Dr. and Mrs. Emoto are scheduled to take an early afternoon flight to Singapore today. One would think that they will have a slow morning and get to the airport with enough time left to have a tea or something at the lounge. However, because of the short stay in India, Dr. Emoto wanted to talk to as many people as possible so we planned another seminar in the morning.

We had an hour long seminar for the novices (those women that are studying to be a nun) of DMI. Because we did not have a lot of time, Dr. Emoto conducted the seminar in English himself. It was my first time to hear him give a seminar in English and it taught me different things about the usage of certain words or phrases. Also, I think his English was actually easily understood to the Indian people than my English. I thought it was good that he finished his seminar in India with English.

With the DMI sisters. As a welcoming gesture, people put a red mark on our forehead wherever we go.

All the seminars in India were received very well. Fr. Arul Raj said, “When will you be back again? There are already two, three schools that have asked to come speak. Next time, it will be for 1000 or 2000 students.”

DMI has a vast network of people; especially the women’s group encompasses about 10,000 members. I believe that this visit to India has started the spread of Dr. Emoto’s message throughout this part of the world.

Considering Dr. Emoto likes curry, likes to eat with hands, and we are all suspecting that he was an Indian in his past life, I’m sure he will be coming back to this place again. I hope that the students will welcome us as warmly as they did this time. (and hopefully by then, a normal restaurant will be serving beer?)

Dr. and Mrs. Emoto, I have a lot more to learn but thank you for taking me with you for the trip through Thailand and India. You still have over two months of traveling through Europe and the USA but if you survived India, I’m sure the rest of the trip will be a breeze. Let me know when you need a porter again!

IHM Secretary Ayano Furuya

The very first Dr. Emoto’s “Message from Water” seminar in India was presented in front of the first year students of DMI Engineering College. The two hundred students welcomed us with a big round of applause as we stepped into the hall.

Since college students can understand English, I was again asked to be the translator. I was a little nervous this time because I would have to talk in front of larger audience than the last one in Thailand. But I was confident that I had good understanding of Dr. Emoto’s seminar because I have had several chances to listen to him talk through this trip and few times before. And I was also getting familiar with the way Dr. Emoto talks as well.

We received a huge garland as a welcoming sign. It smells very nice but very heavy too!

However, because English was the students’ second language, and because my English pronunciation was closer to American pronunciation, it was hard to understand for them that they requested I speak slower in the middle of the seminar. I tried to speak slowly and pronounce as clear as possible but I was worried how much of the seminar they did exactly understand.

Seminar at the college. A sweaty seminar for both the students and ourselves.

However, a sister referred to Dr. Emoto’s seminar as an “inspirational talk” later. Yes, Dr. Emoto’s talk teaches the listener to see from a different point of view and make them realize that each person has the power to change water and therefore, change ourselves. It is not necessary to understand very single word and idea within the seminar to be able to receive this bigger message from water.

When I realized this, I realized the powerfulness of Dr. Emoto’s seminar and his water crystals. Even within his complicated theory lie inspirations that anybody can interpret. Without understand every single word, the seminar and the crystals had the power to convey this message.

We conducted two seminars in the morning and one in the afternoon. It was very hard on us with the heat and only the ceiling fan to cool us off for the whole seminar but I believe it was worth it to have been able to talk to over 500 students today. They were all listening very intently. Thank you.

Mrs. Emoto’s attention was always to the cows that roamed around the streets. She was finally able to take a photograph with a baby cow that was tied at the college.

IHM Secretary Ayano Furuya

We safely accomplished our mission in Thailand and we moved on to southern Indian city of Chennai today. The city is one of the places that were hit by the tsunami last year. It is also the city where headquarter of a local NGO group, DMI, who works with the tsunami affected people are located. We came to this city to hand over some financial support for the DMI’s project for an orphanage for the tsunami affected children, and also to let as many people as possible learn about Dr. Emoto’s ideas about the importance of water and consciousness.

