Water and Human
The sea is out of water. As an element , the main substance on earth. It covers more than 70% of earth’s surface and 95% is still unexplored. 96% of all water is saline and only 1% is drinking water. Ocean plankton provides more than half of our oxygen. Water in its different stages is omnipresent on earth.It is literally everywhere and it is the same water circulating since the beginning of our time. We are coming out of water, as a species of planet earth and as a foetus out of mothers whomp, where we still have gil-slit structures in the early stages of our development. We are very similar. When we are born our body contains 78% water, our brain 80% and it stays like that our whole life, while the rest is drying down with age to 60%.
Our Cell Water has almost the same mineral composition as sea water. We are buoyed in water because our body has almost the same density and our fat and the air in our lungs let us float.So we experience physical liberation from our normal weight in gravity.
As soon as we put our face under water our mammelion diving reflex hits in, which prevents little babies, thrown into water, from drowning. It produces a sequence of immediate physiological responses in the cardiovascular system like slowing down the heart rate and redirecting the blood from the periphery to the vital organs. An overactive nervous system can be reseted by the activation of the parasympathetic nervous system and the the vagus nerve, which both leads to slowing down the breathing rate and interrupting cycles of panic and anxiety.
Same can happen with regulation disruptig traumapatterns.
Concerning the hormonal system the cortisol levels and therefore the stress level gets reduced and replaced by Endorphines, Oxytocins and Dopamines. Water is a good replacement for any drug addiction and a natural pleasing equivalent.
The hyperfocusing part of our brain get soothed into a mind- wandering, creative and receptive state of flow and joy. We go from fight to flight modus. The brain gets reprogrammed , new neural networks and pathways gets shaped by the only contact with this new element and environment.
Water and all nature renews our attention. And water like no other element reconnects us and brings us back to our sensual world. We feel the density with our skin, we can move through it, like golden liquid, we are light, guarded and safe.
In ancient times humans were living in nature. They were not only completely dependent, they were interdependent.They knew that all there actions could not be without effect.The idea of isolation or seperation was simply unreal.Today we are racing into a denaturalized manmade lifestyle which throws us back to our ego. Usually we look what we get out of something, what serves our needs and desires. We develop „nature deficit disorders“, aversions, fears and dissabilities to handle a natural environment and conceive it as dirty, dangerous and uncontrollable.
Water reminds us!!
Specially saltwater even discharges us from electric tension, which we accumulate with all our electronic devices in daily life, WLAN, the microwaves from blue tooth, 5G, Alexa….
A few centimeters under the surface, water blocks away any radiation! What a relieve!!
It literally grounds us!
There is almost no noise down there. No words spoken. Its peace. Relaxation.
Saltwater is even healthy with all its minerals and ions. Some peole drink it!
How can we not love it?!
Its in our DNA!!
„People protect what they love.“ Jaques Cousteau