When the body slows down, the mind also slows down. Ande the awareness which reveales the keen mind is now revealing the mind which has slowed down. All of that is the mind and connected to the body also. That's why you now, bill, who is there in the villance society, he says that, i can't seem to remember too well these days.
Inspired by the 15th chapter of the Ashtavakra Gita, Swami Sarvapriyananda gives a discourse on the nature of the Self.