Hello I'm Dr. Henry Wright.
I'd like to talk about Parkinson's disease.
There's such a lot of fear about this
disorder because it's so debilitating
to people who end up with it
Parkinson's disease and I don't wanna be too technical.
Is really the result of a devaluation of dopamine.
And in the studies behind Parkinson's it is very easily
found that dopamine reduction is extreme and the more
extreme it becomes the more advanced the involuntary
muscular... you know spaz and
Parkinson's involves a tremor and a
loss of control muscle control.
So the key issue to Parkinson's disease
then if we were to think about this is: what
is causing a reduction in dopamine?
That would be the first culprit we're looking at.
Your body is designed to manufacture
dopamine.
But dopamine is not remanufacturing quickly.
It takes some time when dopamine has been totally released in the body,
which happens in a cocaine hit.
All the dopamine is gone just like that and it takes up to two years
for the dopamine to be totally replaced.
That's a long time.
So this is not a cocaine issue.
I'm just helping you understand the part of
dopamine. Now dopamine is the pleasure neurotransmitter.
Serotonin is the feel good about myself neurotransmitter.
Dopamine gives you the fulfilment
of the satisfaction.
Dopamine is what's released in sexual activity
and the completeness of a man and a wife.
And that's released to give that chemical,
talk about a chemical fix, thats good one.
God designed it and it's designed to give
a completeness of spiritual and psychological and biological completeness,
it's wonderful.
At the same time, what causes dopamine
to be devalued can be built into the what
we call the mind body connection our thoughts
control our bodies.
I mean it's it's well known the mind body connection.
We understand it in the field that I'm the father of and
seem to be is the field of Pneumapsychosomatology.
Tha's a big word.
Pneuma - spirit. Psycho - soul.
Somatic, Soma - expression body.
So it's a study of spirit soul body not just a study of
soul body which is mind body.
So if we don't consider the spirit part of us we are ignorant
and that probably is a blind spot in science
that science does not understand what it cannot see
as something that produces thought and we always assume
the thought has its origin in our own cerebral cortex not true
because the Bible indicates we can be tempted beyond our own intellect
and have thoughts that didn't originate in our intellect but become
part of our intellect and can become part of our
long term memory and our emotions and our feelings.
Now I said all that, not to complicate the subject
but to talk about dopamine.
There is a scripture, then I wanna give an example.
There is a scripture that helps us understand Parkinson's.
And it says this: "Hope deferred makes
the heart sick but when desire comes
it's a tree of life".
When you have hope deferred, you don't have
faith working, because faith is the
things of hope that are working.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for.
So when you have hope and deferred you don't have faith working for you.
You have the opposite. So your body's responding to this
down earth emotion.
This hope I have hope but it's never going to come to pass.
I'm getting older. That's why this disease is a disease that is quite
prevalent in older individuals because of the curvature
of life.
You know you've got 30 you've got 20 years to learn something and
grow up go to school.
The next 40 years and try to practice what you thought you learned.
In the last 20 years you're trying to figure out what happened to you,
then you fly away. So in this curvature of life there
are many forces that attack us and our identity in our success
or failure of life.
And thereby many people when they've not achieved
their hopes and desires because of this circumstance or that
circumstance then they devalue themselves
in the failure of it and no longer do they have faith
for the achievement of that faith or hope but
they no longer expect it.
This has an immediate effect
on human physiology at the chemical level.
And that is the level of dopamine.
I'll give you an example.
And it's a sad example.
I was teaching many years ago.
And I was in a church and the past
pastor.
It used to be, in fact he was the founding father of this church
which was a large church and
there was a division that came.
There was uprising of young bucks that thought they could do it better.
And he was a traditional go getter
done Biblical and they wanted to go
into more seeker friendly.
They wanted to move ahead and so
they bumped into this traditional
Bible believing pastor that was the founder
of this very large church and they voted him out,
of his own church that he founded.
I ran across him attending a church service in
this very church.
He would come to church there but he had no longer to do it.
But he had developed Parkinson's and his wife brought
him to me at the end of this service I taught in that church.
