The Elemental Composition of the Physical Body

Your body is composed of cells, molecules, atoms and elements. These elements exist in and around the physical body in physical and metaphysical units of energy.

The most prevalent of the elements is water; this comes from the combination of Hydrogen and Oxygen with Oxygen being the most abundant element of the body.**

**Oxygen carries an electrical charge through its ions; ions can be either negatively or positively charged. This is what we can view in the atmosphere as the visual display of lightning; in the physical body it is the combustion of energies that provides animation and was, in the beginning, the spark of life. Oxygen is the solvent in which the body regulates temperature and pressure.

Although we experience mass or weight as being water based, most of the body's mass is actually, at its basis, oxygen! Therein exists the communication system for the electromagnetism that animates your physical and etheric bodies.

This is why breathing is so important and how the physical body might be able to survive a while without water, food, warmth but has only minutes of reserves of 'air' within the system from which to support it.

The significance of 'oxygen' and 'breath' is metaphysically connected to that which carries the fire or spark of life at the moment of life and upon the exit at the time of transition.

When combined with Hydrogen, the Oxygen becomes water; it is no surprise that the physical body is primarily manifested as the element of water at approximately 62% of its total mass. (Hydrogen is found in all organic compounds).

Water is by its very nature the magnetic counterpart to the physical body's electric field. Water is also positively and negatively charged and is experienced directionally as north-south, east-west. Metaphysically it provides direction in the form of intuition; an internal compass of guidance.

The next most important element in the physical body, after Oxygen, is Carbon. Carbon represents 18.5% and is the most basic unit of expression for organic molecules.

Carbon has four bonding sites for other atoms which is why it is the key atom for all organic chemistry. Carbon chains are what are used to build the body's fats, carbohydrates, nucleic acids and proteins.

Carbon is also the unit of energy when its bonds are broken. This is extremely important in electromagnetism. Why? Because Carbon is Electric...and at times Magnetic!