Welcome to Day #27 of your “30 Days To Breakthrough” journey.

Today’s topic is Stress: The Insidious Killer. It’s one of my longer messages because stress is so prevalent, devastating, and difficult to understand. Today’s link of the day can potentially revolutionize your thinking and your life.

QUOTE
“As a man thinks within, so he is.” – Proverbs 23:7

LESSON
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says 90+% of illness and disease is directly related to stress. When I share this statistic with people nearly everyone agrees, yet few people seem to take definitive action to reduce their stress.

Harvard Medical School says stress is the root of illness/disease, but that is the tip of the iceberg. Stress also takes the joy from life, makes you sick, makes you tired, dumbs you down, drains your energy, causes negative outlook on life, and therefore causes you to fail. Wow!

What is stressful for one person is not stressful for someone else. Stress is more due to your perception of an event than due to the event itself. Clearly, it’s a function of your “buttons”, “programming” or cellular memories.

What did King Solomon have to say 3,000 years ago? Recognizing the origin of all our problems, he wrote, “Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4:23; NKJ)

What is the heart? In this context, the heart is cellular memories (i.e. programming), not the pump. It includes your unconscious and subconscious mind as well as your spirit. It is the location of your hopes, beliefs, and desires. There are more than 1,000 references to the heart in the Bible.

What is the root cause of most disease and illness? According to Southwestern University Medical Center in Dallas Texas, “For most illnesses and diseases today, treatments aren’t much better than band aids. They address a disease’s symptoms but not its source. We, and other institutions around the world, believe we have discovered the source. If we can find a way to heal cellular memories, for the first time we can treat illness and disease at its source.”

Dr. Bruce Lipton, formerly of Stanford Medical School, agrees. He says, “Yes, 95+% of illness and disease comes from stress, but the stress is caused almost 100% of the time by wrong beliefs, called cellular memories.” These are called “cellular” because we now understand that memories are not just stored in the brain but in cells all over the body.

Destructive cellular memories contain fear, anger, sadness, I can’t do it, I’m not worthy, not good enough, not smart enough, etc. When you heal the memory, the stress goes away and the immune system strengthens. The problem is that the majority of the cellular memories are in the sub-conscious.

Another major problem is those cellular memories that cause the worst problems would likely be rejected as significant by your adult mind. Many of your cellular memories were encoded in your first six years of life.

What are some consequences of stress?
1) Stress is at the root of “burn out” costing the US Industry $300 billion in lost productivity.
2) Chronic stress stops the body’s natural DNA repairing system, which can potentially lead to the development of cancers and other degenerative diseases.
3) Negatively affects the immune system
4) The body cannot metabolize fat efficiently or lose weight when under extreme stress.

What are effective ways to handle stress?
Prayer and meditation
Guard the words we speak
Guard the beliefs we hold dear
Watch the thoughts we think
Monitor the food we eat
Be sure to use our bodies (i.e., move it!!!)
Practice forgiveness
Strengthen close relationships
Practice gratitude
Laugh more
Have a sense of purpose and destiny
Do work that you love to do
Utilize energy medicine modalities

QUESTION
Lord, what do You specifically want to say to me about stress?

LINK
40 Day Fast From Wrong Thinking by Pastor Gregory Dickow

The Fast From Wrong Thinking is a revolutionary approach to identify and conquer thought patterns, mindsets and mentalities at work to defeat you.

PRAYER
Heavenly Father, we praise You as the God of peace. Help me to fast from wrong thinking. Help me to surrender the bigger stressors in my life to Your control. May I trust You more and rely less on myself. In Jesus name, I pray. Amen.

Blessings to fast from wrong thinking!

R. Joseph Peck, M.D.
“Blessed to be a blessing”
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