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Water crystals reflect our beliefs
Japanese doctor shows effects of our thoughts on water, environment
Zach Blom
Issue date: 5/15/07 Section: Editorials
Water covers three-fourths of this planet's surface.
It also makes up about the same portion of the substance in our cells.
And for many, our individual relationship with our earthly environment ends there.
But is there another correlation between the water in oceans, lakes and rivers and the water in our own bodies? What if water had a message for us?
Masuro Emoto, a Japanese doctor of alternative medicine, believes that is just the case. In his recent groundbreaking study of the effects of human thoughts on water, Dr. Emoto suggests that water does indeed have a message for us: our thoughts affect everything around us, and everything within us.
Before you pass this off as some sort of quack science, consider his findings. As described in his book The Hidden Messages in Water, his experiments consist of exposing water to prayer, music and specific words attached to the container, then freezing that water and photographing the crystalline structure of each sample under a microscope.
The results are astounding.
In one such experiment, Dr. Emoto attached the phrases "You Make Me Sick" and "Love and Gratitude" to two different containers with an identical water sample, adding a third "control" container from that sample with no phrase on it. After freezing the water and examining the frozen crystals of each container, he found that the samples with specific thoughts directed at them had changed structures. The water from the container marked "You Make Me Sick" appeared very different from the control sample and much like other samples containing polluted water crystals. Meanwhile, the sample with "Love and Gratitude" on it produced a different crystalline structure than the control sample and looked more like other samples of pure water from natural springs.
But here's the real difference: the "You Make Me Sick" sample produced an asymmetrical, dull crystalline structure while the "Love and Gratitude" sample produced a complex, brilliant, symmetrical snowflake-shaped pattern. This experimnet has been repeated in different languages but with similar results.
It also makes up about the same portion of the substance in our cells.
And for many, our individual relationship with our earthly environment ends there.
But is there another correlation between the water in oceans, lakes and rivers and the water in our own bodies? What if water had a message for us?
Masuro Emoto, a Japanese doctor of alternative medicine, believes that is just the case. In his recent groundbreaking study of the effects of human thoughts on water, Dr. Emoto suggests that water does indeed have a message for us: our thoughts affect everything around us, and everything within us.
Before you pass this off as some sort of quack science, consider his findings. As described in his book The Hidden Messages in Water, his experiments consist of exposing water to prayer, music and specific words attached to the container, then freezing that water and photographing the crystalline structure of each sample under a microscope.
The results are astounding.
In one such experiment, Dr. Emoto attached the phrases "You Make Me Sick" and "Love and Gratitude" to two different containers with an identical water sample, adding a third "control" container from that sample with no phrase on it. After freezing the water and examining the frozen crystals of each container, he found that the samples with specific thoughts directed at them had changed structures. The water from the container marked "You Make Me Sick" appeared very different from the control sample and much like other samples containing polluted water crystals. Meanwhile, the sample with "Love and Gratitude" on it produced a different crystalline structure than the control sample and looked more like other samples of pure water from natural springs.
But here's the real difference: the "You Make Me Sick" sample produced an asymmetrical, dull crystalline structure while the "Love and Gratitude" sample produced a complex, brilliant, symmetrical snowflake-shaped pattern. This experimnet has been repeated in different languages but with similar results.
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