A Gift From Nature
Theobroma Cacao (translated as Food of the Gods), sacred plant medicine to open our hearts, nourish our bodies and connect deeply with ourselves and beyond.
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Your body:
Cacao is high in iron, magnesium, anti-oxidants, chromium and many other wonderful nutrients and also acts as a vasodilator to support blood flow through our heart and around our body.
These properties:
- support our cardiovascular system and heart health
- boost blood flow to our brain increasing clarity, mental focus, imagination and creativity
- enable the passage of oxygenated blood bringing us energy
- balance blood sugar levels
- can help with sleep and releasing tension.
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Your mental and emotional wellbeing:
Cacao contains active biological compounds including serotonin, dopamine and anandamide (the bliss molecule) and also theobromine; all helping us to:
- access our feelings of inner harmony, peace, hope, happiness and bliss
- both boost and stabilise mood and having a natural anti-depressant effect
- release stress, anxiety, and emotional blocks and encourage healing.
The blend of physical and emotional goodness from cacao can also support menstrual cycle health and wellbeing.
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Your inner journey:
All the wonderful properties of this nurturing plant medicine come together to welcome us home to our heart.
Sacred Cacao offers us:
- Increased sensory awareness enabling the mind to quieten and instead to feel into the sensations and messages of our body and heart
- Holding us to truly feel, experience and process our emotions; opening space for healing and health
- Connection to our own truth, wisdom enabling alignment and empowerment in our living
- Her plant spirit guidance
- Experience of love, compassion, connection, hope, gratitude, bliss and all the blessings of the heart energy.