The True Power of Water

By Masaru Emoto

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Only when we have a receiver can we be involved in the act of giving

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Water and Hado

Water is sensitive to a subtle form of energy called hado. It is this form of energy that affects the quality of water and the shape in which the water crystals form. In my previous book, The Hidden Messages in Water, the word hado was translated as “wave fluctuation.” In this book, I use hado to mean all the subtle energy that exists in the universe.

     All existing things have vibrations, or hado. This energy is often positive or negative and is easily transmitted to other existing things. The thought “You fool” carries its own hado, which the water absorbs and displays as deformed crystals when frozen. On the other hand, when the water has been exposed to positive thoughts, beautiful crystals are formed that reflect the positive hado. Hado, as you can see, is integrally woven into the implications of water’s response to information.

The Power in Our Words

Water is sensitive, and it responds to what we say. When we send good hado to water by saying positive words to it, it will show us beautiful crystals. Also, our prayers send out energy and change the quality of the water. By offering prayers to water, we send hado to the water, and such water gains the power to potentially answer our prayers.

     There is a knack to doing this. We can send stronger hado by offering our prayers in the past tense than in the future tense.

     For example, let’s assume that a child whose mother got cancer says his prayers to water for her recovery: “I hope my mother’s cancer will be cured.” I am not saying that such a prayer is bad. Definitely, the hado of this prayer affects water. To pray the same thing but using different words can be a more effective way to change water: “My mother’s cancer was cured.”

     Strictly speaking from the grammatical viewpoint, the past tense does not make sense, as the event is yet to happen. However, we can make our thought and intention stronger by saying it in the past tense. Rather than saying it in the future tense, “will be cured,” the past tense, “was cured,” can communicate our strong will more assertively. When we offer our prayers, it is important to have a strong image of a cure as soon as we state it.

     Imaging something means that we are praying for the final result. Let’s suppose that we want to become the secretary-general of the United Nations when we grow up. Compared to making this statement in the future tense, by asserting “I became the secretary-general” while we are imagining ourselves thirty or fifty years later chairing a meeting of the United Nations, we can expect to live our life more smoothly. This can be materialized only after an image is formed.

     The image I am discussing here is our hope. It is a form of positive information. As we repeat the information with strong words, water will naturally help us. It appears from my experience that loudly vocalizing the words gives off a stronger hado than writing them on paper.

     I am not a man of religion, nor do I want to praise religions unnecessarily. However, the prayers used for a long time by a religion have a strong hado energy. I feel that if we believe in our religion faithfully and recite the prayers undoubtedly, we will be blessed with a strong power.

     Once I witnessed a man of religion whose prayers caused an enormous amount of water to change. I visited with Chief Priest Houki Kato of a Japanese Esoteric Buddhist temple, as I had heard that he performed incantations and prayers at Fujiwara Dam in Gunma Prefecture. He had been conducting such incantations and prayers a number of times. I have seen the photographs of the dam reservoir at Fujiwara Dam taken before and after his prayers. In comparison, the colors of the two “before” and “after” pictures certainly looked different. As I was greatly interested, I asked Priest Kato if he would let me go with him when he performed his prayers the next time.

     Before his prayers started, we collected a sample of water from the reservoir. Priest Kato began his incantations and prayers. He continued to pray for one hour while creating a highly solemn atmosphere around him.

     After he finished his prayers, I was listening to his talk. Perhaps it was about fifteen minutes after the prayers ended. The staff who accompanied me exclaimed, “Wow! Look, the color of the reservoir is changing rapidly!”

     Indeed, the water of the huge reservoir was getting clearer. Before the prayer, there was no reflection on the surface, as the water was muddy. Now the trees around were reflected on the surface, forming sharp images. We have the word kotodama (spirit of words) in Japanese. Most definitely Priest Kato’s words must have had that spirit. I was witnessing the power of spirit in action.

     We also collected a sample of water after the prayer to take back to Tokyo, where we were going to take water-crystal pictures.

     No matter how often we tried, no crystal was formed from the sample of water before the prayers. On the other hand, the water after the prayers formed a crystal of heavenly beauty. It had a double structure of a small hexagon inside a beautiful outer hexagon. This crystal is also on the cover of my book The Hidden Messages in Water.

“Love and Gratitude” Enhances Immunity

To make “good water,” get some distilled water, if possible, to start. We can take beautiful ice-crystal pictures from distilled water without doing anything special to it. This means that the water is good and pure. However, it may not be that easy to get distilled water. In that case, ordinary tap water is acceptable.

     Please offer a prayer to the water in the bottle. If we could perform incantations and prayers like Priest Kato, who changed the reservoir water at Fujiwara Dam, it would be the best. However, it would be difficult for us ordinary people to recite the prayers with “spirit of words” just like he did. Since we haven’t received special training, we would be distracted by all of our other thoughts.

     So, simply talk to the water. If you have a wish, you might want to say it as an emphatic statement in the past tense, as I explained earlier, while imaging your success.

     Ideally, you want to recite your prayers aloud continuously. However, it may not be very practical for today’s busy people to recite their prayers to water for a few hours every day. I recommend that you write words on paper and paste it to the container with the words facing in so that the water inside can read them. Additionally, talk to the water from time to time and occasionally shake the bottle, which helps to activate the water and contributes to the vibrations.

     By just doing these things, you can make your own personalized hado water. I suggest you drink five glasses of this water every day.

     What should you do if you don’t have specific wishes? The best thing is to show the words “love and gratitude” to water and talk to it. For a long time, I have been giving water many pieces of information and taking ice-crystal photographs. We have given water as many pieces of positive information as we could think of—beautiful words, beautiful scenery photographs, and beautiful music—in order to take crystal pictures. They were all beautiful, but the most beautiful one to me was the crystal that formed after the water was exposed to the words “love and gratitude.”

     “Love” is absolute, and “gratitude” is relative. Absoluteness is an active energy, and relativeness is a passive energy.

     Only when we have a receiver can we be involved in the act of giving. No matter how hard you try to give your love, without a receiver, you won’t be able to do so. It is Nature’s providence. The sun is on the side of giving, and the moon is receiving. This is true with male-female love and with the act of giving relating to the birth of life. These acts are also possible when there are receivers.

     Splendidly, the water crystals present us Nature’s providence and the concept of life’s phenomena.

     Not just love. Not just gratitude. Only when the two are together can they manifest the workings of Nature.

     I came to realize that perhaps there is no better information than these two words carry. The ratio of water is one to two, oxygen to hydrogen. Learning from this structure, I even venture to believe that good water means one portion of love and two portions of gratitude.

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Excerpted from The True Power of Water by Masaru Emoto, Chapters 2 and 4. Masaru Emoto is also the author of The Hidden Messages in Water, and his research and photography of water crystals was featured in the movie What the Bleep. Emoto will lecture at the Merle Reskin Theatre, 60 E. Balbo Ave., Chicago at 1:00 p.m., October 15. For ticket information, see the advertisement in this issue and visit www.unitylincolnpark.org. Sponsored by Unity Church of Peace, Lincoln Park.

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