Cellular Love
Opening the body to love
CELLULAR LOVE
Opening the body to love
Most people think of love as a nonphysical force or energy that is felt with the heart and associated with relational bonds or spiritual connections. They don’t tend to associate love with the cells of the body. In fact many think of their body as mechanical parts that are made up of elements called molecules, which are supported by things that we consume like the nutrients in food or supplements. The current thinking for most is that if we take in the “right” nutrients then all of the body parts and systems will express health.
While I don’t think this is entirely wrong, I do see it as a limited point of view that holds a pieces and parts perspective of life. I find that even the most spiritually minded people prescribe to this point of view, even when they think that they don’t, and it tends to present itself when something physical “won’t go away” or threatens our experience of life. It’s as though two worlds are created inside of the psyche. One is the world of interconnectedness with love as the center of all things. The other is a world of dense, physical matter that operates independently on its own with individual parts, and therefore is not interconnected within love.
This creates a duality in our mind that says “love works for some things, but not the physical things”.
Accordingly, the physical things must operate by some other strictly physical force, and thus physical things need to fix physical things. This is a very luring perspective simply due to the fact that so many people believe it. I’m not suggesting that the physicalness of our body doesn’t need to be supported, I believe it does. What I am suggesting is that we aren’t zooming out enough and this is why healing often is incomplete. We are stopping at the very beginning and therefore never get to the big picture. The big picture being that there isn’t anything in the entire universe that isn’t made out of love, down to the smallest cell, molecule and atom in your body.
By the law of similars love heals love. Love heals itself, no matter if it is a physical or nonphysical expression (ie. body or mind). Love repairs everything. It is the connective glue that binds us back into wholeness. It’s the proteins, enzymes and blood cells that heal an open wound and stitch it back together. Love is the healed state. It is where we all want to arrive when we embark on a healing journey. What we often don’t recognize is that its already here, its just that we aren’t seeing it.
In my humble, and potentially inaccurate opinion, I believe the root of illness is a disconnection from love.
This includes both the inability to receive love and also the inability to self-generate love. Nearly all humans have forgotten the unconditional love that they are and I think this is why mental-emotional-physical illness is so widespread. The closest most people come to feeling love is through the process of having children or in some familial relationships, therefore we associate love with these types of connections. Most people don’t relate love to the cells of their body like they do their children, or better yet their grandchildren. But what if they did? What if you loved the cells in your heart, liver, stomach or spleen as much as you love your grandchild? We know that when I child is loved it flourishes, but if it is neglected it suffers and eventually gets ill. Why wouldn’t this be true for our bodies as well? I believe that if everyone felt, knew or woke up into the remembering of unconditional love there would be no more sickness of any type on this planet, including in plants and animals.
ILLNESS AS A WAY BACK TO LOVE
Believing in love
While I see illness (and the precursors of illness) as a disconnection from love, I also see illness as a way back to love. Illness holds some of the deepest codes that can help us reconnect to the love that we’ve forgotten. However most of us don’t use illness this way. We see it as wrong, bad and something that we need to get rid of or change. We go on a quest to end it somehow and understandably so. That impulse is accurate and intelligent. It often seems that getting rid of the discomfort is the only viable option, but there is a way it can show us how to come back to wholeness within ourselves. Speaking more energetically for a moment, illness is a pattern. It is a pattern that is perfectly describing what is missing, lacking, contorting, in excess and what is needed just by the way it behaves in the body. But because we look at parts and not patterns we often don’t see what is right in front of us. Sometimes it is too simple or too obvious.
When our minds are limited in their perspective we often overlook simplicity and also simultaneously can’t see the big picture. This is why we are confused and even experience a type of blindness. Blindness that is masked as complexity in which we just can’t seem to figure it out. Our mind strategically does this so that we don’t have to face, look at, see and feel certain things. It’s really about self-protection, which we know is an excellent short term strategy when there is a survival threat, but not a good long term strategy. Long term engagement of survival based defense mechanisms creates an internal environmental of withdrawal, shutdown and separation, which equates to being disconnected from love. This is the breading ground for illness. A body depleted of it’s most vital essence is a body that is working with less than what it needs. While the more “accepted” terminology of this process might be described as “stress leading to breakdown of tissues”, I would call it disconnection from love leading to lack of communication with the self within the organism. I see this disconnection and breakdown of communication as the disease process.
Where do we go from here?
As cheesy as this might sound, it’s about believing in love. Believing in love as the most powerful source of health, vitality and self-organization. It’s also about recognizing that love is everything. While this is just a concept for most people, it is actually reality. Don’t just think love, feel love. Feel love down into the cells of your bones, through each muscle layer, running inside of every organ and system in your body. This is not hard, but you do have to do it. Without active participation and relationship in this way your body will receive information from your current unconscious belief systems, many of which say that you are all alone, need to fend for yourself, and that the world is a hostile place. I’m not saying that any of those beliefs are invalid or wrong. I’m just suggesting that there are some other beliefs that exist that you can begin to introduce into your psyche, which have potential to dramatic influence the health of your body.
Don’t expect that by focusing in this way once, twice or even 100 or 1000 times that everything will physically heal in your body. I hold the possibility for that to occur, but also understand that laying down new pathways takes time and experience. Lots of times you will forget, feel unsuccessful or plain old not want to do it. It’s ok. Receiving and generating love is challenging for most people. As easy as these seems it should be, its far from easy. Always follow your intuition on how to tend to your body. Know that you are love and therefore are 100% deserving of it, no matter what external or internal information you’ve heard otherwise over the course of your human life. This doesn’t mean you are a perfect human, none of us are, we are all learning, but we are all perfect souls. Accept that your soul is perfected love and that this love is the same love that your cells are made out of. Your cells are the physical manifestation of love. This isn’t about “sending” love to your cells, but rather knowing that they are love and feeling them as such. This is cellular love.
Dr. Amanda Lalita Love, DC, MSA, L.Ac
Network Spinal Chiropractor & Somatic Healer at the Sanctuary for Heart Magic. A Mentor for Heart-Led Healers at Soul Luminaries & the Writer of The Everyday Divine.
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