LIVING WITH HEART

Water That Mirrors the Heart

Candace A. Croft, Ph.D.
© 2008 Candace A. Croft

The young girl had always respected the magnificent force and calming grace of water.  She enjoyed the sensation of gliding as one with it while swimming; the feel of its gentle fingertips on her face as rain soothed away life’s pain; the meditative sound and sight of flowing water in fountains and nature; lowering her self into a scented bath in a reviving experience complete with candles, soft music, and a glass of wine; and, of course, its life-affirming, thirst-quenching abilities after a hard workout.  Just thinking about water immersed her in blessedness.

Despite her admiration for this majestic, intelligent force of nature, she was not immediately appreciative of its entrance into her home.  The rains the night before had been heavy, but that was nothing unusual in a year with Biblical rains and record flooding.   Water having never been a problem, she gave it no thought and went to work.  The call came mid-morning.  Her basement was flooded.   She headed home feeling a mixture of worry as she feared the worst and irritation at wasting good sick time when she was neither sick nor able to enjoy it.

The ground saturated, water escaped into the basement.  Soaked rugs were taken outside to dry between bouts of rain.  Dry boxes were carted to a higher floor.  Wet boxes were emptied and discarded, their contents treated appropriately.  A quick inspection brought a sigh of relief:  The foundation, standing strong, had not been breeched.  Water entered through the cement floor, now bared, as the water table continued to rise. 

As the young girl found a rhythm with the repetitive task of water removal, she had space to think about other things and noticed for the first time, not the effects of the water, but the water itself.  It was unusual for flood water, not dirty or smelly, but clear and cold.  Further investigation disclosed that the water bubbling up through six tiny openings in the floor came from a spring or two over which her house had been built.  That day, her house received the sacrament of baptism—cleansed with grace and given a fresh start.  How cool was that?  With that revelation, her prayers—those thoughts heard plainly—changed from worry and irritation to blessings flowing, literally.

According to Masaru Emoto, author of The Messages from Water, water acts as a messenger carrying energy it absorbs.  On a large scale, it carries energy around the globe.  On a smaller scale, water carries energy throughout our bodies.  A recorder of history from the beginning of time, water has the ability to memorize and mimic the information it receives.  It holds the vibrational energy imprints of any individuals, societies, objects, locations, and world phenomena with which it comes in contact.  In turn, it alters its structure to mirror the message it receives. 

Emoto’s research examined how water changed shape in response to different energies.  When frozen, pictures of spring water revealed magnificent jeweled, crystals like clear, hexagonal snowflakes reflecting light.  In contrast, polluted water and tap water treated with chlorine was formless. 

The body of Emoto’s water research demonstrated that when the energy contained within various thoughts, words, statements, and actions is aligned with one’s holy or true nature, those same magnificent jeweled crystals result.   For example, when water was given the message, “angel,” a glorious halo of crystal diamonds was produced.  When the word “thank you” was printed on a label and placed on a glass jar of water, water reflected that message with gorgeous geometric jewels worthy of royalty.  The crystal for  “thank you” was equally perfect for “grazie,” (Italian) “danke,” (German) and “merci” (French).  Similarly, water also translated “love and gratitude,” “I’m sorry,” “you’re beautiful,” and “you’re cute” into jeweled creations. 

However, when energy is in conflict with nature, the water it touches reflects that distortion by creating a crystal that is incomplete or malformed (or, perhaps, mis-in-formed).   In some cases, no crystal is present at all.  In association with the word, “Satan,” a formation resembling an attacking predator’s eye was revealed—a pocked circle of crushed crystals surrounded a dark lump with an ominous flash at its center.  The energy found in the word, “fool,” produced broken and deformed water structures.  Contradicting a loving, respectful universe, powerful commands like the popular slogan, “Just do it,” produced an evil eye.  After a simple edit transforming the command into a cooperative statement, “Let’s do it,” fabulous crystals were seen in response.

Considering Emoto’s research, I cannot help but wonder:  What is the message being carried by flood waters in the Midwest?  Instead of believing we must do a better job of controlling Mother Nature by building bigger, better, and stronger levees, perhaps we should look to the message of water and ask, where have we violated laws of nature?  To answer that question, we might look to the sacral chakra and its laws of self-control governing harmonious co-existence. 

Water is the ruling element of the second or sacral chakra that is the seat of one’s emotions.  Each chakra has specific various and complicated functions, but one of the sacral chakra’s primary functions is to govern the sense of self in relationship to the world—other people, animals, nature, objects, substances, you name it.  It teaches that one cannot control or change another, only self.  You cannot control money, but you can control the nature of self in relationship to it.  You cannot control food or alcohol, but you can control how you relate to each.  You cannot control a flooded basement, but you can control your emotional response to it.  As emotional waters flow through the sacral chakra baptizing self to receive the grace of true Self, it asks that we each master our inner natures, not Mother Nature. 

When intense emotion on a large scale creates a catastrophic flood, one possible message of water is that we humans collectively have our emotional waters in turmoil.  Instead of self-regulating, we typically act as toddlers caught in the Terrible Two’s, throwing temper tantrums because we see the world as unfair, uncooperative, and not unfolding as we would prefer.  Instead of mastering self, we routinely seek to control everything and everyone around us with hopes that we will create a kingdom of personal convenience that serves our petulant whims.    

No one is more powerful than Mother Nature.  As flood waters cleanse the earth of negative energies, maybe we should do the same.  Take time to reflect upon the message inherent in the flood waters.  Ask how you are controlling your nature as a blessed expression in a divine kingdom.  What crystals have you created in the waters of self that ripple out into the world?  Where you are creating beautiful diadems, continue.  Where you are creating mis-informed crystals or evil eyes, you are in need of cleansing.  Cease being a miscreant and revise any harmful energy to create something healthier—for self and the world. 

Build a strong self-control system that cannot be breeched.  Release any ominous darkness forming inside your cells, tissues, and organs by gaining control over the emotional messages you emit in response to various life situations.  When caught in traffic, release anger and send love and gratitude into the scene.  Say “thank you” and receive strength.  Say, “I’m sorry” with courage, not weakness.  Transmit a message of beauty.  Create, not a world that revolves around you, but one in which you exist in harmonious revolution with others. 

This month, create a harmonious revolution.  Immerse in the water of your soul and receive its message about self.  Seek thoughts, words, emotions, and actions that calm them.  Walk upon still waters daily and you will—

KEEP YOUR HEARTLIGHT SHINING