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Here is a wonderful video of how to make your own ceremonial cacao. Cacao King shows you how to make your own cup of ceremonial cacao. This video is helpful for everyone who would like to know how to make your own cup of ceremonial cacao.
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When you’re ungrounded, you may feel scattered, anxious or struggle to focus. These issues generally correlate with the root chakra which holds our sense of safety, security and connection. Mother Earth’s medicine connects us more deeply with her unique energy that grounds and protects when we drink cacao. Literally inviting her energy into our bodies to counteract the fast-paced, frenzied state of modern life, cacao offers one of the most effective ways to ground your energy. When you work with specific crystals, they amplify these benefits even further and you can customize your experience to what you need.
For instance, if you’re looking to heal your root chakra and feel more safe, you can add grounding crystals to enhance cacao’s benefits. Crystals such as lava stone, hematite and shungite can aid in this grounding practice. Simply brew your cup, holding your intention close and honor the element you wish to connect with. In this case, express your gratitude for the Earth, all that the planet gives to you and how it supports your very existence. Then, as you drink, hold whichever grounding crystal feels right to you. Using your left hand, gently connect with the unique energy of whichever stone you’re using and allow its frequency to combine its healing abilities with the cacao.
If you’re looking to open your heart even further during your cacao practice, you can use a soft stone like rose quartz to help open you to a greater sense of love and peace. You can even add a soft healing tone as an accompaniment. If you’re looking for a different stone for this chakra, you may want to try malachite to heal your heart and deeply transform whatever you’re experiencing into a high-vibrational state.
A favorite of spiritual practitioners and healers around the world, selenite also offers a powerful antidote to overwhelm and stress. Gently cleansing and protecting, this stone can help draw out anything that no longer serves you. Particularly when you’re working with cacao and moving through your emotions, it’s helpful to have a stone that supports this process and helps eliminate any lingering feelings of tension, anger or resentment. Simply drink your cacao with a selenite wand or sphere close to your feet or in your hands to help with this process.
No matter what properties you’re looking to bring into your cacao practice, crystals can help you transform on a physical and mental level. With specific frequencies that correlate with your desires, each crystal can enhance the natural healing abilities of cacao. Next time you sit down to connect with Earth’s medicine, bring a few crystals with you and watch what happens.
]]>Since cacao is pure medicine from our Creator, when you drink the sacred medicine, you’re inviting her energy into your body as you interact with the cacao. This deeply healing, mothering vibration soothes your nervous system while stimulating the blood flow throughout the body. Opening the physical and energetic heart, cacao helps you tap into any unprocessed anger, grief, sadness or fear to effectively hold space for your shadow sides.
A powerfully grounding medicine, cacao works with the root chakra to aid in feelings of safety and support as you begin your journaling practice. The medicine brings you back into your body so that you can freely write without self-judgment, moving through any discomfort that arises while feeling supported. With a wide-open heart, the true beauty of your emotions and unique light can shine through.
In order to fully express ourselves, we often need a sense of protected support. Cacao offers just that by helping you connect with your highest self, your guides and any other high-vibe entities you want guidance from. Spurring creativity and opening you to a deep love of self, your cacao practice can amplify your self-care practices across the board - including your time spent journaling.
The next time you need a creative boost or a warm presence to comfort you as you spend time with your emotions, brew a cup of cacao as your partner. Start by making your brew and spend a few moments connecting with the plant’s medicine. Take a few deep breaths, fully integrating your energy with the aroma and presence of cacao. Think of your intention and hold it in your heart as you feel grounded and protected throughout your practice.
Once you’ve sipped your brew and feel the grounding effects, pick up your pen and let whatever wants to flow through you do so with grace and acceptance. Maybe start with a gratitude list to open your heart even further and say thank you for the healing taking place in your body. From here, your creativity can soar with the steady, grounded love that the medicine provides.
Journal Prompt Ideas to Write About While Drinking Cacao:
How can I fully allow myself to feel the goodness of my life? Where am I moving too fast to feel the beauty all around me?
