What the bleep....

I just watched the movie "What the Bleep do We Know". It's just come out on DVD. My wife, Cheryl, and I saw this in the theater when it came out. It was recommended to us by our good friend, Lisa Lynne. Lisa is a Celtic harpist and composer of new age music. Check her out at www.lisalynne.com. We only see Lisa once a year, when she comes to St. Charles to play at a local street festival. On her last visit, she told us that she just knew we would get a lot out of this movie. I've been waiting for it to come out on DVD ever since I saw it, so that I could take more time with it.

What does this have to do with Body for Life? It has to do with inspiration. The movie is filled with references to quantum physics and biology, but, beneath all that science, it's about how our perceptions create our reality. With respect to our bodies, our body image often has a huge effect, either positive or negative, on our physical body. One of the experts points out that aging is caused by various cell receptors' inability hold on to proteins and that this inability is largely due to psychological factors.

A particularly haunting segment in the movie involves the studies that Masaru Emoto did with water crystals, as outlined in his book, The Message from Water. Emoto demonstrated that water's crystal structure responded to blessings or affirmations by becoming beautiful and symmetrical. On the other hand, when hate messages were taped on the bottle that contained the water, the crystalline structure was random, chaotic, and very ugly. What does this have to do with Body for Life? Our bodies are 80 to 90 percent...water.

My wife, Cheryl, is now reading Body for Life. She is signed up for the challenge as well, but...I signed her up. I don't know what her commitment is going to be. Perhaps she'll have her own blog before long.