On mind and body

Mind and body are awesome things which sometimes go against each other creating conflicts and disharmony. A person is the in-charge,so to say, of his body and his mind but controlling one demands other's cooperation. Like when i run, running after a while makes the body hurt and wanting to stop but it is mind which keeps it going ,saying,don't stop ,there's still lot of ground to cover. And then the body can delay but not refuse the mind's decision and tags along. this builds the body as it has to get used to running long distances simply because mind wants it. the body in some sense had no choice. People like to refer to this ability of controlling body by mind as willpower. this is what kept Tenzing going while he was scaling Everest, body was exhausted, atmosphere was chill, Edmund wanted to stop,the surroundings wanted them to stop but he kept going. This is what kept me running long distances. this is what kept me trying,trying to achieve what the mind wanted. This is how the success story of great people are written ,they just keep on doing it where other's stop. In fact, it was just the mind which made the difference,not the kilos they possessed. But then these are called the good points.mind can do terrible things too. It can force the body to cease existing. Mind can literally drive the body to inflict fatal measures on itself so as to quit living. These occur as suicides. Like when Hitler's mind asked him to kill himself while Russian armies moved into Berlin. when Taniyama, a mathematician killed himself due to depression,a state of mind,not body. when C.P Ramanujan killed himself in TIFR-CAM Bangalore. It could be theorized that a person is defined not by him body but only and only but what's inside his 7-mm thick stronger than steel cranium. How people behave and their life's story is pretty much decided by brain or mind ,as i like to call it. multi-millionaire people did not lift weights to become what they are, their mind were guiding them. But then body does exert control on mind too. Alcohol in body affects the working capacity of mind. Under the influence of alcohol, body becomes flaccid,control is lost and mind is no longer the control center and it feels bad. That's why too much of it and it forces the body to puke and get control. But with hard work and dedication,one can train mind. In more than one way. There are chain smokers who cannot survive without smoking for more than 4 hours and there are heavy drinkers too. It is not that the body had wanted all this stuff and enjoys it but it is the mind that chooses to have lot of it. Body suffers. mind can be trained to ride bicycles and do mathematics. Mind can also be trained to learn music and perform breathtaking feats which body would never allow sans the risking ability of mind. But it is a big pain when mind refuses to cooperate with body or vice-versa. But pain to whom,the body ,the mind or both or is there a third component who becomes the scapegoat.i believe that the third component is the person himself,the possessor of mind and the body. The person is neither the body nor the mind alone. It is he who knows the disharmony,who has,perhaps,no role to play except to be part of this debacle. I pity that person. The purpose of this article is not to do a behavioural study of mind and body but to point out that they are not always in harmony with each other. and when they are,life seems beautiful.