Ian's October 2025 Newsletter

The Healing Power of Words and Water

Somewhat belatedly, I just came across a reference to World Water Day, which is celebrated on the 22nd March each year. I’m not sure if the timing was intentional, but this date is around the time of the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere. Many of you will know from my newsletter that water is the element corresponding to spring and the reason I suggest taking the White Light Essences Water at the beginning of spring.

Some of you may be familiar with the groundbreaking work of Dr Masaru Emoto, whose photographs of frozen water crystals showed how words, thoughts and intentions could shape the structure of water. When exposed to words like love or gratitude, water formed exquisite, symmetrical patterns. When exposed to hate or fear, the crystals were chaotic and distorted.

Water, as Emoto beautifully demonstrated, is a mirror to human consciousness.

Continuing and expanding this work is Veda Austin, a New Zealand researcher and water visionary whose experiments show that water not only responds to intention but appears to have an intelligence of its own. Her images of water’s “response art” are utterly breathtaking — and reaffirm what we’ve known for centuries through Flower Essence work: that nature is conscious, responsive and deeply interconnected with us.

Both Veda and Emoto offer profound confirmation of something many of us have intuited — the power of the word. Our words and emotions have a huge impact on us. When we speak with anger, blame, or negativity—whether through swearing, cursing, or hateful language—it can affect our emotional and physical well-being. Since our bodies are made up of about 70% water, maintaining a positive mindset may help support our overall health. Conversely, when we speak with kindness and gratitude, we nourish not only our hearts and minds but also the very essence of our being—much of which is water—thus supporting our overall well-being.

If there is one thing that working with patients and Flower Essences has taught me over the decades, it is that nothing can open our hearts and raise our vibration more than love and gratitude. Emoto demonstrated that love is the highest vibration, but surprisingly, gratitude was equal to love.

There are so many Bush Essences which help to both instil more love and gratitude within us as well as curbing the tendency to blame, denigrate, hate and resent. If you wish to greatly enhance the crystalline structure of the water within you then you might like to work with one or more of the following Bush Essences:

Bluebell – a wonderful remedy for opening the heart, expressing love and being generous.

Dagger Hakea – helps release feelings of resentment, bitterness and holding grudges against those with whom one has been very close.

Five Corners – one of the most beautiful of all the Bush Essences, allowing one to feel one’s own love and beauty and restoring self-esteem, confidence and self-love.

Pink Flannel Flower – THE remedy for gratitude. This flower is all about heart energy, evident in it's intensity of it's pink centre.

Mountain Devil – helps resolve feelings of anger, hate and jealousy, or major blocks to expressing love.

Pink Mulla Mulla – these people are very sensitive, vulnerable and easily hurt as a result of which they are wary about letting people get close to them for fear of being hurt again. To keep people at a distance they put on a tough exterior and often use quite harsh language.

Rough Bluebell – enhances compassion and empathy and helps people to fully express the love vibration innate within them. This Essence is for those who are manipulative, hurtful or even malicious to others.

Sedum – creates a strong sense of unity and wanting to be part of something for a higher good. It represents masses of strong, supportive individuals, all united, connected to the Light – an army of Lightworkers.

Southern Cross – this Essence transforms victim mentality, poverty consciousness and tendencies towards complaining and bitterness into positivity, encouraging one to find the silver lining in every dark cloud.

Sydney Rose – this flower has the most pure, intense pink colour. Pink is symbolic of the love vibration and this Essence is to help us realise and know, on a deep heart level, that there is no separation between us, that we are all one. Peter Tadd, a gifted clairvoyant and psychic, expressed utter amazement when he saw Sydney Rose working on both the eleventh and twelfth chakras, Buddha and Christ consciousness, respectively. He had never seen any remedy or Flower Essence do this before.

Learning about World Water Day sparked my curiosity about the many other global days that are celebrated during the year. A little over a week ago, on the 5th October, it was World Teacher’s Day. This made me pause for a moment and reflect with tremendous appreciation and gratitude for some of the remarkable teachers who have greatly inspired and influenced me.

They include my grandmother for helping me to be aware of the tremendous healing power of the bush; John Cooper who first taught me yoga and meditation; Glynn Brady from whom I learnt so much about nutrition and metaphysics and who introduced me to both kinesiology and the inspiring work and teachings of Chung Fu and finally David Phillips from whom I learnt numerology. Sadly, none of them are alive now which makes me appreciate their legacy even more.