And he was standing there with the obvious tremors of Parkinson's
and all I could hear in my mind is: "hope deferred
makes the heart sick".
And I wanted to know where his faith and hopes have been dashed.
I didn't know this story until I asked this question.
What hindered your hopes and what deferred
your hopes. What happened in your life in which you had a loss.
Now maybe you even blame yourself for the loss.
And I heard this story.
What do you do with that.
I looked at him, now here's where this story
perhaps could be sad, and it is sad for me, but it may be
a solution for you.
You may not be this pastor they got caught in this mix of.
Not even understanding the scripture what hope deferred can do and reduce
dopamine.
But perhaps it'll help you.
So I said to him "Why don't you just go start another
church"?
He looked at me like he'd seen ghost.
He said: "What? I can't pastor a church
like this!". He's got the tremors and
and he said, "And at my age" and "I can't
do that!".
But in the back of my mind I'm hearing this scripture,
"Hope deferred makes the heart sick".
I got it right here.
"But when desire comes
it's a tree of life".
Now that comes to how we move from
the disease into the healing because I know
that in order to defeat Parkinson's all we have to do.
I mean it makes it sound so very simple but all we have to do is bring
dopamine levels back up to proper normalcy
and personality agreement, faith,
and the tremors will stop.
How can I get this man back into hope again?
Not deferred but activated with faith.
It's my project that day.
So I said I want you go, I understand what happened here.
I'm sorry. It's sad but I want you just
go out and start another church somewhere, there's a big city.
There's places in this city that need the gospel.
And you wouldn't be in competition with this church this church doesn't
serve the whole city. It's a big city of millions of people.
Go somewhere else.
Let God tell you where to go, that they need a good shepherd.
He looked at me said "I can't do it.
Look at me". I said, "Why did you become a pastor to begin
with. Did God call you or did men appoint you.
Did have a calling or did you just fall into men saying, 'this is what you
should do'".
He said, "No, God called me many years ago to Shepherd a flock.
And I did, for years decades".
I said, "So you you became a pastor because you
felt God called you?".
I said, "The giftings and callings of God and without repentance.
That means God didn't change His mind, maybe you did.
Did you change your mind about your calling?
Or you're looking at your circumstances not your calling?
Because you're calling is filled with dopamine.
You're running from your calling is filled with no dopamine.
I quoted him the scripture again "Hope deferred make at the heart sick.
But when desire comes".
He said "But look at me".
"Yeah I see ya".
I said, "You know Moses pastored a church of about two and a half million.
He couldn't even talk for himself.
Had to have his brother speak for him".
I said, "Are you serious".
I said, "Say God,
you called me.
I had a bad situation in my life.
Men were not faithful to my calling and I want
to be a shepherd of your people".
And God will give you people to care for when you go in faith.
Then you dopamine will start to come up again and I said, "And when you
stand before the people and I don't mean to embarrass you sir.
And I don't mean to be an embarrassment to anything about this, but you
talk to people about God and do it
with the tremors and they'll understand your voice and you'll explain
God. And as you follow your heart.
The Bible says when desire comes.
It's a tree of life.
Not a tree of Death".
He could not embrace it, he just cried his wife cried.
She looked at him and said Pastor Wright has told you the truth dear.
He's giving you a scripture to prove everything.
He said, "I can't do it, Look at me!"
And to this day I watched his wife crying this time walking
away as he protested what faith represented.
These things have to be understood
in the church.
Science has no answer.
Science has no answer in fact science understands and they've tried to
artificially introduce dopamine injections
and dopamine this dopamine that tried to be a therapeutic method.
And it's not working. You know why.
Because life is not artificial.
And we're not androids being maintained by a squirt here, and a squirt
there, by the world. This thing works from within.
Faith is of God, from within.
Not an injection from without.
It could be that if you're listening
and you have a friend or maybe you yourself.
This conversation will help you and God can meet you in defeating...
Because I'm guessing good news for you.
Parkinson's is not a true disease.
It's a syndrome and it can be defeated.
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