One way to more accurately percieve your body is that it's actually an environmental encounter suit that your soul wears on Earth.
Most of it's functions are automatic - heartbeat, breathing, digestion, cell growth, etc - which leaves you free to sit back at the controls and pilot it.
It works at a specific range of temperatures and pressures.
Basically, your body is like a dalek shell in Doctor Who.
You are ethereal/astral creature that makes use of it.