THE soul of man
Resembleth water:
From heaven it cometh,
To heaven it soareth.
And then again
To earth descendeth,
Changing ever. . . .
Water seemed my second home when I was a child. I lived in our pool each summer and when not there I was at a friend’s pool or in a lake. I suppose I was a dolphin in a previous life. Maybe it was the womb like comfort of water that kept me near it for so many years. So when I began reading The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto it’s no wonder I trust the content. I have felt against my skin the energy vibrating in water. I just never understood exactly what I perceived transdermally.
Emoto photographs frozen water crystals while changing the thoughts around it. 
The crystals transform with the presence of positive and negative words, thoughts and feelings. He says these are experiments anyone can perform and see for themselves. I don’t need to see it for myself because I have felt it through the water itself. I see his work as another proof of how our minds affect our bodies and everything around us. Our thoughts are living. They are life; our life. What we allow in our minds affects every part of us internally and externally.
None of this is new information. I believed this and understood it very early in life but sometimes I need reminding because it is so simple to fall into the ease of the cynic and critic or even the despondent. Maybe it’s that ego-fear thing working at keeping us in our place and not expanding. Through Emoto’s work we see a concrete example of how our thoughts can influence our being. Jane Jin the Zhineng Qigong teacher of a recent week long retreat I spoke of in a previous blog, reminded me of the importance as well as the potential impact of my thoughts. I was immediately fearful (an emotion I continue to allow to visit – aargh). Emoto’s book calmed my anxiety prodding me to recognize what Jane actually meant which is to notice and remember that my thoughts have an impact on my health and the health of the world around me.
