Walking the Land – Swamps and How They Affect a Human Being
I had someone from another country write the following about living near a swamp:
“I live on the edge of that famous town next to the Somerset Levels in the U.K. It’s peat, mostly; flat lands with very slow-moving drainage ditches called rhynes. The land moves up and down if you drive down the narrow roads across it. It feels to me that it’s a place where things get held onto, in that forever wet peat, and they don’t have a chance to drain away quickly. It has a sort of dream-like quality, very Neptunian, and in summer can be really beautiful and relaxing. But it’s also a very tough place to live. There’s a lot of stagnant smelly water and this water is held by the peat; it’s a bit like a swamp in some places. I’ve noticed how my emotional reactions to things in the past keep circulating and never seem to move on. Since I’ve lived here I have crippling, disabling migraines that classify me as disabled. I am thinking of moving to the chalk downs! Much healthier I suspect!”
MY ANSWER:
Anything that is a “swamp” or “swamp-like” such as PEAT? Peat is not a rock or stone, either. It’s a semi-dried up swamp. Swamps consist of plants, a recipe of trees, bushes, flowers, roots, where the water sits and does not move. Swamps are cut off from the benefit of having a stream, creek, or river where the water is in motion, and the area is refreshed, re-energized and cleansed by the active process of the current moving through it. A swamp has no water movement, and it becomes smelly, murky. If the soil is clay, water won’t be easily absorbed, so it stands. Or if the soil does drain, every time there is rain or heavy rain or seasonal rain, the area fills up with a watery swamp, once again.
A swamp is vegetable matter combined with still, unmoving (dead) water. Symbolically, for humans? Water symbolizes our emotions. A swamp or pond or anything that does not have MOVEMENT of water through it, is called STASIS or being held in one place, unable to move to refresh or cleanse itself. Then the energy surrounding it is TRAPPED. For humans, it means that emotionally you can try working on your emotional trauma and wound(s) but you won’t get very far because of the swamp energy you live in. The energy is about being TRAPPED and unable to move, grow or expand or cleanse one’s self on any level: spiritual, mental, emotional or physical.
My advice would be: move away from the swamp area energy. Any other type of geological rock would suffice; whatever “calls” you to live in that movement and energy. For example, chalk is sedimentary (water) rock and would be much better for you if you’re DRAWN to it, to begin with. Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite. Calcite is an ionic salt called calcium carbonate or CaCO3. It forms under reasonably deep marine conditions from the gradual accumulation of minute calcite shells (coccoliths). The type of rock and soil you live in also “feeds” your aura (and then it affects your physical body, eventually) as well as the minerals that are contained within it.
Chalk is about calcium, which is about the BONES of our body, and the strength of our ligaments and tendons. Living around chalk geology or soil could help stabilize and support your body so that it becomes stronger. I would also ask my physician for a mineral analysis via a blood lab test, to see if you are deficient in calcium, magnesium, phosphorus or other minerals, and find out.
Then, if you find a deficiency in one form or another, your doctor can guide you on a supplement you can take. Moving to chalk or another geological region, I believe, can support you toward better health. Your migraines may be attributed to “swamp gas,” which is not good to breathe in or live around…. or it could be the ENERGY of the peat that is disabling you to a degree. Either way? I’d be moving, if it is possible for you to do so.
