Teachback Tuesday-Reducing Anxiety Through Spiritual Exercises

Keep the Heart

Francie Taylor

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Welcome to Teachback Tuesday, where we play the most popular episodes from the previous season. This week’s episode, “Reducing Anxiety Through Spiritual Exercises,” is in the top ten most downloaded episodes to date. My battle with anxiety began during my husband’s journey through cancer. The anxiety increased to hazardous levels within hours after my Norman’s passing, landing me in the emergency room with symptoms that mimicked a heart attack. Anxiety has been well-documented to cause both emotional and physical problems. Is there any good thing that can come from this affliction? Here's one good outcome: people who go through the stressful journey of anxiety often become caring, compassionate resources for others. I quietly wrestled with this beast for over a year, until the Lord heard my cries and taught me some pivotal truths from His Word. These lessons became exercises for me that I still practice today. I do realize that anxiety doesn't have quick fixes, but there are some practices that we can engage to bring our emotions back out of the danger zone. This episode covers four spiritual exercises that have proven to be helpful in reducing anxiety. IT'S BACK: Rough Patches: Temporary Marital Tensions Heart Conditions--from the Popular "ICU" Bible Study Series Great Gift Idea: One-of-a-Kind Rose Gold Compact Bible Ponder the Path: 31-Day Bible-Habit-Building Devotional NEW BOOK: Secret Doubts: Working Through Unspoken Unbelief by Tim Zacharias Shop the Mall of Keep the Heart! Follow Keep the Heart on Instagram Like Keep the Heart on Facebook

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0:00.0	Welcome to Teach Back Tuesday, where we play the most popular episodes from the previous season.
0:05.4	This week's episode, reducing anxiety through spiritual exercises, is in the top 10 of the most
0:11.6	downloaded episodes. It's safe to say that this is a common issue of life. Anxiety also tends to
0:18.3	have triggers, and in my case, the trigger was the passing of my husband back in 2017.
0:24.4	That was my introduction to anxiety at a very high level.
0:28.9	Whether this is a problem for you or whether you're listening to help a friend, I pray that these insights will be helpful.
0:35.8	Let's listen.
0:40.4	I receive a lot of private messages and emails requesting topics for the podcast. One listener went into detail about how anxiety was harming her
0:47.2	and wondered if I could do an episode on the topic. Let me be candid. There are some counselors
0:53.5	who are also podcasters, but I am not one of them.
0:57.9	I'm a Bible application teacher, and I approach all topics from that position.
1:04.0	As long as you, the listeners, understand that I'm not setting myself up as an expert,
1:09.5	I'll be happy to share some things that I do when my
1:12.8	heart is disquieted within me. By the way, the word disquieted is in the Bible,
1:19.0	and it's another word for anxious. Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor.
1:33.3	Francie is an author, teacher, and conference speaker.
1:36.3	Sharing lessons from the Word of God is her passion.
1:40.3	Now, back to today's important study.
1:53.6	Psalm 43, verse 5 is one of three verses that are very close together in Scripture that ask this question, why art thou cast down, all my soul, and why art thou disquieted within me?
2:03.8	Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him,
2:10.4	who is the health of my countenance and my God. It is helpful to know why we're anxious,
2:20.8	but even if we can't figure out the source, God is still able to deliver us. Webster's 1828 Dictionary defines anxiety as concern respecting some event, future or certain, which disturbs the mind and keeps it in a state of painful
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