Aloha and Good Morning,

I've been thinking a lot about conflict and stress. Conflict is, to an extent, necessary to the process of polishing that softens the sharpness from our souls. However, the polishing only proceeds when we push past our stress reflex.

I've made the statement that stress makes us blind and stupid. I've offered my opinion that the stress chemicals pumped into our bloodstream actually alter our perception of reality. Like tunnel vision, stress channels our focus upon the object of its creation. If unchecked, it propagates itself like a virus, multiplying larger and larger in the body of our awareness until it entirely takes over our thoughts and feelings; the greater the stress, the greater the tendency to contaminate the whole of our attention. If our thoughts and feelings are the pebble parts we toss into the sea of potentiality from which our experience of reality manifests, then stress continually re-creates itself in our lives by focusing our thoughts into well-worn ruts of repetitive negativity. Stress is a grouchy snake. Negativity is its poison.

Dr. Masaru Emoto, chief of the Hado institute in Tokyo, discovered experiential proof that thoughts and feelings affect physical matter. He took samples from the same source of pure, distilled water, divided them into different, but identical containers. He took one sample and labeled it with the Japanese word for Thank-you, Arigatou. Another he labeled with the words, "You make me sick. I will kill you."  Afterwards, he froze the samples. Frozen water crystallizes. Dr. Emote took pictures of each sample with a high powered microscope at sub-zero temperatures and compared the crystalline structure of each.

If it is the same water, from the same source, frozen in the same type of container at the same time and at the same temperature - then the crystalline structures should also be the same -- regardless of what silly label one puts upon the container. Right? And yet, look at the stunning difference manifested in the way the water formed.

 “You make me sick. I will kill you.”

“Arigatou”

Before

 Prayer

After

 Prayer

"Hado* creates words. Words are the vibrations of nature. Therefore beautiful words create beautiful nature;
Ugly words create ugly nature. This is the root of the universe."

Masaru Emoto

 

 *Hado (Japanese): The intrinsic

vibrational pattern at the atomic

level in all matter.  The smallest unit of energy. Its basis is the energy of human consciousness.
 

The following samples were taken from a

polluted lake in Japan:

The experiments were repeated over and over again. The results were always the same. Positive thoughts produced beautiful crystalline structures; negative thoughts created ugly, non-cohesive muck. Need I mention that the human body is Ninety percent water? Or that all too often our habitual thought patterns tend to be Ninety percent negative?  And we wonder why our lives seem so unnecessarily difficult?

 It strikes me as unspeakably profound. This is not a simple philosophical nicety to be discussed over afternoon tea. This is the reality that rearranges the very fluids in our cells, triggers our tissues and binds our bodies. Our thoughts are things, things that transpose the very nature of our physical reality. Look again at the pictures above and ask yourself: “What are my thoughts creating in my body? What are my words creating in my world?” If the mere moments necessary to write out four syllables of the word arigatou, or a few minutes spent in prayer can completely rearrange the molecular structure of a frozen water crystal – what is the net effect of the countless hours of self-talk that sounds endlessly in our heads?

 Life is magnificent; to be alive glorious! Nothing need change that salient fact. Cling to it tenaciously. Let it become the warrior that guards the gate of our experience: live life magnificently. Start in your own head. Let your thoughts be magnificent! Why should they be anything less? What, then, is magnificent thinking? Anything genuine, anything authentic, anything true. Magnificent thinking is anything that escapes the cycle of our stress reflex, the cycle of negativity that would reduce us to thoughtless patterns, self-destructive chemistry and habitual meaninglessness.

 Even in the midst of great hardship, we can take a stand in our own head. Outward circumstances may be beyond our immediate control, but not our thoughts! Not our awareness, nor our conscious choices to magnify the moment, to be fully alive right here, to multiply the meaningfulness of this eternal-now, and from this moment on to the next and the next and the next. If, in the midst of our moments, we forget and fall back into familiar patterns that fail to fully serve us, there is no need for dismay or self-criticism, simply step back into your own truth and be not moved!

 The process of polishing is a simple one. The divine universe disseminates circumstances in which we will be challenged. With each of life’s challenges we have an opportunity to multiply our magnificence by making meaningful choices, choices that lead to greater awareness and a greater ability to do things differently and better. Not to worry though, for life’s lessons will roll endlessly around until we learn them, and learn them spectacularly! With each timeless tutorial we step more fully into our own divinity. With each lesson we become more fully and completely alive! Now that is a thought that crystallizes with great beauty.

With Love and Aloha,

 Holman

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