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Watch your mouth!
Can calling a friend an idiot make her sick? New research advocates sweeter syntax for better health.
By Dana Tye Rally
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If water could talk, it might tell us to quit trading snippets from The National Enquirer and start speaking nicely to each other. Masaru Emoto received just such a directive from a simple bottle of H2O. The Japanese author and researcher hopes the message will create a ripple effect for the well-being of land dwellers everywhere. "Water teaches us in a clear way how we must live our lives," writes Emoto in his 2005 bestseller, The Hidden Messages in Water, which introduces readers to the idea that particular words and sounds can physically alter the molecular structure of water. A star of the recent indie film What the Bleep Do We Know!?, Emoto wows audiences with photographs of magnified ice crystals that appear to respond favourably to friendly words and thoughts and shun criticism and rage. When Emoto says "You're beautiful" or plays Mozart to a bottle of distilled water and photographs it in a semi-frozen state, the water's molecular structure transforms it into dazzling hexagonal ice crystals. Exposing the same water to insults, swear words or heavy-metal music creates molecular chaos: delicate snowflakes become indistinguishable blobs, mimicking the effects of water that has been nuked in a microwave oven or scooped from polluted lakes and streams.
To be happy is to be healthy
Emoto says the experiments he conducts on water contain a message that is vital to human and planetary health. "Words are an expression of the human soul, and the condition of our soul likely has an enormous impact on the water that comprises as much as 70 percent of our body," he explains. "This impact will, in no small way, affect our bodies. People who are in good health are also generally in good spirits."
To remain in good spirits, Emoto suggests that women refrain from behaving like the cast of Survivor and surround themselves with people who nurture their self-image through loving words. He argues that those same words have the ability to purify the water in our bloodstream. Unkind words create stagnation: "When blood stops flowing, the body starts to decay," he says.
A water-based body may also be healed by words in the form of positive thoughts, Emoto argues. He cites a 1999 experiment to purify a Japanese lake through prayer. On the banks of Lake Biwa, 350 people brought their hearts and voices together in an attempt to cleanse the water. "Our chants could be heard around the entire lake," says Emoto, "and there was a special feeling that made our spines tingle. It's what the Japanese call 'kotodama' (the spirit of words)." Emoto says the combined will of so many people acted as a force to change the universe.
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