The ancient Mayans drank chocolate for fertility, and the Aztecs were convinced that dark chocolate was a potent aphrodisiac. As no sensual feast is complete without good chocolate to melt in your mouths I offer you my favorite chocolate recipe and some interesting chocolate facts! Article Source: EzineArticles.com/?expert=Patricia_Fason

The testosterone levels of ladies have been shown to increase after eating chocolate. Chocolate also contains Serotonin, a neurotransmitter that           produces feelings of pleasure in a similar way to sunlight, and has been shown to be elevated for the first year of falling in love.
It is said that Madame du Barry, courtesan and mistress of Louis XV, always served her lovers a cup of chocolate before they were let in to her bedroom,and that the great lover and alchemist Casanova, who drank his choccolata at Cafe Florian in Venice, considered chocolate more stimulating than champagne and called it the “elixir of love”.Montezuma supposedly drank a cup of chocolate before entering his harem.

Chocolate contains phenylethylamine, a naturally occurring amino-acid which some consider to have aphrodisiacal effects and is even said to be able to “cure” hangovers. Phenylethylamine is a substance which is released naturally in the human body when you’re in love. Other stimulants present in chocolate are dopamine and serotonin,which alleviate pain and encourage a good mood.  Serotonin produces feelings of pleasure in a similar way to sunlight. Chocolate also contains theobromine, a chemical stimulant frequently confused with caffeine, but has very different effects on the human body. It is a mild, lasting stimulant with a mood improving effect. Its presence is one of the causes for chocolate’s mood-elevating effects.

Cocoa also has the two metabolites of anandamide, both of which help maintain the effect longer in the body. The cocoa bean also was one of the best natural sources of the amino acid arginine, a natural sexual stimulant.   Cocoa’s theobromine content mildly stimulates the central nervous systems and provides additional energy, as well as possibly boosting female libido.

The testosterone levels of ladies have been shown to increase after eating chocolate. Chocolate also contains Serotonin, a neurotransmitter that produces feelings of pleasure in a similar way to sunlight, and has been shown to be elevated for the first year of falling in love.

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Dark Chocolate Truffles

INGREDIENTS

8 oz of [raw] Cacao Powder (use more for rolling)

8 oz of coconut oil

4 oz of coco butter

4 oz of nut butter – almond, cashew, or macadamia nut are my favs

Agave for sweetener use as desired.  I prefer a dark bitter-sweet taste. You could also add your favorite liquor for a wow factor!  Just add more cacao power to make it the right consistency.

Optional: nuts, raisins, cacao nibs or crushed espresso coffee beans, chocolate slivers for rolling in… get creative and have fun!

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Use a double boiler pan to melt the coco butter and coconut oil on a very low heat, until melted.

Remove from heat and add nut butter of choice stirring in until well blended

Slowly add cocao powder until smooth and alternate adding Agave to taste.  Mixture should be thick and rich.

Stir in any optional fruits or nuts

Then chill a few hours in the refrigerator until it is thick enough to shape with your hands into bite size balls.  After shaping roll in cacao powder, nibs, cracked coffee beans as desired.  Store in a closed container in a cool place and enjoy often!

I awoke excited, knowing I was going to have dinner with a lovely local Daka a divinely yummy man who I met at Charles’s birthday party two years ago. I offered to cook for him but confessed that day I didn’t have a lot of food since I slept in and haven’t been shopping yet.  He said he would take care of it and surprised me when he arrived with heaps of fresh vegetables from local farmers.  He subscribes to the farmers who provide a weekly box of the freshest crops!  if such a great idea, I think more farmers should do it!

He brought red kale, bok choy, chanterelle mushrooms which we sautéed together with a “fractal-flower” type of cauliflower.  I forgot the name it’s called but that’s my name for it because it looks like a fractal design with multi-spirals.

He prepared the vegetables while I sautéed them — then he fluffed me and helped season the sauté with a peanut sauce and fresh chopped ginger and a special blend of our essence emanating through me and out the wooden spoon I stirred with.  Turning me on…. softly from behind stroking my hair and my back, I quiver…. feeling very hot.

We roasted a chicken with a little sweet white zin, fresh squeezed lemon and whole cloves of garlic roasted at the bottom along with sliced onions that were placed on oiled skin during the last 10 minutes — broiling it to brown the top. The garlic cloves popped out of the shell with a thick creamy consistency, while the onions remained crisp yet, somewhat carmalized in the juices.  It was divine.

I love preparing healthy food together with friends and/or lovers. It’s such a nurturing way to nourish and connect, body and soul.

