The Happy Post: Closure or Not, Be Fluid as Water
Peace is essential to me, and unfortunately, I connect peace with understanding. Relinquishing the control aspect of understanding has been crucial for my homeostasis of happiness. There are a lot of things, people, and experiences that have helped me realize this, however, in this blog, I am going to focus on the lessons learned from water. Yes, water.
This blog post is more of a free-write, more artistic in nature than my other posts. I hope that is okay. It is an expression of love and gratitude for an outlet to observe what is real and also prioritize joy and peace. Whether or not you choose to read it literally is up to you. I believe the message is communicated in either interpretation. None-the-less, I honor the space it created for the conversation.
The properties of water are amazing—it defies logic. It is essential in all aspects of life. Actually, I have always had a unique fascination with water. How could something be so essential to our lives but also that the capacity to quickly and swiftly be fatal? It is in everything, absorbed by practically everything, and yet held by nothing—evaporating into itself (water vapor- a gas). It fuels our ecosystem and our biological system as well. In fact, the human body is comprised of 60% water (USGS, 2020).
You may be wondering why I am focusing so much on water. Well, I read a book recently called the Hidden Messages of Water*, which I highly recommend. It affirmed something I always felt deep down, which is that water is healing. What I didn’t know is that it can be destructive, and I really didn’t know that I can communicate with water to choose healing. The book was about the power of water, and more importantly, about the messages and properties that water can carry. In short, the researchers learned that what we communicate to water is translated and interpreted, thus changing the properties of the water (Emoto, 2004). Put otherwise, water communicates back to us. Masaru Emoto exposed water to different words, energies, songs, images, and other forms of communication. Messages of love and gratitude, for example, altered the water’s properties, causing it to crystalize differently from water exposed to toxic and negative messages. The difference in the crystallization was in clarity, shape, form, and wholeness. We have heard this message expressed in multiple ways;
- That we have the power of life and death on our tongue.
- That our thoughts have power and what we think will be manifested.
- The laws of attraction that thoughts lead to experiences.
- That the energy we put out is the energy we get back.
These messages circle back and back again to ourselves and our subconscious.
I believe in universal reciprocity, especially as it relates to the power within my mind, spirit, soul, and body. Therefore, I feel compelled to share it on my blog. That what you are going through is real, and how you experience it, recover from it, heal from it, and manifest above and beyond it is within your control. I am encouraging shifting the energy around you and within you to allow the messages carried by 60% of your body to be a message of love, strength, healing, gratitude, joy, and happiness. Asking your body and all the water around you to help you.
I was resistant to share sentiments like that because I feel that it can minimize people’s lived experiences, which I would never want to do. For example, if someone was, or is, in an abusive relationship, focusing on themselves should never relinquish the responsibility or accountability of the abuser. Nor will happy thinking completely eradicate the physical, psychological, or emotional pain of the abuse—at least not initially. My negligence was to assume that choosing to prioritize happiness, negated suffering. My negligence was associating happiness and joy with the superficial communication and demonstrations of “happiness” that we have come to normalize in society. I believe denial and masking allow us to put on a happy face, and really it is suppressing the truth. Happiness and joy are not the fluffy, puffy stuff that has you saying, “I’m okay!” when you really aren’t. Your emotions and feelings still exist in a life that prioritizes love and gratitude.
When it comes to B.S., we may never know why people walk out of our lives. We can make assumptions, but the truth is it may have been for your benefit and the universe conspiring in your favor. It could have been that person responding to their environment, their energy, and the space they occupy in their own journey. Choosing peace doesn’t mean that we pretend that people did not hurt you, or that you do not feel emotions and feelings of anger toward them. In fact, emotions are essential, as long as they don’t rule you. It is about acknowledging that they are emotions, inspired by energy… energy you can choose to accept or reject as your own.
This doesn’t mean that we pretend that our circumstances do not exist, it means to embrace them head-on, knowing that you can and will experience something more magnificent. The appreciation you have as a foundation from what has betrayed you is the set up for the joy you can have in abundance.
So no, I may not be able to understand everything, but I don’t need to. I can communicate with 60% of my body that is ready to listen and begin to transform everything about the energy around me. Just like water, the opportunities around you are not finite. There is abundance, not scarcity, and there are no bounds to what you can communicate when you have the elements on your side, and when you speak the language of love.
Something to continue to aspire to.
As a P.S. {personal statement lol}
I have to be fully transparent. I haven’t posted in a while because I have been struggling with the vicarious trauma experienced by the murder and minimization of Black lives. There is a long history of oppression, and as a Black person, the hate expressed for Black people around the world is a festering wound in the subconscious. This is especially so once you understand that the society you exist in never intended to serve you and never valued your life. That is a lot to process, and whether or not it is internalized, the realities of racial inequity persist. So no, I am not okay. If I were, then you should worry about me. However, I have peace and still feel in control. I am in communication with the universe, and the relationship is reciprocal; through the trauma, I can appreciate the present. It is clear that my ancestors possessed supernatural power. I can appreciate the resilience, strength, and power that flows through my veins, to stand tall and proud still, after centuries of oppression. God has woven that into my entire being. Whom shall I fear? Yes, I absolutely feel a connection to beauty, healing, and love. Oh, and certainly water.
Shout out to the abundance of love. I can see it that more now than ever. With people coming together all over the world to unify for people who look like me. The forced changes that will absolutely occur through the strength of collective power give me hope. And as I said in my last post, the beauty in hope is in the expectancy.
*There are claims that Dr. Emoto’s claims are pseudo-science and his research has been called under scrutiny for it’s replicability [or claimed lack thereof]. IDK about that, here is access to one of his more recent studies so you can decide for yourself. Of course, I encourage people to further investigate all scientific claims. It also depends on how you read it, as a claim of science or a claim of universal connection and expression. I also acknowledge this scientific claim causes only increase of peace and not harm which can be found in other forms of pseudo-science/science. Plus thousands of people, myself included, find it to be an essential read.
Check out Dr. Emoto’s book! I cited it below, and linked it to a Black owned book store. Leave a comment and let me know what you think.
References:
USGS, 2020. The Water In You: Water and the Human Body.