Words Hurt ~ an Experiment

Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me

That is untrue. The effects from words actually last longer than the bruises from stones.

While doing the Steemit Manifest Challenge, many thoughts have arisen regarding how we shape our world around us simply by how we use words and what we tell ourselves and others.

The energy and intention behind your words has a profound effect.

Here is a simple experiment I did with my boys a few years ago. I urge you to try it, the results are remarkable and will change how you view the world and interact with your people.

What You Need

3 seal-able jars
several pounds of white rice
a dark place
a voice

Preparation

Cook the rice as directed.
Label the three jars Beautiful, Ugly and Nothing

Let the rice cool after cooking, then fill each jar and seal, and place in a cool, dry, quiet place.

Experiment

Each day for 30 days you will take each jar out and treat it as it's name suggests. Except for the nothing jar- you will completely ignore that jar.

Call the Beautiful jar sweet, loving words in a nice voice. Tell it how loved and needed it is. How wonderful of a jar of rice it is. Let your gentle voice soothe it and feel the care as you're talking to it.

Place Beautiful back in the cabinet or pantry and pull out Ugly.

Bully the Ugly jar. Put on your disgusted voice and tell it how ugly it is, how worthless and useless. How you wish you'd never met it! Go off on it and make it feel unwanted.

Put it back till tomorrow.

Remember to do absolutely nothing with nothing. Do not even take it out of the cabinet.

At the end of the 30 days open the jars.

Our results when we opened the jars:

Then my oldest son @juggernaught asked "what if we did the opposite? Called Ugly rice bad things in a sweet and caring voice with good energy, and yelled at Beautiful rice by saying positive words in a nasty, demeaning voice?"

We had to try it!

Thought creates energy and energy is the form of all life.

It's not only what we tell ourselves, its how we tell ourselves. The meaning and energy behind the words and thoughts are what creates the outcome.

Has someone ever told you "I love you" in a way where you did not feel the love? Your feeling was probably correct- not the words they used.

Seriously, do the experiment yourself, it's pretty life changing.

People have done it with plants:

Apples:

Water Droplets:

Sources: Dr. Masaru Emoto ~ Original research and rice experiment
Water science experiment Vice apples My original experiment post for Steemit Images via Creative Commons, Pexel, and sources listed

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