The Story Behind My Chocolate Painting...

Chocolate is pure magic.

It has captivated the vast majority of people whose lives it has touched since its discovery.

Imagine the day, thousands of years ago, the miracle of a day when the first chocolate tree was born deep inside the mysterious Amazon jungle!

Doesn't it make a perfect sort of sense that the most beloved plant in the world would be born in one of the most intriguing places in the world!? 

The room visibly rippled with excited energy at Joe Vitale's Zero Limits Seminar in January as bags of M n M's inscribed with the words Zero Limits were passed around. Dr. Len had set the room abuzz with  delight as he delivered the news that chocolate is a "cleaning" device as powerful as saying the Ho'oponopono prayer!

As we happily ate M n M's by the handsful, he went on about the bees; how if it weren't for the bees there would be no chocolate at all. They are just these little creatures doing their small job, but without them there would be the unthinkable, NO chocolate! 

Six THOUSAND flowers burst out of a chocolate tree in crazy profusion anywhere they like; but the bees only fertilize about 20 flowers that will then grow into pods. 20 pods only contain about 300-600 beans total, which only amounts to about 4 lbs of cacao paste.

These particular bees, Sting-less bees, appear to have a pretty relaxed work ethic; so it's a miracle there is as much chocolate available in the world as there is! 

The Mayan's believed cacao was discovered by the Gods in a mountain.

They held an annual celebration to honor their chocolate God.  In the 400 years that chocolate has had a world wide presence more than 100 medicinal uses have been recorded; everything from it being a natural antidepressant to it being a cure for anemia, tuberculosis, feeling faint of heart, kidney stones and how shall we say… for stimulating "virility".

Since its discovery chocolate has been used in every capacity ritually, culinarily, medicinally, to bathe in at spas and even as currency. 

That chocolate is a powerful spiritual cleaning tool seems too miraculous to be true!

Most of the world's population is thoroughly enchanted with, if not outright addicted to, beloved chocolate.

That bees are here on a mission to drink from cacao flowers so that those flowers will become pods full of chocolate beans is a miracle!

Realizing that so few blooms are fertilized brings a new awareness of what a miracle each and every Godiva and Hershey display really is!

That some clever soul saw funky pods hanging off of a crazy tree in the Amazon and had the sudden inspiration to crack one open and see what was in there, is a miracle.!

But we must be most grateful though for the most pivotal bit of inspiration of all...

That after having been brave enough to stick the first bitter bean in his mouth this blessed person thought to himself "You know I bet this would taste REALLY good with some sweetener!" And to THAT soul we owe our eternal thanks and praise!

So, for me, not only is it incredible that such an irresistible food is a powerful cleaning tool; for me Dr. Len's story made me see the miracles within miracles.

If you peel back the layers of anything here on earth you can't help but be awe struck by the unfathomably delicate, intricate choreography that is God.

The perfection of the timing, the incomprehensibility of his multitasking with everyone's comings and goings second by second so that our souls are touched by inspiration and perfect, synchronicities that are pure magic, miracles within miracles of divine timing. 

This chocolate painting carries that energy.

It cleans you as powerfully as the Ho'oponopono prayer itself and is a visual reminder to go looking for the miracles within miracles in your life beginning in the most unlikely looking places.