LH, I would strongly disagree with you about Western religions not addressing the mind and not including physical disciplines. Like any personal discipline, however, the individual has to apply it in order to reap any benefit from what is designed and intended.

My husband is a terrific example of this. I think you would enjoy discussing it with him. It certainly is part of what underlies the extraordinary calm everyone remarks upon as he arrives in the midst of emergencies, as he seeks and builds peace in the midst of controversies, and the focus he brings to celebrating the Eucharist.

It isn't something we talk about in the same terms you do, but it's there, and has been.

~Susan