The PowerBreak Podcast

Program 245 – SHOW NOTES (2023 – 15)

Show date – April 25, 2023

THE Q&A FORMAT

1. OPEN with Tease

(Bob) “This is the PowerBreak Podcast, number 245 titled:

Relief for the Pain of Loneliness

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– I’m Bob Brubaker along with JT as we hope you will stay tuned as we seek to give you a little power in this break to help you succeed in the race of life.”

2. (JT) This is the – PowerBreak Podcast – with a focus on the spiritual, the mental, and the physical aspects – all to help you succeed in the race of life. For show notes from today’s podcast go to bobbrubaker.com and follow the link for the PowerBreak podcast.

3. Welcome – Bob and JT – chit chat about life, walk with God, training, etc.

BB&JT: Plea and thank you for ratings and review & for spreading the word via social media and word of mouth…

BB –  We are talking today about … “Relief for the Pain of Loneliness”

So JT What does that title bring up to your mind?

4. Bob – POINT: Loneliness is real but so is the prescribed relief from God’s word and it begins  with our sympathetic great high priest….

Hebrews 4:14–15 (ESV) — 14 Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

5. JT ------ OK THEN LET’S TALK SOME MORE ABOUT THAT as we bring up… WHAT’S NEW –  as we open Bob’s recent blog from bobbrubaker.com …

“Relief for the Pain of Loneliness”

6. Presentation and discussion of Bob’s published article,

• Bob and JT discuss highlights of the PowerBreak blog

“Relief for the Pain of Loneliness”

Bob concludes with “The PowerBreak blog is found at bobbrubaker.com”             ((((:03 PAUSE))))

7. JT – What’s happening Bob? What would you like our listeners to know about this week?

8. Bob – The Battle For The Mind –… & Sermon link on the website.

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9. JT – This is the PowerBreak Podcast, I’m JT along with Bob Brubaker and this is the  –– time for some questions and answers. Feel free to submit your questions by EMAIL TO JT@bobbrubaker.com and we’ll get to the answer on an upcoming PowerBreak. Podcast…

10. JT – Question ONE - FROM THE SPIRITUAL SIDE OF LIFE….

Are we to always think of loneliness as a spiritual problem?

11. Bob & JT discuss

Put it this way, the answer is found by dealing with loneliness as a spiritual challenge and as we deal with loneliness as a spiritually we shall seek out help from our Lord Jesus Christ – who as our great high priest empathizes with our loneliness, as He experienced the epitome of loneliness while on the cross.

Genesis 2:18 (ESV) — 18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

2 Corinthians 5:18–19 (ESV) — 18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

Hebrews 4:14–15 (ESV) — 14 Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

1 Peter 5:7 (ESV) — 7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Proverbs 18:24 (NKJV) — 24 A man that has friends must shew himself friendly: And there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.

Secondly, as we turn to God’s word for spiritual guidance on the matter, we find that He has designed that each Christian is to be part of a church and as a member of a local church body, we all have the responsibility of ministering to each other as our Lord ministers through each of us to the other members of the body.

Philippians 2:4 (ESV) — 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Ephesians 4:11–16 (ESV) — 11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

Hence there is no room for loneliness as we take the spiritual medicine from the word of God.

12. JT – Question Two… “FROM THE MENTAL ASPECT”

How do we mentally focus when we feel lonely?

13. Bob & JT discuss

• Understand that God recognizes our need.
• He has made provisions for us to connect with Him through the Lord Jesus Christ and the work of the Holy Spirit
• When we feel lonely to go to God and tell Him our hurts because He cares
• Glean from God’s word and promises
• Understand that other people around us are there to help and be helped as the body of Christ, is ministered to one another … Think of the need to call or visit someone else…a
• THE WORST THING TO DO WHEN LONELY IS TO ISOLATE YOURSELF…

14. (JT) Third Question …. From the physical side of life…

We’ve keep hearing of all the benefits of cold water bathing and cold showers but are there any benefits to hot showers?

15. Bob and JT discuss…

SLEEP

The benefits of hot showers and baths for improving sleep quality are great. One of the main reasons for this is that in studies, a drop in body temperature initiated better sleep. Increasing your body temperature with a hot shower means your body now has to cool itself down, so you are “hacking” this process and expediting and amplifying it..

Hot showers also activate our parasympathetic nervous system and allow us to get out of that “fight or flight” response that stress, such as training, gives us.

RECOVERY

During a hard training session, muscle fibers and cells are damaged and metabolites accumulate. These will be removed from the muscles over time. Because hot showers dilate the blood vessels, they are able to be moved from the muscles in a more timely fashion. Similarly, the increased blood flow will bring nutrients to the area and aid in expedited recovery. This could be called localized inflammation, but remember that an inflammatory response is how your body heals. It happens most often after an injury as a repair mechanism, so we shouldn’t demonize it. It’s necessary.

Mental Health

In 1995, it was first reported that fevers helped to alleviate symptoms in depressive patients. Since then, studies have been conducted into “Whole Body HYPERthermia,” and the results were that a hyperthermic state, showed relief of depressive symptoms lasting up to six weeks.

Immune Function

There have also been several studies into the benefits of Finnish Dry Sauna and immune function, with data showing that in both trained and untrained populations, white blood cell counts increased after a sauna and subsequent body cool down, although the increase in white blood cell count was much greater in athletes than non-athletes.

The mild hyperthermia induced by sauna also has a protective effect on lung tissue and can be useful in respiratory conditions due to the dilation effects on the respiratory system as a whole.

Anything thoughts on this JT?

Bob’s final comment – Applying any fix to your circadian rhythm takes disciple…

Point: DISCIPLINE MAKES THE DIFFERENCE --- in all aspects of life

Closing statement Bob…. “check out today’s show notes at bobbrubaker.com and click on the PowerBreak podcast – today’s show is 245.

16. JT – Submit your questions by EMAIL to JT@bobbrubaker.com and listen for OUR answer on an upcoming PowerBreak Podcast (((:03 pause)))

17. (((commercial by Bob))) --- The Battle For The Mind

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