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Stewarding your Inner Waters

It was in 2014 that I came across a most intriguing book, “The Hidden Messages in Water” by Dr Masaru Emoto. This book showed pictures of frozen water crystals that had been exposed to words, pictures, music and prayers. There were also pictures of frozen water crystals from bodies of water that had a high interaction with humans (from urban areas) and waters that had far less human interaction (from the countryside or less accessible nature).  

The pictures were astounding to me.  The water that had been exposed to positive words, sounds and images had formed some of the most beautiful crystals I have ever seen whilst the ones exposed to negative words, images and harsh sounds were astonishingly ugly! The pictures in the book are accompanied by explanations of how he was able to photograph the water crystals and his philosophy/beliefs about water. 

This got me thinking very deeply. Here’s a quote taken directly from his website –  

” Dr. Emoto has shown that from beautiful words and music come beautiful crystals, and from mean-spirited, negative words come malformed and misshapen crystals. What is the significance? It becomes clear when we remember that the adult human body is approximately 70% water and infant bodies are about 90% water. We can be hurt emotionally, as the water can be changed, for the worse physically by negativity.” 

I do believe this is all quite simple to understand – we are all made of water, what we see, say, listen to shows up as literal beauty or ugliness in our physical bodies. This knowledge prompted me to begin policing my external environment and internal thoughts. Music, movies, words (spoken or written) are all filtered. I want beauty in my water parts, it’s that simple 🙂 Water is such an important part of our existence on this earth; internally, externally, all around us. 

How are you stewarding your inner waters? 

Pictures, posters, music, spoken words, mugs, anything that has words on it, all of these have an impact on our inner waters. 

Create beauty on the inside of you intentionally, it will flow out into the world, creating external beauty. 

The world we live in today has an immense amount  of negative imagery and wording directed covertly and/or overtly at Black people all over the world. If we are to believe Dr Emoto’s research, it becomes necessary, imperative I dare say, for Black people to surround themselves in their homes, places of work, places of recreation, communities and public spaces ( as far as it is possible for the individual and social groupings) , to deliberately surround themselves with identity affirming words and imagery. Black people must steward their inner waters in order to not only survive but  thrive and overcome the wounds, obstacles, ridicule and  altogether negative attributes ascribed to all people who have varying shades of melanin in their skins, Black people.

Steward your inner waters.

Pay attention to what you allow into your mind through the gates of your eyes.

Fight negativity by enclosing yourself in life and identify affirming words.

Fight to not only survive but THRIVE in the midst of adversity.

WORDS ARE LIFE, WORDS ARE DEATH. SURROUND YOURSELF WITH LIFE.

Shalom! 

Dr Emoto’s website

 

 

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When a black man fights a black woman

When a black man fights with a black woman, he is either fighting with his greatest ally or worst enemy, depending on how well he has chosen. This is within the context of life/covenant partnership aka marriage. 

 The perpetuation of violence – physical, verbal, psychic – of the black man towards the black woman is a travesty, a usurping of the natural order which God has created. This violence is also perpetuated by black women against black men but this is not  my focus at this time, it will be addressed a little bit later. 

 The black man who has not humbled himself before God, who has not built himself up in God is weak ( this is true of even the healed ones) – the world and its “isms” have disciplined him to fight and/or constrain the one other person to which he can genuinely ally against the massive warfare he faces in the systems of this work he has to live in – systems which are designed to keep him at the very bottom rung. ( I write not to condemn, I have a lot of compassion and empathy for my black brothers, I’m on their side). 

 Woman’s power is influence power, man resists to his own detriment. Being a woman of power means having power to endure the man, endure his innate selfishness, stubbornness and narcissism. Power to endure, to accommodate, to resist in a non confrontational manner. Non confrontational and non adversarial. Man is not, has never and will never be enemy. 

Black men and women, do not fight each other, join together and fight the systems of this world that have been designed to keep you down.  

Repair families, fight for your families – nuclear and extended. Individualism is one of the “isms” that has broken a structure that existed for centuries.

Unity is the key. 

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….. and the Golden Seam Runs through …

We all come into this world as innocent children. We come in and we inherit wounds, some of us. Others have the wounds inflicted on them at different phases of their existence in the initial stages of life, when they are unable to shield their vulnerabilities. As a result, majority come into adulthood bent, broken; pus ridden, infected, scarred, malformed and twisted humanity.  

Deformed adults. 

Image from http://www.billiebondart.com/kintsugi.html

Deformed, not because they want to be. 

Broken, because someone or a lot of “ones” manhandled them when they were most fragile and didn’t bother to administer any healing balm. 

Entering adulthood from a period of not having agency, the responsibility is not on the child to protect his/herself, it is on other people, and if/when they can’t/won’t, the blame doesn’t fall on the child/teen. Enter the deformed adult on the Life stage……… 

Now, you are wounded, you are deformed, unpretty on the inside, riddled with issues, weighed down, burdened with baggage you didn’t ask for, do not need, do not want. 

Whose responsibility, are you? Yours. 

Adult man, adult woman, it is your responsibility to straighten your broken self, to rid yourself of this baggage, to make sense of the nonsense that you didn’t give yourself.  

Unfair, unjust, but true. 

The world is full of broken people. Some are more broken than others. Looking at Kintsugi, the ancient Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold dusted lacquer, I contemplate…….. 

Golden joinery – the simple earthen ware becomes more valuable only after it has been broken. 

 

Golden joinery. 

Joined by gold. 

 

At the end of its life, the broken earthenware is more valuable and distinctive from its counterpart that sits safely and snugly, unbroken. 

Contemplate…………… 

 

To all the broken, make sure you join your pieces with precious material or you might turn out uglier than you were in the beginning, that is the real tragedy. 

 

We must all do kintsukuroi  – to repair/mend with gold. 

This brings to mind a passage from the bible, 2 Corinthians 4:7 “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us.” When you consider this, I think that it is correct to come to the conclusion that those who believe in God and His power to transform are more likely to have golden threads running through their clay, creating beauty from what would otherwise have been disastrous ugliness.