Have you heard of the Hidden Messages in Water? It’s this crazy work done by a Japanese researcher, Masaru Emoto. He photographs individual water crystals with intriguing results. He noticed that the shape of some crystals is distorted and ugly while others are perfectly formed and beautiful. Looking at various water sources and treatments he found that pure water is most beautiful and polluted water is most distorted. This makes sense when you think of the impurities in the water which affect the crystal shape. Taking this idea further, he experimented with putting labels on the water and found that positive messages and also positive attention/intention had the same effect as purity – they created beautiful crystals. As the human body is made up of a lot of water (in our cells, blood, lymph etc) he extrapoltes that you can affect people with these thoughts and words too.
I should say, his research is quite controversial in the scientific community. Dr. Emoto did not get his degree from an accredited university and the results have not been confirmed by double-blind studies (the gold standard for scientific research). But that does not make the results untrue, it only means they are being investigated outside the mainstream and we need heretics to bring us past the edge of current scientific understanding.
I love the idea that positive thoughts, intentions and words can create beauty inside me. Haven’t the mystics and poets being saying it for centuries.
It reminds me of directions for pregnant women found in ancient Chinese text. (and I’m paraphrasing here) She is to gaze only at beautiful people and read lovely poetry while sitting under a tree in a tranquil garden. Advice that would benefit all of us, but especially those who are creating a human being.
Bring beauty into your personal world (your sights and sounds) so you can create beauty.
I encourage pregnany women to look at pleasent things, don’t read about bad news or watch tv shows like CSI, change the radio station to classical music. Make your world full of beauty.