We arrived at Chennai airport in the afternoon and met up with the sisters of DMI. Dr. and Mrs. Emoto were only able to stay in India for two nights so the planned schedule was pretty packed, but Dr. Emoto was actually happy saying, “I can talk to so many people”. I felt that his happiness and purpose of mission is to tell the messages from water to as many people as possible.

We went to visit a self-help group of quarry worker women that live in a slum, and also a tuition class for the children of that slum. There, numerous shacks and huts were propped up on dusty earth while bear feet children ran around and cows chewed on trash.

The people of this village cuts out the stones from the mountains near by and crush them for construction use. However, even if they work for the whole day, it does not amount to very much money. Most of the profit is taken away by the businesses that employ these people to do backbreaking jobs.

DMI sisters first went in to this village, gathered the women there and taught them the importance of saving money. Until then, they would use up whatever they earned that day and will not have any useful cash when emergency comes up so they had to borrow from money lenders with high interest. The sisters brought out the women that were closed up in the houses without any power and solidified their fund so that they can borrow and lend money, or use that money to get a bigger loan from banks.

With the self-help women’s group

Dr. and Mrs. Emoto and I had the opportunity to meet with one of these women groups and talk with them. The ladies were all very lively and full of self-confidence that they can change their lives with their own power. The DMI sisters just gave these women the means to come together but it was these women themselves that were able to pull proper electricity in their area, or to build a new road. I felt the power of the grass roots activities there. Such women groups grew in numbers as they were able to present the other people with more and more concrete success of their effort. Currently, they say that there are about 10,000 women working in similar women’s group within their respective areas.

After listening to these stories, they asked Dr. Emoto to say something as well. He started off by saying, “the 20th century was the era of fire. The 21st century is the era of water.” As I translated this to English, I wondered what he was talking about. However, this was soon answered by his next sentence, “in other words, the 20th century was the era of men but the 21st century is the era of women.” As soon as the women heard this, their faces lit up and they gave a round of applause.

Just like this, Dr. Emoto’s talks about water can be related to the women’s independence and activities. I felt that I took a peak into the deeper meaning of what Dr. Emoto means by the water, consciousness, and the law of one love to two gratitudes.

Later, there was some time that we were able to share with the children of that village in a tuition center. They were all bear feet but had eyes that shone and full of curiosity. Dr. Emoto asked the children to take good care of water that we use every day since without it, none of us can live. And since we are water as well, if water likes good words, especially the words love and thanks, then we should have that feelings and words in our lives as well. So we let’s try to use good words and tell water that we love and we thank you all the time.

With the children, Dr. Emoto shared a song with them.

The children performing a dance for us

Just like this, since water is a necessary and important substance for all of us, it has the power to relate to anybody as well. I believe that unlike the usual seminar, since this was more of a two-way dialogue, these women and children resonated strongly with what Dr. Emoto was saying.

We sent prayers to water at the slum.

Ground water seeps out from the mountain that was dug out for stones.

Thailand is famous as a Buddhist country. Since it was the first time for Dr. and Mrs. Emoto to be in Thailand, the organizer scheduled the morning time for some sightseeing. So we went to the most popular tourist destination in the city, the Grand Palace.

Even though I have visited the same place before, I forgot that I was not allowed to wear sandals and a tank top until I was stopped at the entrance. So hesitantly I rented a shirt and a sandal from the visiting center there, but the worst thing was that I was forced to wear this grey socks that old men would wear under the sandal. I was burning hot with an extra shirt and socks. On top of that, the Grand Palace was all covered in shining materials that reflected Thailand’s glaring sun. There is a temple within the palace but as if people believe that the more it shines, the more the gods will come, the temple was just bright! It was very different from the quietness of the Japanese temples.

The bright buildings of the Grand Palace. See my rented socks, sandal, and shirt?

Because today was Sunday, the visitors were not only the tourists but also the local people that there were so many people. It seems that Thai people all love the king and the royal family.

