This water crystal was formed from water which had been 'thanked'!
Sara Firman writes about some of the life-giving and fascinating qualities of water:
Whether on land or in water, our cells are immersed in the constantly moving and vibrating fluid that is water. Led by new physics, science is beginning to explore the dynamic interplay of complex energetic forces that give life to our world. Water is the master shape-shifting element here.
Liquid water is dynamic and chaotic, always on the move in curves and spirals. Its molecules press together in constantly shifting confusion, readily disassembling and rearranging themselves around other molecules, and yet, despite water's ever changing fluidity, its structure is immensely strong.
Water is made up of billions of tiny crystal-like structures and, the more crystalline the structure, the healthier the water is for human consumption. This finding is something that Japanese researcher Masaru Emoto has given popular appeal with his stunning photographs of water crystals (see above).
Like a living organism, water has an ability to receive, store and transmit information that depends on rhythm, movement and temperature. It affects and is affected by everything in its environment in ways we are only just beginning to appreciate.
Theodor Schwenk, protege of the German philosopher Rudolf Steiner, considered water to be nature's ultimate sense organ because of the sensitive way in which it responds to its surroundings. In Sensitive Chaos, he suggests that the movement behaviors of water preempt the development of all living things.
Schwenk went so far as to postulate that it is through water's close connection with the rhythmical processes in space and time that we are brought to cosmic consciousness. Schwenk was also familiar with the water studies of Goethe, a famous German scientist-philosopher.
Water's preference is to form a sphere (like a cell or planet), as discovered by astronauts when they tried to drink in space and saw how juice coagulated drop by drop into a huge suspended globe. When acted upon by gravity, though, this tendency becomes a spiralling movement.
The vortex - vertical spirals of energy which have their own pulsating rhythm - is typical of water. Vortex energy allows for high levels of ionization such that water continually creates new combinations of the various elements it carries. Spiral (vortex) movement is present in all living systems, as in the flow of blood or sap.
Water that is stirred and counter-stirred into vortexes is found to have superior vitality compared with still or stagnant water. Conversely, water suffers from being directed into straight channels - it naturally meanders, moving in layers that continually flow past each other at varying speeds.
This is why straightened rivers become more polluted and piped drinking water less potable. At the start of the twentieth century, Victor Shauberger, an Austrian forester known as the 'water wizard', used his understanding of the vital energies of water in developing sustainable and ecological technologies.
Drawing on nature, sculptor John Wilkes collaborated with Schwenk to design stone or ceramic channels called Flowforms that cause water to travel in rhythmic double figure-eights producing energizing double vortexes.
Surface tension, combined with a stable structure, gives liquid water an adhesive capacity that allows it to grasp at everything without breaking its structure, as seen in the capillary action of sap or blood. Water is continually collecting new information and depositing it elsewhere - a fundamental role in biochemistry.
The temperature of water is not easily affected by minor temperature changes in its surroundings, yet small changes in temperature can dramatically affect the way water behaves. Cool water moves quickest and is the most energized, while hot sun can make still water tired and sluggish - just like us.
Interestingly, the lowest specific heat of water, or the temperature at which the greatest amount of heat or cold is needed to change water's temperature, is 37C (99F) - just below normal human blood temperature (blood is up to 90% water). It is this that allows us to survive relatively large fluctuations in temperature.
Some of the more subtle energetic and as yet unexplained qualities of water are demonstrated by fascinating findings in healing practices. In the 1960s, healer Bernard Grad showed that water held by a psychic had a positive effect on the growth of seeds while water held by a depressed patient had the opposite effect.
Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto has published beautiful images suggesting that the crystalline structure of water reflects its exposure to anything from chemical pollutants to kind words. Water researcher, Joseph Bender, found that 6/10 adults and 9/10 children identified (by taste) water that had received positive thought.
In homeopathy, developed by Samuel Hahnemann in Germany in the early nineteenth century, infinitesimal dilutions of substances in water are used as medicines, based on the premise that water holds a vibrational imprint (or memory) of its exposure to a substance.
Along similar lines, Edward Bach (1920s) found that plant essences had positive effects on the human system - it is postulated that such vibrational essences when taken internally are amplified and assimilated as they resonate with the structured water in our bodies.
In 1988, French biochemist Jacques Benveniste, reported findings that water retains and transfers both chemical and vibrational information. Dr Peter Guy Manners, medical cymatics practitioner, uses water as the medium to transfer sound vibrations to the body so that cells resonate at a healthier frequency.
Medical hydrotherapy and modern spa business have made good use of water's more obvious therapeutic benefits. Buoyancy and hydrostatic pressure relieve the effects of gravity and allow for more supported movements, encouraging the neuromuscular system to respond in new ways.
Water at different temperatures is used to change the tone of tissues and to stimulate the circulatory, immune and hormonal systems. Immersion, showers and steam are employed for a variety of beneficial effects. Waters of different mineral content have also been found to have health applications.
Much of our understanding of these effects comes from physical and biochemical studies but relatively little research has been done on the more subtle energetic processes. Perhaps through such studies we can reflect back to water the life-giving properties it so freely lends to us.
Water means life!
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