Physical repercussions

Are you generally a happy person? Do you spend most of your days angry for one reason or another? How is your health? Are you sick once or twice a week? Continuously? Or are you one of those people that only really gets sick once in a blue moon?

I have long believed that overall energy level and emotional output have a direct correlation with physical health and well being. Recently I came across some information that, while not directly claiming it,  seems to rather strongly support that belief.

There is a researcher, Dr Masaru Emoto, who began doing some experiments back in the early '90s about emotional impact on crystalline structures in frozen water. And his discoveries are pretty amazing.

To start off, with polluted water generally does not form any crystalline structure at all when frozen and the ice generally forms random harsh patterns. Only clean pure water forms crystalline structures. That pretty much stands to reason as, in polluted water, the impurities would prevent the crystals from forming.

The amazing part is that when a group of researchers focused positive thoughts on polluted water, when frozen, it did show crystalline structure, implying that to some degree, the emotional input of the researchers did in fact purify the water. The same experimentation was done in reverse. Negative thoughts used on pure water caused the same kinds of results as simply freezing polluted water, no crystalline structure and ugly chaotic patterns.

Experiments were done with bottled water that they labeled with different phrases. The positively labeled ones froze and created beautiful crystalline patterns and the harsh and negative ones did not.

They even had groups of researchers focus on different bodies of water around the world. Even when the researchers were thousands of miles away from the water being focused on, beautiful thoughts created beautiful crystalline patterns. Ugly thoughts simply created ugly frozen water.

The same type of experimentation was done with a variety of different types of music. Bottles of water were placed between a pair of speakers while music was being played. Music that was considered harmonic and generally pleasing to the ear caused the water, when frozen to freeze into nice looking crystals. Discordant grating music created random chaotic patterns when frozen.

Although many of the experiments have not been done completely under the scientific method, with too many variables for it to be declared a real science the results are too spectacular to ignore.

The general conclusion here is that water has memory. It holds within it energy that is focused around and towards it. What does this have to do with you? Well, the human body is made up of approximately 60% water. Think about all the energy that is focused on you on a regular basis.

I for one have never been that big on the power of prayer used for healing the sick. But now, I'm having second thoughts about that. My reasoning has been that I am not sure the deity being prayed to is real. If though, the healing comes from the intent of those praying, then that really doesn't matter now does it?

And last but not least, back to the beginning. If your body retains within it the energy focused through it, then your thoughts have a direct impact on your overall level of health. Being angry, angsty and hate filled will make you sick. Being grateful, and filled with love for yourself and your fellow man will heal you and help keep you hale.

The thoughts and solutions of crazy people

Do you talk to yourself? Of course you don't. Only scary, crazy homeless people do that. Or probably more accurately, of course you do, you just don't admit it because you don't want people to think you are one of  "those" people.

But have you ever had this problem that you really were struggling to come up with a solution for? Or something that you were just having trouble coming to terms with? What do we do when that happens? When we get lost we tend to look to others for a solution.

So we take some trusted person, be it lover, friend or family member and set aside some time to talk. The other person is all nervous because they are worried about you and what this problem is that you can't solve (but haven't told them anything about up until this point). They aren't even sure that they will be able to help you.

So the conversation begins. You outline the problem, explaining exactly why it is an issue, who it creates hardship for and all of the negative things associated with it. You go into detail about how long this has been going on and what will happen if the problem isn't fixed.

The other person listens for a few minutes, formulates their own opinions and prepares to give you advice. But every time they open up their mouths to speak you rush on with more about the situation, eventually explaining all the possible choices. You weigh the pros and cons of each solution, where they work and where they fail, making the cases both for and against, as if you were defendant and prosecutor all at once. After a very lengthy monologue, you decide what the best possible solution is and resolve to go with that method.

Then what happens?  You thank your confidante for their assistance, promise to talk again soon and send the very flabbergasted and confused person on their way.

They thought they were coming to your aid. They believed the purpose of their visit was to help you solve a problem that you did not see a solution to. And it was. And they did.Sort of.

The other person is just a tool. A sounding board if you will. They aren't really necessary in this process, as long as you are willing to talk to yourself. Out loud. You don't have to do it while wearing rags and in the middle of the street. It could be a fun exercise though :)

See what most people don't realize is that they don't want advice. What they really want is to hear their own thoughts, out loud. What a person thinks may sound perfectly reasonable in ones own head, but when said out loud it suddenly becomes clear that one option is better than all the others.

Don't take this the wrong way. We do need other people in our lives and there is nothing wrong with sharing our experiences with them. And if we truly can not solve our own problems asking others for advice is a great idea. But, we seldom really need the help. Most of the time we have all the information that we need to solve nearly any problem that comes up We just need to be able to sort out our thoughts and prioritize them until the solution rises to the top of the pile of options.

Lack of belief system pt3

The only thoughts, beliefs and feelings that you can ever be absolutely sure of are your own. You see and experience them in a way that no other person ever can or will. You have a perfect understanding of these things and these things alone. They are the only REAL things to you. Others will try to express their experiences to the best of their ability but will invariably fail to have you get it, in the same way that they do. It just is not possible, unless they can cause you to have the exact same experience that they do. It is in this way that we are always alone, no matter how close we get to people and no matter how many people we get close to. Our minds rail out against that being true. They do not accept it.

So we communicate with one another and share our experiences together. And although we do our very best to get others to see what we think and feel and believe, words are clunky. They mean different things to different people. Even when two people look up a word in the dictionary and say that they both understand the meaning, they often still are thinking two different things, even if only slightly. And when each word means something slightly different to each person, is it any wonder that whole paragraphs get misconstrued? When trying to send a person to the moon, even a single miscalculation, like say we point the Space Shuttle just a fraction of a percent off of the perfect angle will cause us to miss the moon by thousands of miles. The images and thoughts that come to my mind when I mention the word red are probably not the same images and thoughts that occur to you.

If we are to ever have even a prayer of understanding one another's hopes and dreams we have to communicate. Even though we get it wrong so often, we still have to make the attempt. Words are our primary source of communication.  You might be asking why all this is necessary. Well the main reason is, I want you to realize that I mean something slightly different when I use words that imply absolutes, things like fact and certainty, or if I say that I think or believe a certain thing. Outside of actual experiences that I have had, I do not believe in absolutes. What I mean when I say these things is, based on the research and testing that I have done on this particular thing, up until this point, I find it highly likely for this thing to be true. Now is that an awesome sentence or what? No, seriously it's great, but it's also a huge mouthful to repeat five hundred times a day. Instead, I say, I think this or I feel that way. It is a shorthand that is necessary for useful communication. If I were to constantly be reminding you that I am not sure if a thing is or it isn't because I haven't tested it fully you would probably think I am either too wishy-washy or too verbose to be worth talking to. I do make an effort not to use absolutes as much as others do, just as I make an effort not to be too indecisive seeming. Imperfect as it is, it is the best compromise that I have found. Just remember when I am using absolutes that what I mean is that this thing is very likely to be.

Since the only things that you can ever fully know occur within your own mind and body and so much of the universe occurs outside of them, there has to be a relatively safe and secure method of interfacing with reality, in a way that is not going to come crashing down around you, when you suddenly realize some new and powerful thing. I found a way. And I call it my lack of belief structure. I do not actually believe in anything. I know it sounds ridiculous. But it is true, I do not. I just think some things are more likely to be true than others.