Joyce Whiteley Hawkes writes: "Cells are the foundation of physical life. Groups of cells form tissues, and similar tissues join together and form organs, which are dependent on the health of the underlying cells.
"Individually, cells are small: ten thousand can fit on the head of a pin. Yet if your cells were spread out like a galaxy of stars, they would occupy a space in the heavens a thousand times larger than the Orion Galaxy. Within each cell there are trillions of molecules composed of trillions of atoms. Like the spaces between stars, which contain huge amounts of energy, the ultrasmall nano-spaces inside the atoms team with energy to constantly manifest new creation. In this microworld of the inner composition of your cells, energy and matter interface in ultrafast blips of time: nano- or pico-seconds. When an event occurs in these swift pulses of 10-9 or 10-12 seconds, the cells enter a type of quantum reality—no longer linear and no longer predictable. The cell is the interface between ordinary and nonordinary reality; possibilities exist here that we have barely begun to understand or develop.
"It is a good thing that we do not have to keep mental track of the operation of all these tiny parts. Yet we can influence them with our consciousness. Conventional research has established the detrimental effects of negative thinking, stress, and toxicity on the cells of the immune system and brain. Science has begun to offer evidence of positive thinking on the beneficial effects of spiritual practices such as meditation. Improvements in health and happiness can be achieved by embracing the healing power of positive Flow.
"Hundreds of years ago, the poet Rumi put words to the mystery of the interconnectedness of soul and body when he wrote, 'Soul, a moving river. Body, the riverbed.' Cell-Level Healing happens at this interface of soul and body.
"There are five components of cells that need to be understood in order to activate your intrinsic capacity for renewal and healing. The scientific names of those parts unwittingly hide the amazing functions they provide. Each one has a crucial and defined function.
"Most living cells share similar basic components and biological functions, although they may differ significantly in appearance. A single animal cell may be round, cubic, columnar, or long and stringy, depending on its location and particular job. Each cell has an outer membrane, to which receptor molecules attach. These sites grab free-floating messenger molecules, such as hormones, and help push them inside the cell in order to trigger specific cell activities. This is one of several ways in which cells stay in communication with the rest of the body and adapt their biochemistry accordingly.
"Inside the cell membrane an entire cosmos of complexity and beauty lives in the watery medium of the cell sap, the cytoplasm. More than 90 percent of the cytoplasm is water, and one can only speculate how our thoughts might affect this cell-water and thereby affect the critical life functions of the other subcellular component. Masaru Emoto’s provocative work certainly challenges us to consider the messages we give our own water milieu. Floating fibers in the cytoplasm create a loose inner skeleton for stability, yet they allow Flow throughout.
"The nucleus, enclosed in its own membrane, occupies a good portion of each cell. Molecular pores punctuate the nuclear membrane for the passage of rather large arrays of molecules, which translate the directives of the genetic code. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), into cell production and function. DNA is the information center of the cell.
"Messages carried by molecules direct the assembly sites of the cell to make very specific substances needed by the body. These sites of assembly lie outside the nucleus in the cytoplasm. There, long sheets of folded membranes called the endoplasmic reticulum comprise the ‘action’ part of the cell. Massive numbers of ribosomes spin from the surface of the endoplasmic reticulum. On these sites, molecular information from the nucleus direct the action of plugging one atom into another, thereby forming molecules in precise sequences, which then become proteins. Each protein is unique. One will become a muscle fiber; another, an estrogen molecule, an enzyme for digestion, or a protein that will partially shape your nose.
"Cells may also export products into the bloodstream to be circulated to another part of the body for use. Neatly packaged in vesicles, these products are wrapped in their own membranes. They float to the cell surface and make their way out of the cell.
"How does a cell obtain energy for all this work? After food is digested and absorbed into the bloodstream, cells take in what they need for the power stations of the cell to spring to life. Tiny ellipsoid dynamos, hundreds of the power-station-like mitochondria inhabit each and every cell. Magnificent, linked complexes of enzyme chains called the Kreb’s cycle buzz in each mitochondrion, further breaking down glucose, one of the end products of food digestion (glycolysis) and releasing energy. As the bonds between carbon atoms in the backbone of glucose are unplugged, energy is released and then stored for future needs. This crucial energy does not run rampant, gleefully tripping through the cells, but rather it is instantaneously taken up by yet another type of enzyme (ATPase), which hangs on the inside of the mitochondrial double membrane like a bat on a cave wall. Safely sequestered, the stored energy is available to the cells for heat, structural repair, or synthesis.
"Curiously, the ATPase enzyme, which captures and releases energy, spins as it works. In fact, the universal spiral is resonant in every cell. The most impressive telescopes look outward and see spiral galaxies, and the most powerful electron microscopes look inside cells and see spiral structures smoothly running the business of life. The ribosomes perched on the endoplasmic reticulum arrange themselves in a spiral as they create all of the life-dependent proteins in the body.
"DNA is packaged in a double spiral, and now we know that the enzyme responsible for all energy maintenance in the body spins as it works in the mitochondria."
Joyce Whiteley Hawkes, Cell-Level Healing: The Bridge from Soul to Cell (Atria Paperback, 2006).
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