Connect With the Spirit of Water
Water heals. Water offers us the purest of the medicines and its power is subtle and deep.
This is an intimate and simple proposal: for 21 days we honor the water of life as a purifying and healing force of body, mind and spirit. This personal practice brings awareness that we are a network united by the same intention.
A friend who is also a medicine man shared this water ceremony with me. Upon waking in the morning, the first thing I do is to prepare myself a glass of water. I go outside — preferably with bare feet on the ground — and holding that glass of water I pray to her. I ask for what I want that day. Sometimes it’s specific and other times broader or even vague. Sometimes I pray for people in need, sometimes for nature.
When I’m done, I drink that water, thus drinking my prayers.
So I’m proposing this for us to do collectively during the following 21 days.
Before drinking our water in the morning, take time to open an intimate space with water.
1. Prepare our glass with water.
2. Connect with the spirit of water.
3. Hold our glass with both hands near our heart.
4. Make sure we set up the intention of purification and pray to the water.
5. Sing to the water, if it resonates with us.
6. With all our heart we ask water to remove all toxic information from our cells.
We drink our water slowly, each sip consciously. We do so to:
• Connect with the healing power of water.
• Listen to messages.
• Heal our wounds.
When I’m done, I drink that water, thus drinking my prayers.
• Open the channel through which our emotions flow to eliminate what is not, and welcome what is.
• Honor our water.
• Take care of our body.
• Nurture our soul.
• Take care of our roots.
• Connect with the source of life in us.
• Take the strength of our ancestors.
• Feel the eternal bond that unites us and remains.
• Remember our essence.
• Take care of our sovereignty.
Know that we are doing this collectively, raising the awareness towards this life-giving element in which all life has begun.
To close the ceremony we say thank you.
I will share a few prayers you can also use.
• ¨For the purification of the waters of our planet, and the purification on the waters of our bodies, thank you, thank you, thank you¨
• “Water of reconciliation, you who unite everything, you, who both inside and outside sustain us in life, we honor you.”
• “Thank you water, for being the unifying thread of our life, memory of our lineage. You are our blood, the voice of those who gave us life, the voice of those who left. You, who are the continuity of existence in the heart of love, we honor you.”
• “Water of life, may your memory help us remember how to love each other, how to unite. May your healing power heal our wounds, our fear, our pain. May your wisdom inspire us and help us reconcile with the pain of loss, with what has gone, with what is leaving.”