Here's to your Health!

Proverbs 17:22 A cheerful heart is good medicine but a broken spirit dries up the bones. NIV
GWT says, " A joyful heart is good medicine, but depression drains one's strength".
Basic says, "A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry".
Darly says, "A joyful heart promoteth healing, but a broken spirit drieth up the bones".
Douay-Rheims says, "A joyful mind maketh age flourishing: a sorrowful spirit drieth up the bones".
AKJV says, "A merry heart...".


What kind of heart? A cheerful, joyful, glad, merry heart. Wait a minute....back up here! Douay-Rheims says 'joyful mind'. Could the mind and heart be so closely connected? One and the same?
Proverbs 23:7 says they are. "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he." You think in your heart?
What does that kind of heart-mind do? It makes good medicine (it heals), makes a healthy body, promotes healing, makes age flourishing (flourish- prosperity, vigor, a flourishing condition, hmm....you prosper health wise, even when you age, I like that!).
What kind of spirit? A broken spirit, a crushed spirit, a sorrowful spirit, just plain ole' depression (a depressed spirit).
Depression is 'loss of hope, inactivity, dullness, despondency'. Just plain ole' heaviness of the heart.
What does this kind of spirit do? Dries up the bones, makes bones dry, drieth up the bones, drains one's strength.

It's clear here that a broken, crushed, sorrowful, depressed spirit is (negative thinking, dwelling on the negative}, depression in action and we know depression drains you of your strength.

Positive thinking in your mind-heart heals your body, makes it flourish. Negative thinking in your mind-heart causes depression which drains you of your strength.

You are what you think!

For health's sake, THINK POSITIVE!