Guy Proulx - Water: the Universal Healer

Water:

The Universal Healer

Guy Proulx

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Water:

The Universal Healer

Copyright 2012 by Guy Proulx

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ISBN: 978-1-4759-3891-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4759-3890-6 (hc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2012913110

iUniverse rev. date: 8/21/2012

Contents

Dedicated to my grandmother Emily, my father Roland,
and my mother Theresa who have all left this world. Their collective spirits whisper through my words.

Writing this book has made me realize the number of kind souls, family and friends, who walk with me in this life. This project would never have been completed without all their generous help and support. There are too many to mention all of you; you know who you are.

I need to mention a few people whove played a big role in championing this project to life. I would like to thank my editing team. Over the nine years it took to complete this project, I had four editors: Deirdre Lindsay helped with the first version of the book, and I learnt a lot about my writing styles from her. Rolf Pederson, a newspaper editor, contributed his fine work. Sharon Giles is the editor who massaged my words from start to finish. And lastly the editing team at iUniverse publishingthank you all.

I must also thank the brilliant artist who was able to take a vision from my mind and create a beautiful painting that will help promote the message of my book. If you need to commission an artist, this is your girl. Thanks, Karen Kesteloot, for a great book cover.

Special thanks to Julie and Bryan Tripp, for your skilled photography.

Mike Dionne, Steve Schlotzhauer, Helene Beaudry, Annas family, Dr Karen Euller, Lori Wilson, and Rob and Sheila Dice are just a few more of those whove supported me in this endeavour. I am forever indebted to all those who made it possible for me to see the truth about water throughout my career.

This book has gone through several revisions over the last nine years, but it was only a manuscript until I befriended Anna Pilon. Anna is my project manager. She came along and said, We can turn this transcript into a book. No need to be afraid of publishing. She is the reason you are reading this.

Although my whole family was very supportive, I need to give a special thank-you to my brother Pat and his wife, Kelly, for the loan of their cottage, where much of my inspiration came from. Its no coincidence that I was inspired when around water. Thanks, guys, for sharing.

My brother Paul (I have three brothers and four sisters) said to me, Your acknowledgment is going to be long, but you know who earns the last mention?

I said, Who?

He replied, Your massage table.

He was right. None of this would have happened without the help of the massage table. I paid all the professionals who helped me for their services in trade with massage therapy. It was upon my graduation from massage therapy college that I began this part of my journey. The sixteen years of research for this book was conducted on my table.

Thank you all. Take care. I care.

Chapter One

No man was ever wise by chance.

Seneca

Of all 5,488 mammals, humans are the only mammal that, after breast milk, drink anything other than water. Everything else you read here will be supporting that one simple, indisputable truth.

I wish to share my awakening to human hydration, and maybe it will help some of you to have your awakening to water as well.

My journey began with my extensive training in the healing art of massage, an ancient healing art that can be traced back through many past civilizations. The part of the world you are from will dictate your view of a massage therapist. In the country I originate from, Canada, two of the provinces regulate massage therapists: Ontario and British Columbia. These provinces have regulating colleges, the same type of regulating bodies that doctors and other health professionals have in order to ensure that the public is safe. This is policed by their guidelines for their members, the provincial Registered Massage Therapist (RMT). At a conference for massage therapists associations, it was said that Ontario and British Columbia massage therapists are the most trained in the world.

I was somewhat shocked; I knew we had United States covered on mere difference in required class time to qualify. Many states only require 600 to 800 hours of training. We require 2,300 hours of trainingthree times as muchmostly focused on deeper study of human sciences: anatomy and physiology. Pathology is when human physiology goes wrong; it is the study of sickness of the body. Kinesiology is the movement of the body and the forces affecting all joints in the body. Both are also studied in depth.

I did not realize we surpassed Europes and Asias qualifications as well. I am making this point not to inflate my image but to clarify my training and qualifications for the unique messages given in this self-help book.

It has been sixteen years since my graduation from massage therapy college, and when I did, my wife at that time, Deborah, gave me the book Your Bodys Many Cries for Water , by Dr. F. Batmanghelidj. This book influenced the direction of my healing practice right from the beginning. Dr. B., as he refers to himself, has an interesting personal story of how he experienced his own water awakening. As a young medical doctor during the war, he witnessed the healing powers of water while at a German concentration camp. He was the only doctor amongst the prisoners. He began treating headaches, indigestion, intestinal issues, diabetes, depression, and so on with nothing more than clean waterwhich was all the Nazis would give him.

While in the United States, he wrote Your Bodys Many Cries for Water, which has helped many of us and woke up holistic healers around the world to the importance of water. In his book, Dr. B. explains this in medical detail. When I read the book, I was fresh out of massage college, and it made so much sense to me. I wondered why, out of all the training I had just received, hydration was treated as a minor mention in my studies. As a treatment-type massage therapist, I work on specific problems, such as whiplash, chronic headaches, neck and low back pain, diabetes, and fibromyalgia. I have always been in troubleshooting mode, looking for a cause rather than a symptom.