Becoming Water

Be Water.  Surrender.  Flow with life and allow life to flow through you.

Great thoughts, but perhaps easier said than done!  Still, when I open to connecting with the sacred elements, Water is my element of choice. 

Water has the amazing properties.  It fills whatever shaped container it finds itself within.  Be it bowl or jug or cup; river, stream or lake, water reaches the edges, keeping the container as well filled as possible as its level can allow. 

But water is powerful.  Over time it can change the course of rivers and streams.  Simply the merest drop dripping out of a hillside can wear down the rock it falls on to, creating a dish where a thirsty bird of small animal might come to drink.

Yes, water is powerful.  It flows and continues flowing; maintaining its course despite blocks along its way. Water, over time, wears down or breaks apart even great boulders that get in the way.  Water’s persistence is legendary. 

And so is ours.  We arise each morning, no matter how we feel, no matter what events face us, somehow we get up every morning and begin anew.  Our path may be hesitant or diverted temporarily, but, like water, we flow into the middle of our days and just keep on going.  When we become as Water, we add an element of awareness that we flow with purpose.

Water also has the ability to individuate. Perhaps it begins as a single drop later merging into a larger body, surrendering itself to the greater whole. 

It is said that a drop of water can changes the whole container.  It is said that any drop of water can change its molecular structure; water that is loved, becomes beautiful.  The same water, polluted or spoken to negatively, turns disorganized in its molecular structure. 

However, it can change back again.  This came from the magnificent and powerful photographic work of Dr. Masaru Emoto that gained popularity around the turn of the century.  He labeled containers of water with words of love, gratitude or hatred and photographed them through high magnification.  The results were and still are startling.  The applications potentially far reaching.

Water is mutable.  Changing molecular structure, merging into the greater whole but also able to individuate, water transforms from liquid to solid to vapor and back. 

These are valuable lessons for us humans who are faced with the opportunity to change in nearly any moment of our lives.  How can we face change with grace? 

Be Water.

Our bodies are primarily water held in place with series of tubes that connect organs and feed our skeletons and moving parts (our joints), our muscular and other systems.  What would it be like if we turned to our own water and began loving it. 

How would our lives changed if we began recognizing and working with water’s ability to slowly wear down obstructions? 

How can we merge our drop of love into a pool of conflict?

What would happen if we flowed with our life events rather than directing them?

Can we be, even for a moment, Water?

Try it and see.  Let us all know how you do with your experiment…..