The Mind Body Connection

What is your body, was the question. So I wrote this: Torturer, my body is not kind or agreeable and has played the role of torturer and dream killer.

You hear people say this all of the time and it's a concept I have been struggling with for quite a while now. Clearly the mind is housed inside the body, but for people like me, and for people like my friend Francis, the mind has not always directed the path that the body has followed.

This is very anti-yogic, from what I have seen. I have been sitting through these classes for a few months now, confused by the term because of this fact. It seems that people who are healthy cannot seem to wrap their brains around the idea that sometimes the body will fail despite whatever care and concern and focus your mind might be able to manifest through your mind. Included in this is the idea that there is someone essentially at fault for what happens to you, and that person is none other than you, since you are your mind and your mind is you. Yeah, yeah, that's kind of a shortcut and probably not worded so efficiently, ...