Hello Natural Medicine Community, and all!
Juicing for Peace? What does that mean?
Well, by drinking juice, by fasting on juice only, the vibration of our being is increased, from the heavier densities of the lower chakras, to the higher vibrations of compassion, unconditional love and peace of the higher chakras. This vibration is radiated around us and can have a peaceful effect upon those (apparent) others with whom we interact.
If you're thinking about doing a juice fast, be sure to check out this great post by 
i'm actually not juice fasting at the moment, but still, by replacing some food with juice there is a beneficial effect on our physical, mental and emotional health.
Today i will share my experience from two days ago of juicing grapes & pears & making sour-dough bread with pear pulp.
I harvested the grapes a week before and had already juiced some, but these were left over and still in good shape.
| One large bowl of Concorde grapes | Juicing in Progress | 900 ml of grape juice |
i use a slow masticating juicer which i bought in Mexico (imported from US) several years and bought back to Europe a couple of years ago. I have to use an invertor reduce the 240 v here to 110 v. It does a pretty good job leaving the pulp quite dry, thereby getting lots of juice.
Concord grapes are a real superfood full of nutritional goodness. Source
It is even said that Stage IV cancer can be cured with a Grape Juice Cleanse. Personally, i would be sure to include other holistic healing modalities alongside grape juice cleansing, such as colon cleansing, breathwork and most especially an Emotional Integration Procedure to target the root cause. I recommend The Presence Process to most people for this.
| Finished. Empty bowl. | A full bottle for the fridge plus a big bamboo cup full (diluted 50/50 with water) for now. |
The whole process took approx. ten to fifteen minutes.
Next, as the juicer is ready, i had a load of pears from the garden. i used the most recent ones as they are sweeter, the older ones i will use to make more Perry & Pear vinegar.
| Bowlful of pears having been soaked in water for a few minutes. | Chopped up pears with damaged parts removed | Result, approx 1100 ml of fresh organic pear juice |
Processing time approximately 20 minutes.
i then decided to use the pulp from the pears as part of the ingredients to make some bread. A couple of days before i had made a sourgh dough starter as i had run out of packet yeast, and i know that sour-dough bread is healthier anyway. So, i thought i would try.
I weighed the pear pulp - 240 grams. I guessed the water content to be about 20%, so reduced the amount of water in the bread recipe by 48 grams, and reduced the quantity of flour by 190 grams. But then i had to guess how much more to reduce the flour quantity by to take account of the sour-dough. So, i wasn't holding up much hope as to the outcome.
And as you can see from the picture, the "bread" didn't rise at all and felt like a brick. Having said that, it tastes quite nice. Next time i will try the sour-dough bread without the pear pulp and see how that works out.
The picture shows the left over sour-dough starter on the left, the pear "bread" on the right, and a slice of the bread spread with my "famous" nut butter (recipe to follow one of these days) in the foreground.
Yesterday i started a new type (for me) of blog, with a free-writing style. i've called it Autobiography of a Jogi. i enjoyed writing and sharing in this way and am getting some good feedback. i invite you to take a look at my post from yesterday.
i may write another - Autobiography of a Jogi - Diary Blog Stardate 2 later today.
For now, wishing you a peaceful rest of the day,
with love
Atma
