Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 2

372 Pages·2017·1.18 MB·English

by  Ellen G. White

Mind, Character, and
Personality Volume 2
Ellen G. White
1977
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Contents
Information about this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
Section 9—Interrelationship of Body and Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Chapter 39—Harmonious Action of the Whole Personality
Necessary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 40—Body Affects Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 41—Diet and Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Chapter 42—Mind and Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Chapter 43—Mind and Spiritual Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Section 10—Mental Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Chapter 44—Laws Governing the Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Chapter 45—Individuality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 46—Human Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Chapter 47—Mental Hygiene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Section 11—Emotional Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Chapter 48—Guilt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Chapter 49—Grief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Chapter 50—Worry and Anxiety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Chapter 51—Fear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Chapter 52—Depression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Chapter 53—Controversy—Positive and Negative . . . . . . . 110
Chapter 54—Overstudy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Chapter 55—Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Chapter 56—Anger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Chapter 57—Hatred and Revenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Chapter 58—Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Section 12—Problems in Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Chapter 59—Character Formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Chapter 60—Confict and Conformity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Chapter 61—The Vital Function of God’s Laws . . . . . . . . . 162
(A) The Decalogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
(B) God’s Law in the Physical World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
(C) Other Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Chapter 62—Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Section 13—Personality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
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Chapter 63—Imagination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Chapter 64—Habits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Chapter 65—Indolence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Chapter 66—Emotional Needs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Chapter 67—Disposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Chapter 68—Social Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Chapter 69—Rejection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Chapter 70—Criticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Chapter 71—Happiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Section 14—Thoughts and Their Infuences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Chapter 72—Thought Habits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Chapter 73—Right Thinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Chapter 74—Doubts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Chapter 75—Imagination and Illness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Chapter 76—Decision and the Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Section 15—False Systems of Therapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Chapter 77—Pseudoscience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Chapter 78—Mind Controlling Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Chapter 79—Hypnotism and Its Dangers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Chapter 80—Satan’s Science of Self-exaltation . . . . . . . . . 294
Section 16—Principles and Their Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Chapter 81—Safe Mind Therapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Chapter 82—Working With Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Chapter 83—Geriatrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Section 17—Practical Psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Chapter 84—Dealing with Emotions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Chapter 85—Counseling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Chapter 86—Sharing Confdences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Chapter 87—Psychology and Theology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
Chapter 88—Negative Infuences on the Mind . . . . . . . . . . 350
Chapter 89—Positive Infuences on the Mind . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Appendix A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Counsel to a Depressed Middle-aged Woman . . . . . . . . . 365
Appendix B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Implicit Trust Irrespective of Changes in Emotional
Atmosphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
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