Healthy Chocolate: Eden’s Natural Therapist

                                            

The Chocolate TherapistBy Karyn Grant, LMT
www.mychocolatetherapist.com 

I’m a real “Sugar Baby” at heart!  I love to laugh!  I love a party…  But, most of all, I used to love to “Snickers”.  Whenever I felt like life was a “Rocky Road”, I decided to buck up and be a real “Baby Ruth”.  Nothing could stop me in my pursuit of “Almond Joy”; I simply had an attraction for any remedy that came dipped in chocolate.  Bring on the caramels, too!    Whenever I ate chocolate, I felt like life was a “Milky Way” and that nothing but “Chocolate Kisses” could make me feel so loved. I suppose I was truly in search of pure love. 

As a teenager, I missed having a real connection with my very own father, so I reached for a “Sugar Daddy” instead.  Yes, subconsciously I knew that chocolate had the missing link!  So I made it, my best friend! I spent my days saying “mmm&mmmm”.   I suppose, that when you are in need of having a “Pay Day”, there is nothing like a “100,000 Grand” to give you that feeling of being richly intoxicated. 

While other girls were out on dates, I was exclaiming, “Oh, Henry!” Nothing, no one, could take the place of my best friend, “Reeses”.  He was the greatest. At any rate, you get the picture…if it wasn’t tall, dark, handsome…and chocolate…he was no match for me.

I knew that the scales were climbing fast.  I passed the two hundred mark and the climb was getting rockier (and heavier) still.  Feasting on one pound Hershey bars and boxes of Sees wasn’t helping my figure, but still I never quite associated chocolate with those rounding curves that were increasing by the year. 

Then it happened.  I thought I could sneak chocolate in, after my gastric bypass.  But, no way.  Refined chocolate put me to sleep!  Everyday, for four years, I still tried to eat chocolate, but the effects weren’t the same.  Gone the feeling of “Almond Joy”!  Gone the urge to “Snickers”!  All of my original “Big Hunks” no longer brought me that same “oompa loompa”!  Now, I decided that I would have to break up with my chocolate bar.  I began to believe that chocolate was the culprit and I tried to ween myself away.  Was chocolate my friend or my fiend?  I wondered. 

After two months of cold-turkeying my chocolate addiction, I fell into a binge.  For me, three Sees chocolates was a binge and it put me right out!  I was in a druggy stupor one day, after indulging on chocolate caramels, when I decided to show up at a health food store to find a new remedy.

An astonishing thing happened!  I met two wonderful women at that health food store!  They actually recognized me!  They brought me a beautiful bottle and told me that this was the answer to my prayers.  And it was!  It made me sigh a huge sigh of relief to beginning learning the truth about “Naked Chocolate”.  Soon, I was readying everything from A-Z on cacao!  Daily, I was drinking XOCAI and feeling much better! 

I had energy and strength like I hadn’t had in four years (since my surgery)!  I was happier and maintained a feeling of bliss that made me feel steady, calm and content.  Even better, I no longer craved my dear old fiends…the one’s that made me sick and tired.

The truth about cacao is fascinating to me!  I decided that if “bitter was better”, than I would eat chocolate like the Kings ate it!  I began drinking XOCAI and using the ACTIV XOCAI in it’s power form, as an ingredient in my recipe for “Chocolate Therapy”.  I have added to the mix, other ingredients so that I get a lot of protein every time I eat it.  XOCAI has become my Chocolate Remedy…It literally turns me into a “bliss ball” of energy!

The truth about chocolate needs to be shared!  God doesn’t make mistakes!

Karyn Grant

Other Blog Sites By Karyn
www.cherishingplace.wordpress.com
www.joycoaching.wordpress.com
www.lullabythefathers.wordpress.com
www.kangenwatermusic.wordpress.com

The Chocolate Therapist

Before I made chocolate an interesting study, I made it a luscious hobby.  Eating chocolate in any form was my first love.  I awakened every morning to the thought of brownies with walnuts and thick butter cream chocolate frosting.  I dreamed of chocolate sour cream cake and black bottom cupcakes.  Little did I know that I was craving something in the stuff that had actual healing properties.  Little did I know that chocolate in its originally created form, was a gift from God.  It was believed that Quetzalcoatl, “the great white god”, brought the cacao bean to the Indians of South and Central America.   I had always heard that chocolate wasn’t good for you.  But, I never knew the truth about the “Original Personality” of chocolate! I didn’t know that it was the refined white sugar that caused the poisonous after-effects that I suffered from eating it; feeling drugged, fatigue (spelled FAT-igue) and mood swings.  These symptoms and more were actually counteracting the wonderful effects that raw chocolate can actually have upon one’s body, mind, heart and spirit.  So, I continued praying for a solution as to how to overcome my absolute love of it and my addiction to it.  

My desire to overcome my cravings for refined chocolate began to peak after having a gastric bypass surgery to lose the weight I had accumulated from a diet predominately made up of chocolate.  Imagine my unsuppressed joy when I discovered the truth about the DNA of chocolate.  It was truly a substance with “Divine Natural Attributes” that had been suppressed and inhibited by it’s poisonous cohorts, refined, processed sugar, waxes, milk solids, etc.
Now, I eat raw chocolate (cacao) daily.  I have more energy than I’ve had in years and I feel content, peaceful and content.  What was the ingredient in cacao that my heart and mind needed?  In my studies, I have discovered the truth about cacao and simply want to pass it on with my recipe for “Chocolate Therapy.”  I was pleasantly surprised when I learned that cacao is one of nature’s richest sources of magnesium, “the brain mineral”. Magnesium supports the heart, increases brain power, causes strong peristalsis in the intestines, relaxes menstrual cramping, relaxes muscles and helps build strong bones.  Magnesium as a primary alkaline mineral, opens up over 300 different detoxification and elimination pathways in the body. 

What else does magnesium do?  “Magnesium supports a healthy heart.  It increases brain power.  It acts as a natural laxative.  It soothes and calms PMS symptoms.  Cacao is a great muscle relaxer.  It increases flexibility and strength in your muscles.  A magnesium deficiency leads to excessive muscle tension including; spasms, twitches and restlessness.  This can be especially true in the hands, feet and facial muscles.  Magnesium can be biologically transmutated into calcium.  ( I had always been taught that chocolate leaches calcium from our bodies).  Magnesium intake has been shown to strengthen bones.   Signs of magnesium deficiency are: aggressive behavior, alcoholism, anorexia, apathy, ADD, blood vessel clots, cerebral palsy, chronic fatigue headaches, cramps, depression, disorientation, insomnia, irritability, muscle weakness, nervousness, mental stress,  failure to grow, constipation, hypertension, kidney stones, vertigo, difficulty in concentration and remembering, asthma, and other heart related conditions.  

“Chocolate is truly a food for the heart~ it is the heart’s “blood”; due to its magnesium, antioxidants, love chemicals and esoteric properties.  Cacao opens the heart center.  It heals not only on a physical, chemical level, but also on an emotional, spiritual and metaphysical level.  Chocolate is not fitted to be a medicine for just the heart.  Chocolate also possesses sensual, pleasureful, and sexual energies embracing touch and fantasy.  Since the beginning of time, chocolate has been known as an aphrodisiac.”  (Naked Chocolate, Dr. David Wolfe)