The Alchemy of Conscious Creation

I had a miserable cold all week last week.  I sniffled and croaked my way through my client sessions and business calls and fell into bed exhausted every night.  By Friday, I was still feeling terrible and getting mighty resentful.  There was lots I wanted to do, I just didn’t have the energy to get anything accomplished.

The thought “I just don’t have the energy” made me stop dead in my mental tracks.  How could I not have energy?  After all, not only are we connected to Source, we ARE Source.  Therefore, each of us has access to infinite amounts of energy.  Why would the kind of depletion I was feeling ever need to be part of our experience?

The immediate answer that leapt into my head was, of course, separation.  Separation from Self and Source, which is really the same thing.  Which was probably why I’d been dragging myself around and gotten sick in the first place.

How had I gotten myself into a state of separation, to the point where my body was obviously suffering?  Well, I’ve been working hard on my businesses – overhauling one website, creating a new one, planning out new classes and projects … there’s been a lot “to do.”  Somewhere along the way, I feel into the error and illusion that “I” had to “do” and “create” all the stuff that was on my plate.  Silly me.  I was tapping into my own energetic resources to try and get it accomplished.  No wonder I was exhausted.

Here is the truth about being conscious creators.  We’re not really creators.  We don’t create anything from scratch.  We are alchemists.  We transmute.  We take what already exists, and turn it into something else.  Our energetic contribution is action and intent.  But our contribution is merely a catalyst, the magical ingredient that transforms energy or matter from one state to another.

At the physical level, our bodies transform breath and food and liquid into the energy that moves us through life.  That transformation – the actions of breathing and digestion – take a good portion of the energy that they themselves provide.  Overall, however, there is a surplus of energy that we use to move, to exercise, and enjoy life.

We’ve heard the expression “There’s nothing new under the sun.”  The energy or vibrational frequency of every idea, thought, concept, emotion, belief and action already exists.  We don’t create anything out of nothing.  Our intent and actions bind the infinite raw materials that are at our disposal into something else.  Intent and action take a certain amount of energy, certainly.  But what we create as a result of our transmutations gives us back far more than the process of alchemy takes.

When we’re reaching for new ideas, solutions, or results, let’s remember that they already exist.  We merely tune into their vibrational frequency and, through intent, transmute them into third-dimensional form.  We are like the chef of a gourmet kitchen, endlessly taking mother nature’s raw materials and transforming them, through heat and ingenuity, into something delicious – or at least, hopefully, edible.  We don’t have to reinvent the carrot, or figure out how to create an onion.  We just cook with what already exists.

The next time we find ourselves tired or depleted, let’s remember that we don’t have to do so much.  We are alchemists, merely providing the catalysts of intent and action so that transmutation can take place.  Everything we need or want already exists, infinitely available to us as long as we are willing to practice Oneness, instead of separation.

Blessings,
Andrea Hess