After dinner we savored dark chocolate, organic grapes and ginger lemon tea.  I offered him my left palm filled with raw cacao nibs, and he dipped his tongue in. It was erotic and fun to share dessert, hand fed. With the other open palm I offered him grapes.  And he licked them up as well.  <<< See my Favorite Chocolate recipe above >>>

Sitting in the soft firelight facing one another with our legs outstretched…. The soul of his right foot and the soul of my right foot, cupped one anothers’ base and sex chakras. The other leg explored ways to ground and connect in support of the immediate energy that coursed through our bodies in this chakra contact position.  It was a subtle but powerful position where our legs felt like they were plugged into the polarity of one another, like a plug in an electrical socket his voltage tapped into my current and without much movement whatsoever full body orgasms were pulsing through our bodies!

It’s so satisfying to be with a skillful Tantrika who knows how to run energy at high voltages — even with our clothes on.  He removed his jeans to make room for his expansion.

At that point I wish we would have laid on the bed where we would have had room to spread out further… but I could run energy just about anywhere, and I was concerned that he wanted to be in bed by midnight and it was already past 11. I was also aware of a tinge of uncertainty about inviting him in and how much. We had been lovers energetically without consummating a few years ago. The first time we touched was dynamic and very palpable. Even our host teased us to “get a room”

Circumstances weren’t appropriate for us to explore much more back then; he was in a committed monogamous relationship. His clean, clear energy is good for me, I love when we get to play.

There’s a strong connection there  for sure! I’d like to explore it and learn with one another as our activation is very Independence Day and complementary.  Just being in his proximity and feeling him see me causes a rise of heat to flow like geysers bubbling through me, I can feel the heat of my inner light shine clear through my face and out my eyes. and then he said I see your beauty.   instantly were both  feeling a divine connection,  intercourse of the mind, communion of souls a moment of absolute  feeling my infinite beauty reflected in his eyes. I was acknowledged, naked and transparent my heart exposed and basking in his affection. I breathed in the adoration and let it melt down more of the wall that guards my treasures.

There’s nothing more empowering to me than being seen as love shining like a flower in full bloom, recognizing  ones own divinity, reflected in the other. The  meaning of namaste — the divine light in me sees the divine light in you!

I wanted to touch him and yet restrained as I met my edge of shield, guarding my heart. He then asked how is my heart? Feeling beauty, happy with my life and open wide open to love… I answered. And receive love he asked? Yes I feel I am, though stumbling a bit over those words. It’s been a few years since I’ve really felt the dance of my heart take a chance with another man.

My first commitment is to my projects, however if I find a partner who is in alignment with my vision and can help support and be perhaps even be a part of and teach with me — or at least to inspire one another to manifest such projects would be even better!  But for now, or until that happens, I feel it’s necessary for me to complete my book and this upcoming tour as a priority to partnership. Of course it would be best to work with a partner and have the team I announced.  I would like teaching partner[s] and wish to move more in that direction.  I wondered about teaching with him, we could be a dynamic team inspiring each other. He activates me so much without even touching that I yearn yet the part of me that’s protecting my heart hesitates inviting them in more deeply.

Lying face down then on the couch he asks me to lie on top of him front to back. Automatically my body began to massage him with my breasts, arms and elbows, belly, knees and thighs. Up and down his back. And stretching him into a cobra he seems to love all my massage strokes which strokes my ego and my desire to please him. He thanks me for the great warm-up and then requests that I just rely on him and be still.  While I said I thought that might be hard to lie in stillness upon his beautiful body, I can see the value in doing this to instill deep grounding and integration, so I gave it my best effort.

From within the stillness arose an impulse to move without thinking but rather spontaneously, from deep within. This wave pulsed back and forth between us through our breath the rhythm of pleasure coursed through our bodies. I breathed in his orgasmic energy then blended it with my love and sent it back to him supercharged.  As my body convulsed in waves, he breathed in my energy and mixed it with his own…. which charged him up to undulate uncontrollably, activating me all the more. From this position our chakras in contact encouraged feeling and following inner guidance..  Allowing ourselves to be led by the feelings from deep within.  The deeper we relaxed the more our body moved from joyful feelings that multiply energy, rather than movements that are seeking pleasure which often drain energy.  The depth of this energy connection left us feeling rather full!

It was very liberating for us both to feel how much empowering energy was there without effort!  My body convulses even now at the mere thought as I recapture these feeling in my memory, I feel sparks fly through me, uncontrollably, filling me with energy ecstasy. I love how we can activate one another just by plugging in, and then again in the efforts to express the feeling in words. It’s so profound and expansive when my mind and body come together!  We experienced a merging of our light hence inspiring brilliance in one another.

