Mind, Character and Personality, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

convinced before you will yield to the opinions of
others. Had your physical health been unimpaired,
you would have made an eminently useful woman.
You have long been diseased, and this has affected
your imagination so that your thoughts have been
concentrated upon yourself, and the imagination
has affected the body.—Testimonies for the
Church 3:74 (1872).
Overcoming a Diseased Imagination.—The
light given me is that if the sister you mention
would brace up and cultivate her taste for
wholesome food, all these sinking spells would
pass away. She has cultivated her imagination; the
enemy has taken advantage of her weakness of
body, and her mind is not braced to bear up against
the hardships of everyday life. It is good, sanctified
mind cure she needs, an increase of faith, and
active service for Christ. She needs also the
exercise of her muscles in outside practical labor.
Physical exercise will be to her one of the greatest
blessings of her life. She need not be an invalid,
but a wholesome-minded, healthy woman,
prepared to act her part nobly and well.
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