Why Alkaline Water?
I often talk about debilitating fear in my blog. When I am
sure that God is present and is walking with me on a day-to-day basis, fear
couldn’t be in the equation, unless I don’t truly trust in an all-loving God. The
last couple weeks has been a struggle because of a constant upset stomach and
crippling back pain. To keep my mind positive and in the direction of solving
the problem, not lingering in it, I begin with self-inquiry. I ask myself
questions like: “Bo, do you really not trust that God will take care of your
needs according to the riches in heaven?”
The answers my mind gives me are vast: “I’m afraid that
something terrible will happen like the time the roof was blown off the carport
in the tornado.” “My bank account looks as if it won’t have enough for my bills
in the coming months.” “I have been feeling arthritic pain in my body for ten
years and have prayed about it, why hasn’t God helped me on that?” These are
just a few of the ways my Ego supports my own fear. I’d imagine that you have
many of your own self-UNassuring answers that might follow a question such as
the above.
As in all self-inquiry practices, though, you don’t stop
with the first answers your Ego give you. You continue with questions that
supersede the negativity that your mind produces.
The next question you might ask yourself is: “Is God really
responsible for all things on earth? Do you believe that God caused 9-11 or
flooding or hurricanes or even hereditary pain?”
My mind usually answers: “God is omniscient and omnipresent,
therefore, it would stand to reason that God allows for all of this to happen,
but, perhaps, isn’t responsible for what nature and evil does.”
This kind of questioning leads me to what I truly believe in
my heart—nothing more or less. Am I certain that God exists? If I am, how does
God play a role in my own life?
I come to realize, when I feel as if I’m walking on the path
that God has laid out for me; then, I automatically sense a spiritual covering
over my life. Even when I’m in pain or suffering a setback of some kind, I feel
protected. So, if the will of God is something that appears to be negative,
such as 9-11, then I need to believe that whatever the will of God may
manifest, it is the right choice, no matter what the circumstances appear to be.
When I step out of the will of God, this fear exponentially
increases as anxiety and stress. I can tell almost immediately when I feel the
sense that God can’t protect something he hadn’t defined.
I remember being in the center of one of the biggest
tornados in Nashville’s history. I sat in my living room, looked out the window
and saw porch chairs spiraling in the wind. I ran to the bathtub and dove in.
In the next few moments, the roar of the wind ceased to a calm silence. I crept
from the bathroom to find that the entire opposite side of the street had been
stripped of roofs and demolished, as my side of the street went unscathed.
I go back to pre-9-11, when I had the dream of a plane
crashing into a building marked 666 in NYC. I lived in Midtown, but my partner
worked in the World Trade Center. The message in the dream was to leave NYC as
soon as possible. So, as I reflect back on that moment in time, I see that God
was able to share with me the future, and also protect my partner from
impending death or peril. So, I believe that God knows the future, but may not
have control over what happens to each individual. Therefore, God has made a
way for us to also see into the future so that we can make our own choices
concerning life and safety.
If this same God is the Spiritual Force I believe is leading
my life, how can I not trust that God will lead me out of my bodily pain and
into peace?
With that knowledge, a small miracle happened to me over the
weekend concerning my back and stomach pain. One of my dearest friends is a
Nurse Anesthetist. He was telling a story about his recovery from knee surgery
and how it affected his back. In sharing, he told me about trying pH balancing
in the body by using alkaline-based water to drink, which reduces inflammation
in the body, which, in turn, helps it heal quickly.
As I am willing to try anything, I hurried to the store and
bought pH Ion Balance Booster, which not only adds alkaline to the water, but
also adds electrolyte mineral supplements and oxygen. After only one day of
drinking the water, I had zero stomach pain and almost 80% of my back pain had
disappeared. If you have ever been in severe pain, you know that this is a
small miracle. I practically jumped out of bed this morning, with a great
disposition, which hadn’t been the case for almost a month.
So, my question to you is: Do you believe my friend telling
me about the alkaline-based water was a message from God?
This question holds the bones on which our flesh and blood
covers. We must go deeper to understand our own experience with God. If we
don’t have a spiritual practice, today is the day to begin to start that
journey. Learn to meditate. Find a church or a following that will help you
find the truth that bears witness to your own soul. This is like yoga. You
never want to look at someone else and copy a pose. You always want to go
inside and find the pose within you.
Don’t get thrown off course by churches and beliefs that are
negative and full of judgment. All churches aren’t like that and all beliefs
don’t manipulate and pass guilt to stay in existence. At the very least, begin
to read information and books like Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth” to help you
make sense of all the spiritual information floating around in the world and
how it may apply to your own life. Namaste.
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