So, in the afternoon, a seminar was scheduled at a school in Bangkok that had special focus on the nature and special educational system. With such an educational system, the ideas of Dr. Emoto and his crystal pictures can be accepted without much effort here. The school is called Rung Arun School and was built with a strong influence from the Steiner educational system. However, the difference between the other Steiner schools and this one is that they have taken the philosophy of Buddhism at the core to correspond with the Thai culture. They also put a strong emphasis on studying among nature. Therefore, even though the school is located within Bangkok, the area is big with lots of trees and a big pond. It was a very relaxing atmosphere. As Dr. Emoto would say, the Hado is different within the school area.

With the principle of Rung Arun School

The school was all made by wood and had a lot of open space. The children that can study and play so freely in a place like this must be so happy. Unfortunately, there were not much students at the seminar since it was a Sunday but the seminar felt very cozy with the small number of participants.

I was the person that was the happiest about having a small group. I was given the opportunity to travel with Dr. and Mrs. Emoto this time because I had living in Thailand for about a year and knew my way around somewhat and do some of their secretarial work. I expected to do some translations as well but I thought it was for personal conversations between Dr. Emoto and a certain person. However, I unexpectedly debut as a seminar translator at this seminar. Since the school was all taught in English, the people at the seminar were all English speakers.

Rung Arun School

I think I did ok enough at my debut seminar that I maybe able to get more similar opportunities in the future. Through translating, and because I have heard Dr. Emoto’s seminar few times now, I am slowly understanding the deeper meanings of his talk and the connection between myself and nature.

IHM Secretary Ayano Furuya

I had the opportunity to travel with Dr. Emoto to the first two countries out of the 80 consecutive days of his world tour. The very first country is Thailand. Thailand is known as the land of smiles, and surely, everybody here are very friendly.

We had the very first seminar of the Dr. Emoto’s long seminar tour on the second day of being in Thailand. It was held as one of the most prestigious and historical university in the country, Chulalongkhorn University.

The seminar was held at Chulalongkhorn University

The seminar was organized by the publisher of the Thai version of “Message from Water” but with the generosity of a professor at the university, we were able to have the seminar at that venue.

With the organizers and staffs.
The tall man at the back is Mr. Hans, the publisher.
The man on the left of Dr. Emoto is Prof. Chumpol.

This was the very first time that I was able to listen to Dr. Emoto’s seminar overseas. Dr. Emoto spoke in Japanese and a beautiful translator translated it into Thai. Whether it was because Dr. Emoto was speaking slowly and clearly for the translator, I felt that the seminar was more interesting than the one in Japan. While the seminar was going on, I was just like one of the audiences and was enjoying his talk.

The line of people just doesn't get any shorter

There was a break in between the seminar and the Q and A session but with so many people asking for autograph from Dr. Emoto, we set up a table next to where the “Message from Water” is sold to accommodate the request. Dr. Emoto autographed book after book but it seemed like the line of people was always the same length. He was not able to even have a sip of coffee. The organizer was saying, “he’s like a Hollywood star.”

Probably because of the seminar, I heard that about 100 of the book was sold in just that setting.

I’m sure I was not the only person that thought the very first seminar of the series ended very well.

Anyway, the traffic jam in Bangkok is just amazing. We would be slowly moving in a traffic jam for about 20 minutes just so that we can make a U-turn and go back where we were 20 minutes ago in just less than a minute. Couldn’t anybody have made things a little more convenient?

IHM Secretary Ayano Furuya

13 Consecutive days of seminars with the following schedule is starting today

I cannot complain about the tight schedule because I was the one that planned and approved it. I can only do my best.

The very first of this seminar series was for the Amway distributors organized by the composer of “Water Song”, Ryusuke Seto. He has actually been working for Amway for over 20 years and is in one of the top levels of that organization. The initial encounter with Ryusuke was actually through my wife’s niece who is a Amway distributor under his group.

