Not to dive too deep in Quantum Physics here, but YES, our thoughts and intentions affect everything. EVERYTHING. Conscious prayer and intention over our food before we eat is a powerful way to get more “soul nutrition” out of our food. This stuff is for real.

My wife is a chocolatier and she swears that it’s impossible for the chocolate to get into and stay in temper if she fights it.

“Doctor” Masaru Emoto acquired his degree from a company in India that in the U.S. and in many other countries would be considered a degree mill. For around $1,000 you can get your own M.D. degree from the same institution: http://www.altmeduniversity.net/

Also, his experiments with water are conducted under uncontrolled conditions, not scientific in the least. If I write the word “Love” on a piece of paper and tape it to the side of a water bottle and stick the bottle in the freezer, and then I remove it later and put the ice under a microscope and deliberately seek out molecules with the most aesthetically pleasing appearance and only photograph those, while ignoring the rest that aren’t quite so pretty, that is not science. That’s art. While the resulting photographs of water molecules are attractive, they don’t in any way represent the results of a scientific experiment.

With his current method, the experiment isn’t blind and the molecules aren’t selected randomly. The person photographing the molecules knows which word was written on the bottle and is primed to seek molecules that suit that particular word. To conduct a truly scientific experiment to prove his theory, he would need to have one person write the words on the bottles and freeze the bottles, and then have that person remove the bottles from the freezer and remove the words and then label the bottles some other way (numerically, perhaps, or with a code of some kind) and keep track of which bottle featured which word so the experiment could be conducted as a blind study. The numerically labeled frozen bottles would have to be given to photographers who knew nothing about which word had been printed on which bottle, and they would need to randomly photograph dozens of individual molecules from each sample and label the photographs with the appropriate number to match the bottle.

If they conducted the experiment in that manner and turned up the same results, they would be taken seriously. Unfortunately, they’ve never conducted their experiments in an even remotely scientific way, and any attempts to replicate their results under controlled conditions have failed.

So, while the idea of water molecules responding to intent or language is a romantic notion and one I actually find rather appealing, there is no evidence to back up the claim. The concept certainly sells a lot of books, though, so I have to give Masaru Emoto credit for his creativity.

I’m wondering if it’s necessary to have someone else think positive thoughts about your chocolate for you, or can you do it yourself? Does it diminish the effect if you ask them to do it?

Does anyone out there have more detail on this study? We need answers!

This is saying that those who consumed less of the blessed chocolate had greater mood improvement. That seems to undermine their overall conclusion rather than strengthen it.