Nutrition facts

Serving size
1 Tbsp (6g)
Calories
20
Total fat
.5g
Sodium
10mg
Total carbohydrate
4g
Dietary fiber
1g
Total sugar
0g
Protein
<1g
Potassium
110mg
Iron
0.4mg
Mushrooms
2,240mg
Caffeine
35mg

INGREDIENTS: Organic Mushroom Blend (Chaga, Reishi, Lion's Mane and Cordyceps Mushrooms and Mycelium cultured on Organic Oats and/or Organic Sorghum), Organic Cacao, Organic Spice Blend (Organic Cinnamon, Organic Turmeric, Organic Ginger, Organic Cardamom, Organic Black Pepper, Organic Nutmeg, Organic Cloves), Organic Black Tea Powder, Himalayan Pink Salt

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Nutrition facts

Serving size
1 Tbsp (6g)
Calories
20
Total fat
0g
Sodium
10mg
Total carbohydrate
4g
Dietary fiber
1g
Total sugar
0g
Protein
1g
Iron
2mg
Mushrooms
3,000mg
Caffeine
55mg

INGREDIENTS: Organic Mushroom Blend (Chaga, Reishi, Lion's Mane and Cordyceps mushrooms and mycelium cultured on organic oats and/or organic sorghum), Organic Matcha, Organic Cinnamon, Organic Turmeric, Organic Ginger, Organic Black Pepper, Organic Cardamom, Himalayan Pink Salt

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Nutrition facts

Serving size
1 Tbsp (6g)
Calories
20
Total fat
0g
Sodium
10mg
Total carbohydrate
4g
Dietary fiber
1g
Total sugar
0g
Protein
1g
Potassium
60mg
Iron
1.8mg
Mushrooms
1,840mg
Caffeine
0mg

INGREDIENTS: Organic Spice Blend (Organic Turmeric, Organic Cinnamon, Organic Ginger, Organic Cardamom, Organic Black Pepper), Organic Mushroom Blend (Chaga, Reishi, Lion’s Mane and Cordyceps mushrooms and mycelium grown on organic oats and/or organic sorghum), Organic Lucuma Fruit Powder, Organic Baobab Fruit Powder, Organic Rooibos Tea Extract, Himalayan Pink Salt

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Nutrition facts

Serving size
1 Tbsp (6g)
Calories
20
Total fat
0g
Sodium
5mg
Total carbohydrate
4g
Dietary fiber
1g
Total sugar
0g
Protein
0g
Iron
0.3mg
Mushrooms
2,240mg
Caffeine
0mg

INGREDIENTS: Organic Mushroom Blend (Turkey Tail and Reishi Mushrooms and Mycelium cultured on Organic Oats and/or Organic Sorghum), Organic Lucuma Fruit Powder, Organic Rooibos Tea Extract, Organic Spice Blend (Organic Turmeric, Organic Cinnamon, Organic Ginger, Organic Cardamom, Organic Black Pepper, Organic Nutmeg, Organic Cloves), Organic Valerian Root Extract, Passionflower Extract, Organic Ashwagandha Root Extract, Organic Chamomile Extract

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Nutrition facts

Serving size
1 Tbsp (6g)
Calories
45
Total fat
4.5g
Sodium
0mg
Total carbohydrate
3g
Dietary fiber
0g
Total sugar
0g
Protein
<1g

INGREDIENTS: Organic Coconut Milk Power, Organic MCT Powder (Medium Chain Triglycerides), Organic Acacia Fiber, Organic Tapioca Maltodextrin (Derived from Organic Yuca Root). Contains Coconut.

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Unlock the Power of Blue Space

How water boosts your well-being

April M. Short

If you’ve ever plunged your naked body into a mountain lake, rowed a boat over a bay, shimmied into a wetsuit and dived through frigid ocean waves, or even just chilled by the river on a long, hot summer’s afternoon you probably know the transformative effects of water. Humans, by and large, love to be near bodies of water, and spending time near water has a deluge of positive effects on our mental and physical well-being. If you think about it, our human bodies are bodies of water, too, in a way, given that we are physically composed of mostly water. This is why staying hydrated is key to our health, and why we die if we go without water for just a few days. Connecting with water—sometimes even a picture of water—can ease our moods, our nervous system responses, and even our perspectives on life.

Blue Space, Blue Mind, Blue Care

An emerging area of science focuses on the positive effects of being by water, or what some have dubbed “blue space,” (which comes on the heels of the term “green space” which public health and urban-planning experts use to assess the well-being benefits of parks, trees, and other nature spaces.) Writer Elle Hunt’s article in the Guardian in 2019, “Blue spaces: why time spent near water is the secret of happiness,” explores some of the feel-good effects of water. The article includes an interview with Mathew White, a senior lecturer at the University of Exeter and “environmental psychologist with BlueHealth, a program researching the health and wellbeing benefits of blue space across 18 (mostly European) countries.” 

White says in the article that when you are “sailing, surfing or swimming ... you’re really in tune with natural forces there —you have to understand the motion of the wind, the movement of the water.” Hunt further notes that “By being forced to concentrate on the qualities of the environment, we access a cognitive state honed over millennia. ... Water is, quite literally, immersive.”

