Why is it important to take integration time in between your psychedelic experiences? An integration period is important because it gives you time to understand & integrate the experiences that you've had. When you are microdosing, it is recommended to microdose for several months at a time to get the full benefit but it's also recommended that after that several month period that you also take a several month period away from the medicine to understand how it has changed your brain & to really implement those changes into your daily life without the medicine. It's very important to understand that the medicine is an ally that teaches you a new way of existing. It is not meant to be a crutch that you lean on every single day, month or year. When it comes to ceremonial use, I only recommend people to do about 1-3 ceremonies maximum per year & to spend the rest of the year integrating it because during those deeper experiences, you are put in contact with a lot of different energy & information & it takes months & sometimes even years to really fully integrate it. Microdosing can also be used as a tool to help integrate your deeper experiences in between them. It's really important to pay attention to your intuition & pay attention to when the medicine is calling you & also when it's telling you to take a step back. The medicine will communicate that to you through sensations in your body. A lot of people will feel the call to work with a medicine for a period of time & then when it's time, they will feel the urge to take space away & integrate. As you work more with the medicine, you will become very in tune with what you need in each given moment. Everyone's path is completely different & we require different levels of support from the medicine. Working with this medicine is a calling & each calling is different. If you're feeling the call to work with it then you should definitely answer that call. If you're feeling the urge to step away from it then step away from it. Your body knows what you need & the medicine will guide you even when you aren’t under its influence. It is a live & conscious spirit that communicates if you can learn it’s language.

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Yes they can! They can open up your mind & help you heal from the past trauma that you thought that you would never get over when used respectfully, safely & intentionally. The healing potential of psychedelics is truly so spectacular. When many of us started to go to therapy for our problems we were told that this is the way that we will always be & that we needed to be on medication to function. But the reality is this is not the truth, this is a lie that is told to us to keep us disempowered so we subscribe to modern mental health. In my personal experience, the modern mental health system can only bring you so far, but after that it keep you in purgatory, spinning around in circles of your suffering. The medications that they prescribed often create very negative side effects & being on them long-term does damage to your body mind & spirit. They disconnect you from who you are & they keep you from understanding your full potential. I spun around in circles never getting better for years & after my first psychedelic experience, I started to see things differently & I started to understand what I was capable of. I started to understand that I create my own reality & I got to make the choice of who I wanted to be. I realize that I didn't need to be on those medications that just made me feel numb & disconnected. I realize that there were medicines in this world that had been worked with for centuries, long before modern psychiatry and pharmaceuticals were created, that were actually conducive to real healing. These medicines help you get to the true root of the problem & they help you purge these energies out of your system so they no longer controlled you. Trauma is not a permanent chemical imbalance, it is energy that stores in the body. Trauma is memories that we hold onto & refuse to let go of. Psychedelics offer you the opportunity to let go of it all & become a new person. They allow you a true opportunities to grow, heal & change yourself but only if that's what you truly desire.

Yes, microdosing is super beneficial when recovering from addiction. The thing is though, is that if you are currently still taking alcohol or hard drugs, taking a microdose is going to have no effect because your brain is already being affected by something else that is much stronger than a microdose. Even if you're taking something like a pharmaceutical medication, this will also dull down your ability to experience the medicine fully. If you're taking alcohol or hard drugs, or even on something like a pharmaceutical, all of these substances make it very hard for us to receive the full benefit of psychedelics. SSRI's attach to the same receptors as the psychedelic does. Mixing these substances long-term can be very detrimental to your brain. A lot of people who are taking other substances will often take microdoses & they'll say that nothing happens & that they needed a much higher dosage & it's not because the psychedelic is not working. It's because their brain is not clear enough. You really need to be as sober as possible when consuming these medicines. You are going to get the effect that you need from the medicine at the lowest possible dosage when you are clear of mind. Now, this isn't to say that you can't partake in cannabis if you find this is something that is useful for you. This medicine is not going to affect your microdosing at all. You may even find that microdosing actually helps you cut back on how much cannabis you consume. Although cannabis is not as damaging as alcohol & other types of hard drugs, you can still form a dependency on it & the overconsumption of it can be damaging for your brain. Microdosing gives your brain something else to attach to besides cannabis. Cannabis can often make you feel very foggy whereas microdosing does not. It makes you very clearheaded making it much easier to focus & stay productive. I have personally struggled with addiction & I understand how incredibly hard it can be to just cut it out cold turkey & the best & most effective thing that we can do is replace it with something that is healthier. Replacing a detrimental pattern in your life with a microdosing regimen isn't an instant fix but overtime you are gonna find that it is going to really benefit your life. It can help you to stop craving those substances altogether & finally move away from those patterns.