If Negative Words Can Make Rice Mold, Imagine What They Can do to People
A teacher in Brazil focuses on teaching her students the importance of treating others positively
A teacher in Brazil was becoming upset hearing the way her students talked to each other. It seemed to her that insulting each other was the norm and that it had become part of the class culture. She remembered reading about an experiment conducted by by Masaru Emoto who carried out a similar experiment with rice. He poured rice into three jars and wrote “Thank you,” on the first jar, “You idiot,” on the second and nothing on the third.
Every day for 30 days he said thank you and felt gratitude toward the “Thank you,” jar, got angry and yelled at the “You idiot,” jar, and ignored the last jar. The first jar fermented properly. However, the rice in the second jar molded and the rice in the third jar completely rotted. Emoto concluded that our thoughts and how we give voice to them have an important effect on the world around us. It wasn’t just the difference between positive and negative thoughts and vocalizations that providing implications. The jar that fared the worst wasn’t the one that was yelled at. It was the one that was completely ignored. This experiment has been conducted by thousands of people who have recorded their results…
