The importance of Water for our Health
"There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide."
Rachel Carlson
The Sea Around Us
Plasma, the straw coloured liquid that is found in blood and lymph constitutes for about 55% of blood and is 90% water. It is key in the movement of water between blood and body tissue.
If water becomes still, stops flowing, it stagnates, attracts decay and disease just as a pond or river does.
The water and fluids in our body are also, or should be, in constant motion.
Our life, as a feotus, begins in a warm sac, in water in the womb that is constantly being nourished via the umbilical cord. When we become dehydrated our whole body is affected on all levels.
If we become dehydrated the body will prioritorize so that essential organs will remain hydrated. Connective tissue (fascia) will be one of the first to dehydrate leading to adhesions and fixotrophia.
James Oshman Phd. in his book 'Energy Medicine' cites research which shows that a 10% increase in hydration (which is quite a lot when it comes to tissue hydration) will result in a million -fold increase in conduction of impulses through the tissues such as collagen. This means our work could potentially be a whole lot more effective if we could get our clients more hydrated.
Research has shown that muscles will relax immediately when a client drinks water.
This could be as a result of protons and electrons travelling almost instantaneously through the tissue fluid matrix. It would therefore be advisable to get clients to drink more water right before a treatment and when they get up from the couch.
"When we lack water, we lose our vital connection with this life giving substance, and the result is stress in physiological systems.
All the fluids of the body become affected, the information transmission is scrambled, and we no longer work efficiently on all levels. Without sufficinet water, we're not allowing the fluid intelligence of life to nurture and sustain us. For example, when we're learning new things, the brain uses up a lot of water by connecting to what it already knows, adding fresh information and attempting to make conscious what may at first be beneath consciousness. Drinking extra water helps hugely in the learning process. This has been tried in schools and other learning environments with great success.
The nervous system, including the brain, operates in the cerebrospinal fluid. If this part of the body is lacking in water, then the brain and nervous system go into a stressed state. Anxiety, panic, tension, difficulty with learning and even clumsiness can result. Ironically, the stress itself can cause further dehydration, as the nervous system needs more water to cope with any new situation...
When water spirals, it's making the movement of creation. All growth takes place in a spiral. The DNA in the center of each of our cells is a spiral - a double helix that carries our inheritance. Ancestral influences are passed on through it and also through the water element, according to ancient chinese tradition. The emerging science of epigenetics is now showing us that we not only inherit physical traits (such as size, eye colour, and tendancies toward particular diseases) but also emotional states.
These are often held in the water element and in particular in the kidney meridian, one of the paths of energy that run through the body. (Kidney energy problems often manifest as anxiety or fear)...
The water element in many ancient traditions is the one that relates to nourishing and nurturing...
The first acupuncture point on the kidney meridian on the bottom of the foot is called "Bubbling Spring". It's a major point for energy input. When we walk, this part of the foot acts as a pump and encourages the waters of the body to move. It's natural for them to circulate. To encourage movement we can walk, run or do whatever activity we enjoy.
Figure eights will spiral the body's waters into motion and energize them. So by circling the body, we can enhance our flexibility and the flow of our waters. Belly dancers know this!
A woman who was having eye problems with fuzzy sight and a slight gritty feeling in her eyes, came to a seminar... I see the eyes as two of the lakes in the body. For a lake to stay healthy, it needs a through put of water... through kinesiology I found that figure 8's would be helpful. She rolled her eyes in a sideway's 'eight' movement and then went on to move both her eyes and her neck in this way for a short time. Her sight became clear and bright."
From an article by Carrie Frost - The Waters of Life