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!
