Resting Place

More from the Noguchi Museum, and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.

The brain and the bone marrow have a higher need for oxygen than other tissues of the body. When we're so brain oriented, as we are in our culture -thinking, planning, doing- the brain will take precedence over the marrow. One of the aging processes is that we lose red marrow and develop yellow marrow, which is fat -the yellow marrow infiltrates the red marrow. So when we have excessive mental activity, the brain will draw extra oxygen, and we won't have enough to support the red marrow. It is the red marrow that produces our red and white blood cells. The red blood cells carry the oxygen and and the white blood cells are the foundation of our immune system.

We need a less high-frequency resting place so that we can rest at the vibration of the marrow and produce more red blood cells, which means we don't use this high cortication (thinking, planning, etc.) as our resting place. We can go there, but, based on having the support of the marrow. When we yield, truly rest, oxygen goes to the marrow to create more carriers of oxygen.

Cellular breathing is an efficient way of bringing oxygen into the belly area...as we build up the marrow through deeply restful movement states that lead us to this cellular breathing, it requires that we let go of all this stress, which is the modern world, and come back to this slower vibration to create more blood cells, so the whole of us is more fully nourished.