Cacao is a medicine of slowing down. To truly connect with cacao as a plant for healing, one needs to pause and approach with reverence. It's hard to do that when we are rushing from one thing to the next, with our minds full of lists. When focused solely on production, achieving, success, and accomplishment, it is often easy to neglect our physical bodies and emotions in the process, losing our connection with ourselves. Connection to the self and others is the foundation for health, happiness,