Mel:
I think there is a little misunderstanding of what the term, "A
healthy mind in a healthy body", originally meant. It comes from the Greek
"Mens sana in corporum sanum" (I hope I haven't botched the Greek endings),
which expressed a goal to be strived for, not that possessing one leads to
possessing the other. The Greeks believed in developing the mind and the
body, and their goal was to be "healthy" in both. The original use of the
phrase was not meant to imply a mind-body interaction. If people are using
it in that context, then they are taking it out of context. Or at least
that's how I remember hearing Socrates (or was it Plato?) describe it to the
class as we walked in the gardens.
Neil S.
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