Our Human Experience- as seen thru Water

It is generally accepted that our attitude affects our experience of our surroundings- a "Positive Mental Attitude" is said to be foundational to success.

It is one thing to chock it up to "rose colored glasses", but can it be shown that our attitude actually changes the very structure of the world around us?

Masaru Emoto, a Japanese researcher, has recently published a book which set out to prove just that, and to do it using the very foundation of life on this planet: water.

Since water is essential for the survival for all known forms of life, it might be expected that it could, through Mr. Emoto's methods of study, give us some clues even to the very nature of our existence.

Here's how it started:

Mr Emoto took water samples from around the world, froze them and studied their crystals under a microscope. Water from clean

lakes and streams was shown to have complex and often near- symmetrical crystalline formations, like lovely perfect snowflakes. Water from polluted sources, on the other hand, presented broken and malformed crystals. His control- distilled water- had an almost perfectly round crystal.

He then allowed his ice to thaw, and exposed the polluted samples to prayers or music.

After that exposure, he then refroze his samples. He found dramatically different crystalline formations: the "polluted" samples now had crystal structures similar to the "clean" ones.

That got him thinking: what if he took his distilled water (that near-round, untainted- but unaffected water) and exposed it to different positive or negative input. The results were similar to the first experiment:

When that distilled water was exposed to positive input- like the word "Love" printed and taped to the jar, beautiful crystals formed.

When it was exposed to negative input- like the word "Hate", again, printed and taped to the jar, the crystals were malformed.

Further studies found that the "positive" water hydrates better, allowing this water to be more readily absorbed into living cells.

Some readers of Mr Emoto's findings have really been taking off with this information-

They are taping positive words to their tap water containers before using that water on cut flowers, then studying the effects of this water on the flowers by gauging how long they stay fresh. Practitioners are claiming huge success, although there has been no published study in this area.

All this research does present some really interesting questions, though- not only about what we put in our body, but what we put into our environment as well.

Think before you speak. Think before you drink.