There are these thoughts. And there is this body. And the spirit decides to help them out. The thing with the thoughts and the body is not that much that they are not real; They are real in a way, though temporary. The problem is that they are born out of a need, and that determines their whole being. They are lacking essence.
One of the main methods to treat trauma – like PTSD – is to get to the point of revisiting the trauma and ‘rewiring’ it. That is consciousness in action. The Spirit, the Consciousness affects the thought. The thought and the body don’t do it. Although it looks like it for them.