Love, Gratitude and Water

Love, gratitude and scientific research

The power of love and gratitude has been much talked about in our industry, and something one expects to read about in writings of a personal development and human motivational nature.

Perhaps like you, I’ve devoured numerous books by the self help masters (Dyer, Demartini and Sharma spring to mind as examples). The value of kindness, love and holding an attitude of gratitude are themes running through many. Yet there is seldom any scientific evidence advanced for how this contributes to our wellbeing.

So I found myself simultaneously profoundly shocked and delighted to read about the results of some innovative research conducted by Japanese scientist Dr. Masaru Emoto.

Probably not my cup of tea

On Christmas Day I started to unwrap a present from my son, Casey, that I had already guessed to be a book. He always puts a lot of thought into his gifts, so I got pretty excited as I anticipated the title.

But when ‘The Hidden Messages in Water’ emerged from the wrapping paper, its rather bland cover design and foreign sounding author, of whom I had never before heard, left me thinking: “Probably not my cup of tea.”

Never judge a book by its cover

Then I noticed the banner above the title proclaiming ’New York Times Bestseller’ and I took to giving myself a silent dressing down! “Never judge a book by its cover, Bill” I thought, as Casey began to share a glimpse of the contents.

It turned out that I couldn’t put the book down. Its quite compact and includes a generous amount of colour photographs, so it didn’t take long to get through.

Revolutionary

Emoto’s work is revolutionary. Quite simply, he discovered that molecules of water are affected by our thoughts, words and feelings. What makes that so profound is the knowledge that, like the surface of our planet, we humans are largely composed of water.

Emoto begins the prologue of his book with a challenge: “I’d like you to ask yourself if you are happy.”

He then explains that most people would find it difficult to respond with a resounding “yes” and admits that the sources of our problems seem numerous and overwhelming before sharing the good news that the answer to our problems is so simple and effective that it has eluded us.

The life force that is water

The answer, of course, lies with water and purifying the life force that makes up some 70% of our bodies.

Dr Emoto came to this conclusion after he started taking photographs of frozen ice crystals and conducting simple experiments to determine how the nature of the ice crystals that formed changed according to the source of the water and the subsequent exposure of water to different words, strains of music and images.

Mind blowing results

The results were nothing short of mind blowing.

Tap water in Japan, which is chlorinated for sanitation, formed no crystals at all, whereas complete crystals formed when water from all natural sources was frozen.

Water exposed to classical music produced well formed crystals, whereas that exposed to violent heavy metal produced deformed crystals or none at all.

But the most surprising result came from exposing samples of water to different words and expressions. A range of words and phrases were written down on separate pieces of paper which were then wrapped around different bottles of water.

Water exposed to “Thank you” and “You’re cute” formed beautiful hexagonal crystals, whereas water exposed to the words “You fool” and “You make me sick” produced badly malformed crystals.

Positive expressions that imply constructive working together, like “Let’s do it!” created attractive crystals but simple commands, like “Do it!” hardly formed crystals at all.

Love and gratitude tops the list

Fascinatingly, the most perfect, exquisitely radiant hexagonal crystals formed when water was exposed to the words “Love and gratitude”, indicating that these concepts or emotions are fundamental to life and wellbeing.

For those who may be sceptical about the effect that different languages may have in these experiments, it was found that similar results were gained when the words used were translated into a range of different languages. The language, then, is not important – it is the meaning of the words that matters.

More in depth research showed that water reacts to the thoughts of observers and that it is possible to purify toxic bodies of water through consciously focused thought or prayer.

Exciting and profound

The ramifications of Dr Emoto’s research are as exciting as they are profound.

Simply put, I believe this is clear evidence that we can and do create our own realities.

In closing, may I wish you love and thanks for reading Life Coaching Insights today and may you spread the word about the power that we have within.

Oh, and be mindful of your thoughts when you next down a glass of water!