ALCHEMIA

Every experience in our lives holds a gift that offers us a quality that ultimately enables us to live in the present with more joy, more love, more presence and more connectedness.

Some of these gifts are direct - when we perceive qualities in others that we admire, respect and wish to emulate in our own lives. These gifts we embrace easily.

There are other qualities that we also take on.  Qualities that we have absorbed unconsciously and sometimes even unwillingly from people with strong influence over us, like parents, siblings, grandparents, teachers etc.  These weave together in a variety of patterns to form a tapestry that becomes the foundation upon which we sculpt our life. 

Some gifts are indirect – when we are challenged by abuse or rejection and we develop the qualities of respect or acceptance.  The opposite of that which we have endured in pain is the gift waiting to be discovered and embraced.

We live our lives in varying degrees of unconsciousness.  As we become more conscious, we begin to see clearly where our lives are not flowing.  We recognize repetitive patterns governing our choices and perhaps we even begin to perceive these patterns running through the ancestral lineage and familial relationships. 
The power still held by the wounds of the past continues to inform and affect us in all aspects of our lives, literally running our lives.  The power of the past leaves us crippled in the present and we must journey into that power, recognizing that even as it has created the block in our lives, it is the same energy that also holds the gift of flow.  
As we wake up to this, we begin the process of change.  No longer able to live with these constricting and limiting influences, we embark on the journey of unravelling the threads that keep us bound.  Seeking our liberation, we long for the freedom to explore ourselves and to open up to fulfil our potential.  Our heart knows our souls longing and as we answer that call, we set ourselves upon the path of healing.

We see now that we do have a choice.  We can continue as before in pain and bondage or we can use that power of choice to explore and liberate ourselves. 

It is time to put ourselves in the driver’s seat of our lives.  No longer being driven by the conditions and controls placed upon us by others. 

Questions arise. “How do we go about this?  How do we release the past? How do we set ourselves free to embrace our future potential in the present moment?

If every experience holds the gift of our self-realization, then how do we claim each gift?

Alchemia is a healing process that takes us on a journey into, through and out of our wounded past. 

We cannot release the past until we have fully claimed the gift held within that past. 

Claiming the gift is a moment of pure magic.  For even as the gift is claimed, the past is simultaneously released, for it no longer has a reason to be. 

The liberation of the gift held within the wound is Alchemia.