Polluted water from the Fujiwara Dam, Japan
Same water from the Fujiwara Dam after a Buddhist prayer
For decades, holistically-minded physicians such as Dr. Deepak Chopra, have extolled the virtues of “positive thinking” on health and healing. When you realize the effect positive intention and prayer can have on water and that the human body is made up of 70% water, you can see how these positive thoughts and intentions can affect our health. One day in the kitchen, we took this a step further. Based on this set of notions, my husband and I have been infusing our homemade fermented foods with love and good intentions for years. Our first premise is that if we can do this for water, we can do it for our food too. Secondly, we humans have been living synergistically with bacteria for hundreds of thousands of years. We need them. In fact, we would not be alive without them. If “prayer” can have a positive effect on water, we assumed it could have a positive effect on our synergistic friends, good bacteria. We figured several things: 1) We believe in it. 2) It can’t hurt. 3) It makes us feel good to do it. 4) It may even make a big difference. So being “woo-woo” San Franciscans, we decided to put positive intentions, prayers, and messages on our brand new batches of fermented food we were about to ferment, particularly our kombucha and sauerkraut. Therefore, every time we make a new batch of fermentations, we “infuse” it with our intention. We save all the little pieces of paper. Over the years, here are some of our “messages” and intentions:- Love
- Allowing
- Positive focus
- Self confidence
- Creativity
- Self compassion and forgiveness
- Digestion and assimilation
- Faith and release of fear
- Feminine power
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