ALUNA TEMPLE MAGAZINE EDITION No5 'ALCHEMY' | Page 58

Opening up to this level of surrender feels like annihilation because it is— it requires the fearful aspects of our humanity that impede the Flow of Love to Be swallowed Whole in this alchemical process of transmutation. Allowing this current of Life to flow freely through our body activates an irrepressible evolutionary impulse that encourages us to stretch open beyond that which we’ve known—asking us to forsake the hypnotic comforts of familiarity, safety, or assurance—and surrender into the free fall of the Beloved’s fathomless depths to know our infinitely stable core. When aligned, and not resistant, to Nature’s design, we enter into the dynamically creative Flow of Life that allows us to see and experience the Beloved alive within the heart of All. When operating wholly, we are nothing less than alchemy embodied in form; resting in the magnetism of our Being and merged with the Beloved, Life becomes an ever emergent relational dance of discovery and delight. The alchemy of two opening as One © Amber Hartnell for evoLover This perspective reveals the All-pervasive connection and unfathomable purpose underlying everything, All of it weaving in perfect orchestration, with the Field of pure potentiality unfolding itself through us as fractals of the Whole Taking our cues from Nature we remember to root into our naturalness, utilizing the available elements that surround us, and that are drawn into our experience. From this fundamental alignment with Life’s design, like a flower we bloom into the fullest expression of who we are here to Be in this alchemical dance of creation, contributing the Beauty of our Essence as a blessing to All of Life. ~ Amber Hartnell, Hawaii, 2014 58