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Healthful Living
be at the expense of the colors of your carpets.—
Testimonies for the
Church 2:527
.
980. If the windows were freed from blinds and heavy curtains,
and the air and sun permitted to enter freely the darkened rooms, there
would be seen a change for the better in the mental and physical health
of the children. The pure air would have an invigorating influence
upon them, and the sun that carries healing in its beams would soothe
and cheer, and make them happy, joyous, and healthy.—
The Health
Reformer, April 1, 1871
.
981. The confined air of unventilated rooms meets us with sick-
ening odors of mildew and mold, and the impurities exhaled from its
inmates.... The emanations from damp, moldy rooms and clothing are
poisonous to the system.... If all would appreciate the sunshine, and
expose every article of clothing to its drying, purifying rays, mildew
and mold would be prevented.... This is the only way rooms can be
kept from impurities.... Every room in our dwellings should be daily
thrown open to the healthful rays of the sun, and the purifying air
should be invited in. This will be a preventive of disease.—
The Health
Reformer, February 1, 1874
.
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982. Exercise, and a free and abundant use of the air and sunlight,
... would give life and strength to the emaciated.—
Testimonies for the
Church 2:531
.
983. The feeble one should press out into the sunshine as earnestly
and naturally as do the shaded plants and vines. The pale and sickly
grain blade that has struggled up out of the cold of early spring, puts
out the natural and healthy deep green after enjoying for a few days the
health-and-life-giving rays of the sun. Go out into the light and warmth
of the glorious sun, you pale and sickly ones, and share with vegetation
its life-giving, health-dealing power.—
The Health Reformer, May 1,
1871
.
Relation of the Mind to the Body
984. But few realize the power the mind has over the body.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:184
.
985. The sympathy which exists between the mind and the body is
very great; when one is affected, the other responds.—
Testimonies for
the Church 4:60
.