I believe we all chose to be born in this physical world for a reason. Each of us came here to accomplish certain lessons or missions, and we created our physical bodies to help us accomplish those missions.
Bodies are wonderful tools.
Like a television set, they can be quite entertaining and we can learn a great deal by using them. And with practice we can remove these psychological barriers. We don't need to spend all our time in the body. All we have to lose is limitation, dogma and fear. What we have to gain is a new frontier of consciousness.