Epic Journey Podcast #25 – Heart to Heart

In this episode, Sonny and Cindy share the most amazing download ever that you can implement immediately to impact your marriage. This will impact both of your hearts and the health of your WHOLE body. God’s word and wisdom reveals that the heart is the source of life and speaking words of life and truth and wisdom will affect the heart in an incredible way… the heart will thrive and give life and health!!!

Join us! You don’t want to miss this one, which is Part 2 of our latest series.

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Edgar Garcia-Rill PhD, in Waking and the Reticular Activating System in Health and Disease, 2015

But it explains that:

The RAS controls sleep and waking and fight-or-flight responses.

While this system provides signals that modulate our wake-sleep states, it also serves to help us respond to the world around us.

For example, strong stimuli simultaneously activate ascending RAS projections to the thalamus and then the cortex and cause arousal and also activate descending

projections that influence the spinal cord in the form of postural changes in tone resulting from the startle response,

as well as trigger locomotor events in fight-or-flight responses.

This speaks to becoming more attentive and ready for what’s coming. Heightened awareness- you’re either fighting or you are getting out of there!

Sounds like some couples arguing doesn’t it!

This part of your brain is attentive and there is preparation for what might be next. The body is alert and ready.

During sleep, the same system is responsible for the relative lack of ascending sensory awareness during SWS, as well as the descending atonia of REM sleep.

So, when we heighten our awareness of our words, just paying attention to them more, we’re going to position ourselves to respond differently to them.

This awareness can really help you to pay attention in a new way and in a healthier way.

Proverbs 4:20-27 has the headline in the HCSB (Holman Christian Standard Bible) The Straight Path. Biblegateway.com

20 My son, pay attention to my words;

listen closely to my sayings.

21 Don’t lose sight of them;

keep them within your heart.

22 For they are life to those who find them,

and health to one’s whole body.

23 Guard your heart above all else,

for it is the source of life.

24 Don’t let your mouth speak dishonestly,

and don’t let your lips talk deviously.

25 Let your eyes look forward;

fix your gaze straight ahead.

26 Carefully consider the path for your feet,

and all your ways will be established.

27 Don’t turn to the right or to the left;

keep your feet away from evil.

God gives him not only wisdom but also wealth and in 1 Kings 10:23 is says,

”King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth.”

Our words ultimately, if we listen to God’s word, which says from out of the mouth the heart speaks, Proverbs 27:3,

Our words come out of our heart and are deposited into the heart of the listener.

Our words become a “heart-to-heart talk.”

A heart-to-heart download. We are downloading through our words directly from our heart into the heart of the listener.

No wonder our words can injure. This is truly not what we desire or what we intend to do. We don’t realize how powerful our words are to injure or to give life and health and healing.

But when we do become aware, when we do open our eyes and ears to the power of our words we can make immediate changes, shove our pride aside if we need to, even bully our pride out of the way and choose to speak life!

Our words reflect the heart and ultimately our words reflect the heart of God or NOT.

Wow this is so convicting but also reminds me of the power of my words to harm or to heal.

To build up or tear down. To deposit the love of Christ or messages and agreements from the enemy or from my own selfishness.

Wow, it really does put a new perspective on the “heart to heart” saying that we use.

We are actually downloading from our heart into the heart of others.

Refers to Proverbs 4:23 about guarding your heart above all else and it says this:

Above all else is literally “more than all guarding.” To guard something is to make sure that it does not get away and that it is safe from attack.

In Hebrew the heart is the location of knowledge and also the preconscious source of decisions (Pr 27:19 – “as water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the person.”)

– Mt 15:18 – “But what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and this defiles a person.” Your heart is who you are, the “true you” that directs all your thoughts and emotions.

You can educate your heart (Proverbs 24:32) - consciously form and modify a worldview -after which decisions and actions flow from it.

Proverbs 16:9-A person’s heart plans his way, but the Lord determines his steps, Lk 6:45-A good person produces good out of the good stored up in his heart.

An evil person produces evil out of the evil stored up in his heart, for his mouth speaks from the overflow.

Rm 10:10-One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation.