Water’s Mystery: Fear as a Teacher and Gatekeeper

Water is the most ancient of mirrors. It fills us up and remembers. Born from the womb we are born into fear inseparable from life herself.

Water and Fear

Everything inside your abdominal area in your body is the elmnt of Water. I often say to my clients, while palpating their tight in depth bellies, that our internal waters haves the weakest connection to our lives in the here and now.

She does, however, contain much of our history.

Water is associated with raw, primal fear:
it is not rational or survival-based fear that is connected like Earth elmnt with physical survival, but an existential and deeply felt, often without visible cause.

Water speaks in the language of feelings. And your fear is not a declaration but a ripple on the surface of the ocean. Have your ever noticed that when fear is met with openness, it shape-shifts: into sorrow, into rage, into the joy of relief?

People without chronic patterns of tensing up their bellies mold their fear into a different emotion every time it is aroused. In other words, when we let our emotional waves rise and move on - our water flows, the fear is allowed to flow, too, and the feeling passes.

But when the water is denied to stream, it becomes a cycle repeating itself without evolution.

Most of us who have chronic patterns of holding, have learned to respond the same way every time fear arises, thus acquiring a predisposition to irritability, anger, guilt, shame. This is when we start to perceive any emotion as “dangerous waters”, rather choosing to lock them up then letting its turbulent flow to pass through us.

Yet water is not your enemy.

She simply reminds you the wisdom that we can neither initiate nor determine your feelings - We can only let them be.

We can watch the waves rise and let them flow.
We may ecstatically surf the surges up and down, until the ocean quiets,
and a clear sight unfolds to our minds.

Fear as the gatekeeper of transformation

Raw fear is the basic fear of death.
And so, all our basic emotional patterns - and so our embodiement - originate in the way we've chosen to handle fear over the years. Have you ever thought what life would be without it?

Fear protects us and keeps us alert. Fear reminds us that we are not omnipotent. It humbles us down and shows us our limits.

F.E.A.R. is Focuses (F) our Energy (E) and Attention (A) to Respond (R) to something.

When we experience something new venturing beyond our normal boundaries, the fear we feel prevents us doing things that may harm us. We fill the space of our new boundaries with blood cooling Waters - emotional fear.

Water simply fills an existing space, takes its shape and flows - unless held in place cold for too long - it does not freeze.

When our waters are pure and balanced, our emotional spectrum is far beyond only fear:
we feel afraid when we're afraid,
sad when we are sad,
and angry when we're angry.

We are a healthy expressive human beings - communicating our state to other beings in its purity, so that others can feel us and resonate with us:
attune, join in laughter or crying, or hold in a compassionate embrace.

When the water element is not in balance, it imprisons rather than safeguards us.

All these emotions - together with somatic sensations that come with them - are however transitory for water moves on. If you have trapped your water at any point in your past, you have also entrenched your emotional patterns and, by contrast, always experience the same feeling and respond in a same way.

An Excellent Teacher
We must undergo fear in order to internalize new experiences.
Without fear we learn nothing.
There is no excitement and no enthusiasm.
Fear makes our lives at once pleasurable and torturous.

Thus, only those who step through it may find the true homeland for their soul: No fear - no initiation. No mystery. No depth.

Let fear come. Let it touch you.

Let it pass.

Only then will your water flow and with it,
your soul will remember how to dance.

Willing to taste a life of unrestricted Water flow?
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