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health- water
Water
is considered a life. Our scripture and tradition rated it as resolution and
witness. Isn’t our tradition of storytelling in front of filled pitcher is ever
un-thoughtful? Could water be spell down? Could it witness?
Testimonial?-Science has proved water has life-mind-brain;it thinks, it
vibrates and it expresses too.we will know its unknown self through the findings of a researcher, to be whole heartedly healthy .Once when I was in hostel, I felt a bit odd when my
friend told me to say some Mantras over the water, blow on it, then drink for
my health. Isn’t it a bit superstitious? Anyhow since, my childhood years I was
taught to say “thanks to God” before I eat or drink. Many people got their
“abhimantrit Jal” done by holy man who puts a bowl of water in front of him
when he perform puja and use the water for healing
A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting in my front balcony
with my back facing our main gate and stunned on hearing, “having arrived to India exactly
one week ago, I feel quiet settled now, but there is definitely a lot I have to
say about my days in Japan”. She was my friend Khalida she gifted me a DVD of
“Water” the movie. How sweet of her, she knows
my obsession with water since I acquainted with some research findings of a
famous researcher from Japan. Not to be confused it with Deepa Mehta’s Oscar
Nominated Movie “Water”. This movie was produced by Saida Medvedeva.This is a
documentary about how human intentions not only change the structure of water,
but how our thoughts can alter our environment. It features various
international scientists, including the very famous water researcher Dr Masaru
Emoto.Upon viewing movie, I was so moved, inspired and compelled to share what
I learned with you, the readers of WE. It is one of the latest and highly
acclaimed documentaries to have come out. It opens our minds to a whole new way
of seeing and understanding water.
Let's start with the facts;
·
WATER flushes toxins from your body and prevents constipation; Water helps the bodies get rid of acid waste and
alkalize, slowing the aging process.
·
Water helps convert
food into energy.
·
Water helps you fight
colds and other viruses. Water also helps in curing any
disease related to the kidney. Sufficient water intake will help you avoid
fatigue and decreasing cancer namely colo cancer, bladder and breast cancer.
·
Surprisingly, drinking enough water
can considerably reduce joint and back pains too.
·
Drinking sufficient water daily will
help your skin hydrated always and improve your skin condition, especially for
those suffering from dry skin problem. Water
moisturizes your skin from the inside making it more youthful looking.
·
Dehydration is the No.
1 cause of daytime fatigue, headaches and heartburn.
Been having regular headaches is one indicator that your body is dehydrated and
need more water intake. So drink plain water regularly to promote better blood
circulation and prevent as well as alleviates headaches. Drinking water can
preserve and maintain good level of blood pressure and ensure that the heart
functions more effectively
·
Water intake help to maintain body
weight by increasing metabolism and regulating -appetite, and keeps you slimmer.
Water
plays a key role in weight loss. According to Donald S. Robertson M.D in his
book The Snowbird Diet water may be the single most important catalyst
in losing weight and keeping it off. The health and healing properties of water
have long been associated with the spas since ancient tmes.
OK,
so we know the benefits
but how much is enough?
According to the brilliant book “Your bodies many cries for
water” by Dr. Batmanghelidj you can do a simple calculation according to your
body weight.
Your
weight in kilograms multiplied by 35 milliliters (or weight in pounds
multiplied by 0.55 ounces)=Total Plain water requirement over 24 hours.
Weight(kg) x 35 milliliters =
Total water
|
Water
should be consumed over the course of the day. You should not drink water with
meals, ideally 30 minutes before meals and 2 ½ hours after meals, is the better option. Guidelines keep changing with time too.
Scientific
proof of Water as carrier of Mantras!
Water is
the main source of life.
It is this
one of components that scientists have been searching for in the universe to
identify life.
Needless
to say that water is central to almost all Vedic rituals- the contact with
water for starting any act (sankalpa and
achamanam), the mantra-purified water
to remove all negativities, the water given as oblations to pay back the three types
of debts – for devas, rishis and pithrus) and water to render all auspiciousness –water is the
purifier, carrier and transporter of whatever is desired. See some of the customs
that used to offer with water.
Achamanam:
Sipping a little water, in the prescribed manner, for self-purification,
remembering the Supreme All-pervading Reality.
Marjanam: Prayer for the purification of
the body and mind. Invoking all the waters of the Earth which form the cause of
the emergence and sustenance of all life, by sprinkling water on
oneself, to enable one to be attuned to the cosmic life and reality.
In Bhagavad-Gita, Chapter 9, Text 26, God says, “If
one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will
accept it.”
This supreme
characteristic of water has been scientifically demonstrated by the Japanese Dr.Masaru
Emoto.
Quality
of the water we consume
One
of the interesting things I’ve learned about water comes from Dr Masaru Emoto. It
is a concern to me as I am sure it is to you.
It was in 2004 when I got my copy of Bharativa Jananpith’s journal Naya
Gyanodaya (2004,March issue), with the theme “BIN PAANI SUB SOON” where my
research based article “Gramin Mahilaaon dvaaraa paanii laanaa- ek kathin kaam”
was featured on page 233. In that issue I came across an article“Paani sochtaa,
anubhav kartaa aur vykt kartaa hai (water thinks, feels and expresses itself)
based on the research findings on water. Evidently, a Japanese scientist (Dr
Masaru Fmoto) found away to photograph water crystals that form when the water
is frozen. These crystals look like snowflakes, each unique, intricate and
beautiful. His basic
premise is that water forms beautiful crystals when it’s
pure and you send it good thoughts and turns ugly and asymmetrical if you send
it negative thoughts. See some of the pictures here;
I
was impressed at the time, thought it interesting, but didn't dig deeper until
a few weeks ago. When perusing one of my favorite bookstores, I came across
Emoto's bestselling book, "The Hidden Messages in Water" and couldn't
put it down. The photographs in the book are impressive in of themselves, but I
found his theories on our health and emotions eerily fascinating.
