Physical Recipes For Anxiety - Does My Body Affect My Mind? with Jonny Ardavanis
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Jonny Ardavanis
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🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Jonny Ardavanis breaks down some of the themes from his forthcoming book, "Consider The Lilies: Finding Perfect Peace In The Character of God" (Zondervan) and examines some of the physical factors that contribute to our anxiety and despair.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones once said in his book "Spiritual Depression" that we are "embodied beings" and "we cannot separate the physical from the spiritual because we are body, soul, and mind."
It would be an extreme statement to say that the root cause of all anxiety is "always physical," but it would also be incorrect and unbiblical to not identify the reality that different factors such as loneliness, temperament, exhaustion, grief, trauma, and physical infirmity make us vulnerable and susceptible to anxiety.
These different factors never excuse an ungodly worry or lack of joy, but Lloyd-Jones explained that one of the first thing the anxious and despairing is to "know themselves" and to realize that our minds are not separated from our bodies.
In this episode, Jonny examines some Biblical characters, who although commended for their faithfulness, were vulnerable to anxiety because of various physical factors in their life.
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| 0:00.0 | We live in the most connected, connected world in human history, connected age, and yet it's the most anxious generation we've ever had. |
| 0:08.3 | And part of it is because even though there's this connection that people feel online, we live largely very lonely lives. |
| 0:16.2 | A life of isolation is antithetical to a life of deep faith and deep trust. |
| 0:28.3 | All right, welcome back to dial in. This is Johnny Artivannis, and I'm sitting here with |
| 0:33.1 | Hank Bowen. I should say my name is Johnny Artivannis rather than this is Johnny |
| 0:37.3 | Erdivannis. |
| 0:38.1 | But Hank, we're here. Everything going well today? |
| 0:41.7 | Everything's going fantastic. I'm excited to dive in and continue the series. |
| 0:45.4 | Dive in. Dialin. Okay, I like it. So we're walking through some of the major themes of Consider |
| 0:51.1 | the Lillies, Finding Perfect peace and the character of God. |
| 0:54.8 | And in this episode, we wanted to talk about some of the root causes, some would say, |
| 0:59.7 | but I call them recipes or contributing factors, |
| 1:03.4 | because I don't necessarily want to make it sound like certain things |
| 1:06.2 | cause us to be sinfully anxious. |
| 1:09.2 | But what's the term you used? |
| 1:11.4 | I said it would be foolish not to consider that there's fertile ground, from which we could be |
| 1:17.3 | tempted. |
| 1:17.8 | Yeah, certain things that are recipes for anxiety. |
| 1:22.1 | And in this episode, we want to talk about some of the physical contributions, different |
| 1:27.1 | things about our body or what happens |
| 1:29.1 | with our sleep and different patterns of life that would contribute to that anxiety. |
| 1:34.3 | And I'll use a different, just a personal story to start. |
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