The Power of Water

March 27th, 2008

What would you say if I told you that one of the most powerful tools for our healing is also one of the most common substances on earth? What if I told you that to find large quantities of this miracle substance you need look no further than your own body? “You’re mad, Horse!” you might say. Be that as it may *ahem* — work with me here, I’m going somewhere with this.

The substance is! (drumroll) …Plain ol’ water.

A Japanese scientist named Masaru Emoto has done some amazing work investigating the properties of water. His experiments involved slowly freezing samples that had been subjected to various influences, and photographing the resulting crystals. The first results indicated that clean, pure water would form beautiful symmetrical crystals — whereas samples from polluted areas would not form crystals at all.

The really amazing results came out when Emoto subjected his water samples to different kinds of emotional stimuli. On some, he would focus positive emotions like love and gratitude. On others, hate and derision. He found that, again, the water that received positive attention formed into intricate geometric shapes, whereas the negative samples would freeze into a shapeless mass. This same effect was reproduced even when words and phrases were typed onto slips of paper, attached to the water samples and left overnight. Influences like meditation and different types of music have been tried as well, with similar results.

A summary of Emoto’s work was featured in the film “What the Bleep Do We Know?!” and its implications were explored. The idea was that if this is the effect emotions have on water, and over 2/3 of our planet is water, and over 2/3 of our bodies are made up of water — what can this tell us? The implication seems to be that water is an impressionable substance that can “record” focused emotion and intent in a way that clearly demonstrates the effects of consciousness on physical matter.

Shortly after seeing “What the Bleep…” one day I woke up and found myself sicker than I had been in years. I had been up since about 3am with severe flu-like symptoms. As of about 10am I was still unable to hold down even a few sips of water for more than fifteen minutes. Thinking back on the film and Emoto’s work, for lack of anything better to do I got myself a large glass of water and meditated with it for about fifteen minutes. With the glass in my lap I raised a bunch of energy between my hands, and intended the concept of “perfect health” into the energy. When I felt like I had a good enough flow going, I directed the energy and intention into the water. The result? I was able to finish the whole large glass, and it stayed down. By noon, I was feeling almost back to normal. By that evening I was completely well. Score one for Emoto!

I can’t help but wonder how far this can be taken. I’ve done a bit more experimentation with it, but have a lot of ideas I’ve yet to test. I’m particularly interested in further exploration of the fact that we are all connected, not only by energy as is often pointed out, but physically by the water cycle. Think about it — water passes through every living thing on earth, in and out of the earth, into the atmosphere and back down again. With that in mind we can come up with even more implications and ways this knowledge can be used to improve things at the individual and world levels. Experiments have already been conducted involving group meditations around a lake, which was then noted for having a marked decrease in pollution compared to the norm. (Source) I am also aware of group meditation experiments that have been correlated with a noticeable decrease in the crime rate of the area in which it was conducted. (Source) I’m not aware of whether these two ideas, meditating around a body of water and then noting any change in crime rate, but if such an experiment has not already been conducted, it should be.

What other experiments could be done with water, toward improving our quality of life and coming to a more full awareness of our interconnectedness?