The Skinny On January

I listened to the audiobook version of The Hidden Messages in Water by Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto yesterday. In it, Dr. Emoto describes an experiment he conducted in which he took high speed photographs of frozen water crystals.

There was a catch, though. He only took the photographs after specific thoughts or words had been directed toward the water crystals. He found that when he directed a specific good thought or word, such as “love,” at the water, the photograph depicted a perfectly-formed hexagonal crystal. But if he directed a specific bad thought or word, such as “hate,” at the water, the photograph revealed a malformed, jumbled mess of a crystal. Using a quantum physics approach to the final data, Dr. Emoto concluded that our thoughts and words really do have an impact on the environment around us, most notably, water.

How does this relate to losing weight and overall health? Quite a bit actually. Dr. Emoto said that when we are first born, our total body composition is about 90% water. As adults, we drop down to about 70%, and elderly people drop as low as 50%. He also added that when a person becomes sick and full of disease, the water in the body becomes stagnant.

Can you think of anyone filled with stagnated water? Do you know anyone who carries too much stress, worry, anger, resentment, depression, or sadness? I think we are all guilty of having these feelings from time to time, which in turn means we have some stagnation going on within our bodies.

Dr. Emoto said that when we are filled with love, we are better people. That sounds obvious, but he added that the oldest people who still continue to do amazing work sustain their production because they are in love. By “in love,” he didn’t just mean intimately, but rather a love for all of humanity.

How much love do you have in your life? Do you have any? Do you need more?

If you’ve heard the saying “you get what you give,” you can probably figure out how to get a little bit more love. Since this is the holiday season, show some love to those that maybe you’d rather not be around, or maybe even the people that ring the bell asking for donations outside grocery stores.

If disease is related to stagnated water, and if stagnated water is due to negative thoughts, words, or emotions, it seems pretty obvious to me what should be done to avoid this.

Overall health doesn’t just mean what you eat or how many times you exercise; it’s a state of mind. Healthy people are happy, they eat well, sleep well (hard to do with three kids ages four and under), and exercise. They do things that fulfill themselves and others around them. They are examples to those around them.

Do you want to continue “needing to lose weight” or “needing to get over a sickness?” Or will you just make a decision to think positive and visualize yourself becoming a beacon of health?

That’s the goal January and I have set for ourselves. That’s also the goal we have for people reading this blog.

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