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Grandma has a scrumptious, old-family recipe for chocolate pecan
pie that melts in your mouth. Uncle Bert whips up a killer BBQ
sauce for ribs (or grilled tofu). I’ve discovered a more direct
route to happiness—a tantalizing recipe for alchemy!
According to Webster’s dictionary, alchemy is not simply change,
but rather “permanent transformation.” Alchemy is a
metamorphosis—a lasting, complete change in form. Transmutation.
Alchemy is like the caterpillar after it comes out of the
cocoon, having morphed into a butterfly. If that butterfly
doesn’t eat the “right” foods, or meditate every morning, it
doesn’t boomerang back into a caterpillar! It’s a butterfly for
good. Thank God!
So, when we manage to open to true alchemy in our lives, we are
forever transformed. We’ve broken through to the other side via
a one-way portal. The gains we make will last. The progress
we’ve achieved will not reverse itself.
What’s Going on Here?
For thirty years with my friends, clients and myself, I’ve
witnessed permanent alchemical transformation. Dramatic healings
of long-standing physical ailments. Deep emotional and karmic
releases. Breakthroughs with money and love. Spiritual
awakenings. I always ask myself, "Why do some people heal, open
or wake up after only one special experience—and for others it
takes 20 to 30 such experiences? And for some people "it" never
"takes" at all!
The Secret Ingredients
My recipe for alchemy is simple. Mix in equal proportions the
following qualities:
1. Safety 2. Eternity 3. Reality 4. Honesty 5. Ecstasy
You can add these ingredients to your life in any order because
they all spawn, feed and reinforce each other.
A Cup of Safety
What I’ve observed is that people shift toward health, harmony
and wholeness when they know that they are safe. When people
feel secure, they relax in mind and body. They release their
minds’ “death grip” on having to monitor and control each and
every aspect of their lives in order to survive.
They no longer have to be right about everything and have all
the answers. They feel secure enough to allow some fresh
solutions or options to enter the picture. Thus, they can let in
a fresh approach or angle that can shift them into a new and
better place.
When a person feels safe and relaxes the grip on the body, the
body is free to shift, rearrange and adjust—and thus, it
balances, harmonizes and heals itself. Even traditional medical
doctors admit that the body knows how to heal itself—if we allow
it to!
Get to know yourself psychologically. Pay attention to how you
respond to different elements in life. In what environments,
situations and relationships is it safe for you to relax, let go
and open up? Seek and cultivate those spaces and people.
A Dash of Eternity
People feel secure when they experience themselves as being
connected—part of—something eternal. When people allow
themselves to love, or be loved, they open to the experience of
someone, or something, outside themselves, larger than
themselves. They feel timeless, serene, at one with all life.
The aborigines of Australia greet each other daily with the
salutation, “The forever part of me greets the forever part of
you.”
Walk on a beach at sunset, sit on a mountaintop, or let yourself
fall in love with someone or something. If you allow yourself to
be deeply touched by any aspect of life, that life will bestow
upon you a glimpse of eternity.
A Good Dose of Reality
When people feel they are in touch with something authentic and
genuine, their world feels solid and real. When people feel
grounded, anchored and centered within their body and world,
they feel safe and loved. When life feels safe enough to relax
into, people feel connected to the Oneness and have a sense of
being eternally taken care of.
Seek friends with whom you feel safe enough to be real. Find
physical activities through which you can get grounded and
anchored in a solid, tangible ways to the Earth, to your body
and to life. Garden. Hike. Dance. Paint. Sculpt. Massage
somebody. Pet a dog or plant. Hug a rock or tree. Do tai chi or
yoga. Play a sport. Construct something with wood.
An Ounce of Honesty
People are in touch with what accurately and authentically
exists in their world when they are honest about how they feel
emotionally. This is a major reason why people like the reality
shows that are so popular on TV right now. The show participants
are entangled in real life situations, presented in fairly
authentic ways, within familiar, relatable everyday situations.
Place yourself in situations and with people where it’s easy and
possible for you to feel deeply and honestly. Find at least one
person with whom you can be genuine and spontaneous—and from
whom you feel safe to hear frank feedback.
Also, seeing the practical value of honesty makes the “truth”
more attractive and exciting. When you’re honest with yourself
about what truly is, and isn’t, working in your life, then
you’re dealing with what is really so in your life—instead of
what you hope, wish, think or believe is so. When you’re working
with the truth, the changes you make are beneficial and lasting.
You master practical alchemy.
The more you realize that you can manifest solid, permanent,
desirable results in your world, the more secure you feel. And
when you successfully use your innate power to manifest your
soul’s desires, you get in touch with your true nature, which is
eternal. To the same end, when you explore your world
truthfully, you discover that you are, in reality, eternally
safe and loved.
And breaking through into honest enjoyment of your true Eternal
Self is an ecstatic experience. You feel real joy, bliss,
orgasmic exhilaration. You’re “in heaven.”
Ecstasy Pie
The word "ecstasy" comes from the Greek meaning of "ec" (moving
out of) and "stasis" (status quo, static, fixed, stagnant).
Alchemy is moving out of an old, fixed, stuck place into a new,
flowing world. As the Doors’ Jim Morrison reminds us, when you
"break on through to the other side" of any stuck condition or
limitation, you enjoy the freedom to experience life in fresh,
different and exciting ways.
Break on through to Alchemy
Ecstasy is a fun and easily attainable state—since it is, after
all, our natural state of being. Give it a chance. Relax that
grip on your old picture of yourself and what you think is
possible. That’s all it takes to activate alchemical magic in
your life!
About the author:
Drawing from the wisdom of native and ancient spiritual
traditions, Keith Varnum shares his 30 years of practical
success as an author, personal coach, acupuncturist, filmmaker,
radio host, restaurateur, vision quest guide and international
seminar leader with “The Dream Workshops”. Keith helps people
get the love, money, and health they want with his F-r-e-e
Prosperity Ezine, F-r-e-e Abundance Tape and F-r-e-e Coaching at
http://www.TheDream.com
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