292 ~ The Water Element: Healing Lessons From Water

Hello Magical Human & welcome back to Madison Mindset the Podcast 🧚🏼

Join me as we learn profound lessons from the Water Element. This is the second episode in our series... Elemental Healing 🌲🌀

episode overview:
• 80% of Australians experiencing daily dehydration despite water being essential for nutrient transport, waste elimination, joint lubrication and almost every bodily function
• adding a pinch of pink salt and lemon to water creates "structured water" that enhances hydration
• visual and auditory exposure to water provides significant stress relief and emotional calming
• physical and emotional cleanliness are equally important – allowing emotions to flow through rather than suppressing them prevents buildup of emotional toxins
• embracing water's natural flow teaches us to let experiences come and go rather than holding onto everything, which creates tension and heaviness
• movement prevents stagnation

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You are Water

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Madison Mindset x

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Water Element
• 4:20 Hydration and Body Functions
• 10:29 Water Exposure Benefits
• 11:51 Cleansing Physical and Emotional Bodies
• 13:39 The Art of Letting Go
• 15:57 Movement Prevents Stagnation

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Hello Magical Human. Welcome back to Madison Mindset, the podcast. I'm here with the second episode in our elemental series. In this series we're going through the five elements and noting what they teach us about self-care and self-healing. So I already recorded the earth element episode. You can find it wherever you are. If you found this one, you can definitely find the last one. It was just the last major episode that's been uploaded. Go and check it out. Definitely, start there. I would definitely recommend starting there, unless you're particularly interested in the water element. But all of these are supposed to go together. So try to go and listen to that one first, if you haven't already, and you may have even joined me on Patreon to go a little bit deeper into some of those practices. That Patreon coaching session came out last week and it was really beautiful. We went through again all of the earth element lessons and actually put some of them into practice so that we can use them regularly. So that session, that coaching session, is there and available for you. Go and use it. Super good, a super good tool.

Speaker 1: 1:05

I'm still getting used to video podcasting. I don't know. I really don't know. I know it's a big thing right now and I'm sure there are people well, I know there are people that are watching this who prefer to watch it over listening, but myself I'm very much an audio podcast person. I much prefer that. But that's okay. We're here going with the flow of things, which is great, because the water element is just that going with the flow. When you're ready, let's jump in.

Speaker 1: 1:53

Hello, magical Human and welcome to Madison Mindset Podcast. My name is Madison. I'm a yoga teacher, a mindset and spirituality coach and a complete earth fairy. I see a world that is peaceful and easy to live in, humans that are awakened and enlightened towards who they are and what life truly is and why we are here. I understand life can be really hard. I've had a huge journey with anxiety myself. I understand what it's like to feel overwhelmed, overworked, stressed and frustrated within this earth. It is this journey that led me to begin my own growth journey journey and is only through those struggles that I was able to birth this podcast so that you can have the tools and techniques and knowledge to help you step forward and be a being of light, a magical earthly being who's grounded, who takes on challenges with love and embraces the lessons that each day brings. You are that being. I am here to walk you there.

Speaker 1: 3:18

You will find many different kinds of episodes through this podcast. All are created in the moment and with love for you. Find the one you need for this moment and enjoy. Take a moment for yourself, sit down with your journal and tune in. Welcome, let's begin. So. So Okay, the water element. The water element is connected to the emotional and physical body, so the earth element was mainly focused on the physical body. The water element we're going to take from the perspective of emotional and physical, and there are five different things.

Speaker 1: 4:45

I want to mention that the water element can teach you about taking care of your body. Reminder that your body is made up of earth stuff, but it's also made up of all the elements, right, anything that you can find on the earth. Right, you've got earthly things about you. You know your physical structure, the way you're put together, all of those things. You've also got water. Your body is mostly made out of water. We all know this. Now, this is a well-known fact. Right, you need water more than food sometimes. Right, your fire, you know your digestive system and the way that your body supports itself and mends itself, and that you know it takes effort and you know movement to go and cleanse the body. Your immune system, like all of it, is very much in line with the fire element of cleansing and purifying the body Air. Think about the air in your lungs. It's all there, right. And then, of course, we've got space, which is the fifth element, which goes a little bit deeper into spirituality Very cool. So when you put all these together, it's really awesome. The water element is connected with emotional and physical body.