Where can I ground myself more deeply? How can I hold onto less to be guided more?
Where does my heart want to serve? Who can I help with my unique experience and skills in a way that makes me truly happy? Even if you don’t have a clear answer, write out a few areas of interest where you could help someone else and think about if you would find that fun and fulfilling.
The ultimate self-care tool, cacao can bring the mothering, protective presence many wish for throughout their spiritual journey.
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]]>Many think of drinking cacao as a practice strictly reserved for spiritual ceremonies. But, you can make this drink a part of your daily routine with its countless benefits. Besides allowing you to connect deeper within and feel deep gratitude for your life, cacao’s added perks help make for a great workday as well.
One of the most antioxidant-rich foods on Earth, cacao is also known as a natural energy booster. Much more gentle on the nervous system than coffee or tea, cacao contains theobromine, a powerful compound that mimics caffeine in its uplifting properties, but without the nerve-damaging side effects.
Before working at your computer or office, sit down to drink a cup of cacao while quieting your mind. Once you start working, you’ll feel the energizing effects of the theobromine from your brew. While the boost of energy may likely be milder than the rush you get from coffee, it will be longer-lasting - meaning that your energy levels are sustained for longer periods of time with no caffeine withdrawals or crash. Moisturizing your nerve endings to provide a steady increase in energy over time, cacao helps to keep you alert without damaging your adrenals and stress stores.
Studies also show that cacao can improve brain function to help you move through your day more effectively and with ease. Healthline reports that “One study of healthy volunteers showed that eating high-flavanol cocoa for five days improved blood flow to the brain.” With cacao’s high level of natural antioxidants and flavonoids, it’s no surprise that it enhances circulation, and thus, cognitive function.
When you’re working at your desk with this pure medicine pulsing through your system, it not only improves your cognitive function, but it also helps you enjoy your work. The mood-boosting benefits of cacao are well documented - and we can attest to this! Cacao increases blood flow throughout the body, opening the heart center and allowing your true essence to shine through. The part of the body that holds feelings like gratitude, elation, excitement and love, the open heart space helps you tap into one of the most important parts of work - joy.
While you may not associate all of your computer work with joy, cacao helps make even the mundane tasks more enjoyable. Combined with the antioxidants and healing properties of cacao, theobromine also contributes to a mood boost along with a greater ability to relax. Essentially, you’ll experience more of a creative flow while feeling less likely to sweat the small stuff.
Increasing your ability to focus, opening your heart and boosting your energy, cacao sounds like your new favorite coworker. Perhaps the best benefit of using this medicine while you work, cacao protects your nervous system from the often harmful effects of caffeine. Packed with magnesium, cacao soothes the system to a powerful point of relaxation while still helping you feel more alert.
Even if your new morning routine doesn’t include a long meditation and ceremony, cacao can help to nourish your system and invite a feeling of excited alertness throughout your day. Combined with benefits like lowered blood pressure, reduced inflammation and increased cardiovascular health, it’s no wonder why so many people drink cacao before their day begins. Try it for yourself and notice the difference!
]]>Since cacao is renowned for its heart-healing effects, it can be a powerful aid during your yoga practice. Cacao naturally increases circulation around the heart area, helping your energetic heart open and feel the love that naturally flows within you. When you practice yoga and move your body in this state, your senses are heightened, you can connect more deeply with your heartspace and feel much more grounded throughout your flow. Giving you a boost of natural energy, cacao can be the perfect partner for your time on your mat.
Start by brewing your cacao with your intention - think of what feels right and what you want to bring into your practice. As you heat the water, measure the cacao and stir, feel into your heart space, experiencing gratitude for all that life has to offer. If you need help with dosing and how to brew your cup, check out The Basics of Cacao.
Create a safe space where you feel held and comfortable; maybe lighting candles or using essential oils. You may want to play your favorite music that helps you feel centered and connected as you allow the medicine to work its beauty.
Once you start to feel your heart open and your body wants to move, begin your practice by coming to a mountain pose - just standing at the top of your mat with your hands at your heart. Take a few deep breaths, feeling your heart open and grounding down through your feet. Feel where the cacao is working in your body and allow it to move you while staying aligned with your breath.
