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First Awakening: Teenage Meditation

My first real awareness of the energy in us and around us came to me through a friend in high school. I was about 16. My friend was interested in and excited about energy fields and healing and intuition and visioning. He was learning and wanted to share with his closest friends, so he started a learning and practice group. We met Friday nights at his house. There were usually 3-6 of us at each meeting. We met in a third floor widow’s walk room at the top of his house, with music soft and lights low - no drugs or alcohol allowed ever. We started and ended with meditation. It was here that I first listened to my inner self, learned how to focus and relax and really feel the energy flow in my body and others’. I don’t know if meditating and quieting myself made it possible to feel my own buzzing and the vibrating field around my friends or if I could have tuned

into it before if I had just paid attention. These meetings with close friends to learn, meditate, and expand my world were the beginning of my interest in the energy of all things living and not.

Second Ah-Ha! We’re the Same

Many years later, after college when I came back to wanting to understand how the world and the Universe worked, a book was passed along to me by my second father: The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles. What resonated with me most from this book was the discussion of what we’re all made of - everything that exists. The author asserts that everything is made of the same stuff. If you utilize science to look down to the smallest particles in everything, we’re more the same than we are different. AND we’re all energy just vibrating at different frequencies. AND with awareness, focus and practice we can change our

Discovering and Choosing Structured WaterMy Two Decade Learning Curve

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BY HANNAH NOEL

Hannah Noel is a cancer survivor and an organic farmer living in Vermont with her husband of twelve years and their two children, Madeleine, 9, and Calvin, 6. She has a passion for clean organic living and for helping others learn how to live that way wherever they are on their journey and whatever they do.

was my first clue to the significance of water and to the fact that not all fresh water is the same.

The Learning ContinuesIn my life, education has always been top priority and incredibly enjoyable. I will never stop taking classes, reading, seeking out answers and understanding from mentors. As an organic vegetable farmer growing 30-40 different crops every year, there’s always more to learn, always room to improve, always new techniques to try. I was intrigued early on with Rudolf Steiner’s research and Biodynamic Agriculture. I was right back to energy!

My fifth year farming, I took my two interns to a biodynamic homestead close by to learn how to make a biodynamic preparation. Our job was to stir a big tub of water with a little bit of ground aged cow manure with our arm. There was very specific timing. We had to create a vortex and keep it going for a set amount of time, then stop it, change direction and keep the vortex going for the same amount of time again. We repeated this, first one way then the other, taking turns for quite some time.

What amazed me was that I could feel the water changing over time. It felt more silky and slippery. Our teacher that day told us that this small amount of liquid would be sprinkled with a special broom over the fields and that over time these small amounts would yield fairly large and measureable gains in production.

I hope you’re following this two plus decade progression. Each of these experiences may seem

frequency and change our lives. Wow! This was exciting stuff. It fit in with what I had learned and felt in my high school meditation group.

Water Enters As My Teacher Fast forward another seven years to my organic farming operation, when I have to test my produce wash water for organic certification for the first time. I took my sample, sent it to the University lab and got the results - positive for coliform. I had to treat the water and retest until the test came back clean. The lab’s recommended treatment was to pour bleach into the well. This water was needed for our organic cattle and to wash produce. I was dead set against using bleach to fix the problem. I’m a cancer survivor who is diligent about avoiding known carcinogens. Since bleach is one of them, I couldn’t in good conscience put it in my well.

I had met an old dowser just weeks before and invited her to come to my home. I knew that she understood and worked with energy fields and hoped she could help with the well to avoid the use of chemicals.

When she arrived, she asked for a pint of water from the well in question. She used her dowsing rods to manipulate the energy in that jar of water, poured it into the well and instructed us to retest in about 30 days. We waited that full month hoping that our next test would be free of contaminants. After 30 days, we took a sample, sent it to the same lab and anxiously waited for our results. That test came back negative for coliform and all other contaminants. The water from the well has tested perfectly ever since. This experience

very different on the surface, but at their core is simply energy. I needed this repetitive progression to really understand the truth. But I wasn’t there yet. It was all interesting, even fascinating, but I still didn’t really get it. I intuitively knew to keep digging, keep learning and to stay open to understanding. I was ready for further inspiration.

