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• Publisher's Pen
• Empowering Parents and Teachers
• Empowering K.I.D.S. (Kids In Daily Situations)

Publisher's Pen: The Message From Water

“The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world
around him positively and draws back to him positive results.”
                                                         Norman Vincent Peale.

Dr. Masaru Emoto, a Japanese scientist, studied how water crystals were affected by human thought. Using high-speed photography, he noted changes in water when specific thoughts were directed at it through concentration, or by typing thoughts on a piece of paper and taping it to a glass of water. The results were that a significant change took place after both positive and negative thoughts were directed toward it. If the human body is 90% water, then what can thoughts do to us?

Even more interesting were the photographs taken of water in a glass with the words, “thank you” taped to it, showing a similar crystal formation. And a beautiful formation of crystals appeared when the words, “love and appreciation” were taped on it. A striking difference, however, was photographed when the words, “you make me sick, I will kill you” were taped to it. The difference was similar to the water in the dam before the prayer session mentioned above, except that it looked much, much worse.

How many times during the course of a school day do kids say or have negative thoughts toward one another, toward their own performance, or toward school in general? How about for adults during the work day? During rush hour?  When one experiences road rage? At dinner-time? When we lay awake at night?

To view the photographs at the Adhikara Art Gallery, go here: http://www.adhikara.com/water.html

May we be aware, moment-by-moment, of the thoughts we have of ourselves and of our children, learning to let positive thoughts drown the negative ones, thereby providing a life raft for a new outcome in all of our lives.

Smiles,

Elaine

Empowering Parents and Teachers:

Let positive thoughts drown out the negative ones. Rather than expending energy to try not to think negative thoughts, lay a positive one next to it.  Practice this technique and you will understand how your mind works, and at the same time, form a habit of positive thinking within 21 days.

This is a lesson plan directed at situations in which students find themselves on a daily basis. It can be easily modified for adults.

Positive Thinking Lesson Plan:

Starting with today, record all of the thoughts you had from the time you woke up this morning until the time you walked into school:

Now write down a positive thought, possibly the opposite thought, that you can “lay” next to it:

Now that we have taken the first step, think of situations that you are faced with on a daily basis. Think of as many as you can. For example: lunch, recess, riding the bus home, walking home, stopping at the mall, stopping at a friend’s house, gym class, homework, studying for a test, making a new boy/girlfriend:

Make up a chart like the one below. As new situations come up, add them on to the list. Cross off situations where you have mastered your thoughts. Some examples are listed to get you started:

(Keep going, good luck, and have fun!)

Empowering K.I.D.S. (Kids In Daily Situations):

Do the “Admirable Qualities I See and Admirable Qualities in Me” exercise. Write down at least 15 qualities that you admire in other people. Next, write down at least 15 good qualities about yourself. Add more as you think of them. Post it by your bed and look at it each night before you go to sleep.

Doing this will put you at rest when you go to sleep. If your mind starts to tell you things like, “yeah, right,” or, “you’ll never be that,” then look at the word and speak it out loud, saying, “I am_____.” This is the equivalent to putting a positive thought next to a negative one.

Sometimes when I repeat a positive affirmation, I end it with, “And so it is.”

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