Kumanga Andrahennadi MA & Prof Seaton Baxter (OBE).
Centre for the study of Natural Design, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK.
This short paper has been written on request from Office Masaru Emoto and will be published in monthly magazine ‘Love & Thanks’.
Message from the author;
My dearest loving friends,
My name is Kumanga Andrahennadi and I’m currently learning the beautiful visual technique of photographing water crystals. My hometown is Colombo, Sri Lanka and I am a postgraduate research student studying within The Centre for Natural Design at the University of Dundee in Scotland, UK. I am also a Graphic/Web designer, Qualified HADO Instructor and Reiki Master/Teacher (Heal with Reiki – Course Director). The title of my PhD research project is; Quantum Inspirations for Young Minds; Caring for Water.
On my first day of photographing the crystals I maintained the intention of love and passion towards the water, and the crystals reflected my intention in their shape, creating a beautiful heart shaped form… Personally witnessing the miracle of Water Crystal Photographic Technology, has re-confirmed in my mind the importance of respecting the spirit of water. We need to return caring for water, and even more, loving water…
As a graphic/web designer and research student my aim is to design a novel Mindfulness Educational Support for children throughout the world, specially aimed at children suffering with ADD/ADHD (Attention Deficit Disorder), as it has been shown that Mindfulness techniques help children to focus more on their daily activities. My research has been inspired by the beautiful images of water crystals created by Dr Masaru Emoto’s special technology. This project is a collaboration with the Emoto Peace Project and I would like to convey my deepest love & gratitude to Dr Masaru Emoto and his team for their continued loving support and encouragement.
The title & the inspiration for this paper ‘Water; The Essential Spirit of Place’ was given to me by my principle supervisor Prof Seaton Baxter (OBE). His work on sustainability has been recognized all over the world, including the honorary awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire ) for his work on behalf of the Scottish environment was granted to him by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. I would like to convey my deepest love and gratitude to my family and everyone who have been supporting my work throughout.
‘Water’; The Essential Spirit of Place
Deep inside us we all know that the challenges we face as individuals and as a community are not merely of an economical and technological nature. They concern our basic values and our fundamental conception of what it means to be human. This is the story of the substance that makes life on earth possible; water. Water has many unique and mysterious physical qualities and there is no other substance quite like it.
Water is everything to us – we would die quickly without a clean potable supply of it. Sustainability will mean nothing if we do not care for water. Water is essential to the transmission and dissemination of all elements (hormones, chemical messengers and nutrients) in our bodies and the eventual elimination of residues and toxins. Water is essential to our health and polluted water can cause great distress, chronic illness and death each year to millions of people throughout the world.
The importance of water becomes most apparent when it is absent. What is most missed and treasured in a desert? Anyone would say it is water and yet modern society does not care for it. The demand for ‘safe’ water is constantly increasing, whether for consumption or recreation. Science and engineering are essential to our abilities to protect, maintain and re-purify water but the more successful we are technically; the more we distance ourselves from the responsibility of not abusing water in the first place. The physical, cultural and attitudinal legacy of water we are leaving to our children is unsustainable. We need to return to caring for and loving water.
Many children live a modern lifestyle with little contact or understanding of the natural elements. This modern way of life means water is seen as a necessity for daily living; washing, making tea, flushing the toilet…! Water is very much taken for granted.
What do our children think? How much do they really know about water, how would they care for it?
Engaging children in a positive, contemplative relationship with nature and water requires opening their minds and hearts to the wonder of its unique qualities and capacities. To facilitate this open way of learning it is necessary for children to establish a love and passion for water as a natural, environmental element and also as a fascinating physical and chemical compound.
“Opening the contemplative mind in schools is not a religious issue but a practical epistemic question… Inviting contemplative study simply includes the natural human capacity for knowing through silence, pondering deeply, beholding, witnessing the contents of consciousness and so forth. These approaches cultivate an inner technology of knowing and thereby a technology of learning and pedagogy without any imposition of religious doctrine whatsoever. If we knew a particular and readily available activity would increase concentration, learning, well-being and social emotional growth, and catalyze transformative learning, we would be cheating our students to exclude it. Long dormant in education, the natural capacity for contemplation balances and enriches the analytic. It has the potential to enhance performance, character and the depth of the student’s experience” (Tobin Hart, Opening the Contemplative Mind in the Classroom, Journal of Transformative Education Vol. 2 No. 1, January 2004).
Dr Masaru Emoto has shown that molecules of water are affected by our thoughts, words and emotions. Through this highly visual technique he has shown to the world that the energy vibrations change the form of water crystals. Positive words and images create beautiful crystal forms and the negative creates distorted crystals (quantum pollution). These findings gave rise to the HADO theory.
Dr Emoto’s experiments suggest that water has an inherent spirit within it. We are 70% water and are primarily alive because of water. Within the human environment, water itself becomes a living form. The spirit within us is ultimately linked with the spirit of water itself. In this context, water occupies a unique and distinctive place within our living form and is to be cherished.
It is part of human nature to want to be happy. Dr Emoto’s experiments with water help guide us to the conclusion that to be happy we need to look internally and cultivate positive thinking. Francesco Cavalli-Sforza explains that ‘Happiness does not come automatically… In order to become happy, we have to learn how to change our selves’.
According to Buddhist philosophy, all phenomena are a manifestation of our continual thoughts, a manifestation of our consciousness. Buddhist teachings look at many ways of cultivating happiness through the practice of meditation. These practices involve imprinting our minds with the positive and reducing negative imprinting through the use of specialised mental imagery and prayer.
Water is the most precious molecule on earth. The health and survival of all living things, including the planet itself, depends on water and yet we abuse, waste and pollute it. Through understanding the living, vibrating and changeable nature of water itself, we can gain a better understanding of the changeable nature of ourselves and the universe around us.
What we do to water, we do to ourselves! We need to take responsibility for what happens to us. Like the human body, the earth’s surface is also 70% water and the idea of water as the ‘Essential Spirit of Place’ is environmentally relevant both personally and on a global scale. Studying and understanding this concept will help engender a more responsible attitude towards our behaviour, as we begin to realise that our actions can affect both the spirit within and the spirit of our mother Earth.
Water is the essence of life and the great connection between all that lives. The value judgments we display in our treatment of water is intrinsically linked with how we value ourselves as living beings. With this understanding, we as individuals and as a community can work to promote a renewed understanding of the relationship between water and humankind.
All my love and gratitude to Water, Mother Earth and the Universe…
Kumanga Andrahennadi MA
Prof Seaton Baxter (OBE)
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