“Over time, the body learns to accept the counsel and coaching of its older and wiser counterpart, while the mind (or soul) learns tolerance, patience, and understanding of its underperforming and often wayward disciple.”
I would make the case that often it is the other way around, that the restless dissociated mind needs to learn to accept the evolutionarily older instincts and wordless knowings of the body. Soul and mind are also loaded words that are not synonyms in many contexts.
Example: a high-powered lawyer ignores his body's need for movement, regular meals, proper sleep for the sake of productivity, all of which is done at a computer. In my experience, this person will be best served by the mind humbling itself to become a student of the body and it's needs, learning to trust the body's signals as (sometimes, crucially) wiser than the mind's dissociated ambitions, rather than imposing some Spartan training protocol which just deepens his alienation from his physical intelligence.
“Over time, the body learns to accept the counsel and coaching of its older and wiser counterpart, while the mind (or soul) learns tolerance, patience, and understanding of its underperforming and often wayward disciple.”
I would make the case that often it is the other way around, that the restless dissociated mind needs to learn to accept the evolutionarily older instincts and wordless knowings of the body. Soul and mind are also loaded words that are not synonyms in many contexts.
Interesting. Do you have an example you could share?
Example: a high-powered lawyer ignores his body's need for movement, regular meals, proper sleep for the sake of productivity, all of which is done at a computer. In my experience, this person will be best served by the mind humbling itself to become a student of the body and it's needs, learning to trust the body's signals as (sometimes, crucially) wiser than the mind's dissociated ambitions, rather than imposing some Spartan training protocol which just deepens his alienation from his physical intelligence.
I hear. That is certainly true.
This is from a yoga teacher perspective who works with overmentalized professionals