Topic: Messages From Water
In the last few days I finally got round to reading Masaru Emoto's book "The Hidden Messages in Water" (which has been on my bookshelf for months!). I'm sure most people here are at least vaguely familiar with his work particularly if you've seen the movie "What The Bleep Do We Know?"
Anyway if you've not read this book then I strongly recommend you do so. It's a very quick read but I found it very inspiring.
For those who have not heard of Masaru Emoto, he's a Japanese scientist that discovered how our thoughts can affect water. By photographing water crystals after the water had been exposed to various words, music and even photographs he discovered the crystals varied enormously. Water that was exposed to loving words showed beautiful, complex and colorful patterns. Whereas water exposed to negative words produced crystals that were dull, incomplete and ugly looking.
The human body is between 70% and 90% water (depending on your age) and I'm sure those that have seen the movie "What The Bleep" will remember the line "If our thoughts can do that to water, Imagine what they can do to us".
Anyway I thought I'd share this small section of the book with you all:
The human body is essentially water, and consciousness is the soul. Methods that help water to flow smoothly are superior to all other medical methods available to us. It's all about keeping the soul in an unpolluted state. Can you imagine what it would be like to have water capable of forming beautiful crystals flowing throughout your entire body? It can happen if you let it.
Among all medicines, there are none with the healing powers of love. Since I came to this realization, I have continued to tell people that immunity is love. What could be more effective at overcome negative powers and returning vitality to the body?
However, I have recently felt the need to change my terminology. I now know that it is not love alone that forms immunity, but love and gatitude. I became convinced of this from the following experiment.
I heated water in a microwave oven and then attempted to see the impact of the magnetic field on crystals. I used two types of water: distilled water, and water from the tap shown the words love and gratitude. The crystals formed from the distilled water were deformed and incomplete, but the water shown the words love and gratitude formed complete crystals. In other words, love and gratitude were able to make the water immune to the damaging effects of the magnetic field.
I have mentioned that water shown the words love and gratitude forms the most beautiful crystals. Of course the word love alone has the ability to create wonderful crystals, but love and gratitude combine to give the crystals a unique depth and refinement, a diamond-like brilliance.
I also discovered that the love and gratitude crystals actually look more like the gratitude crystals than the love crystals. What this indicates is that the gratitude vibration is more powerful and has a greater influence. Love tends to be a more active energy, the act of giving oneself unconditionally. By contrast, gratitude is a more passive energy, a feeling that results from having been given something--knowing that you have been given the gift of life and reaching out to receive it joyously with both hands.
The relationship between love and gratitude may be similar to the relationship between sun and shade. If love is the sun, gratitude is the moon. If love is man, gratitude is woman.
So then what does it mean to say that the passive energy of the shade or gratitude is stronger than love? When I was thinking about this question, I stumbled upon an interesting concept, which became an important clue to answering the question concerning how we can and should live our lives.
What is the relationship between love and gratitude? For an answer to this question, we can use water as a model. A water molecule consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, represented by H2O. If love and gratitude, like oxygen and hydrogen, were linked together in a ratio of 1 to 2, gratitude would be twice as large as love.
I suggest that having twice the amount of gratitude as love is the balance we should strive for. At a seminar, after I had mentioned this in my presentation, two young women came up to me and said, "We were very impressed. Weren't you saying that people have one mouth for speaking and two ears for listening?"
"That's right-that's absolutely right!" I exclaimed, and I knew that I had become a little wiser.
When we observe the natural world, we can see that the passive energy has greater strength. The fish of the sea produce enormous numbers of eggs, but not all of them hatch. Only a small portion reach the stage where they hatch, while the remaining eggs are offered as food to other creatures.
Have human beings lived in a ratio of two parts gratitude and one part love? I suspect that the exact opposite is true.
Of course, the grandeur of love cannot be denied, and most people do have a general understanding of the power of love. However, we have been raised in a culture where all our focus is placed on the energy of love, while the other side of the formula receives little attention.
The focus of the human race has been drawn away from that which cannot be seen, and towards the obvious physical world. And in order to make as much of this physical world our own as possible, we have cut down forests and fought back deserts in an effort to insure the supreme domination of our culture.
Such advancements by human society may indeed be the result of love-for our families and our countries-but as long as we continue to live our lives based on this strategy, there will be no end to conflict. The history of the twentieth century was the history of fighting and warfare.
Perhaps we are finally beginning to see that the direction we are moving in leads nowhere. We have sacrificed too much in order to secure the riches of life. Forests have been destroyed and clean water lost, and we have cut up and sold the earth itself.
What the world needs now is gratitude. We must begin by learning what it means to have enough. We need to feel gratitude for having been born on a planet so rich in nature, and gratitude for the water that makes our life possible. Do we really know how wonderful it is to be able to breathe a big breath of clean air?
If you open your eyes, you will see that the world is full of so much that deserves your gratitude.
When you have become the embodiment of gratitude, think about how pure the water that fills your body will be. When this happens, you yourself will be a beautiful, shining crystal of light.

The Love & Gratitude Crystal
You can learn more about Masaru Emoto at his websites http://www.masaru-emoto.net/ and http://www.thank-water.net/english/index.html
Or buy his book "The Hidden Messages in Water" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ … 76-1090301
Andy