Since cacao is medicine from Mother Earth herself, it helps ground the physical and mental bodies which allows you to be more present in your practice. With your senses heightened, you can flow with greater ease as you listen more deeply to your heart and body. Combining cacao and yoga helps to bring your spiritual, mental and physical experience into one unified, healed place.
With your body buzzing with cacao’s healing properties, your practice can take you deeper within while your open heart holds space for any emotions that are ready to be released. As the saying goes, “Motion releases emotion” and this is particularly true when you implement ceremonial cacao into your yoga practice. Integrating your emotions into your physical experience in a safe, compassionate way is an extremely healing practice that can aid in shadow work, emotional expression, creativity and more.
Cacao can make your yoga flow an extremely heart-opening, joyous experience. Many people love to drink cacao before they do yoga as they find it makes them feel excited about life. Next time you’re looking to connect with your highest self, try drinking cacao before your yoga flow.
]]>This reason is exactly why Cacao King was born. After seeing just how happy and grateful this medicine made him and his friends, founder Andrew Anunciation knew it was time to share more cacao with the world.
Cacao opens and heals the heart, often creating a sense of euphoria and sincere gratitude that connects you to your inner wisdom. Helping you ground back down to the Earth, this sacred medicine brings the divine feminine energy into your experience. Drinking cacao makes you feel held, supported and unconditionally loved because that’s exactly what the planet wants to do for us. From this grounded, loving place, your heart can fully open.
Rather than worrying about tomorrow or yesterday, cacao helps you come back to the most important part of life - the present moment. In this place of true presence, our heart’s deepest gratitude can emerge. One of the healthiest human emotions on Earth, gratitude elevates your consciousness to new heights. Once you feel yourself overflowing with joy and appreciation, this energy naturally flows to the people around you - elevating us all.
The spirit of cacao allows your gratitude to take center stage in your life and helps you to connect with others on this journey. The center of sacred ceremonies for thousands of years, cacao is meant to help us open our hearts and be surrounded by our friends and family to heal together. This medicine aids much more than our spiritual bodies as well; the physical benefits include reduced anxiety, lowered blood pressure, improved digestion and so much more.
When you drink cacao, your mind, body and soul receive the nourishment they need to open to all that life has to offer - all while connecting with the ancient wisdom within.
How to Use
Working with cacao can be as simple as mixing it with hot water and setting an intention or it can be as elaborate as a singing, dancing ceremony within your community. The beauty of cacao is that it can support you wherever you’re at on your journey.
If you want to brew a cup for yourself, heat a half cup of water in a stainless steel or copper pot. Heat the water to 170 degrees Fahrenheit, just below boiling; note that it’s important not to use boiling water to keep the healing properties of the cacao intact. You can add organic herbs or spices like cinnamon, cayenne or even edible essential oils to the water as it heats up. Stir in a clockwise direction and bless the water as you warm it on the stove.
Meanwhile, place about 30 grams of cacao into a clay or natural cup - no plastic! Keep in mind that some people may be sensitive to cacao or plant medicine in general, so start with 30 grams and add a little more after you know how it affects you.
Once the water is heated to 170 degrees, pour it over the cacao and stir in a clockwise direction with a wooden or natural spoon as they melt together. Infuse your intention into the cacao as you do this, you may want to sing or pray out loud. Just connect with the plant as you create your brew.
Cacao is a pure form of indigenous medicine that Earth provides us and, as such, it has a bitter taste. So, it may take some time to get used to it. If you need to sweeten, you can add a natural sweetener like dates, honey or coconut nectar.
From here, spend time with the cacao, smelling the aroma and just being grateful for life, with all of its blessings and challenges. As you sip, feel the warm liquid rinse over your heart space and spend some time connecting with your true Self.
Stay tuned for more tips and information about the healing abilities of cacao!
We’re so grateful to be a part of your cacao ritual and can’t wait to support you as you open your heart and let gratitude & love illuminate your path.
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