Nick was a hard worker, married man, had kids, a good job, and overall, a good life. The only problem was that Nick was known by all to be a bit of a worrier. He worried about most everything. So on the day he was working on a railroad car and accidentally got locked inside a car, it was no different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The story was published in Reader\u2019s Digest many years ago. As it goes, Nick was stuck in a freezer car. He realizes, at some point, that his coworkers had all left the worksite. Nick begins to panic because he\u2019s in a freezer car with no way to get out unless someone gets him out. He finds a knife and begins to carve out sentences in the wood floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf I can\u2019t get out, I\u2019ll freeze to death in here\u201d \u2026 \u201cIt\u2019s so cold, my body is getting numb\u201d \u2026 \u201cIf I could just go to sleep\u201d \u2026 \u201cThese may be my last words.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nick was doing what we all do in times of despair, makes observations. Only this time, he wrote them down for his wife to find. The next day, he was found dead inside that car. The cause of death was listed as freezing to death. His body showed all signs of someone\u2019s body shutting down due to freezing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This doesn\u2019t sound like a remarkable story, does it? That\u2019s because there\u2019s one more important part of the story. The freezer car was inoperable and had been turned off (some reports say it was unplugged altogether). As a result, the temperature in the car was 55 degrees. This wouldn\u2019t kill anyone. But wait, he died of freezing to death in a 55 degree railroad car? How?<\/p>\n\n\n\n To this day, no one can scientifically explain it. It makes zero sense to the science community. But to many psychologists, it\u2019s quite simple. Nick Sitzman spoke into existence the desperation of freezing to death to the point that his body followed what his brain told it to. He literally spoke his death into existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Understand, I\u2019m not referring to \u201cmind over matter.\u201d What I am referring to is that if you speak of something enough, you will begin to believe it, no matter what it is. And as you believe it, your body serves your brain. Part of the reason for this is for every thing you say once, you\u2019ve heard it twice. You hear it in your mind before you say it, then you say it and hear yourself saying it out loud. Everything you say once, you hear twice<\/u><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An example of this is many reports that came out of the Vietnam War. Stories had been fabricated by people too ashamed to admit they didn\u2019t take part in any actual conflict. So someone in the soup line would make up a story about how they climbed over their partner\u2019s dead body to get a gun and kill the opposition and how horrific it was. Here\u2019s the problem, they told these stories so much, they began to believe them and the next thing we know, the hospitals were flooded with people who are telling horrific stories from Vietnam and their minds and bodies are reacting to these stories, displaying genuine signs of PTSD. The issue here is that it was proven that these things didn\u2019t happen. But their body and their mind were reacting as if it did happen. They said it once, they heard it twice and their body followed their brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With so much going around about whether we should wear a mask, masks are useless, should get a vaccine, vaccines do nothing, we find ourselves in a position to make choices about our health daily, which is new to most of us. We normally think seriously about our health about once a year. But now it\u2019s daily. Are we saying that we are healthy and that if we get sick, are we saying we will get well? If you don\u2019t know the future, and you have no certainty that you will or will not get well, then exactly what would it hurt to say you will<\/em><\/strong> get well?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I know what it would hurt, our ego. It would hurt our hope. We are afraid to say something hopeful because we have been let down so many times believing something hopeful about a situation, only to see it go the other way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So what do we have to lose, besides a shot to our ego? Nothing. Begin to speak positively of things to come. If it doesn\u2019t work out, there was a reason and God uses every success and every failure to move us in a forward direction. The Bible says, \u201cThe steps of the righteous are ordered.\u201d It doesn\u2019t say that the steps of the perfect are ordered. We\u2019d all be doomed. But the righteous, or those in right standing, have ordered steps. Watch what you say. Your words have ENORMOUS power. If you say something horrific enough that you begin to believe it, this means you can also say something good enough that you will believe that too. So the next time someone says there\u2019s a sickness going around, look at them and say, \u201cright around me!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stay Classy GP (God’s People)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Grainger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NyQuil\u2026 It\u2019s the Nighttime, Sniffling, Sneezing, Coughing, Aching, Stuffy Head, Fever, so you can rest, medicine. These are symptoms we are all familiar with. Each year, there are periods when this \u201cgoes around.\u201d Reminds me of the time I heard someone ask my dad if he heard the flu was going around. He said, \u201cyeah, … <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/tidbitsofaudacity.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tongue.jpg\")
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