The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto
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Book Reviews of The Hidden Messages in Water
Book Review: Provocative! Prove this!: Makes everything better even if its faulty or an all-out lie
Summary: 5 Stars
As much as my psychology methodological training would force me to rake this book over the coals, I'm RESISTING. For so many decades we have been working on the ideas of how our internal cognitive psychology affects our choices, lives, chemicals, reactions.. and the list goes on. Now, health fields have been saying for decades that we are what we eat & all that we consume does the same. Get on board: holistics, natural medicine, religion, meditation, pharmaceuticals, nutrition, etc. Are we ALL wrong in these endeavors? In our search to make life better & in every thing we discover, academia has been saying: prove it using every method of science available.. then we'll talk. Well, we'll all be dead before everything we are learning is proved beyond a shadow of a doubt. I'm not waiting that long.
I found this whole idea very, very provocative and it fits with everything all other fields are trying to "prove" for all of you also. The fact is, this scares people because it just COULD be true and if it is, every one of us needs to change. This is the most powerfully convincing reason (maybe not research)to move us to evaluate & beautify our lives that will benefit everyone else around us when we do change. Just looking at a H20's crystals after a projection of hate/insult reminds me of what we might find in a contaminated junkyard. Isn't that what we have been doing to our world also- turning it into a junkyard? The same crystal w/ a loving projection? Amazingly gorgeous! Isn't that how we FEEL when we look at a lovely sight or are sincerely complimented? This suggests first hand that the damage we do just with words/ thoughts alone (to ourselves & others)is so much further reaching than hurt feelings. Isn't that what psychologists teach clientele as well as students? We ARE water people! A whole lot of water & space.
The implications of this theory and what's at stake for our own bodies, lives, Earth, future and souls is just astounding with limitless potential for both good & bad. I'm not sitting around and whining "prove it" and hence, not benefiting from it while waiting. This concept in practice alone can do nothing but good- even if its false! Well, that is, if you are not using it for destruction. Look to the idea. Then, you will start to think better, eat better, act better. That will only be the beginning of an amazing domino/ ripple effect that will drastically improve all lives. If you want to improve anything in your life, SEE "why" & SEE what you will get out it & you won't have to drag yourself along the process. You'll go willingly :)
CLOSING: So my fellow methodologists, sit, demand your proof, deny it all until you are satisfied. While you do that....I'm off to the make my world a better place by changing the water in my world into something beautiful! :) May you also be blessed with good health and a happy life through others doing the same as me.
Book Review: Awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
The Hidden Messages in Water is a cutting edge book in New Age thinking. From his own research and experiences with water, Masaru Emoto draws his theory that water is directly affected by human consciousness.
Emoto used high speed photography of frozen water samples to do his research. The pictures show that water forms the most beautiful crystals when exposed to goodness. Be it in a form of positive thoughts, uplifting feelings and emotions, or kind words. At the _expression of gratitude and love, the water formed the most gorgeous crystals.
The author's research demonstrates how water reacts to human thoughts, emotions, feelings, and spoken words: if they are positive, the water forms beautiful crystals; and if they are negative, the water is not able to form such crystals but only forms distorted ones or none at all.
Photographs, images, music, and words written on paper appear to affect the water too. The water exposed to high tech devices such as computers, cell phones, television screens, and microwaves, doesn't form crystals either.
Emoto's research shows also that despite the pollution or damage done to water, it could recover if exposed to prayers, meditation, or likewise.
The underlying assumption that Emoto argues in this book is that we humans are mostly a water body and so is the universe around us. If our consciousness can affect water so deeply, that means that our consciousness is able to cause health or sickness to our own bodies and to the universe around us as well.
That is a quiet powerful find, because as humans if there is one thing we own it is our consciousness; and if our consciousness is that powerfully connected to our world we are that much more powerful. It also puts the responsibility of our own lives and that of our natural surroundings right on our laps.
I loved this book, and it was an eye opener for me and it raised my awareness to how devastating and harmful to me and to my world my thoughts, feelings, emotions, and spoken words can be; if they are negative. It also made me more aware of what I expose myself to, such as movies, music, pictures, news, friends, etc.., and thus more selective.
Book Review: Fascinating
Summary: 5 Stars
The Hidden Messages in Water is an amazing study of how emotions can affect us. I find it interesting that Dr. Emoto's name links to the world emotions as if this works was his destiny. What amazes me is that who would have thought to even start the work? Why would anyone think that our conscious intent would affect water? I've heard that through quantum physics that our intent changes the outcome of an experiment (the wave only collapses into something when observed).
