The Beauty of Yoga

From what I have observed, Yoga is the only form of 'fitness' that gets your body truly strong, and flexible, and all it takes is you. Its beautiful to me how as the body strengthens and opens up, it reflects what your mind is doing and the deeper you go, longer you practice, the more you get in touch with yourself.

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January's Book: The 5 Love Languages

Since the birth of my son 4 months ago I have had time to FINALLY get the second half of the 5th Harry Potter read, finished the 6th and am about to slam the 7th, which means I clearly have time to read. If I have time to read I have time to read and share so here I am back at it with this book club, hopefully all my electronic blunders will be out of the way for 2014 so it can be smooth sailing. So here is the plan, for January we shall read The Five Love Languages- The Secret to Love that Lasts by Gary Chapman.
I'm going to just tell you why in this post, because even though it was written for heterosexual married couples, I have found that the lessons apply to every single person in your life, no matter what type of relationship you have. This book will help you to better understand and appreciate what others around you do for you and it will help you to better show them your thoughs and intentions, and if we all read together and have our loved ones read with us, they will better understand us as well.
So let's let the love in for 2014! =)

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The Power of Water- Summary 4

Chapter 4- Using the True Power of Water in Your Life

Eat Foods with Good Hado
It seems on a scientific level, there is something to this whole vegan diet craze. Emoto and a dietician studied the hado level of various different foods, raw veggies, fish and poultry scored high, meats scored low. They also found the meals prepared at home with love has higher hado as well.

The Rapid Heating of a Microwave Oven Disturbs Hado
Here he points out that rapid temperature changes whether by flash freezing or using a microwave it weakens the integrity of food and water giving it a low hado reading.

Improve the Hado of Cellular Phones, Televisions, and Personal Computers
Going beyond rapid heating of the microwave, Emoto researched the effects of electromagnetic waves emitted from microwaves, cell phones, personal computers, and TVs. Needless to say no water crystals were formed when water was exposed to these devices. Since it is not feesable for all of us to rid ourselves of all electronics, and live off the land in the mountains, he did some research on how we can have our cake and eat it too. With phones research shows positive tones and topics increase your hado, negative topics are best left for face to face. With microwaves, say positive words to your food and the device. For TV watch positve programs, try and avoid or limit violence from news or fiction. Computers keep a positive attitude, esp at work, so your computing with enthusiasm. Final note pornographic photos and or videos showed a low hado- I don't know about you, but even for the sake of health, I don't know that I'm ready to go electronically celebit.

Good Music Reaches Our Cells
'However, information is not limited only towards other kinds of information also have healing properties for improving water. Being sensitive, water responds to beautiful pictures and music.' It has been studied in other fields for a while this idea of music therapy and sound therapy to cure ailments. He studied this with hado and found positive results with water crystals with exposure to beautiful music vs. music that is more brash or harsh.
(On a personal note, if you are interested in trying to cure yourself with music, make sure you do research on tones, notes and frequencies tather than just assuming anything classical will work.)

Tune into the Wavelength of Health and Happiness
Here he gives you the breakdown of his day as an example of how to live your hado.



Chapter 5- As We Live, Let's Dialogue with Water

It All Depends on Your Mental Attitude
Emoto shares a letter he receives from Dr. Davis about the importance of respecting water. (And points out that 'purified' does not mean 'pure'.)

Prayers Change Water
He gives an example of about 350 people all reciting 'The Great Decloration' over the largest lake in Japan and saw it becoming decontaminated. So he says, 'My research shows that hado changes water. If we dialogue with water with a positive attitude and with respect, water will definitely change. Even the water in a big lake can change. The water in your body can also change.'
(I don't know about anyone else, but the film 'The Happening' is def springing to mind...)

'Let's Do It!' Rather Than 'Do It!'
Demands and orders do not create a happy hado. Instead we must practive encouragement and requestions
(Note: a request is a question that can be responded to with a 'yes' OR 'no' answer equally. A true request is made knowing that either response is possible and both equally acceptable. If you ask a favor and get upset by a 'no' than it is not a request but rather a manipulation.)

'Love' and 'Gratitude' Change the World
He ends with, 'We must pay respect to water, feel love and gratitude, and receive vibrations with positive attitude.
'Then, water changes, you change, and I change.
'Because both you and I are water.'

