps. 19:36 If you are content you are not in a good situation, the 19:39 only contentness you want to be is in the arms of God. 19:41 In your home you always need to strive to do better. 19:45 So of course that meal is so important, 19:48 let's flush the system. 19:49 So that cleans you out, detoxes is your liver, 19:51 kidneys, literally your whole system then just wakes up. 19:58 It works for you in your recovery. 20:00 Right for sure, the situation that I mention a little 20:03 bit earlier here come is those that are transitioning 20:05 off of these items, with drugs and items like that. 20:09 You are so sweet items, like heroin, sex, cigarettes. 20:12 You don't have to call by its name 20:14 because everybody understands. 20:16 When they come over, yes some damage has taken place, 20:19 and in because they were so extremely area when they 20:22 came over, they are extreme in the new area and this 20:25 is why in the health area temperance is so important. 20:27 So wait, wait, wait, so I'm in a heroine addict in 20:30 recovery what is temperance. 20:32 We know as some people I can just tell you about a 20:35 good close friend of mine who is dealing with crack 20:37 cocaine and items like that. 20:38 This it wasn't your mom again was it? 20:41 No, as he made the transition he came over when he learned 20:48 about health and stuff like that, he went so gung ho. 20:50 He found out that carrots was good for cleaning out the 20:53 system, he drunk so much carrots as his eyes were 20:56 orange, his skin was orange, I mean he just went from 20:59 going crazy on this drug and going crazy over carrots. 21:04 Of course there are more studies that need to take place 21:06 but certain items have been damaged, and so because that 21:09 person has messed up in that area there their senses or 21:13 their intellectual responses in certain things is a 21:18 little bit more extreme. 21:20 Because now they have found Jesus and they don't want 21:22 to stop talking and it is great, but sometimes you 21:24 have to cut them back and say hey you need to be 21:26 a little bit more moderate. 21:28 You can understand that, it's physiological why they 21:31 are doing with that situation, because some things 21:33 were damaged in the past. 21:35 But does that mean that God forgot about us, no not at all. 21:37 So what we will do as we bring it over, we need to 21:40 follow, it needs to be will balanced 21:41 we need to do it properly. 21:42 If you know what I mean - exactly, exactly! 21:45 And what is interesting is that somebody told me in 21:47 the first part of my recovery is that Cheri don't 21:50 think about what you change in everything, change one thing. 21:54 One thing this month so I added vegetables which 21:58 I thought was going to kill me. 21:59 I added to my plate, veggies, I took out room from my 22:02 plate, so something had to not be there. 22:04 Literally as I added one thing at a time it 22:07 pushed away what was unhealthy. 22:10 I didn't stop smoking, in my recovery, 22:12 for like 5 years. 22:13 I was baptized and hiding in my car smoking my brains 22:16 out, so literally I had to do one thing at a time. 22:21 One thing, and I always encourage if we want to start 22:24 with anything, after we started trusting in God and 22:26 getting the victory you need to start some rest. 22:29 Nothing else is going to work unless you are resting. 22:32 Of course we know, the day of rest, the next rest 22:37 is on a daily basis, some of us are addicts of 22:39 going to bed late. 22:41 People say what! If I asked anybody what time did 22:45 you go to bed last night? 22:46 None of us had gone to bed before 10 o'clock, 22:49 this is this is almost a fact. 22:51 We are addicts, we are my nocturnal addicts, we act 22:54 like bats, cats, and owls if you are missing your rest, 23:00 you are in trouble because your decision-making process the next 23:05 day, as you had mentioned earlier, is off a bit, 23:07 you are not doing things properly and the strength 23:09 that you need to resist the inclinations 23:12 to avoid that addiction is weakened. 23:14 And a study just came out that I was blown away 23:18 by is that serotonin is a neuro chemical 23:21 response in your brain. 23:23 It puts off endorphins and endorphins is what 23:25 makes you feel good. Right! 23:27 If you go to bed after midnight all your serotonin 23:31 for the next day didn't get produced. 23:34 Serotonin of production is from 8 to midnight, and only 23:37 if you're sleeping. 23:38 I'm like oh God please don't say that is true. 23:41 You hit on the relation of the serotonin and the 23:43 melatonin is only produced, you already mentioned 23:46 the serotonin, melatonin is produced around 10 to 2. 