Stumbled upon this werid phrasing Hi, everyone :) The sentence that baffled me: 'You sap that an emotion is the mind's reflection in the body. But sometimes there is a conflict between the two: the minds saps 'no', while the emotion saps 'yes', or the other way around. If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection...' I get what the author is trying to say, save for the role of this little verb, namely 'to sap', especially in the first sentence. Like alright, an emotion is the mind's reflection in the body, but you what? Sap? Sap what? Draining something of energy or weaken? Doesn't quite fit in. In the next sentence, the verb 'to sap' does make sense in such context, mind indeed can weaken 'no' and emotions can kind of weaken or undermine 'yes' (in a broad sense at least).