Speaker 1: 5:55

So the first thing that I'm going to tell you which you probably already guessed it is hydration, drinking water. Many people Do not drink enough water. Okay, there was a study done in Australia. 80% of Australians experience daily dehydration and a large majority of that 80% could be chronically dehydrated, which means constantly dehydrated. In the average person, for women, you need about 2.7 liters per day, men 3.7 liters per day. This can range depending on your age, height, weight, all of those things, but basically it's about 12 to 15 glasses of water, potentially more. You can definitely overdo it, but most of us are severely underdoing it Now.

Speaker 1: 6:45

Water makes up the majority of your body, so it's obviously important and to give you an idea as to what water's function is inside your body. I actually wrote down some facts that I found that water does, just to make sure that I'm on the right track with this, right? Okay, water is absolutely vital to support bodily functions in every way, right. It transports nutrients, it transports oxygen to cells, it eliminates waste in the body, it regulates your body temperature, it lubricates joints, it helps with digestion, it protects organs and tissues. Okay, so we're looking at it's important, from moving nutrients around your body to the organ function, to how you actually go to the toilet and what your whole digestive system, how it's functioning. Joint lubrication, tissue protection, maintaining blood pressure, moisturizing the whole body inside out. It even lubricates the eyes, right? So think about this If you're seriously, chronically dehydrated, how many different areas of your body are going to take a hit?

Speaker 1: 8:01

Even if you're eating salads all day but you're not drinking water, the transportation of nutrients is going to be limited. You're not even getting correct oxygen levels. Like it's unbelievable. Pretty much your entire body shuts down without water. Okay, there's, you know, brain function, there's everything. It literally serves as a lubricant in the body. It makes up your saliva, it relieves constipation, it moves food through. Seriously. Even kidneys and liver obviously need help as well.

Speaker 1: 8:38

There's so much here about what water does for the body, and if you're curious any more than what I've just gone into, go and do your own research, find out why it's so important. But if you are dehydrated, you are letting your body down in a major way. Every function in your body, pretty much every part of your body, is going. Why can't you help me? We have. If you're living in the Western world, anyway, in modern day you have reasonably good access to water, I would think. And then, of course, we can go into all different things, such as what type of water are you drinking? Because there's a lot of poison in a lot of water. So understanding where you're getting it from and filtering it properly would be great for your body as well. And there's even things such as drinking structured water.

Speaker 1: 9:20

Okay, so most of the water we drink is unstructured, meaning it's very just plain. Let's use the word plain. Your body is meant to be drinking unstructured sorry, structured water, meaning you know it's trickled through rivers and it's gone over beautiful rock beds and collected all these beautiful minerals all the way down and salts, and then you drink it right out in nature. That's what's happening. But because our water doesn't typically go through beautiful streams. It travels through gross pipes, so you actually miss out on the minerals and the salts that the water can carry.

Speaker 1: 9:50

So to help your body hydrate even better, if you just put a little squeeze of lemon and a little pinch of pink salt or Celtic salt, I think it's called but yeah, himalayan pink salt, not table salt, right, something like that Just a pinch of that, it adds a little bit of flavor to the water. It's a bit weird in the beginning. It actually feels different in the body. So, yeah, give that a try, it will actually increase your hydration. But yeah, seriously, the water element is just being so obvious, isn't it? Drink water now, seriously, okay. So that's the first one. The second one water exposure.

Speaker 1: 10:29

It has been proven that staring at large bodies of water or trickling waterfalls, just observing water in nature, is shown to be very calming for the brain and it really helps you recover emotionally and stress wise Okay. So getting exposure to the water on a visual level is great, but also on hearing level as well. If you can even just play on your phone the sounds of rain or a trickling stream, notice how relaxing that is. It seriously is so calming for the body. It really slows everything down.

Speaker 1: 11:00

And then, of course, there's things such as actually getting in the water. You know, and this is where you could look into cold water exposure, although, just be mindful, this is different for men and women. Most of the studies have been done on men. Women don't need as cold, okay, so just be mindful, and definitely not around the time of your bleed. You want to stay away from cold water, then, but actually going for swims in beautiful places, you know, and being within the water, this is great. It's also a great way to charge. You know the negative electrons in the water running over the beautiful nature. I'm not talking about sterile public pools All right, that's not too bad, but ideally no. Try and find, you know, the ocean or something. Get yourself in it, be with the water. It is so good for you. Listen to it, look at it, seriously helps.

Speaker 1: 11:46

The next one it also invites us to look at cleanliness. Water is a great way to clean, hence you use it over your body, you use it to wash your hair, you use it to wash the house or to wipe the benches or whatever it is. Rain cleans a lot, you know, gets things to move. It's a beautiful way to cleanse. The body, including your space, needs cleansing. Are you taking care of yourself? How is your hygiene? Are you supporting the health of the body? Are you supporting your own cleanliness?

