- Gentle plant medicine that opens your heart and connects you to your intuition
- Sit, relax, close your eyes, set intentions and sip on mother natures ceremonial cacao
- Become silent and allow your inner wisdom to flow through you, what is it that you are meant to be doing in your life?
- Allow your heart’s wisdom, the seat of your soul, to speak to you
- What is it that you want to manifest in your life, what is your life purpose that you are yet to fulfil?
- Who are you and who are you becoming? Do you like what you see when you look in the mirror?
- Every prayer is heard and answered
Welcome to the exciting world of traditional plant medicine and its healing potential. A ceremonial dose of cacao is usually 40g, but if you have sensitivities it would be recommended to start with a smaller dose of 10g, 20g or 30g. The mix that I normally create is with organic almond milk, organic chilli powder, organic cinnamon powder and one organic Medjool date as a sweetener. The chilli powder and cinnamon have health benefits, but they also enhance the flavour profile. If you don’t like the idea of almond milk, we can always do organic coconut cream or, as is traditional, straight up with water. Since drinking good quality water is important to cleanse toxins from our body, my water is triple blessed reverse osmosis (ideally you’re having 2L-3L daily).
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I sip on a concoction of ceremonial cacao as I write this because I want to share with you the Spirit of Cacao as it flows through my heart chakra. Ceremonial cacao is generally grown and prepared overseas, although I do know of at least one company here in Australia growing it. It is a plant medicine that has been grown and processed reverentially. As you prepare and consume the drink, it is important that you are relaxed and set quality intentions. This is a very gentle plant medicine that works on opening your spiritual heart, i.e., your heart chakra, which is in the middle of your chest. The physiological response in your body is quite different to stronger plant medicines like mushrooms, marijuana and ayahuasca, i.e., generally you have a feeling of well-being, relaxation and contentedness.
The first time I had ceremonial cacao was in Margaret River with a friend who I hadn’t seen for many years. We first met at the International Meditation Centre (Perth) on a 10 day silent meditation retreat. My son was nine, and Sarah, now with two preschoolers, invited me to have ceremonial cacao. I excitedly said yes as it had already hit my radar but I hadn’t done it. I had recently seen it for sale at the wonderful Hairy Lentil cafe in Waroona and I was curious about it. A couple of weeks before I also had a client mention that she went on a retreat down south (i.e., south west Western Australia) and participated in a group cacao ceremony. So there was a lot of synchronicities lining up around embracing ceremonial cacao into my life.
When Levi and I went back to our apartment at Abbey Beach Resort, I needed quiet reflection time. My son was in sheer delight as he got to have some extra screen time (he usually only has half an hour a day) while I meditated. With cacao in my system, meditation and going within with a quiet mind came easy. I had my iPad beside me so I could take notes as a flow of information was coming through my heart from The Creator. My inner guidance/intuition/higher self, whatever you want to call it, was speaking to me loud and clear. The essential message was that I need to transition out of traditional psychology work and into energy medicine, specialising in ThetaHealing and couples counselling. The only traditional psychology that I was to maintain was relationship counselling.
I heeded these words and created a plan to transition my private practice over the coming 12 months. Ceremonial cacao opened my heart and allowed the intuitive guidance, that was for my highest good, to flow through. This information could not otherwise be accessed so easily. After this first experience with Sarah, I instantly became enamoured with it. As is typical of me, shouting all good things from the mountain top, I began experimenting with different varieties of ceremonial cacao and sharing it with clients. And so, this is my personal invitation to you…to connect with your highest self through this beautiful and gentle plant medicine that benefits you physically and spiritually.
I have been studying this with some depth, including completing a course called Sacred Cacao Ceremony with Sunshine Academy of Metaphysics and there’s quite a bit on YouTube also. What I discovered is that the ceremonial cacao is called Food of the Gods because of its incredible health benefits. As someone who has a plant based diet and a particular interest in heart health, having a regular ceremonial cacao ticks many boxes. A really great tip is to take a good source of vitamin C (as a supplement or as a whole food, i.e., fruit or vegetable) with your ceremonial cacao as this enables the absorption of non-heme iron naturally found in cacao. I just take a supplement as this is much easier and I can provide this for you when we do a ceremony together if you wish.
I’m really excited to be able to share ceremonial cacao and your inner journeying with you.
