READER'S STORIES
Issue 4 | May 2008
Dear Mr. Emoto,
My name is Ian Olliver, I am a Police Officer living and working in the South West of England.
Over the last 5 years I have been lucky enough to have been involved with the training of police officers around the world, in Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and more recently Cameroon.
I think it is fair to say that many Police forces around the World suffer from having a poor relationship with the communities they are supposed to serve. In many countries the Police are not respected or trusted and these feeling are usually based on the way in which the Police have treated members of the public in the past.
I have been a follower of your work for the last few years and I am very grateful for the ideas that you have stimulated in me. As such, I recently incorporated some of your work into a Police Training course that I delivered to senior Police Trainers in Cameroon.
The lesson was based on Attitude and behaviour and how our attitudes can influence our behaviour which in turn influences the attitude of others, and so forth.
I began the lesson by writing the word "WATER" on a white board and then asking the students to write the first word that came to them. They wrote words like, LIFE, CLEANING, FRESH, CLEAR, one student wrote the word DIRTY. We then established that approximately 70% of the words were very positive.
I then showed the students an image of the Planet Earth and asked them to guess the percentage of water covering the Earth, again agreeing on the figure of 70%.
Next I showed them an image of a human body and asked them to guess the water content of the body, again agreeing on the figure of 70%.
By now the students became very interested as they could clearly see the link.
Next, I gave a short presentation on the work of Masaru Emoto, explaining the process that you developed for freezing, thawing and photographing water crystals and established the link with snow flakes, which they could all relate to. I then went on to explain the experiments that you conducted with music and the results and then moved on to the spoken word.
At this point of the lesson it was very important to re emphasise the fact that we are mostly water and that if crystals can be transformed by kind words that must also affect us as individuals.
My colleague then went around the class and praised each and every student, individually on a previous presentation that they had given a few days earlier in the class. This created a very positive feeling in the room, and I asked the class how they felt. They all stated that they felt really good, happy and pleased.
We then had a group discussion on how our behaviour affects the feelings of other people. all the students came to the conclusion that their behaviour could greatly influence other people, that they all possessed a great deal of power in their ability to influence others and that every communication that they have with other Police officers or members of the public is a fantastic opportunity to change the way that people perceive the Police in a positive way.
The Aim of this lesson was to stimulate deep thinking on attitude and behaviour, the students continued to ask questions and draw references from the lesson for the rest of the course, indicating to me that the aim had been achieved.
I used the lesson to demonstrate to the police students the different methodologies that are available to them and, more importantly the process that they must go through from starting with a simple concept or idea that the students accept and gradually working towards more complex ideas stage by stage.
By spreading the messages of water in this way I hope that I am in some way helping to make this World a better place.
Love and Peace
Olly