23:49 Now this is funny I was sharing this with one group and 23:51 in the pastor said guys that's your healing hormone. 23:56 He said if you are not to bed on time, just like Santa 23:59 Clause if you're not sleeping, it's not coming. 24:01 You just missed your healing for the day. 24:03 We are missing our healing every day - and I've got to 24:07 ask, I got to beg people to hear that, 24:10 because I didn't know that. 24:11 In the first part of my recovery, I am trying to fight 24:13 for recovery, I'm trying to do the right thing, and 24:16 think the right thing. 24:17 I can not think the right thing if I'm not having this 24:20 production happened, and God made it to where He said if 24:24 you take care of yourself, drink some water and get 24:26 to bed on time, I naturally put this in your body to 24:30 reproduce itself every day, unless you do not 24:35 take care of yourself. 24:36 Unless you stay up all night, or stay up until the wee 24:38 hours of the morning. 24:39 There are more aspects - so why don't 24:41 you just take a Prozac then? 24:43 I know - you know what you are right you can if you 24:46 want to have suicidal thoughts, so it is your choice. 24:49 That is just what happens - that's the side effects 24:52 from the drugs are huge and God says if you do this in a 24:55 natural way the side effects are health. 24:59 Quick fixes is quick losses, you've gained a lot 25:02 and you lose a lot real quick. 25:04 The key here is almost that old saying no pain no gain, 25:08 but the good news is the Lord paid the price for us. 25:12 He took all the pain already so all we have to do 25:14 is accept it now. 25:15 Once we accept that then we make steps 25:18 slowly but surely. 25:19 Matter of fact you could do it overnight if you have 25:21 the faith of a what? Mustard seed! 25:24 If we have the sake to say to the mountain to jump in 25:26 the ocean, can you imagine an addiction to the Lord is 25:29 not a problem, but watch this. 25:30 The Lord even agreed with simple natural remedies. 25:33 King Hezekiah begged for more years, the Lord could have 25:39 just bought it and Hezekiah could've been healed. 25:41 But what did the Lord do? 25:42 The Lord said I need you to do a little natural 25:45 remedy, get a lump of figs and put it on the 25:48 area and then go wash off. 25:50 He saw the man who was blind all his life the Lord Jesus just 25:53 could've said go see them and he could've been healed. 25:57 The Lord Himself even approved of simple natural things, 26:00 in our environment, in our society, in food. 26:02 The Lord did a little poultice and mixed it up. 26:06 This is a natural remedy, it was a treatment. 26:08 and told him to wash it off, so even the Lord approves of it. 26:10 You know I'm just thinking out loud, I think the Lord 26:14 allowed these things, or used these measures because 26:17 sometimes when He heals us or He takes away these 26:20 addictions so quick and we have not put any effort 26:24 into it, what happens to us? 26:26 We go right back and do the same thing again - exactly! 26:28 So sometimes He gives us - and the Bible says it's 26:31 like a dog returning to its vomit. 26:32 He gives us a little time to work at it, try, pain, 26:37 take it a step at a time. 26:38 The man who was beside the pool of Bethesda for 26:41 how many years, many years. 26:43 The Lord could have easily healed him and He did, 26:47 only as he accepted the faith, He took away his problem. 26:50 He said get up and go walk. 26:52 But when He caught up with him later that day I'm sure 26:54 that guy was jumping for joy, oh my goodness I've been 26:57 sick for so many years and now I'm healed. 26:58 The Lord said now that you have been made whole, 27:01 now that you feel better, please don't go back 27:03 and make the same mistake. 27:04 If you do - don't eat any of those donuts again. 27:06 Stay away from that ice cream - if you fall back 27:10 into that addiction, it says it comes even worse, 27:13 sometimes 7 times worse. 27:14 So now I just left donuts but if I go back to those 27:17 donuts, have a donut, the chocolate this and that 27:19 then I'm going to need some caffeine, I'm going to need this 27:22 then I'm going to talk about this, I'm going to 27:25 desire more spices. 27:26 Did you know there is a direct relation between 27:28 using spices and alcohol. 27:30 It is a direct relation, as you use more salt and 27:35 spices, it increases your desire to drink at mealtime. 27:39 If you continue to drink at mealtime it causes 27:41 intestinal fermentation, but you desire 27:43 also a more intense stimulant. 