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Two Types of Toxins
There are two types of toxins that are produced in our bodies or that enter our bodies through the environment. Water soluble and water insoluble toxins. The job of getting rid of these two types of toxins is assigned to two major organs of the body. One is the liver and other the kidneys. Kidneys flush out water soluble toxins with the help of water and the liver flushes out water insoluble toxins through the help of bile. The byproducts of hormonal breakdowns and other metabolic products are water insoluble toxins that are thrown out by the liver. We will first discuss the kidneys and then, later, the liver.
Kidneys, The Garbage Cleaners
There are two million nephrons, the micro-chips of kidneys. These nephrons filter about 2000 liters of blood every day. Working with the kidneys, water helps to flush out toxic substances and waste materials from the body. It also helps the kidneys to produce sufficient urine to keep the body's inner chemistry (pH) in balance. If the chemistry (pH) is disturbed, the reactions are hampered and this manifests as disease. Hence, for the body to be healthy water should be abundant. This is the key to this therapy.
Every day zillions of chemicals reach the kidneys to be flushed out through urine. These include metabolic waste like urea (high protein diets cause high urea production), uric acids, breakdown products of hormones, vitamins, salts (sodium, potassium etc). These are all natural which the kidneys are accustomed to for thousands of years.
Modern man's kidneys, however, are challenged with zillions of manmade toxic chemicals that enter the body through a variety of ways. The sources include food (coloring agents, flavors, preservatives, sweeteners, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, hormonal substances and antibiotics from diary products), cosmetics (tooth paste, shaving creams, sprays, dyes, lipstick, eye lashes, nail polishes and removers), environmental pollutants both indoors, and outdoors.
Thus the body is choked with chemicals and the burden goes to the liver and kidneys. The liver converts the fat soluble toxic chemicals into water soluble chemicals and thereby helps the kidneys to flush the toxins through urine. However, with limited water supply, the kidneys cannot completely flush out metabolic and foreign waste. Therefore, metabolic wastes accumulate and cause diseases like cancers, allergies, hypertension, Parkinson's, kidney stones, gall stones, kidney failures etc. Accumulation of foreign chemicals accelerate the cause of the above diseases and also trigger other ailments. Water alone can help the body to get rid of these wastes.
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Why is the amount 1.5 liters or 1.6 quarts recommended?
Considering the average stomach capacity, 1.5 liters (1.6 quarts) of water is recommended. It basically fills the stomach and the water gushes into the intestines and cleans the whole pathway. Since the small intestine does not absorb water, nature helps in the cleaning of the organs from the mouth , through the esophagus, stomach and the small intestines and part of the large intestine right down to the rectum. So every morning we clean the whole alimentary system (digestive and intestinal organs).
In the large intestine, part of the water is absorbed into the blood stream and the rest reaches the rectum where it pushes the stools out of the body. We have noticed that drinking slightly lukewarm water completely flushes the stools in the rectum almost like taking an enema.
The water in the blood slightly dilutes the blood which is good for the heart and other capillaries. The kidney then uses this water to flush all the metabolic and toxic wastes from the body.
To summarize, water therapy every morning cleanses the whole body by flushing toxic and metabolic wastes from the body and keeps it healthy. Before we go to discuss how water therapy purifies the mind, let us learn the technique of doing this therapy.
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Water therapy for purification of mind
One simple cleansing method for both body and mind
What do we mean by purification? Any thing that is stated as "pure" means that it consists only of a single entity. For example, "pure gold" means that it contain only one entity, that is gold. Even if it contains a speck of copper, we still do not refer to it as pure gold. This is the definition of purity for anything in this world, including our own mind.
So what does it mean to have pure thoughts? It means there is only one thought. This one thought state leads to awareness. This is what we are seeking. This is happiness. When we are at the peak of happiness we are in the present moment. It could be the day we graduated from school or the day of marriage or the day our first child was born or the day one becomes CEO of a company or the day the first BMW car was purchased.....these are all moments of present-awareness.
True happiness comes when we are always in the present, the moment, the awareness. To achieve this state the mind has to be purified, or it has to be in a single thought state, for awareness to bloom.
So when you do water therapy every day feel the water. Be conscious of you drinking the water. Observe your thoughts, do not let your thoughts wander. Keep your focus on the present. In these moments you can observe the emotional mind conflicting with the guiding intellect.
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Awareness : Key to Success
Interestingly, awareness is the goal of all humankind. Whether you are a student, a house wife, a scientist, a computer professional, a painter, an architect a doctor or a spiritual seeker ...we all struggle to gain longer moments in the field of awareness. The irony is that with the exception of the deep spiritual seekers the rest of the people do not know that it is this field of awareness that brings them their creative intelligence. When Archimedes, one of the greatest mathematicians, immersed his body in the water tub one morning, he was actually sinking in the field of awareness, and cried "Eureka". All serendipitous discoveries in all branches of life, happen to men or women, who sink for brief moments in the field of awareness. These are the people who gain brief moments of awareness, but walk away with small accomplishments for material gains. It is out of ignorance that they sacrifice awareness for insignificant things. Whereas spiritual people are those who go beyond and revel in awareness and find joy within themselves.
Check yourself for your state of awareness
Have you ever checked whether you could focus on anything in life for a brief moment? Just analyze for a second how many thoughts flash before your mind. How you are caught in a stream of thoughts! Why is it that you are always drifting in thoughts, thoughts and more thoughts? Your brain occupies less than 20% of your whole body space, yet consumes almost 40% of your total energy even at rest.
If you are interested in diving into this field of awareness for whatever reasons, either mundane or spiritual, you have a simple choice. Water therapy is that simple method to begin with; it brings many health benefits to your physical body, while your spiritual being gets its first lesson in awareness. We are not claiming that water therapy can bring you awareness. What we are giving you is a means to achieve that state of mind that will help you to expand yourself in the field of awareness.
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Healing power of water - 3
| Chanting and Water in Ancient practices
Like other traditional cultures, ancient Indian scriptures considered water a sacred element and it formed the most essential part of all rituals. It was a strict practice to keep water in a vessel at the place where the rituals were being performed, especially when chanting holy scriptures. It is considered a sin to do any rituals without water even if one does not offer flowers, fruit or any other food to God. After the rituals, the water is usually given as 'prasad' in temples and homes. In Indian temples after the priest does the chanting he distributes water which carries the sound vibrations of the chanting. There is a great secret behind this practice. The sounds produced during chanting of holy scriptures have great influence on the health of the people listening to it. The healing effect of sounds is scientifically proven and need not be described here. Water has a remarkable property of absorbing subtle sound vibrations. Drinking this water after chanting will be doubly beneficial because the sound vibrations will reach each and every part of the cells in the body through water. The sacred syllable "AUM" was written on a glass of water and the crystal structure that was observed is shown below: Water crystal obtained by labeling with the Vedic sound Aum |
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Flavors, Aroma & Water
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This explains again why in Indian temples, herbs were added to the water before chanting of Vedic scriptures. The most common herbs used include bilva, basil, camphor, neem, turmeric, darba grass etc. This herbal water is usually given to the devotees after worship.
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