Speaker 1: 12:21

And then think of emotional cleansing as well. If you were sweeping all those emotions under the rug gross right, that's like sweeping dirt under the rug and just leaving it there. It will be turned over eventually. We'll all see it. So why don't you cleanse emotionally a little bit as well?

Speaker 1: 12:38

Do some meditation, do some deep breathing work. Face the emotions that come up, allow them to pass through and move on, just like a wave. Let them flow in, let the tide come in and then let it push away again. Let it come and go very naturally. Let it cleanse you, let the idea of water cleanse you. Meditate to the sound of the rain, stand out in the rain and scream if you need to. Allow yourself to cry if you need to. You know water again the tears, helps all the stagnant stuff get out. Help yourself, let go. Cleanse physically, cleanse emotionally. It will really help your health. All right, emotional baggage and pain that's left untouched can be very draining on the physical body and can be a big drain on your health. So water invites us to cleanse cleanse the emotional body, cleanse the physical body. You'll feel better, you'll feel lighter.

Speaker 1: 13:37

The next thing is letting go. Now this kind of comes into the last one, but letting go Water element has been tied with letting go. Let it go, don't hold on, just let it go. Okay, as you go through life, let things go. If you're trying to hold on to everything, holding on, you're gripping onto things, you're collecting things in a, you know, in a backpack and you're putting it on your back and all your shoulders are so heavy carrying all these heavy things. You have to be able to let old pain go, to let old experiences go, to let old hopes go. If you need to, to let things go. Be in a constant cycle of letting things go. The more you hold on, the more your shoulders are going to tense up from holding this heavy weight and the more drain you're putting on your health and your wellness. Relax, let it go. It's as simple as exhaling. Let it go. It might take a while to let things go, but have this constant idea of life is flowing in, flowing out. Flowing in, flowing out. Let it come in, let it go out. Don't try and grip and hold onto things that are flowing in this beautiful river of your life. Let it come and let it go, let it pass.

Speaker 1: 14:49

If you're sitting at one point in a river and you're watching water come and go, imagine trying to stand in the water and trying to keep the water that was coming because it's more beautiful than the last one. Or you're not sure what's going to happen down the river and you just want that water to stay. Can you imagine how physically draining it would be to hold on to that particular bit of water? It'd be impossible. Well, that's exactly what life is like. Life is constantly beginning and ending, coming and going. You cannot hold on to everything. You can't hold on to anything, not even your physical body in the end. So allow things to come and allow things to go. Be in that cycle of coming and going. Coming and going. It will help so much, trust me. If you're struggling with that again, go and check out the Patreon. We're going to do some exercises for letting go in there. Or you can start a yoga practice, do some meditation. Feel free to email me or DM me on Insta and we can chat about it, but just focus on letting it go. Letting it go.

Speaker 1: 15:53

The final thing that water can teach us about health is movement. Have you ever seen a river that is flowing so gracefully, so effortlessly? Have you seen how clear and beautiful that water is Beautiful? Have you seen a river that's quite stagnant, that's moving very slowly or not at all? Have you seen how gross that water is? Okay, this is a lesson.

Speaker 1: 16:19

If you are stagnant all the time, you never move. You never do any yoga postures, you never do any stretching, you never go for a walk, you never go to the gym or do some exercise. You're a stagnant river and it feels that way. Internally, you feel stagnant. It's gross, it really is. But when you move, you know how good it feels. When you move your body, when you give it a big stretch, when you bend to the left, bend to the right, when you move, when you get your heart rate up, how much better do you feel You've got to move.

Speaker 1: 16:49

Movement is a huge key. It doesn't matter what kind of movement you want to do. A variety is great, but just choose some kind of movement and do that daily, regularly. It doesn't have to be the exact same time or the exact same movement every day, but move. If you get stagnant on the couch, binge watching Netflix or whatever else, you know how stagnant and gross you feel after that Binge scrolling on Insta or YouTube or whatever it is. Notice how heavy that feels. Let's change it up. Let's lighten the load and move. Change it up. Let's lighten the load and move. Thank you everyone for being here for listening or watching this podcast episode. I hope you enjoy it. If you have any questions, comments, anything, again send me a DM. You can always leave a comment as well, and please leave a rating or a review on whatever platform you listen to this. It truly helps me so much. It helps spread this podcast further and it helps more people, so I would really appreciate it if you would do that. Thank you for being here. I appreciate you you.