Diving into water has calming effects on our whole system, as Markham Heid details in the 2020 Medium article “There’s a Scientific Reason Why Water Is So Calming.” 

Heid writes: 

“You might think that diving into water, like peering over a cliff’s edge, would provide a little adrenaline rush. But it turns out that just the opposite is true. ... When a person’s face is underwater, research has found that heart rate slows and certain blood vessels constrict. Blood is redistributed from the limbs to the brain, heart, and other central organs. Vagal tone and parasympathetic nervous system activity — both of which are associated with the body’s 'rest-and-digest' states — are turned up. At the same time, elements of the sympathetic nervous system and the body’s 'fight-or-flight' responses tend to mellow out.”

Clean, healthy water is essential to our life force, which is why indigenous-led water protectors around North America and all over the world have been working to safeguard Earth’s water systems. It is also part of what inspired marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols to write the 2014 book, Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do, which was a landmark book in many ways in its overarching look at water and human well-being.

Nichols spoke with Markham Heid for the Medium article about water’s calming effects and benefits for mental health and the nervous system. He also noted water’s positive impacts on creativity.  

“Water is also a source of creativity and inspiration,” he said in the article. “When you look at water, there’s what people describe as this soft fascination — something that is interesting and that holds your attention, but not in an information-rich way.”

Blue Mind gathers together scientific evidence with powerful anecdotes that delve into how and why it is that being close to oceans, lakes, rivers, streams, bays and ponds improves mental health and promotes happiness. 

While the book details fascinating neuroscience and biology research relating to water and our wellness, it also delves into the spiritual and soulful connections people have with water. He delves into the subtle effects water has on us—like the hypnotic state of mind that gazing at water can bring about. He writes in the book that water “meditates you.” 

In an article published in The Guardian in 2014, writer Philip Hoare summarized some of the highlights from Blue Mind relating to water’s mood-enhancing effects, and the way water can be a sort of antidote to our digitized lives full of screen time:

“Nichols believes we should all channel the putative blue in our heads, using water to detox our digital enslavement,” Hoare writes. “Even taking a shower, or glimpsing a photograph of a river will do the job. Imagine, he says, how business negotiations could be facilitated if the interested parties adjourned to a hot tub.”

Because being near water can help ease our minds so well, some mental and physical health practitioners have adopted what are known as “blue care interventions,” which involve spending time near natural water environments as part of health treatment. 

A study published in the National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s National Library of Medicine compiled a “systematic review of blue space interventions for health and wellbeing.” Its abstract stated that, “In summary, it has been shown that mental health, especially psycho-social wellbeing, can be improved with investment in blue spaces.” The study also notes that in the area of health interventions, science is still catching up in many ways to understanding why it is that natural water, or blue space, has such a strong positive effect on our minds.

Do You Even Talk to Water, Bro?

Another way of connecting with water is through drinking water. Turns out, water is alive, and it is likely listening to us and responding to our energetic frequencies. So, it’s not a bad idea to speak some positive words, or sing some good songs, to your water before you drink it. Indigenous cultures around the world have always had practices of communicating with water, praying over water, sending intention into water, and listening to water. Now, there is scientific evidence to back up the idea that talking, singing, or humming positive vibrations to your water changes the molecules of the water.

Japanese researcher Masaru Emoto wrote the book “The Message from Water” that summarizes his research photographing water under a microscope and showing the way water molecules rearrange themselves depending on how they are spoken to. Emoto writes in the book:

“The words themselves actually emit a unique vibration that the water is sensing. When water is shown a written word, it receives it as vibration, and expresses the message in a specific form, like a visual code for expressing words. Water exposed to the words, 'Thank you' formed beautiful geometric crystals, no matter what the language. But water exposed to, '...you fool' and other degrading words resulted in obviously broken and deformed crystals. When a complete geometric crystal is formed, water is in alignment with nature and the phenomena we call life. The words, gratitude and love, form the fundamental principles of the laws of nature and the phenomenon of life."

Researchers conducted a double-blind, randomized controlled trial of “the hypothesis that water 'treated' with intention can affect ice crystals formed from that water was pilot tested under double-blind conditions.” The study was published in 2006 and found that, yes, water did arrange itself in more “aesthetically pleasing” patterns when people talked to it with positive intentions.

Connecting with water—whether you dive into it, sit near it, talk to it or even just visualize it—can bring happiness, calm stress, and help us connect with our creativity. And whether you live near the ocean or in the middle of an urban center, water is always close. Maybe you’ll bring a little more intention next time you sing in the shower, or pour yourself a glass of ice water.

April M. Short is a journalist, editor, yoga teacher and feminine rites practitioner. She's an editor at the Independent Media Institute and helped co-found multiple psychedelics-focused media outlets. Her writing is published in the San Francisco Chronicle, LA Yoga, Salon, The Conversation and many others. Follow her yoga and ritual work on Instagram: @AprilClarkYoga.

Photo by Marko Blažević on Unsplash

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