A Moment with Donna……Black Rice

Lady Spring and `Ol Man Winter have been doing a lively tango for the past month. Just when Lady Spring manages to warm everything up, grumpy `Ol Man Winter sends in his windy troops, along with icy temps in the 20’s which freeze into snow, creating chaos for drivers and all kinds of situations. Meanwhile, here in the Pacific Northwest, Mother Nature is encouraging plants to keep to their time schedule as her persnickety kids will keep having their spats even after March 12th, the official day of Spring.

I am sure you have seen a form of black rice at one time or another, however, what I am going to share with you was given to me by one of my guests on my daily show. It has to do with Professor Emoto’s experiments with water turning into beautiful crystals.

A teacher was sharing the book and the story about the Professor’s research on the power of words and emotions. The students were fascinated with the photographs in the book and also were told about some people that had done an experiment with white rice. Mason jars were filled with an amount of white rice. On each jar a label was placed like, love, hate, peace, loneliness, etc. The students then, on a daily basis, would speak to the jars expressing the feeling the label stated. This simple ritual was done for a while and to the student’s astonishment, the jar that had the word hate on it, the rice turned black.

However, that isn’t the end of the story. The teacher and the students while talking about the overall results of the rice turning black because of a negative word, one of the students raised his hand, asking a question…Can we turn the black rice back to white by saying positive words? Everyone got quiet, seriously thinking about the question. The students very curious, looked at their teacher wondering if they could try to reverse the process that had been done. The teacher felt it was a wonderful challenge. The word hate was removed from the jar of black rice and replaced with the word love. The black rice after a period of time turned back to white. What a powerful demonstration these young students learned in that classroom!

Think of the difference in their thinking with the demonstration of the energy of emotions, their power when combined with words, can be destructive or constructive…the choice is theirs to make. Also, it is our choice as to whether or not we accept the negative words of others or choose to transform them into something we can leverage in a positive way. Thinking outside the box proves that the impossible can be possible if we have curiosity and don’t accept the limitations other people and/or conditions may be put upon us.

Black Rice…a simple experiment that teaches a most powerful lesson. Have a fabulous spring.

Love, Donna