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Power of Water-Summary 3

Chapter 3- Water Revives Life Force

Collecting the Information
Here Masaru Emoto shares an example of a little girl with a mental condition that Wastern medicine and psychology was unable to diagnos. Desperate the family turned to Eastern medicine and he found that on a subatmoic-partical level that lead toxin was in her brain from their lead water pipes. With new pipes and better information being carried in the water they drank, she got better. 'When we get positive information from water, we become healthier. When we get negative information, we get sick'

People's Names and Picture Carry the Information of Their Illness
In this segment he helps a young adult female with a tumor on chemo in the hospital without being able to visit the hospital. The hado machine was able to get a reading of the girl from photographs her mother would bring in of her daughter in the hospital.- showing the process works with images beyong words.

Hado Consultation for a Girl with Acute Myelocytic Leukemia
A 14 year old girl who lost a father and grandfather to the current condition she suffered was cured with hado treatment and was a healthy vibrant 24 year old when this book was written.

Hado Consultation for a Baby with Congenital Heart Disease
Again another medical example of hado reversed a medical condition, this time it helped shrink a baby's heart down to normal size.

Conditions That Have Been Thought of as Hereditary
Here Emoto expresses the hereditary diseases, illness and conditions are nothing more than the reincarnation of the negative attitudes and emotions from our ancestors showing up in our subatomic-particals so heavily that it affects our cells and organs. And again by tackling each condition one at a time, hado can stop hereditary conditions.

Illnesses React to Negative Emotions
He starts by saying, 'How important it is to live our life positively!' And later continues with, '_he very source of my physical strength is my positive attitude. Conversely, those who think negatively tend to become ill easily.' Also, 'Negative thoughts resonate with more negative factors to make the situation worse.' And, 'To live a healthy life, keep your thoughts positive.'

Why SARS Occurred
(First off: SARS- severe acute respiratory syndrome)
He explains how Earth is like a living body and with the increase in negativity around the globe an example of its subatomic-partical illness growing to cellular and organ level is the creation of such new ailments like SARS.

Giving Attention Is a Way of giving Energy
He reinvites an example of an experiement shared in 2 other books of his where fans of his jarred rice 3 times saying 'thank you' to one, 'you fool' to another and ignoring the third. The first fermented and the other 2 molded, the third molded the most rapidly. He shares, 'The result of this experiement has a significant meaning. The hardest thing for life is to be ignored and given no attention.'...'Someone who grows plants told me that if you talk to the plants while watering them, they will grow faster and more beautiful flowers. By receiving attention, life can get the energy to move in a better direction.'

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 offereing prayers to water, we send hado to the water, and such water gains the power to potentially answer our prayers.' When he says prayers he doesn't mean, 'Thank you god for giving this day our daily bread,' he means if you want not to suffer another miscarriage you'd say 'this baby is keeper' rather than 'hopefully this one doesn't leave'. You say what you want as if it has already happened with strength and hope and you visualixe the outcome and then it shall be. - the power of water AND positive thinking. (And I used that example because I lived it, and it works.)

'Love and Gratitude' Enhances Immunity
Here he basically gives you an at home recipe for making your own hado water.

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The Power of Water- Summary 2

Chapter 2- Getting to Know Water Will Change Your Mind and Body

Water and Hado
He (the author Masaru Emoto) defines hado as all subtle energy existing in the universe and says all existing things have vibrations. He says it is through this energy that water/we are able to receive information. He goes on to give more examples of how different frequencies effect different things and how.

Hado Medicine
He came across a radionics device for measuring various vibrations of the body at the cellular level. So he was able to measure hado. He used this to start treating cellular imbalances by finding the vibration and sending out the proper signal vibration to get it back in balance. And then the author explains how.

The Truth in 'Worry is Often the Cause of Illness'
Emoto shows that in group studies and in water studies that when it comes to hado healing, not only does using the opposite wave work to cancel out the negative one, but the opposite word showed actual healing, example replacing 'irritability' with 'calmness' as a word and a practice.

Illness also Has Hado
Here he expresses that beyond a cellular or atomic level we have subatomic particals that effect the rest of our makeup. He explains that disease occures when one of those particals is off vibrations slowly effecting those around is and when it finally spreads to the cellular level we see illness and disease. He brings up a great preventative at the subatomic partical level is positive thoughts, words, attitudes, actions and emotions- as well as drinking positively enforced water.

