Curve Ball

Life is one of those funny things that I never lack being surprised by. You think you have everything figured out, life is good, and then all of a sudden your whole world turns upside down, and you realize that you were missing out on something wonderful that you would have missed out on if you had continued living in the comfort zone that you had created for yourself.

When I was 17, if you had told me that I would be buying a house when I was 18, and when I was 18 you had told me that I would be dating someone 2000 miles away when I was 19, and when I was 19 if you had told me I would be selling my house to move 2000 miles away to be with said boyfriend when I was 20. I definitely would have told you that you were off your rocker.

Sadly, I wasn't lucky enough to have someone state the future to me. Not even for the pure enjoyment of laughing at the absurdity of their prediction.  Instead I found out my “future” the old fashioned way, taking each life curve ball as it came, and I can honestly say that I am glad about this. Though it would have been a good laugh, I am happy that I didn't know where I was headed in life. The ever changing times, the friends gained and lost, the experiences good and bad, have shaped and molded who I am today, and all of this was set into place for me to have the experience and confidence to be able to handle the current and future life situations that I find myself in.

So, even though three years ago I was simply excited about the fact of being able to rent an apartment, be single till 25, and always live in the state of Ohio. I can honestly say that the changes in my life have all been for the better. I am thankful for each and every change that I have had in my life, and I am excited to see what is around the next corner. 

This is just my reminder to myself to Carpe Diem, live with no regrets, and to remember YOLO in it's purest form.

Emoto's Ice Crystals

Masaru Emoto is a Japanese author and entrepreneur who conducted many experiments with water crystals. Emoto would take polluted water and fresh spring water from all parts of the world and would then proceed to freeze the water so that it would become a crystal (snowflake) and quickly discovered that the polluted water took on little to no shape at all, and the fresh spring water took on extravagantly beautiful shapes. This doesn't come across as to much of a surprise. Even to the unscientific mind,  there isn't too much of a shock, good water equals good crystals, bad water equals bad crystals, not rocket science right?

Polluted Water

Fresh Water

Well, Emoto decided to run a new set of experiments. This time he decided to have a battle of the bands. He played Mozart to one set of water and heavy metal music to another. He then froze the water in the same conditions and photographed them accordingly.

The outcome rather fascinating , it seemed that the water that heavy metal was played for did not turn into a crystal at all, and the water that Mozart was played to created a nice beautiful shape.

Emoto was intrigued. He realized that outside sources could affect water, and he decided to try something even crazier than playing music to water. He decided to write words to the water and see what the outcome would be.

Again a rather shocking outcome. Emoto took this information of writing phrases such as, You make me sick, I will kill you and Love and Appreciation. Again Emoto was shocked to see that this had an effect on the ice crystal. He took this newfound information and went a little bit different direction. He then took the polluted water he had collected that would not form ice crystals, and froze it to attempt to make an ice crystal which we have seen doesn't work out the greatest. Then he would take the water and pray to it, and refreeze it. The outcome was absolutely astonishing.

The water after being thawed blessed and refrozen went from a formless shape to a gorgeous water crystal!

Dr. Masaru Emoto is considered to practice pseudoscience by professionals because of his lack of being able to maintain a controlled experiment because of biases by the photographers. Though, Emoto defends this by saying “This is one of the more difficult areas to clarify. However, from continuing these experiments we have come to the conclusion that the water is reacting to the actual words. For example, for our trip to Europe we tried using the words “thank you” and “you fool” in German. The people on our team who took the actual photographs of the water crystals did not understand the German for “you fool”, and yet we were able to obtain exactly the same kind of results in the different crystal formations based on the words used.”

So, though Emoto may not have the most scientific way of handling things he may still be on to something. Only time will tell as scientists test his theory and expand on it.

Let’s just keep this information in mind and revel at Dr.Emoto’s findings. Let’s also remind ourselves that the average human is made up of 50%-60% water. 

Citations:

http://is-masaru-emoto-for-real.com/

http://www.highexistence.com/water-experiment/

and of course Google images.

Julie & Julia

In an attempt to keep my ever failing sanity under control I have created this blog. Do I expect anyone to read it? No. Its pure and simple purpose in life is to be my sounding board, and the possessor of all the things I discover and find interesting.

In my Julie & Julia moment of creating this blog. I have decided not to take on any crazy challenges like cooking a different recipe everyday. Though as I go through the learning process of how to properly utilize a blog a few personal challenges may come up.

What lies ahead...How am I to know...So here is to trying something new.

 I'm not much of a writer so this should be pretty interesting.

Vivre La Joie
(Live the JOY)