Mind and Body
Do you have a mind? How do you know you have one?
Have you seen a dead fish? Or a dead chicken? Are they different from a live fish and a live chicken? Mind is what makes the difference between body and carcass or corpse.
In Yoga science, breath is considered the vehicle of prana, a Sanskrit word for life force. Life force is what gives life to body. And breath is the bridge between mind and body. In other words, mind influences body through breath and body influences mind through breath. When a person dies, he stops breathing. He expires. The bridge between body and mind breaks down. Mind and body are separated.
So, as long as you are alive, you are made up of mind and body. You are, by reason, your body and your mind. But are you treating your mind the way you are treating your body?
Take a look at your home. You have a kitchen to cook for your body. You have a dinning room to feed your body. You have a bathroom to clean your body. You have a bedroom to rest your body. What do you have to feed, clean and rest your mind?
You have not been treating your mind as you did your body. You pay a lot of attention to your body but hardly pay any attention to your mind. You have not been fair. And what is more, mind is more important than body, because what happens to your body happened to your mind first. In other word, it is mind over body.
There is a need to pay more attention to your mind to achieve a balanced person, more disciplined person.