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for mental trouble has a paralyzing influence upon the digestive organs.--3T 184 (1872).
{2MCP 396.4}
Victims of Diseased Imagination.--The mind needs to be controlled, for it has a
most powerful influence upon the health. The imagination often misleads, and when
indulged, brings severe forms of disease upon the afflicted. . . . {2MCP 397.1}
The season most to be dreaded by one going among these invalids is winter. It is
winter indeed, not only outdoors but in, to those who are compelled to live in the same
house and sleep in the same room. These victims of a diseased imagination shut
themselves indoors and close the windows, for the air affects their lungs and their
heads. Imagination is active; they expect to take cold, and they will have it. No amount
of reasoning can make them believe that they do not understand the philosophy of the
whole matter. Have they not proved it? they will argue. {2MCP 397.2}
It is true that they have proved one side of the question --by persisting in their own
course--and yet they do take cold if in the least exposed. Tender as babies, they cannot
endure anything; yet they live on, and continue to close the windows and doors, and
hover over the stove and enjoy their misery. {2MCP 397.3}
They have surely proved that their course has not made them well, but has
increased their difficulties. Why will not such allow reason to influence the judgment and
control the imagination? Why not now try an opposite course, and in a judicious manner
obtain exercise and air out of doors?--2T 523-525 (1870). {2MCP 397.4}
Mind Impedes Circulation (advice to a timid soul).-- If your mind is impressed
and fixed that a bath will injure you, the mental impression is communicated to all the
nerves of the body. The nerves control the circulation of the blood; therefore the blood
is, through the impression of the mind, confined to the blood vessels, and the good
effects of the bath are lost. All this is because the blood is prevented by the mind and
will from flowing readily and from
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coming to the surface to stimulate, arouse, and promote the circulation. {2MCP 397.5}
For instance, you are impressed that if you bathe you will become chilly. The brain
sends this intelligence to the nerves of the body, and the blood vessels, held in
obedience to your will, cannot perform their office and cause a reaction after the
bath.--3T 69, 70 (1872). {2MCP 398.1}
Fruit of a Listless, Dreamy Mind (counsel to a young woman).--You have a
diseased imagination. You have thought yourself diseased, but this has been more
imaginary than real. You have been untrue to yourself. . . . You appeared like a person
without a backbone. You were half reclining upon others, which is a wrong position for a
lady to occupy in the presence of others. If you had only thought so, you could have