The seminar was initially planned for March 11th but the tickets sold away as soon as Ryusuke advertised the seminar. So another day of seminar on the 10th was added at the last minute. The venue was at the Amway building near Shibuya’s NHK. It was a hall that held about 500 people. I was impressed by Ryusuke’s power to attract people to come.

In the end, both seminars was packed. The start of 13 days of seminar started very well. The response by the audience there was very much American, that is, the way people cheered and clapped in the end was not very Japanese like. People even gave a standing ovation at the end of my second day of seminar, a first experience in Japan.

Standing ovation at Amway seminar

The network energy I felt there was the same as how the network of people had helped to spread my independently published book, “Message from Water”. This book was spread by words of mouth, especially by women, because it was not found in any bookstores. Even at the seminar about 900 out of 1000 people that came were women. I was especially surprised that there were a lot of young women in the crowd. I received good Hado from everybody and had a lot of fun. Thank you all.

On the second day, Ryusuke’s daughter, Hanayo, came to support the seminar as well. Ryusuke and his daughter performed “Water Song” with their beautiful voice and set the audience in awe. This song always manages to move me. I hope all of you can listen to it at least once. I will at least introduce the lyric that I helped to write.

「WATER SONG」
Music by Aman Ryusuke Seto
Word by Luvian Hanayo Seto

Far across the universe, this shinning star,
Silver Blue, water star, Our Earth beautiful!
Flying through the Milky Way, river of light,
I wonder why I am here, standing on this Earth.

Why do we breath this air? Where do we go from here?
Let us ask ourselves, the water in each of us.
All we need is Love
All we need is a Thank You.
I will give this simple gift
All one in Harmony.

Listen to the voice within, the water inside of us,
Rippling through our soul, dancing Crystal clear.

Sing to her, a melody with soft angel voice.
You can change anything, delivering Harmony.

Raindrops falling from the sky, Nature's greatest gift.
Bringing blueness to our Earth, with Light of Love.
All we need is Love
All we need is a Thank You.
I will give this simple gift
All One in Harmony.

We can all hold our hands, sharing light and harmony.
Embracing our hearts, with Light of Love.
All we need is Love
All we need is a Thank You.
I will give this simple gift
All One in Harmony.
I will give this simple gift
All One in Symphony.

There was a symposium for the commemoration of establishment for the Japanese Hado Association at Kanda today. There had always been some type of organization or association for alternative medicine but surprisingly, this was the first attempt in making an association for Hado.

Dr. Terayama came to support as well.
He shared a beautiful cello piece.

As a pioneer of Hado, I am happy that this has finally taken shape. I’m especially happy that the director of this association is Dr. Kawashima. He was one of the Hado instructors that I have personally educated and a professor at Tokyo Women’s MedicalUniversity. He is still in his 40s. The directors of this type of organization are usually older, retired professor. A younger generation has finally become more involved now.

Dr. Kawashima and I
I became the Head Advisor

In the realm of Hado Dr. Kawashima and I are the student and the teacher, personally a doctor and patient. Therefore, we have the relationship of teaching and being taught. We have mutual trust in each other.

I met Dr. Kawashima for the first time at a seminar for Hado instructor about eight years ago. At the reception, he told me, “My goal is to transfer this world in to a world that does not need a single medical doctor.” I have met a lot of interesting doctors but he was the first one to declare something like that. I was very surprised but at the same time, felt close to him.

And at today’s speech by the director, he declared the same idea in front of 500 people. I bet many of the people were surprised to hear that. There may have been people that thought, “A society without any medical doctors? That’s crazy.” As for myself, I would like to support Dr. Kawashima as much as possible in spreading the idea that one can heal oneself.

With my strong attachment to the word “HADO” is becoming a world word, just like the word “TSUNAMI”. I truly hope that through this association, we can build a foundation for strong research and activities so that the media or the upper class will not be able to ignore HADO anymore.