Mind and Body

I spent some time with a Bulgarian friend of mine here in Paris and we got into a disscussion about the separation of the entelectual and the emotional type of artist and artwork. For me painting comes from a place of intuition and the gut and it is only when the mind gets in the way that it can become tright or cleché. I find that my most profound work is created when my mind is given some simple task to keep it busy while my body takes care of feeling what needs to be said. When my mind trys to define it I tend to become mired in what people might think. Rossen is of a similar feeling on the matter yet he thinks that this is a necessary struggle between the rational and the irrational. That the mind body seperation is ever present in painting and art and music for that matter. "Hell it is a struggle within all facets of the human condition".
Let me know how you see and are affected by this struggle.
Thank you