the power of LOVE vs the destruction of HATE

Last week I gathered together my little prodigies and talked to them about Love and Hate.  We spoke about how we express either of those two emotions; verbally, physically, emotionally, intellectually and energetically.  We talked about how we can direct those two emotions both outward into the world and inward via internal dialogue and via other people and situations.  We talked a lot about it, they are after all only 8 and two 5 year olds and I wanted to make sure that they really understood all the ways in which LOVE and HATE could be sent out into the world and received into themselves.  

Then we got some rice, brown rice because that is what we eat here at home and we boiled it like normal, in unsalted water and then once it was cooked we drained it and let it cool a little bit.

While we waited for the rice to cool we choose two containers that could be recycled and we added the exact same amount of rice to each container using a measuring cup (2.5 cups in each container).

Then we put the lids on and sealed it with packaging tape adding two labels per container.  One container in happy red said LOVE the other container in dark and moody black said HATE.

From that point on over the next week whenever we walked past the containers (which were left on the bench side by side) we would pick up each container individually and start to speak to it in a manner that matched the label. I encouraged the kids to direct to the hate container the sort of internal dialogue that we all have going on inside of ourselves...."I'm stupid, I cant do anything right, I'm fat, I'm ugly, No one likes me etc" and then the verbal communication that we receive from outward sources even if it is said in a playful way by people we know who love us...."you little s*^t, ill kill you (beyond my influence there are some family members who speak to them like this in what they perceive to be a joking loving way) and then school yard stuff like "i wont be your friend, you are dumb, you cant do anything right, give me that, you stink, go away, i hate you, etc" and then I told them to think about the times they feel really angry and they don't say anything, or if someone looks at them with heaps of anger in their eyes and to hold the rice labelled hate and direct that sort of energy into it.  

It was very interesting hearing the things that are said to them or that they think of when the negative internal dialogue starts up in their head.  My eldest son would come home straight from school, go directly to the rice pick up the hate one and unload the negative feedback from his day.... I think he found it quite cathartic.

The LOVE rice was reserved for all things loving, the things that people say to you from a place of love, the things you would like to hear more of, the things that you would say to someone you love and the feelings that you have inside of you, the energy, when you are in a place of Love. "i love you, you are so clever, you are kind, you are smart, you are fun to be with, you make me happy, you make me smile, you make my day better, you are beautiful/handsome, people like me just the way i am, how can i help you, thank you, you are welcome etc"

So we did that, for a week and by the end of the week this is what the rice looked like.....the hate rice had a good inch and half of white feathery mould all over it and through it, speckled very heavily through all of that white mould was black mould dots, the rice itself was slimy and tinted pink, black and dark brown.

In other words it was YUCK really really DISGUSTING.

The Love rice on the other hand, while it was not good enough to eat it was not slimy, I could only find 3 grains of rice that had discoloured and there was NO mould, not one speck.  The rice itself wasn't breaking down and getting mushy like the Hate rice.

CONCLUSION:  

• What you think, 
• What you say 
• The unspoken thought directed at others 
• Your internal dialogue 
• The emotional energy directed inward at yourself and outward to others 
• What we watch
• What we listen to
• What we surround ourselves with 
• Who we spend time with

All of these things and more, they have the power to either be extremely positive or extremely negative.  The power to influence our lives in ways that can cause greatness or great harm, either immediately or over prolonged periods.

Live with love in your heart.  It is good for you, for your health, for the world, for the people around you .....any kind of hate is detrimental in the worst of ways for the person from whom it originates and towards the person it is directed at.

The labelled containers and their contents after 7 days.

(click on the picture to open it on a page for itself, then click on that picture to enlarge it, so that you can see the rice much more clearly, you will be shocked!)

LOVE: The only thing present in this rice is a little condensation.

HATE: The foggy look is actually fine, white feathery mould in a 1.5 inch layer on top of the rice 

and through the rice.  The black dots are black mould.

There are many of these experiments on the web.  They are based upon the work of the Japanese Scientist Dr Masaru Emoto whose work I have written about previously HERE His U.S website can be found HERE.

This is a wonderful experiement to try out yourself so that you can see first hand the power that you hold within you.

....and my babies? Now when they say something negative (which I must admit is pretty rare) all I have to do is remind them of the rice and ask them which kind of impact do they really want to have on the world....and it always ends the same way, with a smile and a whisper...."LOVE".

Much LOVE to you all

Namaste

xm