The Emotional and Mental Connection

I have never truly put too much thought into it until this very moment; but as one is emotional your physical body is drained and very tired. I just got off the phone with my family and had a very emotional talk. I was, and still am, very upset. Yet I didn't want them to control my life. I didn't want them to control my life and have a hold like they have had for most of my life. I do not want to my mental and emotional well being to be tied with them. I don't want my happiness to depend on theirs. I am sick of being beated down by them in every way possible. I cannot let me well being be in jeopardy because of them. I refuse!

I will not accept.

But out of this experience I see the strong ties that connect the mind and body. I thought I was fine but my body is tired and I do not have the energy needed to do the reading and homework that is required of me. Why? What chemical signals does the brain send to the body that states we are in distressed? And why if we are distressed the body aches, gets tires and fatigues easily? What hold does the brain have on our body that we cannot have the urge to live, eat, move and do what is necessary for survival. The body is complex but the mind is a never ending labyrinth hidden with in a maze behind an impenetrable wall. Daunting is it not? Yet that is the mind.

Alas, my will is telling me to do homework but my mind is telling me to sleep and never awaken.