“The importance of hydration in enabling the body to respond to the seasons”
By Thalia Goodman
“The importance of hydration in enabling the body to respond to the seasons”
Proper hydration is enabled in the body through good nutrition, sufficient water intake, fats and oils, and the ability to detoxify on a daily basis. All these factors enable our bodies to be fluid, so movement can take place easily throughout the different systems of the body, allowing for communication to easily take place.
If we want our body to respond to the effects of the seasons especially in a positive way we need to ensure that our bodies are well hydrated.
Water as we know is the carrier of all messages, a liquid crystal that easily picks up energetic vibrations and imprints, so if our bodies are properly hydrated we like water are able to pick up on and ‘feel’ vibrations and the energy in the world around us more easily.
This would of course include the seasonal changes.
If however our bodies are not fluid, or well hydrated but in fact burdened with a heavy toxic load, causing us to become stagnant and sluggish we would be unable to easily get in touch with our instincts and our natural reactions that occur around the seasonal changes.
Looking at what happens to the cell in cases of dehydration, (where the cholesterol ring is formed around the cell) this leaves us in a very vulnerable situation. Cell to cell communication is hampered and we are unable to get it contact with our own selves let alone respond to our external environment. When we are fluid communication takes place on all levels and we can easily regain our natural instincts around these important events:
“Outside nature does her dance, she is our teacher”
These changes that take place around us, also take place within our own bodies, nature is just an outward reflection of what is going on inside and vice versa.
These seasonal changes can be a time of learning, growing and releasing:
“ times of seasonal change are important as re-organizational periods, and are times for increasing self awareness and looking at life’s priorities, but also times of greater stress and thus of potential illness and difficulty”
If someone is in a state of ill health these changes can create more stress in the body. They are unable to respond in a positive way due to the amount of toxicity that their bodies are burdened with. Whereas someone who is more fluid can use these seasonal shifts to offload any toxins or to create some positive physical, mental and emotional changes within themselves it can easily have the opposite effect on someone who is not well hydrated.
If freedom from dis-ease is being able to ‘feel’ who we truly are, it is only able to do this because we can feel connected to our outside environment and recognise our part of the whole, our place in the world.
Your adaptation to these changing seasons is vitally important to your continuing good health”
Our bodies need to match what is happening in the natural world around us. If it were spring we wouldn’t dress in warm clothes, eats stews and soups or stay indoors because it doesn’t feel natural to do so, the same as dressing in light clothes and eating salads in winter would feel wrong. It would feel wrong because we are not living by nature’s laws, and if we don’t do this we quite easily loose that connection with our universe and thus ourselves, and this is the greatest stress that can be felt.
We know from our learning of the Chinese 5 elements, that each new season has a related organ, and if we use this opportunity to work and support these organs in their related season we not only take away stress/burden on the body but we really build our health by literally ‘feeding’ that organ what it needs and when it needs it.
By looking after ourselves in a relative way to the corresponding season, like nature itself we create health and move onto the next season with health:
“Can we stop nature? We can slow her by intervention, like damning a river, or cementing a cliff upon which ocean waves are crashing, but eventually nature has her way- the message comes forth- “change!”
So being fluid enough to be able to respond to these changes is absolutely vital not just to keep free from dis-ease, but for the great potential they lend to our spiritual, mental and physical growth. And it is this constant growth that will help us to assist our soul development, to keep us in touch with our true path and our own inner wisdom!
This article was posted by Thalia Goodman
