our skin like asnake for cellular renewal. Cells are able to decide tocommit suicide and self destruct. To make this morepalpable here a few facts of how long some cellularregeneration takes in different regions of the body ofour approximately 75 trillion cells: Brain 1 year Blood 4 months Skeleton 3 months DNA 2 months Liver 6 weeks Skin 4 weeks Stomach lining 5 days Taste buds- 6 days(adapted from Dr. George Malkmus)What makes a cell decideto commit suicide?The balance between:1. the withdrawal of positive signals; that is, signalsneeded for continued survival, and2. the receipt of negative signalsIf we take the withdrawal of positive signals andreceipt of negative signals as a metaphor, we canview, how critical it is for us humans to be in relationalexchange that confirm us in a positive way. Howwe are being perceived by others and how we feedourselves becomes not just psycho emotional healthbut also has an impact on our cellular health.I need to change, but dont change meContinued from page 15When change arrives, we find fault. We dont like howchange looks: Oh no, not that person, that cant be, theyare supposed to look tall, beautiful ... life partners aresupposed to be perfect, ... they dont fit my idea of a lifepartner ... they should be more like ...Engaging in the practice of change meansconsciously participating in opening the body and mindinto the fears and dreams of changing. This is a veryphysical event. It means: seeing, feeling, sensing andbeing with the textures of longing and desire. It alsomeans befriending the textures of fear and the patternsof negative thinking, feeling the embodiment of fear. Thatembodiment is of course the medicine in how to be withthese fears.The practice of Continuum Movement is adetailed process for gaining self-discovery on a cellularlevel. Through sounds, breath, and small micromovements,the body is explored as itself just, as it is. Small,incremental movements that are already occurring in thebody are tracked and entered into as a conscious danceof present-moment sensation. Moment-by-momentthe mover arrives into being present with what alreadyis occurring and what unfolds from there. Awarenessis brought to the fluid system, the blood pulsing andstreaming, cerebral spinal fluids moving in tides andwaves. The sensations are experienced and followed asmovement without any stories or past. The Continuummover follows the inner songs and dances of the body,listening deeply to what nature has already designed somagnificently.The underpinning of Continuum Movement is thatwe are movement, we are change, we are in flux; our taskis to join the ride and discover. The goal is to get comfortablewith the constant change that is occurring in ourbodies and, therefore, metaphorically in our lives. Ratherthan clinging to the static views and the fears of whatwill disappear on us. In Continuum we call this a kind ofculture boundedness, a psycho-emotional and thereforesomatic limitation that keeps us spinning in familiar andlimited emotional territory. Our perceptions narrow andwe are in a vice of our own body-mind.The practice of Continuum engages deeply theprocess of change that we are as an organism. We areprocess in motion, yet we like to believe we are ourviews, attitudes and physical belongings. When practicingContinuum,