Because I admire photographic art, some images delve into the abyssal dimensions of my mind and give birth to new meanings there, connecting notions (that previously seemed separate) into a family that preserves symbolic understandings.
Maybe with a coffee in front of you, you have time today to remind yourself of some characters and characteristics of blood components, even if the health field is not a personal priority. You could unite meanings and transpose the equivalent of the red blood cell into the body of the family, business, social group, or society, as fundamental nutritional elements for these structures.
They are generous forms, captured under the microscope by those at SciencePhoto, received by the "designer cone cells" in the retina, interpreted by the brain as having red clothing, perfectly cut from the bone marrow mold. They speak silently about life, from formation to apoptosis, about the miracle of embodiment and death through the model of the two gases: oxygen and carbon dioxide, continuously challenged by environmental, endocrine, circulatory, and metabolic factors on their approximately 120-day blood journey.
I have encountered cases of mild or moderate anemia, some discovered by chance, others accompanying various conditions, and I have noticed in each situation that there was self-doubt, dissatisfaction, self-criticism, devaluation, lack of courage, and fear of making decisions.
As nothing is coincidental, for 5 days, the Sun illuminates genetic codon 20 (you remember I often mention the “Gene Keys” system) whose purpose is molecular guidance, from the superficiality of absence or mental agitation, towards self-assurance and presence.
All the more reason to look again at the CELL in the image with new eyes, a cell that received at "baptism" not one name but three: erythrocyte, red blood cell, and corpuscle.
Maybe any of its appellations automatically lead you to think of blood!
The red blood cell (erythrocyte) is an important element of blood, its role being to transport atmospheric oxygen to the body's tissues, in exchange for carbon dioxide, which is subsequently transported and eliminated by the lungs.
Air consists mostly of nitrogen and only 20% oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide, and other gases from natural or anthropogenic sources.
But Oxygen was chosen by the creator to be the main pawn directing and orchestrating the science of life.
In 1604, the Polish physician and philosopher Michael Sendivogius was the first to speak of a substance contained in the air, which he called "cibus vitae" or "food of life," but his discovery was not recognized by the scientists of the time.
A little later, towards the end of the 18th century, the Swedish pharmacist Carl Wilhelm Scheele identified a gas he called "fire air," as it was the only one known to sustain combustion.
Around the same time, an English cleric, Joseph Priestley, claimed that he had discovered a special component of air or a special type of air (dephlogisticated), which made flames burn more intensely and small animals live longer.
However, the credit goes to Antoine Lavoisier for naming the new element oxygen (from the Greek "oxys" - acid), after initially calling it "vital air."
Oxygen is a paramagnetic gas, weakly attracted by a magnet, interdependent, affable, and voluble, freely exchanging information with electromagnetic fields, while nitrogen is diamagnetic, little inclined to dialogue, exchanging no bit of information with fields. Rather grumpy, by attitude!
In its exuberance, on its initiatory journey, oxygen unwittingly transitions from light to darkness, from an open space to a closed one, from visibility to obscurity, from dry to wet, an environment it deeply dislikes, being hydrophobic, where it faces many transformations.
And all this for its becoming on the path of serving Life!
A path of acceptance, which mitochondrially transforms oxygen and nutritional principles into energy and water.
E=mc², mass can be transformed into energy and energy into mass, as demonstrated not only by Einstein but also by the path of oxygen if we follow it with attentive awareness.
During inhalation, the crossing of the alveolar-capillary boundary is the true passage between worlds, between air and blood, through a quantum process and not diffusion as was previously thought.
It's a process facilitated by the electromagnetic fields generated in the alveolocapillary structures, and this is how it reaches the erythrocyte.
Here, it binds reversibly to the hemoglobin molecule.
The protein called globin has 4 symmetrical units, 2 Yin, 2 Yang, arranged radially in a cross. These units house 4 Hem groups (Hem A, the most commonly found in oxygen-carrying proteins like hemoglobin and myoglobin) that describe internally another cross. The arms are secured by 4 nitrogen atoms from the imidazole groups, with an iron ion at their intersection.
It is at this very level that oxygen is pinned, on the iron of the hem, in the middle of 4 "chemical crosses."
Hemoglobin has the following essential properties:
Transporting O2 from the lungs to the tissues,
Facilitating the transport of CO2 and H+ from the tissues to the lungs, playing a fundamental role in maintaining acid-base balance.
Red blood cells (erythrocytes) containing hemoglobin are anucleate cells, lacking mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum. Therefore, they do not synthesize structural proteins or enzyme proteins, and they do not consume oxygen in the reactions necessary for energy production. They obtain their energy solely through anaerobic glycolysis of glucose.
The red blood cell (erythrocyte) is symbolic not only in its content but also in its morphology.
With its biconcave disc shape, it draws our attention on a small scale to the existence of the torus, a unique geometric structure that allows for free, continuous, dynamic, and perfectly balanced energy flow: inward and then outward.
This torus is essentially the foundation of all forms on Earth: atom, molecule, cell, plant, animal, human, planet itself, and beyond: stars, the sun, the entire galaxy, or its superstructures.
This biconcave shape allows for the maximization of the overall surface area for oxygen absorption and resistance to large deformative forces, such as very narrow capillaries.
In other words, it is a perfect adaptation of morphology to function.
Additionally, this shape and its viscoelastic behavior allow it to easily return to its original form after being subjected to mechanical distortions.
Another adaptive aspect of the lack of a nucleus is the intense activity during the day and the ability to store a larger amount of oxygen.
In vitro studies have shown that their "sisters," the leukocytes, have large nuclei and are active at night. These nuclei suffer serious damage under the phototoxic action of solar or artificial ultraviolet radiation during the day.
Thus, erythrocytes "embody" a solar, masculine, bold path, while leukocytes are adapted to the moon, night, feminine, regenerative.
But the fact that some respond flexibly to the day and others to the night, some to the fight or flight system and others to the rest and regeneration system, makes them available at the brain's command for energetic and perceptual regulation.
That is, when we are vain or resentful towards others, iron levels may increase with polycythemia, while when we are admiring or in states of guilt, devaluation, or separation, iron levels, erythrocyte activity may decrease, and anemia may appear.
And don't be under the illusion that exogenous intake changes the situation; there are multiple metabolic pathways through which the brain ensures that it blocks the incorporation of iron into erythrocytes, including its storage.
Psychosomatic phenomena are extremely complex, and what I have presented above, are just possibilities. It doesn't mean that if, for example, you feel guilty/devalued, you conclude that you have anemia or rush to get tests done. Guilt comes with various organic manifestations, it would be too simple to talk only about anemia.
Biology is the basis of the brain, but the brain also influences the physiology and morphology of the body, things already proven due to the development of exploratory imaging of nervous tissue.
Therefore, the body responds moment by moment to perception and adjusts physiology according to psychological layers and social spheres.
It is neither good nor bad; it is just the way of balance that the brain, the general manager of metabolism, applies with the goal of survival.
Its role is not for us to be intelligent, talented, happy, or healthy (in the mind's acceptance).
It manages energy simply and efficiently!
Indirectly, the Red blood cell is linked to energy!
An expensive resource on Earth.
If we desire different effects, it is necessary to "climb" the cross of globins (hem carriers) towards the higher mind, where opposites coexist, cause is balanced with anti-cause, lack with abundance, the separate self is one with everything and everyone. Here, the neural tissue learns to send its chemical and electrical signals in different configurations.
If you encounter difficulties in understanding the messages and languages described by the imbalance of your body, write to me!
We will explore and construct the meaning of nervous and physiological coherence together.
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