Are You An Extremophile? — Adjusting To Our Environment
What makes an environment habitable for life? While I think about how we have to adjust to our environment in our lives, situations, relationships, and work, sometimes surviving impossible odds, I find helpful hints from just looking at how life adjusts to its environments in various physical environments and different planets.
Life is Tenacious and will find a way to survive and even thrive in any environment! We can too in our lives.
It is said that life requires a solvent, a liquid. Here that solvent is water, a place where all the chemistry of life can mix and create form. Water is plentiful in the universe but it has to be in liquid form, within certain temperatures. Ice doesn’t cut it. It doesn’t work as a solvent if it is ice on cold planets or steam on hot planets. It has to be a liquid. “Follow the water” and there will be life found in the universe.
So, therefore, the first two requirements for life are elements and a solvent (for instance, water).
When looking at this in a spiritual way, what would be the elements and the solvent in our lives? I would think the elements would be our thoughts (which seed our reality) and our emotions could be the solvent (the energy that gives our thoughts a charge).
We as humans extract energy from our environment through food, water, and oxygen. We wouldn’t live long without any one of these. Not all of life lives on oxygen, water, and food like we do. Some microorganisms breathe sulfur and breath out sulfuric acid, which would be toxic for humans. Other organisms, like plants, live on sunlight, water, and the nutrients in the dirt. Life does not necessarily need to be “oxygenic,” if I can make up a word here. (wink!)
At the microorganism level, the outside temperature is the temperature that the microorganism is, meaning it HAS to be built to function within that temperature. The larger an organism is, the more it has the ability to generate its own constant temperature.
EXTREMOPHILES!
Let’s take a look at what extremophiles are, and whether we might be one based on our backgrounds, home life, childhood, and challenges.
Some lifeforms are extremophile, where they can thrive in extreme conditions like high or low temperatures, acidity, or even high pressure like deep-sea lifeforms. Organisms that thrive at high temperatures are called thermophiles. Organisms that thrive in cold temperatures are psychrophiles and organisms that thrive in acidic environments are acidophiles.
Those who thrive in alkaline environments are alkaliphiles, up to PH 13 which is basically the level of household bleach. There are even radiodurans that thrive in extreme radiation humans would immediately die in. Imagine that! And of course, don’t forget our seawater friends in saline environments. Some organisms can even survive in water ten times saltier than the sea, right at the edge of crystallization.
I have been an extremophile in my life! I have had to live and find a way to function in some pretty extreme environments. How about you? There are lots of extremophile situations. Imagine someone having to live in toxic energy at home, or someone having to live with an alcoholic parent or surviving child abuse. Some of us have to do work we don’t like to do and yet have to find a way to be happy in that situation anyway.
This comes to mind when I think of any of us having to live in difficult situations or environments and find a way to thrive energy. Our economic system could be considered an extremophile endurance test! Poverty is far too often a paycheck or two away for just about everyone.
Life can tolerate many extremes. In fact, where can life NOT exist, if we want to look at it this way. There do seem to be some cutoff points. For instance, at 300 degrees Celsius life doesn’t seem to exist. The study of extremophiles has shown us the general range of conditions where life can survive and even thrive.
I would say that it also shows us how dire things can get and we still survive them in our personal lives. We may want to switch our environments as soon as possible, but in the meantime, we can survive in difficult situations.
Perhaps, in our lives, there are cutoff points where we cannot survive as well, and if that’s the case, if you find yourself in one of those situations or environments, get out of there!
CONCLUSION
Life is tenacious. Wherever it can survive, it will somehow adapt to survive there. That may not mean that it can advance to a sentient, intelligent, and even technological level of evolution, but somehow it will be there if it can be.
Are these lifeforms that have come forward simply a myriad of chance happenings in chemistry that made life on Earth, or was it programmed and transferred here from some kind of outside source?
t is interesting to think about the Femir Paradox, considering whether there is more advanced life out there hiding from us and not letting us see them, and also the Copernican Principle, where it is impossible odds that we are the only place in the universe where this kind of sentient life has popped up.
The secrets to our beginnings elude us though. Thus the search for our origins continues. The creation of life and how it came about remains a mystery. We sure do know more about it now than we ever did, but there is far more to discover. What an adventure!
Are YOU an extremophile! Have you had to survive against impossible odds??? Tell me if you wish to share!
Christine Breese is the founder of University of Metaphysical Sciences, Gaia Sagrada Retreat Center, and Free Retreats 4 All. She is an author, teacher, speaker and healer facilitating spiritual journeys in person, meditation online, through her books and articles, and also through her Christine Breese Youtube Videos. She invites every person to discover the genius-master within themselves!
