The Way of Water

By Phyllis Pipkin, CMT, CPT, CLT

Earth is seventy percent water. Our beautiful blue planet is alive, thanks to the constant movement of water. Water that is alive. Water is constantly changing forms; whether from liquid to solid, to gas and back. Rain falls from the clouds or condensation of the atmosphere. This creates lakes, underground streams rivers and oceans even when they are completely or partially frozen for a bit of time, all teeming with LIFE!

Water has for years been given the title “The Fountain of Youth”. Constant changes in scientific breakthroughs are showing us that this is in fact true! There are many books and peer reviewed articles in journals that demonstrate this. So this theory of many years is proven that water truly is healing and vital for us. As more people seek to become their own healer, we discover that simply drinking “live, healthy” water actually increases our life span by making us more vital in spite of the fact that our chronological age increases.

When you consider the healing properties of water, it brings us back to different youthful parts we experienced. Remember the joy of discovering water? Seeing pictures of yourself or relatives that were babies in the bathtub? The fun of splashing and being in the water, with no cares.

What about the first time you swam under water and marveled at what you could see, hear and do? Would you pretend you were a fish, dolphin or mermaid? Would you wish you could breathe like a fish so you could stay underwater longer and explore? The feeling of weightlessness, this freedom brought an inner joy to your soul. You connected with something deep in yourself, where you had complete peace.

The more energized, live water we have in our system, the lighter we become-mentally (our brains are actually 85% water), physically we lose weight and spiritually we take on the “light or vibration of light” that heals us on an unconscious level.

Humans come into this world being approximately being ninety percent water, as we age and shift, we actually “shrink” to around seventy percent water. Most people when they leave the Earth are only about) fifty percent water (when we reach the 50% water status we can no longer maintain a sufficient life force).

As babies we are born in an alkaline pH state and as we age we become more acidic due to increased stress whether the factors are environmental or emotional. The pH level in our body is important because of cellular and organ function. The blood must maintain a very strict pH level that varies only slight degrees. Our internal terrain thrives in an alkaline environment and can do the normal chemical functions it was designed to with the correct pH. It is vital that we learn the importance of not only healing our bodies but what type of water actually increase exponentially our ability to heal our selves.

Water circulates throughout our bodies in one form or another keeping us alive. The body fluids of blood, lymph, breast milk, semen, urine, etc. are all composed of water. The fluids within us also help in regulating our body temperature. The lymph and blood move between our cells and through our cells bringing energy, removing wastes (toxins which maybe be by-products of breathing, foods and emotional stressors created within ourselves), bringing oxygen from breathing, hormones essential for organ growth & function, and nutrition from foods, other liquids and/or supplements, we take which travels to each of our cells, allowing the chemical and electrical reactions and actions to occur.

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, each organ has a unique vibration as do emotions. When you have an abundance of negative emotions or vibrations within the body it will create/carry the negative vibration to various organs to stress them out. This is where “dis-ease” often begins in the body. Remember that water is an incredible carrier of vibration, capable of disbursing the negative and positive emotions throughout our bodies.

There are many types of water available to us. These are tap, bottled, reverse osmosis, distilled, ionized and alkalizing. Many scientific studies have been done as to what is the healthiest water to drink. Different studies done on the people of the Hunza districts in Pakistan, Shin-Can areas of China, the Caucasus in Azerbaijai and in the Andes Mountains, science has discovered that these people live longer lives with less health problems.

Research has shown that the waters in these regions are pure (from the aspect of pollution free), alkalized, ionized, have naturally occurring minerals, sediment and carries a negative redox (ORP, which stands for Oxidation Reduction Potential and means “potential” electrical millivoltage energy that is stored, can be measured and ready to be put to work). All of these facts combined come from the information that these waters have intimate contact with volcanic materials/minerals and/or cascade over certain igneous rocks.

This type of water is not only mineral rich, which alkalizes the water, it also is restructured creating natural ionization or “negative ions” by coming down the mountains cascading over rocks and waterfalls as it flows in the streams and rivers. What science has been able to do is recreate the same type of water found in the areas list above with machines that filter, ionize and alkalize the water at the same time.



There are several different types of trace minerals which are nutritionally important for our body function. These include the alkaline minerals such as calcium, potassium, magnesium and sodium, not as significant are manganese and iron. The acid trace minerals we need are chlorine, sulfur, phosphorus, which forms hydrochloric acid, sulfuric and phosphoric acid. When water is ionized, it is actually restructured or micro-cluster its molecules are smaller which enables us greater absorption through the cellular matrix of the body. Water that comes from an ionizer is split in a ratio of 70% alkaline and 30% acid.

Both types of water are healthy for us. Our internal terrain craves an alkaline pH to carry on the functions of our body. Alkaline water helps to dissolve the acids and toxins that are stored in your cells. These toxins cause inflammation, free radical damage and may destroy your healthy cells by stealing oxygen, which allows each cell to carry on the function of the body.

Filtered water alone from an ionizer is the first step in cleaning water by pulling out harmful components of the water such as chlorine, phenols, sediment, trihalomethanes, bacteria, viruses, organic waste and heavy metals. This in itself is the beginning of capturing the “Fountain of Youth” in your water.

Pure water from distillers or R/O (reverse osmosis) is neutral on the electrical spectrum, neither positive nor negative. It cannot be ionized because it will not carry an electrical charge. Pure water also will never test at a pH 7 (neutral) except after it is immediately produced. This type of water is extremely aggressive and will absorb anything it can. It can and will absorb carbon dioxide from air which changes the pH to acid water instantly and increase the ORP reading 0 to +400 or higher.

Once we begin to read about the benefits of drinking this type of water, we realize being able to absorb water that is restructured means that we hydrate ourselves up to six times more than with conventional water. This allows for greater mineral and nutritional absorption especially when we eat foods grown in an organic, mineral rich environment.

It also encourages “friendly micro-flora” in our gut that takes the stress off both our large intestine and our liver so that each may function at the optimal level. When you consider that the bulk of food that we eat is composed of water, we realize how important water again is to us. Vegetables and fruits are 90% water, fish and meat are around 70% water.

Ionized, alkalized water units are becoming more popular with more information about the state of our tap water contaminated with heavy metals, toxins from chemicals, pesticides and possible medications coming from our faucets, bottled water that leaches toxins from the plastic it is stored in or other types of filtration systems such as distillers or R/O which leach precious minerals from our bodies.

(The above article is a excerpt of The Fountain of Youth: The Way of Water. If you are interested in reading the entire article, please email us at pippysays@gmail.com)