Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

Continued inactivity is one of the greatest causes of
debility of body and feebleness of mind. Many are
sick who ought to be in very good health and thus
in possession of one of the richest blessings they
could enjoy.
I have been shown that many who are
apparently feeble, and are ever complaining, are
not so badly off as they imagine themselves to be.
Some of these have a powerful will, which,
exercised in the right direction, would be a potent
means of controlling the imagination and thus
resisting disease. But it is too frequently the case
that the will is exercised in a wrong direction and
stubbornly refuses to yield no reason. That will has
settled the matter; invalids they are, and the
attention due to invalids they will have,
irrespective of the judgment of others.
I have been shown mothers who are governed
by a diseased imagination, the influence of which
is felt upon husband and children. The windows
must be kept closed because the mother feels the
air. If she is at all chilly, and a change is made in
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