Happiness Break: How To Tune Into Water’s Restorative Power

The Science of Happiness

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🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Indigenous scholar Dr. Yuria Celidwen guides us in a reflection on our interconnection with water, encouraging us to see it as more than just a vital resource, but as kin.

How to Do This Practice:

Last week we explored the scientifically backed healing qualities of water, focusing on how connecting with water through sound, sight, and touch can support our well being. This week, indigenous scholar Dr. Yuria Celidwen guides us in a reflection on our interconnection with water, encouraging us to see it as more than just a vital resource, but as kin.

Find a quiet space where you can engage with water— a nearby river, ocean, or even the faucet at home.
Focus on the sound of water. Whether it’s the gentle drip from a faucet or the sound of waves, listen deeply to how water calls to you.
Contemplate how water transforms between solid, liquid, and gas. Let this remind you of your own potential for transformation.
Imagine the water flow, guiding you to feel its presence within and around you, awakening memories, imagination, and a sense of belonging in this shared world.
Take a few moments to reflect on how different manifestations of water connect with you.

Today’s Happiness Break Host:

DR. YURIA CELIDWEN is an indigenous scholar of contemplative studies, and author of the new book, Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Foundations For Collective Well-Being.

Read more on Yuria: https://www.yuriacelidwen.com/#about

Follow Yuria on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuriacelidwen/

Read Yuria’s work on kin relationality: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.994508/full

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Dacker Keltner.
0:05.0	Welcome to Happiness Break, where we offer practices to support your well-being and deepen your sense of attunement to the world around you.
0:13.0	In our last Science of Happiness episode, we explored the healing qualities of water through our five senses.
0:20.0	Research shows that connecting with water
0:22.0	through our senses, like sound and sight, can make us feel better by reducing
0:26.9	stress, enhancing focus, and promoting calm. Studies also find that a meaningful
0:32.9	connection with water often fosters a stronger commitment to protecting water sources.
0:39.2	This week we're honored to be guided by Dr. Yeria Selidwin, an indigenous scholar who invites
0:44.8	us to experience water as a reflection of our interrelationality with all life.
0:50.7	She leads us through a practice that taps into our full sensory awareness of water, tracing its presence both within and around us.
0:58.0	So settle in and join Yuria in sensing our relationship with water.
1:07.0	Bameh Ayesh, Yutilayit's Tumale.
1:11.6	Lech de Leshsehansil-Lel-Sok Winkile.
1:14.6	Who unlock the Yurias-Lidwin-Nawatok Maya Batilkop, the Soyhielat Kinawai-Batilkinaw.
1:20.6	Good day, dear relatives. I am Dr. Yurias-Lidwan, a Maya Batilkopik, from the Truth Bearer peoples of the Highlands of Chiapas in Mexico.
1:34.0	Today I am offering a practice on water, its properties, gifts, and challenges.
1:42.8	Pollution, the climate emergency, are bringing environmental disasters
1:50.0	that are threatening our waters. Indigenous elders have warned for decades, bringing awareness
1:59.0	for Mother Earth's most valuable resource,
2:02.6	because we know clean water is essential for life.
2:10.6	So in this practice, I invite you to engage with an aim of deepening our sense of keen relationality that is seeing the whole
2:21.5	world as a relative. I'm binding you to examine how we relate and how we perceive our relationships.
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