The indescribable power of love and gratitude.
Dr. Masaru Emoto, an internationally-renowned Japanese scientist, has done very original research on how molecules of water are affected by our thoughts, words and feelings.
Dr. Emoto has written a fascinating book entitled: The Hidden Messages In Water. In his book, Emoto explains how crystals formed in frozen water reveal changes, when specific, concentrated thoughts are directed towards them.
The author concluded there was an important lesson: “The vibrations of good words have a positive effect on our world, but the vibrations from negative words have the power to destroy.”
Emoto also made another remarkable discovery. While love can have enormous healing powers, the combination of love and gratitude is exceedingly more powerful.
“What this indicates is that the gratitude vibration is more powerful and has a greater influence. Love tends to be a more active energy, the act of giving oneself unconditionally. By contrast, gratitude is a more passive energy, a feeling that results from having been given something—knowing that you have been given the gift of life and reaching out to receive it joyously with both hands.”
Dr. Emoto was scheduled to have dinner at our house in Sun Valley on May 26th. By an amazing coincidence, he received an invitation to address the U.N. on the same day on the subject of “How Can The Spiritual Dimensions of Science and Consciousness Help the U.N. and Humanity Achieve Better Standards of Life in Greater Freedom?”
We quote below from the invitation to Dr. Emoto:
“The meeting is being organized by the subcommittee on the Spiritual Dimensions of Science and Consciousness and we are operating under the premise first brought forth by the Buddha in the Sanatana Dharma and then made popular by Professor Einstein, which is to say that a problem can never be solved at the level at which it was created. Always a higher, more inclusive dimension has to be engaged. (In the Sanatana Dharma, the Buddha teaches that hatred is not ended by hatred, but by love.) In other words, it is only when we are able to draw the larger circle, when we can elevate (transform) our consciousness beyond the immediate confrontations and dichotomies that we can resolve and reconcile dissension and conflict.”
The Mind & Life Institute, headed by Adam Engle, has spent the last 20 years studying the scientific impact of meditation on the brain. Richard Davidson is a board member of The Mind & Life Institute and a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin’s W.M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior.
Dr. Davidson’s work was published in November in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS, and profiled in an article in The Washington Post on January 3rd, 2005. In essence, the Dalai Lama and Dr. Davidson have collaborated on a research project attempting to study the impact of meditation on the brain.
The Dalai Lama sent 8 of his most accomplished practitioners to Davidson’s lab, where they were hooked up for electroencephalograph (EEG) testing and brain scanning. These practitioners had an estimated 10,000 to 50,000 hours of meditation over 15 to 40 years.
To show the contrast, Davidson also experimented with 10 student volunteers who had no previous meditation experience.
Davidson was particularly interested in measuring gamma waves, considered the highest frequency and most important of the electrical brain impulses.
Both groups were asked to meditate on unconditional compassion. As The Post relates:
“Davidson said that the results unambiguously showed that meditation activated the trained minds of the monks in significantly different ways from those of the volunteers. Most important, the electrodes picked up much greater activation of fast-moving and unusually powerful gamma waves in the monks, and found that the movement of the waves through the brain was far better organized and coordinated than in the students.
“The meditation novices showed only a slight increase in gamma wave activity while meditating, but some of the monks produced gamma wave activity more powerful than any previously reported in a healthy person.”