I recently read a book called The Hidden Messages in Waterby Masaru Emoto. Mr. Emoto has researched the effect of various environments on the formation of a complete water crystals. He does this by exposing distilled water to sounds, pictures and words both spoken and written. For example, he exposed water to both classical and death metal music; the result was, classical music would produce beautiful and complete crystals while the death metal exposed water was unable to create a complete crystal. When he exposed the water to beautiful pictures and specific words as “thank you”- and “dirty” with similar results.
This of course has very interesting implications in our lives since according to NASA our bodies are 70% water. We have heard about the importance of kind words but nothing brings it home like these crystals-
One of Mr. Emoto’s readers decided to test his theories with his family by putting rice on three containers and having the children speak to the containers every day. They would tell one container “Thank You”, another one “You Fool” and the third they would ignore all together. After a month, the container that had positive words spoken to it began to ferment with a light malty smell. The one that was insulted, turned black and rotted. The most interesting thing was what happened to the rice that was ignored, it rotted faster than the one that was insulted! Apparently negative attention really is better than no attention at all.
I think it's a great example of quantum dynamics and the observer effect. If you were to try to replicate these experiments with any sort of doubt, with a desire to disprove the theory, that doubt would change the nature of the vibration associated with the words, music and scenery you are exposing the water to. Since the water is simply reflecting the vibrational state of the observer, your personal feelings toward the experiment would supplant the meaning of anything you expose to the water. To Mr. Emoto, the word "Thank You" puts him in a state of gratitude which is then reflected on the water. That is to say, if the sound of the word "Dirty" would evoke a sense of gratitude in a different observer, than that observer would get in amazing crystal from "Dirty".
So often this is the problem with "proving" theories regarding the mind-body connection. Since the meaning of words tend to be a matter or character, culture and language of the speaker, what would evoke pride in one English speaker may evoke shame in another because, while they speak the same language, they do not have the same cultural background. I see this occurring with the word "ambition" - in our American culture it carries a positive connotation, if you are "ambitious" then you are driven, dedicated, a "go getter", you are shooting for the stars! Where as the same word when spoken to a person for whom their first language was Spanish may see "ambitious" as having a negative connotation - greedy, selfish, willing to step all over others to attain their own desires. So too, the way to raise the vibrational state or mood of one person (or of water for that matter) may differ drastically form one to another. One things seems to be universally true, however, being kind to others from a sincere heart with no desire to obtain anything in return has a positive effect on the vibrational state (emotional state) of all involved and by extension their health and quality of life. So let's be kind to each other!