Mind and its Powers
Have you ever meditated on Consciousness as Consciousness, Awareness as Awareness, Intelligence as Intelligence?  This cuts to the chase.  "The powers of the mind should be turned inward." (Swami Vivekananda)

Once you live in the eternal moment, you see how the mind projects the universe.

Holy Mother gave us the teaching "mind is everything."  Indian philosophical schools are "mind-only" schools.  This means that the mind is rather your cosmic puppy.  You have to house train it or it will defile the worlds — all of them — and it will do it again and again if left untrained.  This lifetime is a good one to accomplish that task in.

If intelligence is in the mind, then so are objects.  And if objects are in the mind, then so are all the worlds, since they are just various types of objects as well.

Though full of sankalpa, human beings are not good at sankalpa.  They do not know where they are going or where they have been, or what they are doing.  Their choices, made in a causal or subtle state, before embodiment took place, were not good ones, and so we see so many suffering beings here on earth.  The human mind is a great projector.  But if there is dust and dirt on the lens of a projector, the picture comes out distorted.

You think you came out of Nature, but this perception is ass backwards.  Nature came out of you.  The Kingdoms of Heaven are within.

As soon as you make the mind one-pointed, everything becomes Brahman, but let the mind have its own way, and it is all confusion again.

As soon as the mind becomes schooled by the provisional guru, then the archetypical Soul, the inner Guru, comes forward.  In the end, one's own mind is that selfsame Guru.

It is not that the yogis do healthy things, like hatha yoga, and get healthy thereby.  Rather, it is because they made healthy choices of the mind in their previous lifetime.