Cells mirror the collective tissue and the tissue mirrors the organism. Individual cells have their own perception just as we have our Mind’s perception.  Though they are not directly connected in a way that we can illustrate in an anatomic diagram, they are intimately and inextricably connected and mirror each other.  In the way that we cannot specifically illustrate where our “Mind” is located on an anatomy diagram, but we believe it culminates in the area of the brain so too with our cells and where they have perception that culminates in the membrane.  Both leverage signals from internal and external environments and guide decisions, behavior and communication according to their perception and synthesis of these combined signals.  Both have memory and processing capacity.
 

In conventional, modern medicine we tend see and treat just the dysfunction of the Mind, forgetting the relationship and mirroring that it share with the Cell and therefore we intervene with medicine that disrupt the homeostasis that the cell has created given its circumstances and perception and overrule its decision making forcing different pathways such as the case with popular psychoactive medications such as the class of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI’s).  When we change our perception only but not address the signals that are contributing to that perception, we create a chronic medication intervention/suppression which is why if these medications work, they may only work for a while and the symptoms return when the medication is discontinued.  We may also include recommendations to actively work with the Minds perception, such as psychotherapy, which absolutely can be supportive but difficult to reach durable healing for many but nonetheless, it neglects to recognize the Cells perception. When the cells perception is sending signals of danger, hostility, irritability and from that perception is guiding the cells behavior to be defensive and shift resources from resting/repairing that occurs in times of perceived safety and we never address that, the results will usually remain the same: chronic, intermittent  engagement in psychotherapy and chronic symptomatic/ban-aid medication.  It's a lot like feeling the car sputtering because you are running out of gas but covering up the gas gauge.