We toned, we played following inner guidance, led by  feelings, laughing and loving — my loins were longing yet my heart felt full when he left.  Full and hungry at the same time… I want more.  Can’t wait for the next dance…  glad I’m here for two more weeks.

I took a drive up to Santa Rosa to the 32nd annual Harmony Festival where thousands of  loving people of all ages converge for a weekend of music, merriment, wisdom sharing and an amazing marketplace of over 200 vendors. Sacred shopping was a must!  It’s a great place to play, get recharged and stock up on groovy gifts and things to wear. And from a business standpoint finding sensual products to display on my store!  I found a beautiful hand cut paper lantern five pointed star that looks much like leaded/stained glass.

San Francisco with bro Bob

Monday I visited with my brother Bob who was visiting an angel cabbie friend, named Billy.  Bro Bob greeted me with a hug that smelled like home cooked Lebanese cuisine.  He just prepared me one of his specialties with bulgar, cabbage, garlic, onions, pinenuts and exotic spaces sautéed to perfection and served with a dollop of plain yogurt on top.  We dined on the roof open to the windy San Francisco skyline.  We strolled the city visited bookstores and cafés and at the end of the day the conversation moved towards Tantra.  He’s a liberal Buddhist who introduced me to Zen, organic foods, herbs and spiritual pursuits. Our conversations always stimulate my mind… we can talk for hours… he read my palm. He taught me about palm reading and astrology and said he’d been looking at homes since he was 9.  I didn’t know he knew so much about it, but when he shared it with me it all seemed so logical and easy to understand. He downloaded a great transmission of information to me as he spoke of astrology and palmistry I suddenly became fascinated like never before , and now I want to learn. He transmitted seeds of knowledge within me,  as he told me I will have a long life with many loves and no children.  The world is my child is the message I got an early age.   Here to heal, nurture and awaken.

I call in partners to play, explore, evolve and teach together with.  I need a team, starting with a personal assistant and publicist who sees and aligns with my vision and would love to work for me. Who among you are this?

I fall in love with words — this blog becomes a love affair.  It’s captivated me all day, It’s very gratifying to work on the blog as it gives me perspective and depth.  I must keep a balance and work on both, so I’ll post it now and fill in photos and links later, or have my assistant fill in the photos, links etc.

As a parting gift to one another, we did some back to back chakra contact which loosened up loads of energy for both of us… it was activating, invigorating and left us both feeling charged up in our heads and in our hearts. Though not sexual per se, I felt as though our hearts had just made love, as the feeling of connection was so intimate and nurturing!  my heart opened to him more than ever and we connected more deeply, soul to soul.   As we parted I sang him this song… “all I ask of you is forever to remember me as loving you… Ishk Alla ma Boodlaila, Ishk Alla ma Boodlaila (spelled phonetically it loosely means, the universe is my lover, the lover is within me.)

It felt like an appropriate parting message, as neither of us have a beloved in our life at this time, other than God/Goddess within.  Tears filled my eyes as I rolled up the window and waved goodbye … until the next time we meet.

Our deep sharing charged me up with plenty of energy for the drive home… which should have been about 90 minutes, if I had followed my intuition rather than my [backup ] GPS. It took me me the scenic route at 25 miles an hour no I don’t want this so I try to reprogram it to avoid the road we were on hoping it would take me back the way I intuitively wanted to go but didn’t have certainty about this to rely on. This road might have been a beautiful drive in daylight, but not so at midnight.  With nothing to see except lots of winding turns and the continuous recalculation of my GPS trying to find a signal in the deep dark redwood forest. My newer GPS wouldn’t boot up and so without a backup my inner guidance system will want to turn around.

After about 20 minutes of this I felt anxious to see roads with yellow lines, I didn’t fancy trusting my night to this crazy machine with a worst-case scenario of getting stuck somewhere and sleeping in my car.

So I programmed it to take me back the way that I came and prayed to St. Christopher to help me find my way home. There Bro Bob had reminded me that St. Christopher was the one to call upon for safety in travels. And so I did repeatedly.

Out of the blackness while I was straining my eyes with a flashlight to look at a map, suddenly appeared 2 highway patrol cars. In the nick of time, my prayer manifested these men who knew this territory to point me in the right direction, tell me which way to turn and how far to go on 84 to take to get me back on to Highway 280, and back toward home at 60 miles an hour I flew.   At that point I turned my GPS off and used my intuition… my map, and kept my wits about me.

The teachings I got : trust to my intuition over GPS machines,  ask for guidance and above all else believe in miracles, it makes the journey go smoother a lot more magical!

Once I was on the home stretch, it was just a matter of staying on the road and avoiding the deer which were out at night… whew.  At 3:30 AM my head finally hit the pillow and I slipped into the cocoon of deep sleep.