Water and Being Open to Life

The importance of water is unparalleled. 

We all know this, we have heard it a million times. 

Yet why is there rampant dehydration- which leads to chronic illness? 

For one, people like all their other beverages - like coffee, iced tea and soda, which are highly dehydrating. There is another reason why even the people who drink enough water may still be cellularly dehydrated.  

Miscommunication. 

Cellular Permeability

Even people with the best water consumption habits may struggle to keep their cells, and therefore their body-mind, hydrated. This is because the cell has to be able to take in the water and move the water out of it. 

This is likened to being open to life. 

Water is life. That is for certain. 

You can go around living, showing up the best you can while really being shut down inside- not letting the juiciness of life in. 

Numbing happens all day every day around the globe. 

Open hearted living can feel like too much; you want it but you feel scared- scared of being hurt, scared of being seen, scared of being found out, scared of…whatever. 

This has a profound effect on your life experience. 

I see this as a perfect metaphor for cells being bathed in water, in life, yet not knowing how to actually drink in that water. 

Water is often associated with the emotion of Joy. 

When you take in life on life's terms and feel supported and resourced, joy is a natural experience. When you are shut down and cannot truly interface with the living currents of the living moment, joy cannot find its way inside- just like water cannot find its way into the cell for actual, deep hydration. 

There are ways to remedy this. 

BodyTalks Hydration Approach

Bodytalk offers a brilliantly simple technique to support deep hydration. 

It communicates to the body to open to water, to open to life on a cellular level. 

With the use of fresh water as vibrant information and Tapping, the body remembers how to open up and let water into the cell. It also remembers how to release it along with the waste products water supports the clearing of. This technique has the power to build the communication network of how the body utilizes water and reset the body for optimal hydration and therefore, optimal function. 

This is incredibly healing because a hydrated system is necessary for all functions of the human body- including mental health, nourishment, proper energy conduction, lymphatic and immune function, lung health, cell division, nerve transmission, cell division and more. 

What happens in the micro, happens in the macro. 

Supporting the body's openness to water in the cells is naturally going to support the slow unfolding of a new openness to life- to the preciousness of life. Of course, bringing intention into the formula will greatly increase the process. 

Water as a Sacred Being

Ancient peoples the world over understood that water is the most precious being on earth. None of life would be here without it. Endless ceremonies to praise water and life have been practiced throughout all of time. 

How has this been forgotten in modern times and cultures? 

To forget that water is a most holy, generous being is to forget the natural order of things. It actually, is to forget who you are as a human-spirited being. 

You are 90% water, give or take. You are a water creature. In your mothers belly, you swam in the life giving waters of creation, being provided for every need through the umbilical cord.

At birth, you became an air-breathing creature, yet the waters remain in and as you for your entire life. And, that umbilical cord that was cut as a newborn baby, is still there in the realm of connection to the Great Mother who is the Earth, whose precious waters nourish and guide you each and every day of your life, whether you notice it or not. 

These waters have gushed out of springs, journeyed down rivers, fallen out of the eyes and down the faces of your most ancient ancestors, risen up to the sky through precipitation and descended back down with the rain. 

The waters here on earth now are the same waters that have been here through the eons; connecting you to and watering the ancient roots of your being, where you come from. 

Honoring water is a very serious and important thing. I invite you to embrace it wholeheartedly and share it with everyone you know. 

A Prayer For the Water

A simple and powerful practice you can do along with the Bodytalk Hydration technique is to bless your water. 

Morning is a lovely time to do this. Get a clear glass or jar and fill it with water. Go sit in the sun on the Earth if you can. Hold the glass of crystalline water in your hands and behold it. Cherish the sweet waters with all your heart. 

From there, talk to the water however your heart naturally does. 

Say Thank You, Water. 

I love You, Water. 

I’m here for you, Water. 

And let your heart gush forth with words of praise and honesty. 

Ask for what you truly need. 

Deepen with her, day in and day out. 

This is among the most powerful things you can do to start your day or at any time of the day. 

 Let your intelligence and your connection with water lead you. 

 When you are complete, offer a little to the earth and to anyone else you are accustomed to making offerings to. 

Take a sip and continue to drink that vibrant, blessed water through your day- informing all you do and engage. This would be great water to use in the hydration technique, full of praise-filled information. 

Remembering Who You Are

When you return to a deep relationship with water, both in your heart and in the capacity of your cells to truly receive the gift and truth of hydration, you begin to remember who you are. You begin to remember how to do this thing called life, in all its messiness and mystery.

You draw from a rootbed of pure intelligence where everything and everyone has its place. 

You open to joy. 

You open to life in new and unbelievable ways. 

When you let life in, when you let water in-; you are able to be touched and led by grace, trust and a profound sense of ‘at-home-ness’ in your body and this beautiful world that is made so much of water. 

Thank You Water.