Would you like to learn how to meditate with your cacao?

・ Do you feel called by ceremonial cacao but find it difficult to create the peace for your Cacao moment?

・ Perhaps you find it hard to maintain focus when you are with your Cacao or in meditations?

・ Maybe you want to meditate but feel like you're the type who can't meditate?

 

Then you might find inspiration in Helle's sharing, which follows here 🤎

» Before I got to know ceremonial cacao, I found it really hard to be alone with myself and meditate, because my thoughts would start to wander:

 

"Remember to buy yeast,"

"When could I schedule that meeting?"

"What about that time it happened?"

"Maybe I should just take care of that request now that I have time."

 

...and many similar thoughts would pop up and draw my attention away from the moment.

 

It frustrated me greatly that I couldn't focus and I didn't feel like I was getting the benefit I should be.

I thought it was because I couldn't figure it out.

 

But it was really about the fact that when I meditated, that was the only time I allowed calm to settle over me, with the exception of when I went to bed, so that's when my brain would offer its inputs.

 

Have you actually created the opportunity to make meditation possible?

My entire day was filled with tasks, work, children, and the phone – things I had to attend to, and a nervous system working overtime because I constantly put my own needs aside to fulfill others'.

 

This became my way of incorporating meditation into my life.

My cacao moments became the path to finding my inner peace, letting my thoughts rest, and replenishing my own energy.

I started small.

I put on good music, prepared the cacao, and left my phone aside while I took a moment to simply be in the present with my cacao and myself.

 

So what started as just a quiet moment while I drank my cacao has evolved into moments where I prioritize having the peace to sit for longer or combine it with meditations.

I regained my interest in meditations and had become familiar with active meditations through Camille.

I initially found that my thoughts easily wandered during active meditation as well, but it was easier to return to the experience and my own body, with a focus on breathing or movements.

Even though my thoughts wandered, I still felt like I gained something from the meditation and found that the more often I prioritized returning to the meditation, the less my thoughts wandered.

Through active meditation, I had the fantastic experience of discovering that it is possible to work with physical blockages in the body, even if your thoughts wander.

I therefore love using active meditations both in my own personal moments and when I hold ceremonies in North Jutland.

Cacao and meditation is a fantastic combination, as the cacao helps create calm in the body and active meditation distributes the cacao's properties throughout the body.

 

The first steps that lay the foundation:

So even if you find it difficult to replenish your own energy, sit still, find the time for it, or feel it's too troublesome, start small. 

1. Put your phone away.
2. Make a cup of cacao.
3. Put on some nice music.
4.  ...and look out the window, as a start, and let that be your meditation and see where it takes you. 

 

 

Would you like a little more guidance to start with – how to use breath and movement as an active meditation?

Then, in collaboration with Ditte Angelo, I have created a version of Chakra Loop.

Ditte has composed a lovely modern vibe which, with my guidance, draws your attention to all seven chakras.

It's a fantastic meditation that, through active breathing in all chakras, activates energy and creates a flow throughout the entire body.

 

>>> You can also find Chakra Loop on YouTube in an English version

 

Enjoy <3 

Hugs, Helle

Helle Tindahl Viborg is a Sacred Cacao Spaceholder and a trained Holistic Energy Therapist and Mentor.

If you are curious to follow how Helle uses cacao in her daily life, treatments, meditation, and ceremonies, you can find her under the Sacred Cacao Spaceholder list here

 

If you have questions or something you'd like to share, you're always welcome to contact me via email or my Instagram inbox, or in the comments below 👇