Dr. Emoto shows how gratitude can make water crystallize into beautiful patterns. Is this why we have been taught to say thank you (saying grace) for our food? We teach our kids to say thank you automatically. Does this change the one who says it as well as the one to whom it's being said? Another interesting fact is that experiments in psychology show us that keeping a 'gratitude journal' is something that make a person happier.
There's no arguing that our bodies are 70% water, a direct reflection of the Earth which is also 70% water. As we all worry about oil to drive our cars, shouldn't we be more conscious of our water? Does our collective consciousnesses affect the water that surrounds us? Could these changes in weather be in direct response to our thoughts and feelings? I know that I'm starting to sound like a fundamentalist preacher, saying anything that happens is our fault, but Dr. Emoto's work does show a correlation to our thoughts and how water is structured.
This books is filled with gorgeous pictures of water crystals that been exposed to certain words. Love and gratitude cause a beautiful and complex crystal to form, while words such as 'you fool' cause the water to look like ugly, shapeless blobs. Something to think about when we are talking to others, and probably thinking too, which is a heady thought. If the angry, negative things we say affect water, and we are 70% water, I have to assume that we are also affecting ourselves. This is truly personal responsibility at its finest.
I would have bought the book just for the photographs which are visually stunning. The crystals that are formed from positive intent are breathtakingly gorgeous.
Book Review: A Lovely Book - For more on the experiments - see DVD reference link below...
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a lovely book about how Masaru Emoto became curious and began to study the effects of words and phrases on water. The potential of his research has enormous possibilities and surfaces at a time when quantum physics has similar messages about the effects of thought and emotional vibrations on healing, matter and experiences. The impact of energy on the environment, our bodies and experiences are just beginning to be understood. The book documents the results of experiments done on water but is not a "how to" manual on how to conduct the experiments yourself. I have observed some efforts to debunk the book based on dubious attempts to duplicate the frozen water crystal experiments and noted some inaccurate information in other reviews. First of all, Masaru Emoto did not claim to follow the traditional scientific approach in academia - in his own words... "Academically, my study is not based on the natural sciences, but on the cultural sciences." - is from his interview on the DVD - Water Crystals in Motion, Messages from Water, - (also available on Amazon.com). A few important facts about the experiments are: the first Japanese experimenters took 60 days to photograph their first frozen water crystals, the experimenters in Japan froze 50 water specimens at minus 25 degrees CENTIGRADE for 3 hours before attempting to view water crystals. (Note: Minus 25 degrees Centigrade, converts to minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit.) The experimenters viewed the crystals under a microscope inside the lab which was kept at minus 5 degrees Centigrade. On the DVD, it is clearly stated that, of the 50 specimens taken only a few of them will form the beautiful crystals seen in the photographs in the book. This book provides wonderful insight into the research done and should hopefully encourage additional rigorous research in the scientific arena. I think the findings will continue to be educational, inspirational and exciting.
Water Crystals in Motion- Messages From Water
Book Review: Must Read!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Hidden Messages in Water helped prove my theory of the interconnectedness among all life that I wrote about in my book, Harmonious Envrionment: Beautify, Detoxify & Energize Your Life, Your Home & Your Planet.
An excellent example of how our thinking and feeling can institute change comes from Dr. Masaru Emoto's study. Emoto's experiments show how powerfully your thoughts can affect your physical environment. In his book, The Hidden Message in Water, Emoto demonstrates how water will change form in response to thought.
Emoto mentally projected love to a bottle of water, which was then frozen and the ice crystals were photographed. The crystals were beautiful, clear and symmetrical.
Next, Emoto allowed the water in the bottle to melt and directed hate to the water. He froze the water and photographed the ice crystals. This time, the crystals were misshapen, dense and ugly.
Every one of us, consciously or unconsciously, affects the objects and people around us--including ourselves--on a continual basis. Think about the expression "laughter is contagious." It is! How do you feel when you are around happy, laughing people? Usually, you can't help but feel good yourself. All emotions are energy and energy passes from one body to another; from one object to another; matter to matter. Emotions are contagious!
Emoto also found that low frequency water reacts extremely negatively when exposed to low frequencies, but high frequency water is not affected in any way by low frequencies. This is because low and high frequencies are not on the same wavelength, and when we are in a high frequency state we are not affected by the low frequencies of our environment, other people, objects or food.
This book will convince you to chose what emotions to own.
Oh--and the photographs are lovely!
Author of the award winning book, Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet