The Science of Gratitude

"Gratitude" Crystal from
the work of Masaru Emoto

In my work with IDEABASH, It's been very important for me to encourage people to include blessings of LOVE and GRATITUDE in their correspondence with the people who they purchase products from. Masaru Emoto is a Japanese researcher who discovered that water responds to stimulus as much as you or I do; and the repercussions from this research have shaken the world. The most profoundly beautiful crystals he creates are when LOVE and GRATITUDE are spoken and prayed.

The people who are already familiar with this research implicitly understand my request of this blessings, but I take the time to educate people who are hearing of it for the first time, for a very specific purpose.

If you're sending paper money, or if you're sending a payment electronically, there is energy attached to that money. If you do nothing, then the money retains whatever energy it has.... which can be positive or negative. But if you take the time to sit and meditate on your payment, infusing it with your wishes and prayers that it travel with LOVE and GRATITUDE and SUCCESS, then you are changing its energy to the positive, and when the person receives it, the balance of positive energy in their life also changes. Imagine all 4,000 people who purchase your product sending you these blessings with the money you receive - it's POWERFUL!

On Thanksgiving, someone posted a link to a magnificent article called The Neuroscience of Why Gratitude Makes Us Healthier, written by a guy named Ocean Robbins, and I was just floored by the fact that someone has taken this research to an even deeper level. In the article, he states that "If you invest in a way of seeing the world that is mean and frustrated, you're going to get a world that is, well, more mean and frustrating. But if you can find any authentic reason to give thanks, anything that is going right with the world or your life, and put your attention there, then statistics say you're going to be better off." I concur!

Gratefulness is directly related to Happiness! I immediately renamed Thanksgiving "Gratitude Day" and insisted that my family go around all day thinking of things they're grateful for. By dinner time, the love was flowing like a stream in the spring! Not that people were necessarily unhappy earlier in the day, but it was a kind of neutral energy.  When my 8 year old boy offered to help me do the dishes, I knew there was some magic in the air!

We need to practice Gratitude every day. Whenever you feel your energy slipping, remember all that you have to be grateful for, and see how you feel.

I'll finish this blog with another wonderful quote from the article: "There's an old saying that if you've forgotten the language of gratitude, you'll never be on speaking terms with happiness."

Blessings to you and yours,

Meg Montgomery, Founder
http://ideabash.org