Monday, September 17, 2007

The Healing Power of Water by Masaru Emoto and Jürgen Fliege

After seeing the movie "What the bleep do we know" I had to read this book. I was most fascinated by the subway segment of the movie in which pictures are shown of water crystals of magnificent beauty if a word suggesting love, compassion or other virtue was shown to water, and some ugly cacophony, when the word was suggestive of destruction, violence, or of some other negative influence.


Image of water after "Thank You!"

Well, I thought I need to read the book to know more about this fascinating discovery.

Then I read the book, watched a presentation of Dr. Emoto, and got really thinking. The claim that words shown to water cause the water to change in some way, in my humble opinion, is at least misleading. In this book, and apparently in some other similar ones published by Dr. Emoto, he make the claim that it is the word or image shown to water or rather its vibration that makes the difference in the way water crystals are forming. I bag to differ in my interpretation.

I do not dispute that there may be a difference in the shape or size of the crystals before and after the act during which a "scientist" show the word or image to the glass of water. Where I rather differ, though, is how this phenomenon should be interpreted, especially, that independent blind studies have not once confirmed Dr. Emoto's findings. by the way, just because no independent study confirms one's findings does not make them automatically invalid in my world.

So, here's my theory: It is not the written word or the image that make the water change. It is the person, the observer who has the influence. It is their mindset and expectations, their emission of energy of various frequencies that can have impact on the water to produce such amazing beauty of scary disarray. I do strongly believe in the power of one's mind to transform ourselves and through this act, the world we perceive. Therefore, the way I understand the world, it is perfectly acceptable that the observer's mind, that has a very strong distinction between such words as health and illness, happiness and misery, or forgiveness and revenge, that also has the ability to resonate with the concepts these words stand for, and project this very same frequency into the subject of the experiment, the glass of water.

I think it is even more exciting to follow what comes if we allow it to be the observer's mind that makes the change in the water crystals. This means there is yet another evidence how incredibly capable our mind is and what everything it can achieve if it is applied to it.

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