“The divine is nothing but the depth of diving into this moment, into this world, into this life, into this body.”
~ Osho

Anna was itchy. She had been itchy for months, but the doctors couldn’t figure out why. She didn’t have a rash; in fact, her skin looked normal. The doctors prescribed antibiotics for a suspected bacterial infection; the anti-biotics didn’t work. Next, she was prescribed cortisone cream, but this didn’t work either. Neither did the steroids nor the salt baths or the changes in laundry detergent, shampoo, or shower gel. Anna had tried everything, but her symptoms remained. She was miserable and, in her desperation, she was ready to think outside the box.

The human body is comprised of a system of systems. We have a nervous system, a cardiovascular system, a digestive system, a detoxification system, to name a few. These systems work together like the wheels of an old-fashioned clock. If one system begins to fail it will automatically have a knock-on effect to all others. Essentially, we stop keeping time!

Let’s consider the detoxification system. The organs involved in the detoxification system include the lungs, the liver, the skin, the kidneys, and the large intestine. Each of these organs help detoxify the body in different ways but all require water to function optimally.

Without sufficient hydration the detoxification system will desperately call on water from the large intestine and colon. Insufficient hydration is usually the cause for skin problems due to toxic ‘poopy water’ circulating around the body as well as constipation, low back pain, and fatigue.

Any disturbance to a system, therefore, affects the ecology of the whole.

Just as an old-fashioned clock needs to be wound regularly, the human body needs water. Without water, cellular function is impossible, and the delicate balance of our ecology is disrupted, which the body then communicates via symptoms.

It turned out that Anna was chronically dehydrated. She mainly drank coffee and juices throughout her days and assumed that this was enough for her hydration. However, after only a few days of consistently drinking sufficient clean water Anna’s symptoms of itch totally disappeared.

Around 70% of the Earth is covered by water, most of which is ocean. Humans are composed of around 70% water of which, around 46% is found inside our trillions of cells. The remaining 24% is found outside the cells in blood plasma and other bodily fluids.

Our blood contains roughly the same salinity as the ocean.

Whilst some organisms can remain dormant in a desiccated state, they all require water to come back to life because there is no physiological process within living organisms that is not water dependent.

Next to oxygen, water is the most natural and necessary resource on planet Earth.

Water has a memory; anything that water interacts with can become an energetic and informational influence. This memory is the premise of homeopathy where the energy frequency of any substance remains potent even after multiple dilutions. This memory is also evident in the work of Masaru Emoto where his frozen water experiments formed ice crystals as energetic expressions of how the water was treated.

Many cultures around the world equate water with healing energy. People travel great distances to drink or bathe in water believing it is imbued with divine healing properties and that their immersion will offer spiritual cleansing and purification.

It is through water that we are physically and spiritually interrelated and interconnected. The ever-changing yet constant nature of water is a metaphor for the inner spiritual journey, where one strives to find unity within duality.

The 13th century poet Rumi expressed this in his poem: “You are not a drop in the ocean; you are the entire ocean in a drop.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge expressed spiritual growth and development in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a story of a mariner’s spiritual journey showing that a thoughtless bad act can have lasting repercussions:

“Water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink.
Water, water, everywhere, but nor a drop to drink.”

Water is ubiquitous to space; water is everywhere. Within ten drops of water there are more molecules than there are stars in the Universe. It is divine liquid giving birth to star systems, unconditionally accepting and conscious.

It is this consciousness that spiritual seekers speak of when expressing their experiences of divine water as ripples of awareness, streams of wisdom, divine ocean, flow.

“We are like a drop of water in a vast, divine ocean, distinct yet immersed in something much larger than ourselves. It’s only when we experience our connection to infinity that we’re able to dream powerfully.”
~ Alberto Villoldo

‘If you keep your heart immersed always in the ocean of divine love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the waters of divine love.’ – Ramakrishna

Even unconsciously we recognize the divinity of water. After Anna’s rehydration and return to her non-itchy self she expressed her appreciation with two words: ‘Thank God’.

And I say yes – thank God – thank divine water.

The ecology of Earth was once a natural, healthy, functionally clean environment of mutually co-dependent elements and life forms. But sadly, our waters the world over, are becoming increasingly polluted with petrochemicals, hormones, medial drugs, radioactive waste, and other such toxins and we are quickly running out of clean, natural sources of water.

If we become what we choose to drink, as highlighted in Anna’s story, it is therefore paramount for our health, our environment and our spiritual future to consider the impact of our choices regarding how we treat and respect our water sources.

For ideal hydration I suggest you drink half your body weight in pounds, in ounces of water every day. For example, if you weigh 200 pounds this would equate to 100 ounces per day.

If you drink water that is filtered or pure, consider replacing necessary minerals by adding a pinch or two of Celtic Sea salt (not regular table salt) to each glass. This will enhance your absorption of the water by providing it better access into your trillions of cells.

For the best water to drink, cook, or bathe with there are two ideal sources:
Artesian well water – water that naturally bubbles up from the ground.
Natural spring water – water that flows naturally over, under, and around rocks.

As nature intended, we are spiritually connected to our planet and its ecology. We are our divine water… drink up!

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
~ Rumi