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🍄 The key to building new pathways for change
Published about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader,
Welcome to the psychonaut's newsletter with musings, ideas, and resources to keep you exploring and growing deeper on the psychedelic path.
🍄 Support your rewiring
Psychedelics are non toxic. They are physically safe for the brain and body at any dose that isn’t absolutely preposterous.
Psychedelics are non-addictive. They don't cause addiction, and there's no withdrawal symptoms if you stop.
Psychedelics are anti-inflammatory. This is one I didn't know about until recently. Quite amazing when we consider the inflammatory effect of the modern diet and the implications for brain health and diseases like dementia.
So, psychedelics, by and large, are very very safe. Some of the safest substances on the planet.
Not only that but psychedelics promote neuroplasticity. This is the brain's ability to form new connections and rewire itself. This has all kinds of exciting therapeutic and transformative possibilities.
However, the safety profile and increased brain flexibility don’t mean change happens automatically, or that psychedelics will automatically bring us healing, health, or positive change.
What they do offer is great potential.
So we want to realise that potential and support the creation of new connections and the reforming of the brain in a positive way for us.
And to do that, we want to be intentional. And we want to choose thoughts and actions that support our intention.
That way we can support those new neural pathways and the reorganising of our brain.
So questions for you today…
What is your intention? What thought patterns, beliefs or behaviours would you like to change?
Try simplifying this and making it into an affirmation, intention or aspirational statement.
For example:
'I can heal' 'I can focus' 'I have a healthy mind' 'My beliefs support the behaviours I want to adopt'
Carry this around with you and let it seep into your mind. Repeat it to yourself often. You can even post it up on your bathroom mirror if you want a daily reminder.
It will support the creation of those new pathways.
🎵Psychedelic Supplements
Maybe the most notable musical artist in the psychedelic medicine world has just released a new album.
(OK, East Forest, Porangui, and Liquid Bloom are probably up there with him. Who did I miss?)
I listened to it this morning whilst journaling my morning pages and it set a wonderful introspective and slightly magical tone to the start of my day. I'll have to give it the proper medicine session treatment sometime.
In contrast to his ethereal album Music For Psychedelic Therapy, it has beats, but it still has that sacred vibe to it and definitely in the ambient vein of Eno. Here's a music video from it
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