WATER PEOPLE– By Roberto Dansie

Water people are moved by one thing: emotions. They go with their feelings, and from the heart center they see and experience the world.

Water in balance and motion, can make them beam with life, flowing in the world, and connecting with every living being. But when water is not in balance, when there is an excess of it, then people can literally drown in their own water.

Traditional healers look into the eyes of people. “Drowning” can be one of their assessments. If this is the case, the remedy will be “un-drowning”, a word that exists in several languages outside of English.

And how is it that people can un-drown?

One of them is by being listened with skill by another person.

Now, this listening is a real art. The person doing the listening must be using all of his or her being. When the other person is releasing water, they must be bringing in good air; otherwise, the water that has been just released can find its way back into its source, like the rivers returning to the sea. The environment also, must be free of negativity. If in the air there is toxic or troubling energy, this air will find its way into the person that has created a new space. And the bad air can have even more negative factors than the water that had just was released. That is one of the main reasons why traditional healers, before they proceed to do any thing, create a sacred space and follow a ritual to open up and later to close in a good way the encounter.

The ancient Mexicans used the symbol of “burning water” to indicate sacredness, healing and transformation. And that is what takes place when the excess of water is turn into air by fire, which purifies of all negativity that which it burns. Air with light then goes back into the being of the person, and the light air elevates their spirit. That is why the ancient Greeks spoke of “inspiration” as the spirit in the air that elevates us, thus, “inspire us.”

Water was associated with the heart. And the fact that some people have a big heart does not mean that they are in any way weaker than others. To the contrary, they have the courage to feel, and as the old healing saying goes, “what you can feel you can heal!”

Water people are, by nature, healers. They have the ability to take into themselves the water of others, water that can contain their pain or suffering.

Because of this quality, others seek them out, often pouring their inner life out to them. At the end, they can say, “thank you, I feel much better now that I have talked to you” which may not be the experience of the one who listened.

Why is this?

Well, water people, kind and compassionate as they tend to be, are also aware that they have a tendency to take into heart everything that the other person may be feeling. And just like the waters of the earth always seek the lower ground, in the same way the energetic waters gravitate towards the heats of water people. Most people shield their heart from the world, but just look at the water people: their heart go out to people. They are like the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: a heart that is literally out of their body, a heart that is larger than life. They are the antidote to the illness of modern man, the one who thinks too much and feels too little. Water people feel it all. Because of this they can get quite overwhelmed. Waters, theirs and others, inundate their being. Hans Christian Anderson could feel profoundly, the suffering of others, particularly the children. This pain, he later said in is biography, would have destroyed him had he not found a way to channel these emotions. Which he began doing with his puppet show. And later he found that stories grew from these feelings, and that the stories were filled with a hidden meaning that often came towards the end. Then, all of that pain main sense and became something else, something aching to labor, the pains of giving birth, or growing pains that made us stronger for life. And that pain was also the source of compassion, our ability to feel the pain of others and be moved to do something about it. We are told that Christian Anderson, old and fragile towards the end of his life thought that his stories had come and gone like the wind, but the king of his country who had him at his palace told him, “Mr. Anderson, please come with me towards the window.” Anderson did. “They are coming out for you.” The king added. And Anderson saw points of light as far as he could see. It was his people, lighting candles all across his land.

That story reveals a trend of water people: they are rarely aware of the greatness of their actions. They just did them, from the heart.

And what is it that the author of “The Little Prince” tells us. He has the wise fox tell the little prince an eternal truth: “for that which is essential is invisible to the eye, it can only be seen by the heart.”