Dan Kittredge The next summer I went to my seventh Northeast Organic Farming Association Summer Conference in Massachusetts. I sat in on a lecture by a Massachusetts farmer who had figured out how to escape the late blight that had wiped out most potato and tomato plants in the Northeast that year. Dan Kittredge’s tomatoes were thriving while farmers around him were losing everything.

I stayed for two back-to-back lectures. He talked about energy. He showed us the science and the tools to use to monitor the energy of our soil and plants. A year and a half later, he was teaching a series of classes in Vermont for farmers. I signed up, ready to learn more. It was in one of these sessions that Dan called our attention to the difference in the effect of rainwater versus water run through a hose on our gardens. I had noticed this for years, but didn’t understand why there was a difference. I just knew that I preferred the right amount of rain over irrigation any day. Well, Dan explained it. And I finally got it.

Water is energy just like everything else. It has a spin to it when it falls from the sky or comes up out of a spring. When forced through a hose, water loses its spin and much of its energy. Dan told us of simple devices that we could make to re-energize the water for our gardens and our livestock.

All of the information was coming together, but I still didn’t do anything about it. I didn’t build a device. I just went on growing vegetables as I always did, irrigating some gardens and relying on the rain in the bigger fields. I left an awful lot to chance.

As I learned more about energy, energy and water in particular, my learning opportunities came faster. The final piece in my puzzle came to me this year, a year and a half after my last class with Dan Kittredge. Awful Dehydration In December 2012, my family and I went to Henderson, Nevada to participate in a cooperative business Forum (CEO Space). The Forum takes place at a resort where all of the water is treated. The water from the taps in the bathroom and from the kitchens and in the big dispensers with ice all around the resort was all the same - treated chemical water. It tasted horrible. There was bottled water available for purchase, but we were there for a week and didn’t have the resources to buy bottled water for four of us for the whole week. We ended up limiting our water intake, because we didn’t want to put the treated water in our bodies. We were tired, had headaches and just felt all-around sluggish. One of our colleagues, collapsed in the big ball room on the last day from dehydration. I had noticed him for the last couple days holding his head in his hands. He said he had a constant headache. I saw him down on one knee shortly before his collapse, and then he was down.

The Solution at Last Our last night in Nevada, I heard of someone at the Forum who had access to small personal devices for purifying water. The woman who told me about it pulled it out of her purse, and said that she’d been passing the hotel water through it and drinking abundantly. She was feeling great! She wanted to introduce us to Patrick, the source of the device, but we couldn’t find him in the crowd. That wasn’t the end of it. Patrick found me some weeks later on the internet. He told me about the device our friend had and went on to explain how it works and the results that individuals and FARMERS were getting with the use of the structured water that was a product of these devices.

I didn’t have to figure out how to build Dan Kittredge’s water energizing device after all. Here

it was. Dropped right in my lap. Used, tested, tried and true. It didn’t take much convincing to decide that our new farm needed a device for all of our water. You see, my conversations with Patrick started right when my family was in the midst of acquiring a new farm. We’re building this farm as a model to teach other farmers and farmers-to-be best practices for increasing soil depth and quality, improving water quality and infiltration, and growing more and more nutrient dense foods through these soil and water improvements. My connection 72 | with Patrick couldn’t have come at a better time. The water used for irrigation and for livestock was a weak point. Now we have all the pieces with which to build our model farm. We have the whole package to offer other farmers, and it makes our project even more exciting.

Water’s Huge Potential There are so many aspects of living an organic life, and I feel one of the biggest opportunities and least understood areas is water. All living systems need water to survive. Now I see that all living systems will not merely survive but thrive with the right kind of water. One of my missions in farming, and my life in general, is to improve on what is already here. I practice regenerative farming. Sustainable isn’t enough. Structured water has a huge potential to help me accelerate the regenerative effect on my farm and my family.

I’ve now come full circle. Looking back at this long progression, I can’t help but think about what Wattles wrote: “By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it.”

It took me a long time to understand the significance of great water. My hope is that for you, by reading my story, the discovery and understanding will come much more quickly. I highly encourage you to learn about structured water. A great place to start is with our friends at The Wellness Enterprise.

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