Water, water everywhere…

Water is the first element we are aware of in the home of our Mother’s womb.

We are since composed of around 70% water, so it’s clearly the element that is most ‘us’. We are certainly emotional beings, inextricably liked to the moon cycles. We feel things ‘in our waters’.

The composition of water (H2O) remains constant no matter what is dissolved or carried in it.

It contains no calories or organic nutrients, but has a neutral energy of memory and magic as a centre place of our life. Drinking high quality water is therefore essential to wellness.

How can we trust this fundamental element in us and seek its steady nature to engender our own?

To be in full flow requires support. Water needs a container or it will ooze and flow all over the place. Elemental containers are forged from the Earth. The passage of Water erodes rocks over time, as river beds and ocean floors. Despite being flexible and softly buoyant, Water is also powerful and can cause destruction at its fiercest.

This transforming element can move from frozen iced water, through flowing streams, then warm up to form rising droplets as clouds, no wonder the Taoists often refer to the properties of Water, to metaphorically illustrate wisdom.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) bone health is governed by the water element, as is the brain and nervous system. When we use blue colours and healing sounds, these reverberate their frequency into our waters, and bones.

At Winter time of year we descend into the season of the Water element in TCM. This conservation time lends itself to meditation and coziness, and as the nights draw in, so do we. This period is vital for rest and recuperation. Like Water, can we let ourselves rest to the stillest point?

A snowflake lands with ease and silent grace, blanketing the land with its fellow white flakes to offer a refreshing clean, pristine view covering the anomalies of the land. Here, whispered memories of what’s gone before become stories to share in the now. Fears subside and will power restores as visions for our collective and positive future emerge.

“Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.” Lao Tzu

Water governs the nighttime of rest and sleep, reducing physical activity so Qi life force energy can be used to repair and restore, enabling us to emerge with each new day, readily reborn for new action.

Dreaming is a watery activity. Dreams often arrive in waves of colour and flurries of recognition, suffused with symbolism, where the usual rules of time and space dissolve and expand into possibilities beyond the rational mind.

Here, ideas, insights and inspirations can be birthed through.

Lucid dreams on the inner sea of visions have us floating or diving exploring realms way freer than in everyday life. This is the domain of the artists, creators and seers where the sea of all possibility washes in new ideas, removes detritus and drops enough content into the consciousness of the dream to be shared with the dreamer on awakening.

Trusting the let go.

The potency of the earth as the mightiest support and water the biggest buoyancy, offers a combination of a super-powered invitation to sink in.

Feel this union underpinning you now.

Try this;

• Feel the seat, bed or floor beneath you
• Notice what happens when you trust this support
• Surrender to gravity and feel each exhale dropping you lower
• Be aware of the earth supporting us all and the water within assisting
• Sensed the support of your bony architecture
• Drop into the strength of your pelvis, your spine, legs and arms
• Watch as muscles relax, jaw drops and spacious ease is revealed
• Be aware of your brilliant nervous system sending lightning speed information
• Soften your belly, inhale and connect with the curious sense of wonder at the middle of your dantien (elixir field) just below your navel
• Breathe in here and say I am calm, I am centre, I am balanced
• Sink in to this power
• Relax, be like the still calm water

In this sacred place of stillness your mind can land for a gentle regroup. You could imagine a little bead of light situated in the dantien, beckoning you back in over and over again, with such compassion it’s a relief to return.

Here is where you let go..

Here is where you key into your centre of essence and vitality..

Here is where traumas can be processed..

Here is where dreams are seeded…in the quiet dark held space of water supported by earth.

Here the fear can subside dissolving into the abyss of transformation. Freeing your wisdom, opening clarity to underpin your will to action that is in true expression of you. You can trust this flow of activated authenticity and be ready to be the Chi you want to see in the world!

“Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with fear and worry and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success.” Lao Tzu