Becoming Your True Self – The Real Alchemical Process

By Gita Saraydarian

(See the YouTube link at the end of this essay)

A challenging part of life is to find out who we truly are and how to be that true person. This takes many years of living, suffering, searching, and mostly feeling like we are living a lie or at best, not really being true to ourselves. We think we know who we are and what we want out of life. After all, we have likes and dislikes and we certainly have convincing opinions on everything and everybody! But, whenever we have a quiet moment, when we look at ourselves in the mirror, or reflect on life, we have that nagging feeling that something is not real.

These questionings may last a fleeting moment and then the daily life comes once again and washes them away. They re-surface now and again to nag us just long enough to ask the Big Question once again. Over and over, we ask, and finally, at some lifetime, at some magical moment in time, we start to see and hear the answers.

The path of finding our True Self is the real alchemical process. Legend has it that in ancient times, wise teachers secretly taught the process of turning metal into gold. This is a veiled way to explain the process of changing our base selves into the True Self. It is an indication that we can indeed change our base selves, the outer crusty and habitually shallow part of our life, and become a deep and highly conscious and evolved individual. There is no higher sense of exhilaration than when we feel connected to the essence in life. This is the result of the real process of transformation. When we read that ancient Sages had bodies of light, their life and teachings describe exactly that process of transformation that changes the solid particles of the physical/emotional/mental bodies into the finer, higher equivalents of light, energy, and power. As difficult as it is to imagine how one can change base metals into gold, it is the same degree of difficulty to change our whirlpool of emotions, hang-ups, and obsessions into the real and pure energy of benevolence, love, and dedication to the truth.

How do I become more of my True Self? The answer is, take it step by step, work hard, face yourself, and don’t think it can be done overnight!

To find the best proven process, I started re-reading a magnificent book titled The Science of Becoming Oneself. I wanted to reach deeper and experience the process and, at the meantime, provide for others a series of doable exercises to change base chemistry into the chemistry of “gold”.

To the degree that we are our True Self is the degree of freedom that we have. So, the process involves taking steps that increase our real freedom and clear our base selves so that higher energies can flow and circulate within us. The journey begins by decoupling ourselves from our outer, personality life and all its dramas by doing something very simple: doing good.

This is STEP ONE of the process. Find out in how many ways you can do good and do them. You are going to be surprised!

In doing good for ourselves and for others, we start the flow of a higher level of energy. Instead of our energies whirling within us with the same-old-same-old stories and narratives of how hard life is and how unfair and so on and on, we stop and we re-focus on an energy that is outside of us and link that to the highest counterpart in our heart. In so doing, we open ourselves for an energy that is different from the stagnated pool of emotions and self blame that we are mired in. We reverse our usual mode of living, and we start to see, feel, and think of life differently; as we step out of ourselves, we begin the true alchemical process.

Our inner life and our outer life do not always reflect each other. Eventually, this realization will be the single most important factor that will catapult us in a new direction.

What compels us to change from a meaningless, outer directed life to a life of meaning and inner direction? Crises such as death of loved ones, illness; depression; troubled marriage and relations; un-manifested talents and ideals; an awareness of the deceptions we have lived in; suffering physically, emotionally, mentally; losing everything we have will certainly get us moving. The process of aging and our own mortality is also compelling reason to do something worthwhile. It is surprising how much we put up with, day after day, doing the familiar and the expected.

If you want to start on this process for the coming 12 months, consider the first step and consider working on each of the steps that I will outline in the coming months. You have to really do the work in order to make chemical changes within you. It is the chemistry inside of you that affects your life. Chemistry changes by doing, feeling, and thinking differently. This is seemingly a simple and inconsequential process, but you will be surprised how it helps break down the dam that blocks the flow of higher life energies.

What we will eventually see is that our outer life reflects who we are on the inside, and the inner life is constantly fed and adjusted by the life that we live on a daily basis. There is always a sense of reality, a balance, and truthfulness. The path to a genuine relationship with ourselves, in our marriage and with our children, with our friends and co-workers, and even with the world of the spirit and spiritual is to find out who we are in essence and to bring that into expression in everything that we do. This is the system of “checks and balances” of the true spiritual life.

I am certainly looking forward to these next 12 months and I hope you come along with me on this journey of discovery!

Thank you,

Gita

A brief YouTube sample of the first step is below to introduce you to this subject, or link directly to YouTube.

The complete lecture is available. Please go to our website for details for either the audio on CD or downloadable versions, or the DVD.

-Gita Saraydarian is the Founder and President of TSG Foundation, an organization dedicated to the Ageless Wisdom Teachings. See the complete list of past blogs and other writings on this link.
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-The information in this Essay is for spiritual upliftment and does not claim to give medical advice nor psychological advice.