THE YOGA OF THE CELLS, I

What exactly is the "yoga of the cells"?

We can surely say it is a yoga which deals with physical matter and body.

Yoga means union or balance of two principles, applied to the cells it is the balance of the two principles which rule the physical body, as in the case of the yin and yang applied to the physical body and in last terms to the cells themselves.

The producing of a stable harmony of the two principles in the physical body is a real science, because it is this expanded harmony in time which may, and surely will, produce substantial changes into the very mental substance through its material counterpart and in last terms an increased harmony of mind and thought.

The integral yoga is an integrity of body mind and soul, in that, the soul takes control of the sadhana directing a superior kind of yoga which has been called integral yoga.

The fact is that not all the aspirants to such yoga can rely upon a direct action of the soul, and the truth is that oftentimes they can´t even aspire to an indirect intervention of the soul, it is because the outer personality is too concentrated on itself and too confidant in its powers, and this creates an heavy curtain which impeaches us to be sensitive to the requirements and suggestions of the soul.

 From another perspective -say a soul perspective-  this tendency of a mind too confidant on its own powers  rather looks as an overstressed mind, because there is nothing that cannot be better achieved by an harmony of the mind and a calm, integrative vision of life rather then an hammering and unresting mind.

It is for this lack of soul power that was suggested a yoga of the cells which is, when it comes under our direct control, a veritable action on our side in the field we may more directly control: the physical body processes and its cells.

In order to produce a change in the cells we need a physical mean, and that is food.

Macrobiotic well understood the need of balancing yin and yang (the basic/alkaline principles in the body), a principle present in any body, even in vegetable bodies.

Macrobiotic as a general principle appears not only in physical bodies but in every expression of life with its subsequent seasons, its days and nights etc, reconnecting and integrating our balancing action on the cells to greater rhythms of life.

It is out of question that among the actual tendencies, macrobiotic is the science which most deepened into the actions, reactions and inter reactions between the two principles which sustain physical body and cells.

In itself macrobiotic is not a new science or an achievement of later times, but it is the result of human observation (and experimentation) since early times and in different cultures all over the world, having at its origin the observation of the two great intervening powers in life: Light and Darkness, with all their court of antinomes as hot and cold, day and night, man and woman, etc.

Well understood, macrobiotic is an integrating and integrative science, which do not merely suggest the use of japanese products but the application of the principles to which they are submitted, and people should be able to do macrobiotic with local available food processing them according to that principles.

Pure food, uncontaminated by chemical products has a great desintoxicating and transforming power on physical bodies, and should be considered the base for the yoga of the cells.

The knowledge and application of the balancing principles is what increases even farther the natural power of pure food, because at length it will produce a refining of our taste and promote the need for an ever increasing assumption of lighter (sattwic) foods through the development of an increased power of assimilation and utilization of all the constituents of that food.

The taste for heavy, tamasic food as meat  etc, will progressively disappear once the body has got rid of the toxins accumulated within the body, and surely it has to be suggested of not pretending a sudden desintoxication because of the real power of organic-macrobiotic food.
 It has been observed that a too strict application of the macrobiotic principles and the use of organic food at the beginning of a change of diet may have as a consequence a too fast release of toxins delivered into the blood stream and other eliminating systems, which the body, untrained for such a task, may not be able to deal with,  producing as a consequence an overload of the elimination systems and a general poisoning of the body.

It is a real serious matter because it produced some death, and the writer here can assure you he had to deal with unexpected and very painful eliminating processes even without the application of a too strict dietary regimen, so please do not undervalue the force and power within pure, uncontaminated by chemical, organic food.


In the long term, anyone who deals with a reconversion of his diet will surely experience not only a change in the health of the physical body and its activities but, what is more, experience a pronounced, balanced harmony of his/her own mind and thoughts.  

Yoga of the cells is the science dealing with physical body through a conscious consumption of pure organic, sattwic food.

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Humans think: Oh, yoga of the cells? Sounds fine, i'm gonna do that!
As the over-human possibilities were in need of a mental asset of... what after all?
A few ideas to run a yoga of the cell?
To work for themselves, not letting God do his work, is terribly presumptuous, as God were in need of a few badly picked-up ideas on how to run a physical body, from a man that has not even full control on his own body and its continuity.
What a lack of better circumstances to grow!
There are two sections to self-realization, the first one the man is doing the work, which eventually with a lot of unrecognized help from God is succesfull. The second half is when definitively leaves God doing his own work. When this second half is not achieved is because man loves to varnish himself with the divine varnish, the other option is to completely disappear as a human figure -before- ever knowing what will be next and what you will become, only leaving that confiance into the Divine itself. Man can´t imagine what he can become, if he could, it would not be true but a projection of his own mind.