I was
fascinated when I saw photos of Dr Emoto’s water crystals in this book (the
photos were there in the Naya Gyanodaya too, but a few). There are 32 color pages in the Hidden Messages in Water featuring
dozens of photographs of water crystals subjected to different songs, words,
and stimuli.
He
photographed frozen water crystals and found that the water crystals formed
different patterns when it was exposed to words, prayers or music.
Dr Emoto
found that even writing words on a piece of paper and taping it to the outside
of the bottle caused the water to change its expression.
Names such
as Mother Teresa and M Gandhi (Father of our Nation) produced
beautiful crystalline patterns while Hitler
created a muddied ugly pattern.
A
combination of the words LOVE and GRAYITUDE were found to be the most
powerful thought for transforming the water.
His answer
to our health as individuals-and for our world-is love and gratitude. About
photographs of water crystals he says, “the
response of water to love and gratitude is nothing less than grandeur,” noting
that it’s both of the words together that create the most beautiful crystals.
He says that while the power of love cannot be denied, it needs to be balanced
by gratitude. “We must begin by learning what it
means to have enough.”
The
results of his research are proof for the first time that our thoughts and
feelings have a direct effect on our reality. We have the power to impact the Earth
as well as our own health.
So express love and gratitude for
the water that runs freely from your tap and drink to your health
No
any need of Rubber stamp
I recently
saw a Brahma Kumari’s programme on TV and heard about the water having a
memory. That is, of course, the outcome of research of Dr Emoto on water. I
really enjoyed that informative talk on something I imagined did contain some
element of the “human brain capacity”, a memory.
Also, I
heard a Sufi teacher say once, “Gratitude opens many doors.” Mysticism and the
science come together in Dr. Emotes interesting research on water.
Energize your water your health
Here is the method
1.
Start the process with a clear glass vessel (jar, bottle, and pitcher), peel
off all labels and clean the outside of the vessel.
{The
best water vessel(bottle) you can use for this process(and also to carry your
water around with you) is not going to be made of any type of plastic,
aluminum or other metal (steel is OK and better than plastic, but again it will
leach steel and nickel into your water which are toxic to the body). Using
glass vessels (bottles) for drinking water storage is ideal. Clay, ceramic and
wood can be used as well (watch out for toxic glazes!) but are impractical for
carrying around with you. Having a glass water bottle (or mason jar) will make
you respect your water more (since you'll be aware of not accidentally breaking
it) which results in far less careless "trauma" or jarring to the
water.}
Cut
a piece of paper as per your writing tool, fonts (size and type) you want to
use as your intentions, “love and gratitude” should be the first one as found
out to be best as per Dr Emoto(described above in this article). These two
words in combination create the most beautiful and harmonious patterns that
exit in nature’s palette.
2. Most of
us don’t treat water with much respect. Consequently our municipal supplies are
full of chemical and our outdoor supplies are full of pollutants. I buy my
distilled water myself; if pouring the tap water into our fish tank (aquarium)
would kill the fish, I certainly don’t want to swallow it
So the
second step is get some mineral water or distilled water or purified water.
3. Fill
the vessel with water as per the requirement of your family to drink or as per
the capacity of your vessel. Keep in front of a music source, if you have
talent to sing you could sing to your water or pray over it. If you have a pain
or illness that you want to leave your body then add another message such as”
illness or pain has gone.”
Tape the
messages to the vessel facing inwards towards the water (you might be aware of
the reverse words seen through the tracing paper or through butter paper). Put
the vessel with water in front of your stereo speakers away from microwaves,
televisions, computers or cell phones. These devices emit electromagnetic waves
that distort the naturally healing structures as shown in Dr Emoto’s photos.
This is
the best water for your health i.e. the health as defined by WHO.
WHO definition of HEALTH
Health is a state of
complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity.
The correct bibliographic
citation for the definition is:
Preamble to the Constitution of
the World Health Organization as adopted by the International Health Conference,
New York, 19-22 June, 1946; signed on 22 July 1946 by the representatives of 61
States (Official Records of the World Health Organization, no. 2, p. 100) and
entered into force on 7 April 1948.
The Definition has not been
amended since 1948.
The book tells to pray for food too
Perhaps the most compelling story in this book,
at least for me, was when a family experimented with rice. They put rice in
three jars, and every day for a month, they said “Thank you” to the first jar, “You
fool” to the second jar, and completely ignored the third jar. After a month,
the rice that was told “Thank you” started to ferment, with a mellow smell like
that of malt. The second jar that was exposed to the words “You fool” rotted
and turned black. Interestingly, though, the jar that was ignored rotted before
the rice that was exposed to “You fool.”
My
new year's resolution
To manifest more love and
gratitude in my life, exactly how I'm going to do that is yet to be seen, but
I'm going to start by paying more attention to water. The water in my glass,
the water in the tub, the water that makes up the bodies of my family and
friends. I'll choose my words more carefully. May be even say a blessing before
a meal, a drink, or a bath. I expect you too to respect your water for your
Health and well being of the World.
“When you have become the embodiment
of gratitude, think about how pure the water that fills your body will be. When
this happens, you yourself will be a beautiful shining light.” -Masaru Emoto
Have a read!
