body/mind

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Does your body decide what you do, meaning mainly the neurological, or does your mind, meaning thinking separate to bodily needs, decide what you do?

Good question.

For me thinking mostly. But there are mostly quite high barriers for everything around the common ways of doing things.
In anxiety attacks the ability to have control can suffer a lot, which makes them so unpleasant

Everything conscious is decided by my mind, the body is only a vessel and most of the time i feel trapped in it. The body decides things like metabolism etc. that concern itself and its own survival, but nothing else.

When the mind controls the body
the body can only follow
the choices you make
along the way...

"The body is a vessel for life, the mind navigates...

I think that the mind and the body cannot be seperated. They are one.

The question relates to cartesian dualism - treating the mind and body as separate entities - it is a false distinction as both are intertwined, you can't have the one without the other, as they say in The Matrix. The experience of being embodied affects the conscious choices a person makes. There is also the interconnection between the way we think and the society that surrounds us and its influence on a person's thinking and the way they understand and experience their own body i.e. as healthy/sick, unattractive/attractive, etc.

Mind is what the brain does. Brain is a part of the body.