THE SCENE

My Hypnosis Certification Training, Wayne, PA.

THE STUDENTS

Eight amazing people were taking my hypnosis training.

Some were taking the training for their personal benefits. Some were getting certified to add to their career skills.

A 48 year old OBGYN
A 65 year old psychiatrist
A 34 year old mother of three
A 50 year old IT consultant
A 45 year old business man and entrepreneur
A 52 year old nurse
A 20 year old college sophomore
A 53 year old middle school teacher

“ALL THOUGHTS HAVE ENERGY”

Each student knew intuitively how true that statement was. Like many of us, they have experienced how stress thoughts can turn into headaches, stomach aches, even headaches.

I wanted them to be able to learn how powerful their thoughts are – from a different perspective.

I asked, “Do you think that your thoughts could affect rice”?

THE EXPERIMENT 

The following week I brought in three mason jars, each filled with one cup of cooked organic jasmine rice.

First, we labeled the jars: LOVE, NEUTRAL, and HATE, SHOULD
(One student said she hated that she felt she should always be doing things for her siblings, so we added “SHOULD” to the jar)

After taping a label to each jar, we placed two jars in the furthest office and shut the door.

Here’s where the real fun began. Each of us held the jar of rice that was labeled “LOVE”. As we passed the jar of rice around the table each student sent love and said loving thoughts such as:

“You are SUCH a wonderful jar of rice!” “I love you, you beautiful, healthy, wonderful rice!” “You yummy rice…I SO appreciate you!”

It didn’t take long before someone started to chuckle while showering the rice with heartfelt appreciation. Another student began to giggle, and soon, we were all roaring with laughter. In between laughs we kept telling that rice how much we adored it. After two minutes, we figured that the rice got the message and we moved on.

We then did the same with the jar labeled “HATE, SHOULD”. We berated the jar and sent it anger and hatred.
It wasn’t easy to say hurtful things to the rice.

THE VERY WEIRD RESULTS

We placed the three jars on the fireplace mantle in our office and went home.

I had an idea of what to expect based on the same experiment I had done with two previous classes. In the past, the “NEUTRAL” jar would turn a light green or pinkish color, while the “LOVE” jar would remain almost the same. Our experiment began to head in the direction I expected. At two weeks, dark mold was visible on the bottom of the “HATE” jar.

At week three, we noticed something odd.

The rice in the “HATE” jar had clearly begun to decompose more rapidly than the other jars. In the previous experiments, the only change was that the “HATE” jar had much more mold than the others.
By week eight, the differences were visible.

The “HATE” jar had decomposed so rapidly that what remained was mostly liquid mush in the bottom of the mason jar.

 

The “NEUTRAL” jar turned yellow and retained it’s original volume.

 

The “LOVE” jar remained it’s original color and original volume.

 

 

Special thanks to Tiffany Litherland