Philosophy

The Water That Remembers

On What Holds Everything in Silence

👤 Luana, lead therapist at Artemisa📅 11 May 2026⏱️ 5 min
Detail of water droplets on a leaf, soft morning light

In Summary

The water inside the body is not just a background: it is the medium that organises life. When it flows gently, everything fits; when it becomes disordered, it is not that something breaks, it is that order is lost. The body already knows. It just needs the space to remember.

After entering that very small, very silent world, something begins to stand out. Something that is everywhere. Something that makes no noise and yet holds everything up.

It is water.

Water Is Not Empty

At first it seems as though water does nothing. It is there. Still. Transparent. Simple.

But if you stay a little longer, if you look at it carefully, you begin to notice something.

Water is not empty. Water is alive.

Everything happens inside it. Cells live in it. Minerals move through it. Signals travel in it.

It is as if water were a path. A place where everything finds its way.

Not All Water Behaves the Same

There are days when the water in the body flows gently, like a river that knows exactly where it is going.

And there are days when that river becomes slow. A little disordered. As if it had forgotten the way.

When water is calm, everything is easier. The body moves better. The mind thinks more clearly. Breathing is softer.

But when water loses its rhythm, it is not that something has broken.

It is like a room where everything is still there, but nothing is in its place.

It is harder to find what you are looking for. It is harder to move. It is harder to think.

The Body Has Not Forgotten

The minerals are still there. The enzymes are still there. The amino acids are still there.

But if water does not guide them well, they do not know how to move.

And then the body begins to feel different. A little more tired. A little slower. A little lost.

Not because it has failed. But because it has lost its order.

The body has not forgotten how to be well. It has simply lost the space where it can remember.

The body already knows. It just needs the space to remember.

Putting Water Back in Order

And often that space begins with something as simple as water.

When the body rests, when breathing becomes calm, when noise lessens, water changes. It becomes softer. Clearer. More organised.

Then, without doing anything special, everything begins to return to its place. Like when you tidy a table and suddenly everything fits.

Paths open. Signals flow. The body breathes better.

Not because someone has fixed it. But because the body remembered how to do it.

Stop Pushing

When you understand this, you stop always looking outside.

And you begin to listen within. To notice. To feel.

To realise that the life inside you does not need to be pushed. It just needs to be held.

And when that happens, everything changes. Not suddenly. Not dramatically. But little by little. Like water, finding its way again.

A Note From Science

The idea that the water in the body is not just a passive fluid has a fascinating echo in contemporary research. Gerald H. Pollack, professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington, has described in The Fourth Phase of Water (2013) a fourth state of water — between liquid and solid — which he calls exclusion zone water (EZ water). It forms spontaneously on the hydrophilic surfaces that the body is full of: cell membranes, collagen fibres, blood vessels. In this phase water organises itself into more structured layers, conducts charge and excludes solutes, sustaining the biochemical order the cell needs to function. Calling it 'water that remembers' is metaphor; that the water in the body organises itself into coherent structures is not.

The body already knows. It just needs the space to remember.

Important note: This article is a piece of divulgative writing with contemplative intention. It does not constitute medical advice. Sessions at Artemisa are complementary wellbeing experiences.

References

  1. Gerald H. Pollack, 'The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor' (2013)
  2. Pollack Lab — University of Washington
  3. Original text by Luana — *The Water That Remembers*, Artemisa (April 2026)