Many people say: visualization is a powerful tool. At an energetic level you can already create what you want to materialise in the real world. Like many ‘unrealistic’ things: a house that sounded too good to be true, an amazing job that seemed out of reach, or this significant other who opened your eyes in many ways. So why couldn’t we visualize and create a ‘peaceful and beautiful world’? Or can we actually?

Enter My Dreams

I might have told you this story before. When I was in college, I had a side job in the city centre of Amsterdam. And during my breaks I often went to this bookstore, where they sold all kinds of magazines – varying from Elle, Vogue, and Cosmopolitan, to Time and Rolling Stone. They also sold this glossy magazine called ‘Identity Matters’ – about marketing, design, media, fashion, photography. And somehow I was intrigued by it. So many times I just read parts of it in the store, but every now and then (since it was expensive) I actually bought it.

I did study communication, but it was not an editorial or writing degree at all. Yet I could picture myself writing articles about similar topics or for similar magazines. I just dreamt about it, and I was literally dreaming above these magazines, since I had this compartment in my bed where I put these magazines – as if their pictures and text could enter my dreams easily at night and make them come alive in my world of imagination & visualization.

Long story short: after my graduation and several editorial jobs, I accidentally landed the job of chief editor of this magazine – and none other than this exact magazine. Crazy.

Dr. Masaru Emoto

A bit different story. There was this Japanese researcher, dr. Masaru Emoto, who studied the influence of human emotions on the molecular structure of water. By exposing water to different stimuli, he aimed to observe whether these factors would affect the formation of water crystals. Basically crystalline structures were formed by freezing water droplets and analyzed under a microscope, after saying friendly or hateful things to water.

By doing so dr. Emoto explored the impact of negative emotions on water crystals. When water samples were exposed to emotions like anger, hate, and fear, the resulting crystals appeared chaotic and distorted. And in contrast, when he exposed the samples to positive emotions – such as love, gratitude, and joy – these expressions of emotions had a profound effect on the structure of water crystals. The water samples simply formed intricate and harmonious crystal formations. Like beautiful art.

Peace Intention Experiment

Another researcher, Lynne McTaggert, did once ‘The Peace Intention Experiment’ – to examine whether ‘group mind’ has the power to lower violence and restore peace in a certain area. The plan was to have readers all over the world join forces on her website to send peace to a particular war-torn area. They decided on an obscure target — one where assumingly no one in the west would be sending prayers or intentions to — so that any change there would more likely be the results of the people’s intentions. Eventually they chose the Wanni (or north) section of Sri Lanka. This area of the world had suffered a civil war for 25 years, with more suicide bombings than anywhere on earth. 

The results were extraordinary: suggesting that The Peace Intention Experiment may have been pivotal in helping to hasten the end of the war, which later appeared imminent. Both deaths and numbers of people injured fell dramatically. The death rate suddenly fell by 74 percent and injuries by 48 percent, as their research showed. It could be coincidence, but nevertheless worth trying for a global peace effect, right?

Sake Of Our World

So why wouldn’t we try such an experiment, for the sake of our earth and humanity? Why wouldn’t we project love and peace on our troubled world? Well, first of all, it’s hard to project peace on the world if your own inner-peace is far to be found. And secondly – probably not to be seen unrelated – media thrive on bad and fearmongering news, sensational stories, and (so called ‘independent’) organisations are often more depending than they appear – even though they are often not ‘sold’ in that manner to the public. If, for instance, the weapon industry was depending on conflicts, crime and wars, it wouldn’t be reluctant to ‘help’ these latter things to stay, right? One plus one equals two – in a way it’s that simple. And in general we simply project what we adopt, both from media and (other) societal actors.

Innerstrength

From a worldly perspective things might look very complicated to solve – maybe even impossible. And yes, we might need more than one army of Harry Potters, Gandalfs and X-Men to save our world. But maybe we are underestimating our own innerstrength and the power of our light and imagination. I mean, at some point we were nothing but a fertilized egg, whose intelligence and energy were able to create the miraculous body and mind of ourselves. Likewise did our loved ones; our significant others, our friends, our parents & children. And you know how they can thrive when you send them love, compliments and admiration.

My point is: once you become (more) aware of what you project on the world, the projections are already changing – could become weaker – and you are more open to better and more harmonic projections. It might not change the world overnight, but at least at an energetic and moleculair level things and people might already show more loving structures and embodiments, in ways that we actually love to welcome in our world. Like divine beautiful art – but warmer than icy crystalline structures – and with more light, peace and love than we ever could imagine.