Transformation in a tub 1

Wouldn’t it be awesome if we could find a simple way to push the refresh button after a particularly challenging day? We humans have learned over thousands of years that ritual is a necessity. Our ancestors knew the importance of performing tasks in an intentional way to change the energetic balance for positive gain. It is no surprise that all religious faiths have some ceremony around water and bathing. In her book “Spiritual Bathing” Rosita Arvigo, one of my favorite teachers, describes the various bathing rituals practiced over the centuries for renewal and cleansing. The bath can be a powerful tool of transformation.
Travelling in Ecuador, I noticed that the folks there in the jungles would more often than not take baths with plants. Imagine bringing in all the clippings from a day of gardening and putting them in the bathtub before the compost pile. This is exactly what they did! Indigenous folks know that plants are intelligent life forces capable of transformation. They experience this on a daily basis because, without plants, they know they would not survive.
In our culture, we think it’s sweet how people talk to their plants though we haven’t extrapolated that concept to the natural world outside. We haven’t yet gotten, at a core level, as a species, that everything around us is alive with a spirit and energy that connects us all. It is sad to me that most people experience a world full of objects that are ‘dead’ like that. If we did not see trees as inanimate, it would be unacceptable for us as humans, for example, to continue to allow the practice of roadside tree trimming efficiency that results in our viewing the twisted fragmented limbs of trees mutilated by that giant razor thingy that the DOT uses …but I digress.
We have received a major paradigm shift through the works of Dr.Masuru Emoto who wrote “Messages from Water” and his latest book “Water Crystal Healing” in which he pairs music with images of water crystals as a way to restore well-being. His work shows us that water responds to energy through words and music and we know from personal experience that even a basic water bath with soothing music can transform our space, that is, our peace if mind.