Direct focus to happiness. Thinking directly from the heart. Dropping ego barriers and seeing things for exactly how they are. Reverse engineering your life from the childhood up until where you are now. Unleashing the darkest demons that hid themselves within you and letting them go. Honesty with yourself. Internal messages of what you need to do to achieve your next best career, self, and interpersonal goals. Access to more of parts of your brain that you normally don’t’ have access to. Creativity opened up. Smiling and giggling like a kid. Childlike heart open and speaking freely. These are just some of the things I experienced when experimenting.
There is a difference between a drug abuser, and someone who wants to experiment to gain perspective that he can apply to his life.
Just like anything: you can abuse something or you can use it with intention. My goal over the years was to dabble once in a great while with a controlled dose that allowed me to experience some of the psychological and visual effects and to take something positive from the experience.
I initially did my research and read the criticism, the science, asked humans questions about it, learned more about what to expect, and really just remained curious up until the point of trying them.
I also learned that they’re prescribing small doses out west as a form of clinical medicine. This really opened my eyes to being even more curious. If this could be justified to be legal for a healing purpose, what is it that theses could accomplish if I gave them a try?
You hear things like:
“make sure you do them around trusted people.”
“be in a good mental place before doing a trip.”
It really does make sense after experiencing them. During the experience, there is a feeling of vulnerability. Like a bird that is being held in someone’s hands gently. the gentle part of you starts to arise. The child like part of you. Which could be very eye opening to some people who may or may not have healed from trauma that has been experienced over the years. Some people have reported to cry on their trip. To let go and accept some feelings that arise in a more powerful way, which is influenced by the mushrooms.
For me: I felt this peaceful, floating like feeling, with a warmness to my heart that allowed me to creatively come to all of these enlightening thoughts on love, happiness, and a direct focus toward what serves me and what does not serve me.
Some people experiencing trips have said to found life changing confidence to switch careers, be honest with their closer relationships, or try a new hobby that they feel they wanted to do their entire lives, but never seemed to pull the trigger on.
In this society, many have been focused to “grow up far too quickly.” what i mean is, we’re hardened by the world as a kid from the trauma, or thinking we can’t express ourselves, or being told that we need to finish school and make money. A focus on things that are physical and will burn us out and not sustain a long term happiness path.
The mushroom trip brings lots of this to clarity in my opinion. Maybe there was some things you missed out on as a kid. dreams of trying things that you never chassed or got to dig into a bit more.
Either way, its important to listen to these day dreams, dreams, and things that circulate through our minds. It can be very beneficial to embrace them to some extent.
The mushroom trip highlights and brings this powerful internal reflection toward what in your life is filling you with energy, and what in your life is draining you of energy.
A very valuable part of the trip in my opinion. Sometimes in life, we handle things and deal with people or responsibilities that are not meant for our path. There is lots of resistance. conflict. This can be eye opening on a trip to have a powerful reflection to let go of some things in your life. to find more peace with your life by not putting yourself in certain places or being around certain people.
This can also be used in a social environment. To enhance the visuals or connection with people around you. To lighten things up a bit with a small dose. Enough to break some of those social anxiety barriers. A little bit that opens up that lens of confidence and easy going action. To laugh a little bit more. Let go and experience a little bit more of the brighter side to things. Bringing out that part of your that wants to smile, to have glistening joyful eyes, and a positive attitude. it brings out lots of these things and shows us how possible it is to access this part of us.
I also remember on the experiences that I was able to put some things into words that i feel i haven’t previously found words for. Related to outlook and mentality on motivation, approaching life, health, and other categories that i seem to spend time in. There is a great creative aspect to the experience that flows all of these interesting concepts though your mind.
The visual aspect. Things are very vibrant. There is even a little bit of a pulsing, wavy movement to stuff depending on how much you are taking. You can sit there in nature and stare at things, and they seem to have a very lively vibrant look to them. I feel this is powerful in the way that, you feel more connected to the world and to nature. Some say, “its helped me find my place and feel like I belong.” There is this loving connection to the world that is experienced. it brings out the beauty and appreciation for what is around you. the simplicity and love for the small moments.
The experience starts to set in closer to 1 hour after consuming. There are effects for up to 5 hours, id day. After 1 hour, there is a solid 2 hours that are heightened visuals and creative thought processes. it starts to subside after that. But the rest of the day has a very light feeling to it.
And when you wake up the next day, you feel totally at peace. I think there is lots of stored stuff in our brain that we don’t know how to deal with sometimes. the trip brings light to all these different channels of our brains. allows them to speak. allows them to become free and accepted.
This might be the reason for waking up the next day, and feeling “lighter.” The fact that you not only processed lots of thoughts going through the mind, but you were also seeing through the lens of a lighter, more loving outlook for a period of a few hours. Might have even lightened up the heart a bit. Made you a bit more easy going. Simplified your life. Taken a little bit of stress off your plate.
The fear of the experience could come from the lack of control. The fear of the unknown. I could totally see that. This is why i waited until a stage of life where i feel i have let go of what in can’t control. Practicing actively to not defend myself or change people around me. to dig into my tougher stuff of life and allowing it to be. Finding peace with lots of things that took years to find peace with. The experience itself goes in line with the mentality of being able to have that outlook. The experience is about letting go. About letting things naturally go where they want to. being able to accept the tougher thoughts as well as the easier lighter thoughts. Processing them and just remembering, “i will be okay. this is something my mind needs to think on and process. it may feel uncomfortable, but they’re just thoughts.” In turn, feeling more empowered after since you were able to think through uncomfortable things and be okay afterward, and not reacting in an extreme way.
This article was not to motivate anyone to try, or to persuade anyone to try. Just simply wanted to reflect on all of it as a whole.
Very positive results in my opinion. I felt hours after the experience, i was able to pull out my journal and write. while smiling. while letting some things go. while also highlighting some beautiful things in my life. very reflective. very introspective. lots of growth from the short perspective change.
I mean, that is how we grow right? To change our perspectives. To see things a different way. To experience life. this what the experiences have done. Intentionally saw things though a bit more of an unfiltered, no bs, lens.
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