27:47 So simpler we can get, especially during recovery, 27:52 the easier our recovery is going to be. 27:55 If we put in rest and exercise and stuff like that 27:58 we are going be able to use our frontal lobes more. 28:00 Okay so I'm going to open up because we are 28:02 are running out of time. 28:03 I'm going to open up for questions, I'm just 28:06 going to say I know that there are a number of 28:09 you that have questions. 28:10 J. D. we are going to start with you, do you have 28:12 anything that you would like to ask Nyce? 28:14 First of all I just love it that God is the God of 28:18 new beginnings and I believe that with all my heart. 28:20 I also love that phrase it everything matters. 28:22 The question that I have for you Nyce is what do 28:26 we do after detoxification? 28:29 Is there a plan? 28:31 The first step, everybody is in detoxification, how do you 28:38 detoxify and stuff like that. 28:39 Do I need to take this herbal cleanse, do I need to do 28:41 this, do I need to clean out everything? 28:43 Well not quite, I never saw Jesus given somebody 28:47 a secret remedy and put it in and they 28:50 flush everything out. 28:51 Not quite, He takes care of you naturally is 28:54 what I can say, I have veggie's best kept secret that everyone 28:58 can use and the reason why we are a little hesitant about 29:01 detoxifiers, one of my accountant actually 29:05 went and did this herbal, special detoxification 29:07 something, I don't know what 29:09 happened, all I know is that he did it. 29:11 And the next day he was in the hospital 29:13 his kidneys had shut down. 29:14 So a person who has been in an abusive situation, 29:18 the body has taken a beating, they cannot now turn 29:23 around and go and bombard it again, even though its 29:26 natural items natural supplements and stuff like that. 29:29 One of veggies best-kept secret, and we talked about it 29:32 before it is artichokes. 29:34 Artichokes takes care of the liver, and the reason 29:36 why we want to look at the liver is the liver goes ahead 29:38 and filters and helps clean. 29:40 So anybody who is coming off a drug addiction or any item 29:43 like that - I love artichokes - is that right - yes. 29:46 Artichoke is the best, diabetes, high blood pressure, 29:49 but especially it detoxifies the liver naturally. 29:54 So what's this you just go ahead and eat it, 29:56 incorporate it into your diet, and I'll share with you 29:58 guys a little tip or two how we can prepare it. 30:00 Everybody sees it and doesn't know how to use it, 30:02 but hey let's go ahead and do that. 30:04 Also you would not think it but radishes is fantastic. 30:08 Though spicy things are good spice because it goes in 30:11 hot a little bit but never comes out hot. 30:14 If I can say that, that goes ahead and promotes a bile 30:20 secretion and goes ahead and eliminates toxins as well. 30:24 After you have done that what you want to make sure to 30:26 do is follow a complete meal. 30:28 Folks fruit in the morning is not breakfast. 30:31 Fruits alone, you have to eat, we are not rabbits, 30:35 we are humans. 30:36 So after you have your nice fruits and items like that, 30:41 you need to follow up with some kind of a whole-grain. 30:43 Did you know that whole grains is one of the best thing 30:45 for a person who is coming off of addiction, or 30:47 depression, or mental disorders, anything. 30:49 A whole-grain, what are the whole grains, your oats, 30:52 your brown rice, whole wheat pasta, 30:54 all these are whole grains. 30:55 Enjoy them, make your own granola and items like 30:59 that and finished off with a good handful 31:01 of raw unsalted nuts. 31:04 Whether they beat Brazil nuts, almonds, cashews, 31:06 pine nuts, don't go home with out it you 31:11 need to include pine nuts. 31:12 You know they are doing a study now with black walnuts, 31:14 it helps lift depression. 31:17 All nuts as well, a little surprise or something, 31:21 we are going to do something a matter of fact with walnuts. 31:23 I always tell people, what a walnut looks like, 31:25 when you look at the Walnut it looks like what! the brain. 31:28 So what is it good for, it's good for the brain. 31:31 We are the surprise is and it is so amazingly cool, 31:34 we are going to as a group take a break and then we 31:38 are going to meet up in the kitchen and Nyce is going 31:42 to show us exactly what does he mean. 31:44 How do we prepare foods for healing, 31:47 or foods for helping in our recovery. 31:48 So this is going to be the coolest segment ever and 31:51 we are going to meet up in the kitchen. 31:54 The secret for us is we are literally going to take a 31:57 break, change, go get something to eat up. 31:59 You are just going to have a little tiny break 32:02 and come right back! |
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