Kerrie Guy: Water - The Ebb and Flow of Life and More!
Water; what can we learn from water?
I’d never considered water to be a teacher until this morning when I lay in bed in what the Australian Aborigines consider to be the Dream Time which is the state of being half awake and half asleep.
Water comes to us in two forms; one is fresh and the other is salty. Water in both states serves and sustains life. Therefore I asked myself is water in both its states simply another duality of life? Does water then teach us that even though aspects of life may at times appear ‘salty’ that in fact these salty experiences may actually be opportunities designed to teach us more about life?
To fully understand the wholeness and perfection of life surely one needs to encounter a combination of both ‘fresh’ and ‘salty’ experiences! Humans do experience this complete prefect connection with water as they drink in fresh water to sustain life but then cry out salty water to release pain stress and even excess happiness. Do humans realize that they are experiencing the complete expression of the oneness of water in the dual compositions in which water both enters and leaves their body? I guess not because until this morning I had never considered this as a facet of water in my life!
Coincidentally when people are confronted with what may term ‘salty’ experience in life they attempt to spit it out in the same way they immediately spit out salty water. I agree that salt water does not taste great nevertheless it is a great healer and often used for medicinal purposes.
Brackish water is often considered of little value to the point of being unusable but it can and does support life. Every circumstance in our lives effects our emotions which are symbolised by water. As 70% of our body is water, it stands to reason that our inner water supply must in some way be affected by every situation we encounter throughout life. Our human water supply continually experiences emotional tidal ebbs and flows.
Water, by those of us who allow our emotions to flow like a river, is generally released from the body in both happy and sad situations. This clearly indicates the connection between water and emotions. Problems viewed in this context can be seen as salty water which is something we do not readily accept into our being! We commonly prefer to spit both problems and salty water out of our life rather than ingesting them whereby we miss their valuable masked medicinal purpose. We rarely acknowledge the significance of problems or salt in our experience of life.
Pain and sorrow will naturally flow from your life if you allow it to follow its natural river-like course!
When we are nervous or upset, we tend to filter issues through our bodies at a much faster rate than we do unsalted or happy situations! This indicates to me that problems when allowed to flow their natural course can leave our being at a much faster rate than when hold them in our thoughts. We choose to hold onto happiness because it feels good. Why on earth do we choose to hold onto problematic or stressful thoughts when they feel so bad, when instead we could just let them flow from our being? A certain amount of salt serves our physical body well, but excessive amounts of salt in the body are detrimental to our health unless flushed from our system! Excessive haboured problems in our emotions are no different to excessive salt stored in our physical. Problems or saltwater depending on how we allow them to be dispensed in our lives can either be of great worth or absolutely worthless!
Water is deliberately used to flush toxins from our systems to enhance our physical health so why don’t we let it flow to enhance our emotional health? Cry if you feel like it until you sense the release from the pain. And so what if you have to visit a toilet 20 times one day instead of 10! 
Pain and sorrow will naturally flow from your life if you allow it to follow its natural river-like course! We constantly accept the worth of water to remove outer dirt and grime from our outer body, and we further accept that simply being in water makes us feel better.
How often when we are stressed, do we take refuge in a bath or shower or even the highly salty water of the sea, knowing full well that after we have made this water connection we will emerge refreshed with our mood lightened? Surely this awareness of the physical values of submerging in water or using water as a flushing or filtering agent further substantiates that all stressful problems can be effectively removed from our lives in the same manner! We merely have to freely let them pass through our lives to allow their valuable nutrients to surface so that they may serve and strengthen us in our emotional growth. We have to deliberately take action and wash the unnecessary grime of any situation from our lives in order to leave its purity and purpose remain.
We should perhaps take more time to consider the examples offered to us by rivers and oceans in order to better cope and be more successful in living our daily lives?
Rain comes like a miracle from the unseen and sometimes this miracle comes in the form of a devastating storm and in this storm much damage can seemingly occur. Yet after the storm we see only beauty and new growth. As healing occurs the pain of devastation is forgotten! Storms cause initial disarray but in this disarray they also wash, cleanse and nourish. How water is delivered to us irrespective of whether it’s fresh or salty is not always clear, but what is clear and trusted is that more water will always come to us to sustain life. We, even if subconsciously trust that God will continue send water to sustain all earthly life as well as all the life in rivers and seas.
