Thank you cannabis for teaching me alchemy. 

Teaching me to understand that it's not about preventing emotional pain, and viewing it through a lens of fear and weakness, but the opposite - teaching me that the power is found in transmuting it via an artistic expression in any form whatsoever. Because it's in the alchemy where the liberation and freedom is found.

Liberation from the suffocation of perfection. 

Paying attention to the parts of the body that are tense, painful, inflexible, or numb are the same areas where the nerves transmitting the messages of bliss, joy, and freedom can be switched on. And once these nerves are switched on, the messages travel up to the mind through the imagination, and the pictures become less and less fear based and more and more joyful. 

Transmuting pain into art is freeing. 

I welcome my pain and I alchemise it through my body. 

Thank you cannabis.