Both cacao and the chakras are spiritual gateways that have been used for centuries in traditions to deepen spirituality and consciousness.

OPEN YOUR HEART
If you look at the healing effect of cacao, it would fit best with the heart chakra. Cacao is known to have a heart-warming and heart-opening effect. It invites you to travel inward from the energy of your heart. As I see it, it helps open your gate to a deeper connection with yourself. After all, you are already inside yourself, it is often the art of really learning to listen to yourself again. The heart is a good advisor in this. Cacao can therefore be a stimulus in this, a medicine to open you more to your heart energy and yourself.

CHAKRAS
Chakras are energy gates that are located in your energy fields (aura). The chakras are located in specific places in the body. Both at the front and back of your body. Starting at the root. This chakra is also called the tailbone chakra and is located at the bottom of the pelvis. And so they continue their way up in the body.
There are 7 main chakras (there are more chakras but I will focus on the first 7). Each chakra is connected to certain emotions, colors, qualities, body/organ functions and how you communicate with the outside world. They serve as a kind of maintenance system for your energy field.

CHAKRA APK
When one of your chakras is not working optimally or is out of balance, for example overactive or weakened, you will notice this in your daily life. You may be overstimulated more quickly, experience physical complaints and tension. The great thing about this system is that it tells you a lot about yourself and what you need. Just like your car needs an MOT, so does your energy system!
Every now and then aligning your chakras and checking for a fuel leak or overactive engine is a must. You can go to someone who specializes in chakras but it is even better to learn by yourself….
I always believe that the power and answers are within yourself. That you are your best healer. During my sessions and trajectories that is always the starting point, that the right tools are learned that suit you. For example, this year I will offer a very cool (shamanistic) training in which you will learn, among other things, how to do a CHAKRA scan yourself and balance your own chakras. It is time to shape the old wisdom, taking into account all value and knowledge, in a new guise so that it fits here and now in how life is now.
So how wonderful it is that we can still use these ancient wisdoms. That even more is known about the functioning of chakras and cacao.
And that is noticeable: cacao ceremonies are offered everywhere, you can have your chakras rebalanced. Super nice of course!
It does feel important to value and honor the old traditions, knowledge, the (plant) medicines that mother earth gives us. See them as energy gates that work supportively, that bring you to the wisdom within yourself. There lies the key to self-love and reflection. The more this can flow through your life, the more flow is created.

NEW RITUALS
with ancient wisdom
I think we are ready for the next step. In a world where there is much unrest, we are invited to stand still.
After all, wisdom is within all of us. We are invited to work more with the earth, the elements, rituals..
I myself regularly do a self-scan, a ritual MOT to see how my energy field is doing and to boost my consciousness. The more often you do this, the sooner you will notice yourself when something is out of balance. Cacao is a perfect way to start a self-scan.
Do you also have such a kind of apk ritual? What would you need for a self-scan to fit this into your daily life?
Below I hope to inspire you and I would like to tell you more about what my check-in or APK RITUAL looks like:
I do not always use Cacao to open the heart field, but I do this by going to my heart with my attention and placing my hands on it. I use the tools below during my self-scan
❤ connection heart consciousness (possibly cacao)
💨 Conscious breathing
🌱 Palo Santo or sage
📔 notebook
I make a nice spot, light a candle and sit, lie down or stand. Based on feeling I choose a crystal or gemstone if necessary. I first connect with my heart, then I breathe in and out a few times very consciously to my heart.
I notice how my body relaxes after each exhalation. I check in if I feel tension or restlessness somewhere (you can feel this through conscious breathing).
I send love to the places where there is tension. Now I connect with the earth and the cosmos (source). I see how grounding energy flows in from below and cosmic energy flows in from above. I breathe consciously and observe. Can both energies flow in well? With loving attention I breathe consciously to the places where it flows less or not at all.
Now I start the scan at the first CHAKRA the Root. I consciously breathe to this chakra and check if I feel tension, restlessness, weakness or overactivity (if necessary write down what you feel).
I consciously breathe balance and love to that place and consciously blow out the tension, restlessness etc until I feel it is enough. It can be helpful to place your hands on the chakra you are working with.
Now I go to the second CHAKRA, Sacral chakra. I go through all 7 chakras. I end at the Crown CHAKRA.
When I'm done, I place both hands on my heart again, breathing in and out consciously.
I feel how everything feels now, your body, your energy, the space around you. Finish with burning Palo Santo or sage, starting at your feet and going up. Thank yourself and don't forget to drink good water!

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