Water: the Elixir of Life

If bread is the food of life, then water must be the elixir.  Water has a tremendous balancing and healing capacity, whether you are drinking, bathing, swimming in it, or merely looking at it. Is this because water is a terrific electric conductor and our dynamic electric selves responds naturally to it, is recharged on re-entry?  Or our 85% fluid selves matches and synchronizes with the substance?  We come home in a way, being in water.

Water is the most abundant resource on the planet, inside of our bodies and on the earth’s surface.  In and with water, one becomes in flow again.  Experiencing our fluidity is possible even if as land creatures we are rather dense, haltingly static. In water, we are reanimated. Water buoys the body, allows it to float. We re-become the sea creature we must of hearkened from long ago. Ankles, feet, wrists and hands become flippers again, the rib's moving respiration attempts to re-find our lost gills. Our mammal spine undulates and rediscovers the prana, the qi natural to it in an unencumbered environment. We are a-swim in our long ago ancestor gene pool.  A distant memory of what was then possible is awakened?

And so a similar internal experience occurs when we imbibe the substance.  A washing, cleansing occurrence puts the organism in flow once again.  We perspire constantly even in the mildest circumstance; a replenishment, a reinvigorating the cycle is required, a call to hydrate. Adequate hydration makes headaches disappear, renews our energy, decreases appetite, curbs cravings.  Our urine, usually a definitive color, pales and becomes neutral in tone (as it should be).  Our organs operate optimally; the liver's filter function aided by the wash of water flowing through, our kidneys grateful for the influx of like, a resonance of its life force.  Our very blood and lymph, its function so necessary to be in flow, is supported by the visit.

In Chinese Taoist thought, water is representative of intelligence and wisdom, flexibility, softness and pliancy.  It is considered the perfect yin substance, accommodating to every vessel it enters.  It’s internal and external constancy makes it both powerful and wise.  With this influence ever present inside and outside ourselves nature has given us yet another support to make us whole.