Wisdom Of The Heart: A Seven Day Journey With Cacao

For this course, you will need to have a mug of cacao with you for these meditations. Part of the experience of getting to know cacao also involves drinking it each day. Once your cacao is prepared, set it down for a moment to cool, and toward the end of this session, you’ll be guided through a meditative ritual as you drink it. Cacao works on both an energetic and a physiological level – that’s why it is seen as a mind, body, and spirit tonic.

An intention allows you to have an energetic focus on what you want to experience throughout this journey. Intentions also allow you to deepen your connection with cacao. Instead of just drinking it mindlessly, you start to bring more awareness into each sip, really inviting the spirit of cacao into your body, mind, and spirit. It creates a conscious, co-creative relationship with the plant to help you explore healing, insight, and clarity.

Cacao illuminates what you need to know in your heart. One important thing is taking care of yourself, loving yourself, and learning how to do that. Every heart will need its own nourishment, in its own unique way, so today’s meditation will be focused on finding your unique self-love method.

Cacao helps you to center and ground in two ways. The first is with the earthy flavour that instantly connects you to your roots. It helps to bring your energy down into the earth, to feel supported, and to feel held by the earth you are living on. The second way is by activating heart energy. With the heart being the fourth and central chakra in the body, this means that your energy comes into your center and into a balanced place.

The human body is an intuitive vessel, and it has three core intuitive centers. The first is the ‘gut feeling’ - that feeling we all know, where something either feels good or bad in the gut. There is also the third eye center, the intuitive center of wisdom beyond knowing. It’s the sense commonly associated with psychics, for tapping into otherworldly realms for guidance or answers. The third intuitive center is the heart. This is the center we use when we make decisions from our heart.

Today, we are looking at heart healing. Cacao opens up the heart space, creates moments for forgiveness, for processing grief, and for increasing gratitude and joy. It highlights everything that is already in your heart, and it helps you to develop a cohesive understanding of how you can walk through this world with an open heart.

Rituals can turn daily habits or ordinary moments into sacred portals of connection. When we sit with intention and presence, it elevates our entire experience of life. Every moment, every breath can be a ritual if you want it to be. And in turn, more rituals in your life will deepen your connection with yourself, with this beautiful planet earth, and with the people around you.