The mind gets a bad rap in some spiritual traditions.
I like my mind most of the time; and there is no need to exterminate it as some practices would have us believe!
Anyway it is a part of us, and a part of this life experience! It can work for us, not against us.
Mind discerns, creates, contemplates and invents good things!
Sometimes it runs a muck, but in a flash it comes back to the present with a little gentleness on our part.
Colors of the Mind Batik by Stephanie Ann Pappas
Praises to a healthy mind! And body/mind.
Find Your Body, Lose Your Mind 