The conceited mind

Surrender is an arduous task for a conceited mind.
A mind proud of its brilliance has already gone out of the limits it has to impose on itself, it is already walking on thin ice, and the colapse may be at sight, soon or later.
For such mind it is onerous to surrender its brilliance and the sense of mental pride which covers it all, rendering it unpenetrable to the rays of the Grace, and invisible and unperceivable to itself.

I´m not enouncing a spiritual truth, it is simple common sense, but it  has been proved by the Rishis of the Ayurvedic method of healing, which says that Air is the last colapse after that of Fire and Water.
Mental pride is in fact considered an ilness in Ayurveda.
As mind and its ilnesses in Ayur. are related with the Air element.

If you light a fire and put water to boil on it, you have the vapour, this secuence is Ayurveda, and you have the three elements perfectly located. Earth and Water are considered as one element, as water needs a container which is earth.
Earth is the pot where you put the water to boil.

No colapse of Air may be produced till a substantial unbalance in the Water humor, which has been preceded by an unbalance of Fire, almost invariably due to unfit and irregular diet, which alters the gastric fire and starts all the process.
Such people should increase the consumption of fresh fruit and row vegetables, and have long solitary walks in nature observing the little life around.Tai Chi would be a useful tool to increase fluidity.
 Being Air the last of the secuence Fire-Water-Air, an ilness already reaching Air it has something of a cronic process, and such signals should not be ignored. Cronic air condition are typically accompaigned by adversion to natural parfumes and essence of flowers, which will result irritating because of the concentrated fire of the parfume.
The evaporation of Water due to excess of gastric Fire produces a progressive inner and outer dryness, even mental dryness, which evidently  is an unbalanced condition as to be regularly sustained: the colapse is the last resource the body has to drastically limit the Fire.