A Note on Emotional Alchemy

What are we purifying during the emotional purge—known as the alchemical process? 

As humans we have the ability to bring awareness to our emotional processes and experiences, utilizing this process for our inner growth and spiritual evolution and development in this lifetime. As we process our situations and experiences, we have opportunities to use this information to better ourselves, and notice where we can make changes for the future based on the past. 

There are gifts in our emotional processes, gold that we can share with others. This dense and often heavy energy, these parts of our lower subconscious, shadowy parts of us that were developed throughout our life as defense mechanisms against the shadowy parts of the world we live in are often not who we are at our core. They are the voices of our family, friends and society; grief, resentment, anger, anxiety, depression, frustration, jealousy, envy, self doubt….

Alchemy is knowing these parts of ourselves and actively being with them, processing them, and unraveling them in order to find our truest center, our inner compass, this gold transformed from the denser materials present. 

“It becomes less of a self improvement practice and more of self exalting practice.”

Here we are able to connect deeply with life, having visceral experiences that fulfill us in ways we haven’t experienced before. Alchemy removes the blocks interfering with our unity with all things. 

This is where true healing occurs, not just for us as individuals but for the collective. The process of the blossoming of the heart.