This is a major lesson we can learn from Taylor Swift’s relationships and lyrics.

Taylor’s love life has been on full display since 2006, which means we have about two decades worth of lessons to consider.

Channel both heartbreak and bliss into creativity through transmutation and alchemy.

Taylor Swift is the queen of transmutation and alchemy because she can turn her emotions into a work of art through her lyricism. Whether she’s heartbroken or blissfully in love, she can channel that energy into pure potential that results in some of the most beautifully and creatively written lyrics. There’s a reason she has millions of fans, also known as the Swifties, who support her craft. One major thing we can learn from Taylor when it comes to her relationship history is how crucial it is to start channeling our heartbreak and bliss into creativity. This does not mean you have to start writing song lyrics or become a musician tomorrow. There are different ways you can channel heartbreak and bliss into creativity. But let’s start with the way Taylor does it.

She transmuted heartbreak into creativity in songs like “White Horse,” “Back to December,” “I Can Do it With a Broken Heart,” My Tears Ricochet,” and as previously mentioned, “Dear John,” and “All Too Well.” Obviously, there are so many more heartbreak anthems Taylor has written, but for the sake of time, I’m not going to list every single one. Taylor was in some of the deepest pits of despair and heartbreak when she penned these lyrics. She got everything off her chest and relieved herself of that pain through the catharsis of writing it down into song lyrics. She called people out for breaking her heart, even if she didn’t explicitly mention their names. And in doing that, she experienced a sense of peace and justice for everything she went through.

Taylor transmuted bliss into creativity when she wrote songs like “Sparks Fly,” “Enchanted,” “Lover,” “Love Story,” “Mine,” and “Our Song.” The lyrics are a stark reminder that true love exists, even if it comes a different phases of your life that don’t always last forever. Some of her newer songs on her album The Life of a Showgirl are intended to highlight the feeling of true love lasting forever now that she’s planning to marry Travis Kelce as well. So, how can us normal people channel heartbreak and bliss into creativity similar to the way Taylor has done? It’s all about the art of alchemy and transmutation. How do you individually express yourself artistically? That’s the first question you have to answer because that’s exactly how you’ll be able to manage this step. Some people turn to dancing, others turn to crocheting, others turn to baking, others turn to content creation on social media, others turn to writing romance novels, and self-publishing them on Wattpad, others turned to fashion design, others turned to interior design, others turned to gardening, others turn to poetry, others turn to launching personal blogs, others turn to yoga and meditation. There are so many directions to take it. For me personally, I’m a writer but I’m not a lyricist like Taylor. I write novels and articles, so therefore, whenever I feel like I’m pent up with emotions, I express myself as eloquently as I need to on the page until I’ve gotten all of my thoughts out so that they’re not so jumbled up in my head anymore.

But again, this looks different for everyone and there are so many different creative outlets you can consider without feeling like your pigeon-holed into one over another. The best thing about expressing yourself artistically as a normal non-famous person is that you can create art no one else in the world will ever judge, yet you also have the freedom to share whatever you’ve created with the world if you decide to post on social media. You have full reign over what you want to do, how much you want to share, and the way you move forward in alchemizing your emotions. Part of the human condition is that we are all going to experience moments of heartbreak and moments of bliss. It’s a matter of how we choose to transmute that energy instead of letting heartbreak destroy us or letting bliss go to waste.

If heartbreak is left unchecked, it can cause a person to deteriorate from their mental health to their physical health. If bliss goes unchecked, that’s not necessarily a bad thing, but the concept of transmuting that blissful and positive energy into something beautiful and wonderful should be considered since the pendulum of life will constantly swing in both directions. When it’s swinging in a direction of happiness, love, positivity, and bliss, that’s the best possible time to use those high vibrations to your benefit and get into the transmutation of turning your bliss into something creative.