Water is an essential element of life and we are essentially beings of water even though we appear outwardly to be predominantly solid matter. We should perhaps take more time to consider the examples offered to us by rivers and oceans in order to better cope and be more successful in living our daily lives?
Rivers flow determinedly; they do not give up and stop flowing to their destination when they meet the obstacle of a giant mountain; they patiently either find an alternative route around the mountain or carve a course through its valleys. The one constant thing a river does not do it give up or say its’ too hard to reach its destination! And along its course it collects lots of debris which it does not let inhibit it flow; it simply filters it out as it flows over its rocky and sandy surfaces.
Rocks may appear to be of little use but as with everything included in the scheme of creation they too have specific life serving purpose. Everything designed by the creator does! Everything, including each one of us has a purpose and everything has been created in perfection to fulfill that purpose. Maybe the rocks or hard patches that enter our live are simply filtering systems to teach us what is and isn’t needed in achieving our individual purity, perfection and purpose!
Seas ebb and flow with the tide and they have undercurrents and rip tides and many threatening aspects to man but they do serve life. They bring joy by their very beauty. They are filled with food to support the chain of life beneath their surface which in turn offers itself as food for man.
Both rivers and seas know and accept that to live life in their unique perfection that they must go with the flow.
Oceans offer pathways to other countries and worlds. How many people love to dive beneath the ocean surface and marvel in the wonders below! And more importantly it is oceans that feed the cycle of precipitation that once more brings the miracle of rain. Rain fills our rivers so that they may continue to flow and sustain all life forms that depend solely on fresh water for their survival.
Rivers fill the oceans and the oceans fill the river. The salty and fresh serve each other and in the same manner as both salty and fresh experiences serve humans in life.
Both rivers and seas know and accept that to live life in their unique perfection that they must go with the flow. They know there will be hard times but they never once stop ebbing and flowing. Rivers continually flow on trusting they will carve their way to their destination or purpose, and where does a river flow? It flows directly to the sea where they become one? It is in this awareness of oneness in life that we each reach our own state of individual perfection which allows us to fulfill our unique roles in the sphere of perfection of life.
Remember that it is in the whole expanse of combined salty and fresh water that precipitation takes place and thus leads to more rain and more fresh water! This completes the life cycle of water that in turn sustains all of life. Fresh water serves life on the land. The salt water serves life in the sea and so it is. One cannot exist without the other. The river serves the sea and the sea serves the river. Seas have storms and rivers at times tend to dry up but life in the natural state of being, they always gets back on track until rivers once more fill to capacity and flow to the sea. Seas once more become calm tranquil expanses of beauty and life. The plan of creation was perfect in every way. Most humans haven’t yet learnt to view or live life from the sphere of perfection. Impaired vision requires more than optical lenses to be rectified. We humans have storms and droughts but neither of these illusionary challenging experiences are without purpose.
Yes we can learn from water and its rhythm of ebb and flow. If we go with the ebbs and flow of life we will sense and discover complete perfection through individual, yet connected experiences of life. Life was created in perfection by our creator. But to discover life’s perfection we must also embrace imperfect experiences into our lives for it is through the combinations of both that the experience of perfection is complete. Fresh and salt water cannot exist without the other. Ebbs and flows and highs and lows are essential in every avenue of life. Aim to be river-like and flow patiently, determinedly, through life knowing full-well that your personal life destination awaits you just as a river instinctively knows it will always flow to the sea.
With the patience, trust and faith of a river your journeys end in life is always assured!
About the Columnist
 | Kerrie Guy Hi I am passionate about life. I wasn’t always this way. I was challenged greatly growing up as I never felt as though I ‘fit in’. The greater part of my life has been spent in Australia where I was physically born, but my true spirit birthed in Egypt. I have now discovered how I fit into life and live life to the fullest. My spirit soars in what many would consider challenged situations. Every day I see life in a myriad of expressions and in each of these expressions I see a part of myself; both the shadow and light. So every day I come to know myself and life more and in this realisation what an exciting journey life has become for I do fit in because I am a part of life….we all are! |