Water: a wonderful gift from Nature

Our gorgeous planet is made of 70% water. Streaming down as a beautiful refreshing mountain creek, placidly seating in a valley as a calming lake or as roaring and whiting waves in the oceans all around us.

Water also makes up between 55% and 78% of our bodies so it shouldn't come as a surprise to know that water is not only a primary necessity for us to have inside and out, but also that water itself can heal so many illnesses and unbalances that we may experience.

High blood pressure and high cholesterol are just two of the most common health problems that are essentially caused by an insufficient amount of water in our body. Water is essential to the good functioning of our system, so if we don't drink enough water the body will have to source it from the cells. Cholesterol is the substance that makes up the walls of the cells and it will be overproduced if the cells are under threat, as it happens when the cells don't have enough water. Therefore a very direct result of not drinking enough water is that the cells produce an increased quantity of cholesterol, which then overflows in the bloodstream resulting in what we call "high cholesterol".

An insufficient intake of water is also one of the main causes of high blood pressure. As an automatic response for not having enough water, the body will shut off the smaller capillaries and the blood will become thicker. A higher blood pressure will therefore be needed in order to pump the blood around and the heart will also have to work harder.

How much water should we drink?

A good ratio is roughly 1 litre of water for every 30 kilos of body weight. So a 60 kilos person should drink 2 litres of water every day, a 90 kilos person should have an intake of 3 litres and so on. An increased amount of water is required when exercising and when we have high temperature, like fever.

What type of water should we drink? 

Rain water is definitively the best...! 

Have you noticed how plants thrive with rain water? It's because water is a living organism that needs air, movement and sunlight, and rain water has all of that! On the other hand tap water is very often chlorinated and fluoridated... Many of us have heard the story about water fluoridation being used as a prevention for tooth decay... The reality is that after several decades of water fluoridation in countries like Australia and USA, many studies found that the incidence of tooth decay in Western European countries, where the water is not fluoridated, is exactly the same as in USA and Australia where the water is fluoridated.

The fact that water is a living organism has been proven by many years of study by Masaru Emoto, the author of "The hidden messages of water" who studied the quality of the water crystals as well as the response of the crystals to bad and good energy.

The Shimanto river is away from major cities and does not have big dams so it is a very healthy river, often referred to as "the last clear stream of Japan". On the other hand the Biwako Lake is well known for its highly polluted waters. The photos above of the crystals from the Shimanto river and the Biwako lake don't need any further comment... The study on water crystals by Masuro Emoto have also gone beyond the simple observation, as he found that the water crystals actually respond to positive or negative energy emanated by other living organisms around.

Salt water is an incredible healer for wounds, allergies, skin rashes as well as working beautifully for a blocked nose due to a cold or the flu. Try inhaling some ocean water next time you have a cold and you will reap the benefits of this incredible gift of Nature.

Salt water has also been found to be so similar to human blood to the point that it can be used as a substitute for blood in a transfusion. An eye-opener about this issue is provided by Dianne Jacobs Thompson in an article published on Nexus magazine in 2006

A day spent without smiling is a day lost...

Unfortunately the author of this quote in unknown, but there is so much truth is in these words!! There are hundreds of scientific studies that show that people who are happier are also healthier... Once again, our body, mind and spirit are intrinsically connected, so it makes sense that if your mind and your spirit are happy, your body will follow and it will be much healthier!! Think of the organization which sends clown in the hospital because they discovered that people heal faster if they are in a good and positive mood...
A lot of research has been conducted to explore why some people seem to be happier than others, and the results all point to 4 main factors:
1. Happy people like themselves, they have a high level of self esteem and self love
2. They are usually extroverted, which means they get energized by being around other people. Extroverted people also have a tendency to think at the same time as they talk (which could cause some problems in some situations... :))
3. Happy people feel that they are in control of their life. The concept of being in control of one's life is a tricky one, as some people might say "Well, if I had a better job, or a better house or a different partner, I too would feel in control of my life!". However, feeling in control of one's life has a lot to do with taking responsibility of what we do, we say, we choose for ourselves...
4. Happy people are commonly optimistic... They live with the belief that "As one door closes another one opens"!
 
Now, let's make a little step further... Did you actually know that if you fell a bit sad, or down, or don't feel very well and you actually smile rather than frown, the smiling position of your face muscles will be recorded by your brain as happy and in a few minutes you will start feeling much better? A beautiful smile is not just a message that we send out to other people to let them know we are friendly and happy, it is also a message that we can send to our body, mind and spirit to pick ourselves up!

One more step... A smile is highly contagious!! If you smile to a stranger in the street, most likely they will smile back and people will always be drawn more easily towards a person who smiles rather than a person who looks serious!

And as another unknown author rightly said:


Smile! Because you never know who is going to fall in love with your smile...!









Wayne Dyer is a great writer and he has the amazing ability of explaining things so easily that I often find, while reading his books, saying to myself "Of course!! Why didn't I think of this before?"... But the best characteristic of Wayne Dyer and his books is that everything he writes about he has experienced and applied to his own life, family and friends, so when you read his books you can actually see the journey that brought him to a particular conclusion, and often you find similarities with what's happening in your life... A complete pleasure to read and a great way to start smiling more!!