Power of words

Of course, we must first define how words are created in the first place. I don’t want to go into any linguistic explanations of phonemes and morphemes here, rather the very simple consideration of what underlies a word.

In order for us to say a word, it must first be generated as a thought in our heads. You might think that this is not always the cas e, as we often say things that we later regret or that we feel we have not really thought through beforehand. Nevertheless, we always need a thought first, which then allows us to say the words. This means that every word spoken aloud is first based on a silent, mute thought in our head. 

Pierre Paul Broca identified the two language areas in our brain back in 1865. Broca’s region in the frontal cortex of our cerebrum and Wernicke’s region in the left temporal lobe of the cerebrum, which are responsible for processing language in our brain. It takes less than 600 milliseconds, 0.6 seconds, from thought to word.

The word, when used in spoken language, then has a certain tone, a certain volume, a form of expression. It is not by coincidence that people say colloquially: “the tone makes the music”, if you want to imply that it depends on how you say things.

So the spoken word has a certain tone. Sounds are vibrations in the air. They are movements of invisible matter. These vibrations have a certain frequency which can vary. The sound frequency is expressed in the unit of measurement called “Hertz” (Hz). 1 Hz corresponds to one oscillation per second. For humans, sound becomes audible when its vibration is between 16 Hz and twenty kHz. We only perceive words (and other sounds) when the vibration in the air falls within this range. 

Quantum mechanics assumes that everything in our universe has a certain vibration. Therefore thoughts and the written word also have a certain frequency. Dr Masaru Emoto did a very interesting experiment, I’m sure some of you have already heard of him. The Japanese scientist investigated how words and water interact and proved that water stores information. He published his study in 1999 under the title “Messages from Water”. The German edition was published by Koha Verlag under the title “Die Botschaft des Wassers”. Emoto and his team labelled various containers with water or played music to them. These were various words and phrases such as: “I love you”, “I hate you”, “Thank you”… etc. The water was then frozen at minus 5 degrees and the crystals were photographed under a microscope. It is truly incredible what happened: the words with positive associations resulted in wonderful, majestic hexagonal crystals, whereas statements such as “you make me sick”, “I hate you”… did not result in symmetrical crystals, but rather resembled dark, misshapen spots. 

Water is a polarised molecule, consisting of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. They form a triangle with an asymmetrical distribution of electrical charge. In 2015, a team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute was able to prove that water has a memory. The human body consists of approximately 70 % water. This changes in the course of life; as babies, the percentage of water is much higher than in old age. 

You probably already know what I’m getting at. If words have such an incredibly powerful effect on water, what an incredible power they have on our bodies, which are made up of two thirds of water. Loving, consciously supporting, heartfelt, healing, well-spoken, blessing, motivating, thankful, pleasant, soothing, really true, refreshing, attentive, positive, praising, helping, creative words. With these thoughts, words, vibrations and frequencies, we give our body the energy it needs to change in a positive way. There is a text from the Talmud, an important book of Judaism, that sums it up: