What We Expose Ourselves To We Become

 

I went to the movies one day, just because I wanted to see a movie.  Not any particular movie, just a movie.  I respect Keanu Reeves as a person and like him as an actor, so without any research I went to see my first John Wick movie.   I knew it was rated R and I knew it wasn’t going to be a Mary Poppin’s type film.

It was a Sunday afternoon, I was the only one in the theater, when a family walked in.   A father, mother, baby, 4 year old and a 6 year old.   I thought to myself, this R-rated movie might be a little much for small children.  But this was not my circus and not my monkey.

I am not a great lover of violence or horror.  I remember watching Game of Thrones, when in a battlefield episode one warrior graphically drove a sword through his enemy. I got a little nauseous, clicked exit and that was the end of GOT for me.

Anyway, the John Wick movie started with violence, and fifteen minutes in, the violence was overwhelming me. I decided to leave.   But what also ran through my mind was,  “If this is too much violence for me, how is it affecting these children?  By me watching this violent movie with these children present, am I condoning the parent’s decision to bring them here?”

It was later that I came across the work of Masaru Emoto the Japanese author who did experiments with water. 

His experiments showed that water has memory!   And the crystalline structure of water changes based on what it is exposed to.

Polluted water has a chaotic distorted structure.  A snowflake has a beautiful symmetric structure.    

Our core nature is drawn to things that have symmetry.   We perceive symmetry as beauty.  We are drawn to beauty.  Beauty and symmetry reflect wholeness.  

All of nature is symmetrical.   We are built to recognize the difference between beauty and ugliness, between symmetry and chaos.

There was a “Bully the Plant Experiment” performed in a school.   Two plants, getting the same external conditions, except one plant was exposed to kind words by the students and the other plant was treated with bullying words.  The loved plant flourished, and the bullied plant died.

Think about this:   If water has memory, and we can change the crystalline structure of water by what we expose it to, and our bodies are 60% water, then our words have a profound impact on each other.

Think about the difference between screaming at your child for correction and explaining to your child why they should change their behavior because it is harming them.    Those two actions feel very different and elicit a very different experience for the child.

We can literally change ourselves and each other by the words and intentions we use!

When we expose ourselves, we are being open and vulnerable.   When we conceal ourselves, we are closing off and being protective.

Life is a balance; there are times to expose ourselves.   There is no growth without exposure.    But there are also times to protect ourselves, there is no growth when our roots are being hacked.  

Every action we take either promotes beauty or ugliness.   Every choice we make either promotes growth or death, to ourselves, to each other and to the collective.

Be Careful, Care-Filled with your words.

Be Careful, Care-Filled with what you expose yourself to.

Because that is how we create and what we become.

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Namaste, the Divine in me honors the Divine in you!

 

Much love bill