Mind-body healing connection use the conscious mind to directly affect the workings of the brain and the rest of the body. The techniques exert their effect on the hypothalamus, the switching station in the brain, which exercises control over the autonomic nervous...
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What is Trauma?
Trauma can be defined as any unresolved autonomic nervous system response. It's about the nervous system's response to an event, not necessarily the event itself. Trauma has many different aspects, but essentially it boils down to emotion that is too much to be dealt...
Psychedelic Guides & Sitters 101
For the past few years, it’s been my tradition to journey into the new year, usually with mushrooms, but this year we enjoyed a low-key dinner with friends, I didn’t feel called to a journey. If you’ve been looking to have a journey yourself but don’t feel called to a...
Trip Sitter vs. Guide
There’s a key difference between the two. Guides are trained practitioners who facilitate the journey, holding space drawing on their extensive experience of working with medicines (and people). The extent to which they actively guide depends on the medicine. Some...
Essential Qualities of a Good Trip Sitter
Below are some general guidelines, drawn on many years of participating, guiding, and trip sitting journeys. If you have someone you’re considering as a trip sitter, you could assess their capacity to cultivate each of these qualities. If you decide they are suitable,...
Do we need a mystical experience to have the healing effect?
The sense of oneness with the universe around you, ego transcendence, feeling that this other reality is more real than your waking reality. It’s certainly the best, most replicated thing in science that if you have the mystical experience during the psychedelic...
Psychedelic versus SSRI
The standard antidepressants, we know what they do. Brain imaging studies show they very rapidly turn down the danger center in the brain. So you wander around for a few weeks, feel better about things, you smile a little bit more, and then people smile back at you....
What It’s Like to Take a Psychedelic Trip
It doesn’t take a third eye to see that, at long last, Americans seem primed to turn on. If you’ve heard yourself utter the phrase “plant medicine” when what you mean is “shrooms,” if you’ve found yourself absently Googling “ayahuasca retreats” the way you used to...
A Dance Experience For Healing
Sensory Based LearningRecent studies at the intersection of neuroscience and cognition have shown strong correlations between bodily movement, or dance, and brain development (Borhan et al. 2018). In a 2015 Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Institute article...
Why Psychedelics Are Popular Now
Has anyone else noticed that health and wellness has become hip? Instead of the old tropes such as football players not trying in school and partying until you are sick made someone popular, now environmental awareness, treating your body as a temple and expanding...
Entheogen-assisted Healing
Taking entheogens can be like air travel: people do it all the time, it’s usually fine, but when it’s not fine, it’s sometimes very bad. We’ve been there. And that’s where an experienced GUIDE can make the difference in the outcome.
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