Science!? Talking To Rice

Recently I stumbled across the word “hado” while googling around and reading about positive thinking. According to Dr. Masaru Emoto, when he uses the word hado it means:

The intrinsic vibrational pattern at the atomic level in all matter. The smallest unit of energy. Its basis is the energy of human consciousness.

Hado, in Japanese basically means “wave”. Here’s a small article that explains hado a little further. And if you check out the hado website, you can read all about how Dr. Emoto does his experiments with water crystals.

This is not just any crystallized [sic] molecule of water however. What has put Dr. Emoto at the forefront of the Hado phenomenon is his proof that thoughts and feelings affect PHYSICAL reality. By producing different Hado through written and spoken words, as well as music and literally presenting it to the SAME water samples, the water appears to "change its expression".

After checking out the site, you’ll notice that Dr. Emoto has a deep focus on water, but don’t let that knock you. The idea of proving that thoughts, words, and sounds can change or influence matter is still intriguing; my favorite quote from the site is “thoughts and feelings affect PHYSICAL reality”. You’ve probably heard that before, but have you ever seen someone doing homebrew science experiments to prove it? This hado stuff has driven a lot of interest towards the whole scientific aspect of affirmations, positive thinking, intentions, and other related topics.

On the hado website you’ll see examples of a few cheap science experiments done just to see how thoughts and feelings can affect physical reality. But after reading all of the tidbits of information on the hado website, my attention keeps going back to the rice experiment that was mentioned here. This experiment involved saying “thank you” to one jar of rice and “you fool” to the other jar of rice. After a month of talking to rice, the results look like this:

Such results seem to imply that, for one reason or another, a harsh and negative comment just might turn your rice into a dark and gloomy pile of rot.

Regardless of whether or not this is complete nonsense, the best part about an experiment like that is that you can do it yourself, in your leisure, without any special equipment or anything. A couple of jars and some cooked rice? I’m sure a lot people can swing that.

If you’re looking for a stupid easy science project that’s kind of related to the whole positive thinking thing, this might be the experiment for you. If you surf around for “hado” on youtube, you can find a lot of videos of people doing their own rice experiments. Here’s one example: