Healing power of water

Water

Like breath, it is vital to us

It nourishes

It cleanses

It restores

It heals

Sacred ceremonies

prayer

water

flowers

When I am stressed whether it is my body

or my mind that needs relaxation

I always end my day with a long warm bath.

And even though my bathroom isn't nestled in the beauty

of the outdoors like the photo above, I still take time to

make my tiny room a sacred space.

Candles can transform any room into

a place of welcome.

A bath infused with lavender's sweet, gentle scent

calms the overstimulated mind and

prepares the body for sleep.

To prepare the infusion combine a half cup of fresh lavender

blossoms with four cups of boiling water in a French press.

Let steep for twenty minutes.

Fill your bathtub, then pour the infusion into the bath,

and soak in to the comfort of lavender.

In very simple yet powerful ways

water can heal our bodies and our souls.

VICTORIA

Water

There really is something intoxicating about

water.

My beach,

Lake Ontario, taken from Niagara-on-the-Lake

(that's Toronto on the horizon)

V's beach at Tofino, Vancouver Island BC

sits on the Pacific Ocean

I 'borrowed' this photo from Razmataz,
which I believe (correct me if I am wrong Chania)
is Georgian Bay, Ontario

V. tells me that water is all about emotion.  I get that.  She tells me that we need to be careful when our homes are situated where water rushes toward it (too much roiling of the emotions, apparently).
I also read somewhere that our tendency to covet property by the water harkens back to a time when we needed to live next to a source of fresh water to survive...that makes sense to me too.

I love to sleep with the windows open when it's raining...I find the sound soothing.  And unlike poor Suzan over at the old grey mare, I even love thunder and lightening.

My best friend loves to swim.  In an icy-cold lake preferably it seems, but she will take a salty ocean or a  swimming pool, if push comes to shove.

So what is it about water?..is it because our bodies are about 70% water; that our tears so closely resemble the chemical make up of salt water; or is it that for nine months we sit below our mother's heart surrounded by amniotic fluid?

What's your theory?