Injuries Are Also Functions of Hado
Here he points out that our bodies are able to sustain injury from impact in specific spots where the subatomic partical vibrations are abnormal. (Similar to quigong as being a preventative).

So its here in the book that we can start to see science more or less proving or affirming yoga (the full specturm of yoga, not just the asanas that westerners commonly think of) - how a lot of damage can occure with negative thoughts, actions and words, and also that healing and curing does occure with positive thoughts, actions and deeds!

So practice your free will and CHOSE to be happy! =)

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The True Power of Water - Summary 1

A reminder, the book is The True Power of Water- Healing and Discovering Ourselves, by Masaru Emoto.

In the book Introduction the author mentions 'hado (the energy or vibration inherent in all things...)', he ecplains the birth of this book and many years of research on water and his theory that water takes in information the way external factors such as a beautiful scenery affect our minds and bodies.

He goes on to say, 'An adult body is 70% water. Therefore, in terms of materials, we can say that we are water. Yet, water has hardly been investigated up until now. Perhaps that is why we don't understand other people, nor do we understand the essence of ourselves.'

He states some items|questions that will be addressed in this book:
-How seriously do you think about the characteristics of water?
-Are you aware that the water you drink has the ability to improve your health and your life?
-Do you know that your consciousness has the ability to change water? When you send your gratitude to water, it's quality improves. When you call water by names or ignore it, it deteriorates.

Last quote from the intro., 'The more you know about water, the more clearly you will see yourself. As you become clearer, you will see the society, the nation, the world, the earth, the universe, and eventually the devine being.'


Chapter 1- The Process of Discovery
How the Research Began
Highlighting on the process of photographing and researchhing water crystals Masaru Emoto shares that water was first bottled in glass and each bottle exposed to different information over a given length of time, then samples of water from each bottle were frozen and observed.

The State of Our Water: Natural, Tap, and Mineral
Tap water never formed any crystals, natural water did. Bottled mineral water came up to be very back and forth, some domestic brands had crystals, others did not, some were more distilled rather than natural as Emoto founf out when noticing a label as being marked 'remineralized', where men take natural minerals out then add their own, much like how tap has a mass amount of chemical interference.

People's Consciousness Changes Water
He soon realized it took more than just the quality of natural vs tap, so his hypothesis was 'water shows different shapes of ice cyrtals depending on the information it has received.' He put this to the tect by taking the same water and placing it in two bottles, one telling the water 'Thank You', the other 'You Fool'. 'Thank You' formed crystals, 'You Fool' did not.

Water Understands Words
Not only did he find that positive words created crystals, but it workked for any language- water understood all of man's tongues. The most beautiful crystals he ever saw were from a bottle marked 'Love + Gratitude'.

We Are Water
At this point he starts to realize that if water improves or deteriorates based on messages it receives, than people being 70% water do as well. He points out that good information provides health, whereas negative information creates illness.

There Is Hope
Here he shares the restructuring of rainwater and its growing purity thoughout his study. With more positive awarenenss to water, ourselves, our fellow man and to earth, rainwater will soon loose acidity and be drinkable and the ground water will eventually do the same.


(So makes a person want to practice yoga and go green, right? *wink wink* =P)

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Sliding into Home- the Wrap Up

The reason I used this as the first book is because this is the book that back in December inspired me to even start a bookclub. The first time I read this book I was so touched by the raw truth and unpolished nature of this book. This to me is a perfect example of yoga, and she is a commendable yogi in a 'non traditional' sense. I love that yoga is not about 'being perfect' but about being you, embracing and honoring your truth, or dharma. I can not deny that I also identify with Kendra and her life on a personal level as we both have lived semi-similar lives. So personally I loved the strength behind this, how just because something has been one way does not mean it is destined to be that way. That if you live in what you classify as darkness does not mean that you are doomed or stuck, that you are only a victim or a hero if that's what you say. Life happens all the time every moment around us, but reality really is what we make it. True growth and happiness comes when we finally learn that we are responsible for our reactions, emotions and reality. When we let go of blaming others or circumstances. And when we realize that light is just light, and dark is just dark, that nothing is 'good or bad'. When we accept what is just is we are free from suffering.
I wanted to share Kendra with you as a reminder and an example of this.

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