What can Cells Teach us About Love?
- Jun 1, 2021
- 5 min read
Written by: Tommesa Mobley, Executive Contributor
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In the beginning, when the world was still new, long before the first plant life broke through the soil to greet the sun, the first life to appear was single-celled organisms. Fossil evidence shows that they were here within the first 600 million years after the earth was formed. And for around 3 million years, they were the only life on the planet. We can learn a lot from these simple but intelligent beings that have survived longer than any other.
These thousands of bacteria, protozoa, and algae started to multiply. Eventually, they overpopulated their environment. As they grew in number, you might think they began to compete with one another for resources. This is certainly what we see happen in many societies where the population outnumbers the resources. However, unicellular organisms are too smart to compete.
Rather than compete, they figured out how to cooperate by creating communities. That’s when multicellular life forms began to appear on the planet. At first, these communities were made up of just a few unicellular individuals. They were so successful that soon, communities numbered into the millions, billions, and even trillions. Like you and I, humans are highly structured communities of trillions of these organisms working together to keep us alive and well.
We are One.
My life’s mantra is if you want to live a healthier, happier, and more vibrant life, take better care of each other, our planet, and honor yourself as a whole being- mind, body, and spirit. This isn’t something I came up with when I started my business. It’s a truth I’ve understood on an intuitive level since I was a child.
I’ve been asked why I always say “take better care of each other” first. It’s because if we can’t recognize and honor each other as divine beings, none of the rest matters. We need each other because we are all connected; everything and everyone is connected. We choose to overlook this universal reality at our own peril. Allow me to give you an example that will help you understand how dangerous it is to dismiss our oneness.
When I was in kindergarten, one of my favorite things to do was gaze through the prism we had in the classroom. I was fascinated by it although, it wasn’t until I became an adult and discovered my calling that I understood my attraction to it. When a beam of white light goes into the prism, it’s refracted by the prism's structure, so the light that comes out of the other side manifests as a rainbow. In this way, we can see each of the frequencies that make up the white light beam in their individual expressions.
Interestingly, if you reverse the process by sending a rainbow through the prism, the individual colors will recombine and again manifest themselves as a beam of white light. That is unless one of the frequencies of color is missing. All the frequencies must be present to reflect pure white light.
If we perceive the white light as a divine source of energy, we can easily understand that we are the individual frequencies of color that combine to reflect the divine source. When we dismiss, devalue and destroy others, we do the same to ourselves. We have a duty to protect and care for one another because we are all one with each other and the divine. Only when we learn to recognize that we are each a necessary part of a global community will we be able to experience the divine. In other words, when we see each other as divine beings in need of love, then we can create heaven on earth.
Love is the Answer.
Now, more than ever, it may be difficult to imagine a population of millions of individuals living and working together in perfect peace. In these uncertain times, we could be forgiven for thinking that there is no such reality. And yet, for billions of years, cells have carried out a social contract of peace that ensures the survival of both individuals and the entire biosphere.
There are no cells left behind in a healthy human body, no poverty, no homelessness, no unemployment, no racism, or classism. This only happens in unhealthy bodies, where profound disharmony causes certain cells to withdraw from cooperating with the community. Cancers cells, for example, are cells that have quit cooperating with the other cells. They have essentially quit their jobs and started living off the other cells in the community.
As I’ve said, cells are smart. Each cell serves the entire community by carrying out a specific job, living out its purpose. Cooperating in this way ensures the efficiency and health of the entire organism. One major advantage of this division of labor is that it allows more cells to live on fewer resources.
Rather than fight and destroy one another over a few resources, cellular communities created a social contract that requires each individual cell to expend a certain amount of energy. It is the cellular version of the concepts of collective effort and group economics since the amount of energy conserved by everyone contributes to the overall survival and quality of life of the entire body.
In 2004, Britain’s Natural Environmental Research Council pointed out that there have been five mass extinctions in the earth's history, all caused by extraterrestrial events. We are now on the precipice of a sixth. This time the cause will not be an extraterrestrial event. To quote one of the study’s authors, Jeremy Thomas, “As far as we can tell, this one is caused by one animal organism, man.”
It seems that despite our position of dominion over all the creatures of the world, man is the only animal that turns on itself. In most animal societies, violence among members of the same species does not include death. And even when it does, it is usually precipitated by the need to acquire food, water, or other things necessary for survival. Man is the only animal that devalues and destroys its own kind for material possessions, hatred, control, and possibly even pleasure.
What would happen if humans chose to follow the example of healthy cellular communities? What if we chose to come together in a global community that honored the divinity in each of its members? What if we chose to operate in a manner that focused on cooperation rather than competition? Perhaps we will see that we are all physical, mental, and spiritual beings who need love to thrive just as much as we need food and water to survive. Then, we could interact with one another in a way that supports our planet and every living being that calls it home.
Tommesa Mobley, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
Tommesa Mobley TND, CHD, SMEAD, Msc.D, CHHP is a Holistic Wellness Practitioner and Consultant. From childhood, she has always had an overwhelming desire to be "of service." This desire to help people was fueled by watching loved ones struggle with chronic conditions that could've been solved with dietary and lifestyle changes. No stranger to adversity, overcoming her own struggles with mental and emotional health, poverty, and various forms of abuse, has provided her with a unique understanding of the healing power of love: love of self and each other. A lover of the natural world, she is a staunch advocate for plants, animals, the environment, and sustainability. Her life's mission is to help people live longer, happier, and more vibrant lives by teaching them to take better care of each other, our planet and honor themselves as whole beings; mind, body, and spirit. She is the founder of Healing Wisdom Holistics, a private membership wellness and coaching center that serves its members in the comfort of their own homes through a private online portal. She is the author of "Miracles & Magic of the Mundane: Things I Learned on the Way to Purpose.
