Noun: alchemy
al·che·my /ˈalkəmē
Late Middle English: via Old French and medieval Latin from Arabic al-kīmiyā', from al ‘the’ + kīmiyā' (from Greek khēmia, khēmeia ‘art of transmuting metals’).
1. A medieval chemical science with the goals of changing less valuable metals into gold, discovering a single cure for all diseases, and discovering how to live forever
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2. While physical alchemy deals with altering and transforming the properties in the physical world, alchemy in a therapeutic sense is connected with freeing your spiritual or "inner" self from your fears, limiting beliefs systems, and reducing your lack of self-acceptance.
Alchemy is the art of transformation, inner liberation, and change.
Alchemy is far more than transforming metal into gold. It is the practice of inner transformation. We all have the potential to transform our lives, by aligning our thoughts, feelings, and actions with our highest and most authentic self.
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The ancient art of alchemy was the search for spirit in matter. In modern life, counseling is Alchemy’s greatest achievement by creating the path of relationship between our inner self and our outer world.
Existing in a state of enlightenment, or soulful awareness, is the ultimate state of transformation – the gold – of spiritual alchemy. Through introspection and self-meditation, one can free themselves from core wounds, limiting core beliefs, and other thought processes and behaviors that harm the soul.