Well put @Cam McGrew !! Video really strikes home the point

On the topic of gratitude my wife shared a 'life hack ' a couple of years ago to practice daily gratitude. Start first thing when you wake and thank God for another day in this existence. Then take that throughout the day starting in the shower. Thank you for a home with hot and cold running water. Thank you for the soap, shampoo, towel, toothpaste etc. You get the picture. Most of us live a very good life and it's easy to forget all the small things we take for granted. This practice really helps me ground when life upsets me. 😁

@Josh Hollingsworth I relate to so much of what you are saying and I've noticed a common theme in other responses you have posted. Integration is absolutely the key to success. These medicines, specifically ibogaine for me, offer a pause in the never ending 'monkey mind' chatter. You are now gifted with the ability to think and choose differently but it is soooo easy to fall bank into old habits. I can look back on my life and see that I was in a sympathetic (fight or flight) state of being my whole life. 20 years in the fire service just took all my previous life's trauma and turned it to to 11!! 🤣 It takes discipline and daily practice to reinforce the new pathways that plant medicines give to us. It's refreshing to hear someone else highlight this importance. I think that too often these medicines are viewed as a quick fix. I personally fell into that mindset with Bufo and had to step back a little to reset my focus on internal over external work. 🥰

so true 😂

Ibogaine made me painfully aware that I have control over only 2 things in life: How I treat people and how I respond to how people treat me. Within a week of being home from my first Ibogaine treatment God gave me a test, in the parking lot of the grocery store. A man screamed and yelled at me over an infraction he perceived to be my fault. I just smiled, waved to him then told my wife "he must be in allot of pain to react that way". God was showing me I now had space to stop and choose my response instead of reacting on emotion. Since that day 3 years ago I've worked to incorporate the philosophy of life is a mirror that reflects lessons back to us for our benefit.