Do our words and thoughts directly affect our health? I’m Annette Leonard of https://www.annetteleonard.com find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/theannetteleonard In the early 2000's there was an independent film called "What the Bleep do We Know?" exploring how quantum mechanics work in our lives. It was my first exposure to the idea of manifesting. In that movie I learned about Matsaru Emoto. He documented the impact of various things on water. He has a book called "The Hidden Messages in Water." Understanding that most of our bodies and much of the world's surface IS water, this research seems incredibly important. Dr. Emoto compared the crystal structure of different drops of water in different conditions. Sometimes he took a picture of a drop of water, then exposed it to lovingkindness meditation, then photographed that same drop of water and it had grown elaborate and beautiful new crystal structures. Conversely, he took heavily polluted water - which under magnification didn't look like a crystal but a chaotic, splattery mess, and after doing a meditation for it, stunningly beautiful intricate crystals appeared. Beautiful crystal structures can be present and when exposed to people fighting or hateful messages, it turns into that disjointed, messy, no longer crystalline structure. OUR BODIES are more than 70% water. What messages are we bathing OUR water in? Are we cultivating our greatest capacity for healing? The best opportunity to knit together and form strong structures? Being sick, living in isolation, there are so many ways to compare myself and come up short. When His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet first came to the US. Sharon Saltzberg was among those who met him. She asked what are your teachings for helping those of us dealing with self-hatred. The meeting had to stop while he met with his interpreters and advisors. Because in Tibetan, there was no word or concept for "self-hatred." Capitalism requires self-hatred. What is the medicine you need to hear? If you don't know, start with "I love you." These studies have been replicated again and again. Even just with a bottle of water where a loving message like "I love you," "you're beautiful," "thank you," and left for 24 hours, yielded spectacularly beautiful crystals. And the opposite was also true: when messages like "I hate you," "you're ugly," etc. were taped on the bottle and left for 24 hours, there was no crystal structure left to photograph.