By Jim Porter
Photo Credit: Liz West
Messages from Water
Masaru Emoto is Japanese. You may have heard of him. He is famous for observing changes to water when water is exposed to the ‘outside’ influences of music, pictures and words.
How does he measure the resulting changes, if any? He freezes the water and examines the microscopic shapes made by its crystals.
And what does he see? Emoto says water from a pristine source, such as a mountain stream, will produce a beautiful crystalline structure when frozen; whereas water from a polluted source will produce a distorted, ‘ugly’ pattern.
Emoto also sees beauty in water exposed to a single word: “Love”. Conversely, “Hate” creates an unpleasant looking reaction in the crystals.
Question the scientific validity of these studies. But consider too that about 70% of the human body is water.
Now, how do you react if “I hate you!” is snarled at your face?
Do you contract? Is there ugliness? (Are you accepting Hate? You may try to hide your reaction.)
And how do you feel when you hear this whispered in your ear: “I love you”?
Expansive? Beautiful?
Sticks and Stones
Sticks and Stones is a children’s rhyme and it goes like this:
Sticks and stones
May break my bones
But names will never hurt me
I recall this rhyme when I was a child. I also recall it not working – the names hurt! But when I look again at it now, I can see these three lines are full of power, just as language is full of power.
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