Exploring Psychedelics

Are you considering exploring the transformative potential of psychedelics? Preparing for a psychedelic experience requires a thoughtful and comprehensive approach to ensure safety, maximise insights, and facilitate integration afterwards. At Free From Within Hypnotherapy, I specialise in guiding individuals through this unique journey, providing support before, during, and after your experience.

Preparation: It’s crucial to create the right mindset and environment for your journey. I offer tailored sessions that help individuals clarify their intentions, reduce anxiety, and foster a sense of grounding. Together, we explore your motivations, address any fears, and develop a personalised plan that aligns with your aspirations.

The Experience: During the experience itself, I provide strategies and tools to navigate the journey effectively. These techniques promote self-awareness and encourage self-reflection, enabling you to embrace the experience fully and gain meaningful insights.

Integration: The insights gained from a psychedelic experience can be profound, yet integrating them into daily life can be challenging. I support clients in processing these experiences, ensuring that the lessons learned are translated into actionable changes in behaviour and mindset. This integration phase is vital for lasting personal growth and transformation.

Embarking on a psychedelic journey can be an incredibly rewarding experience when approached with care and intention. Let me help you navigate this path, ensuring that your journey is safe, enriching, and ultimately liberating. Contact me today to find out how we can work together to prepare for and integrate your psychedelic experience.

If you feel the calling to work with plant medicines and mind altering substances, I can provide advice and support in ensuring that you do so in a safe way with intention and respect for the powerful substances known as ‘psychedelics’, which translates to ‘mind manifesting’. When used in spiritual exploration, psychoactive substances are also known as ‘entheogens’ which translates to manifesting the divine within.

Set: Whether you wish to use psychedelics to explore the manifestations of your own mind, to heal old wounds, move towards wholeness, for creativity or curiousity or you wish to use them to develop your spirituality, we will discuss your intentions and use tools and techniques to help you prepare your mind and body for your journey into the unknown. I will also provide you with ‘flight instructions’ for your journey; advice on how you can safely navigate the psychedelic realms.

Setting: where and with whom you will be embarking on your journey plays a big part in how your journey will unfold, I will give you tips and techniques on how to set up a safe space that will help you to make the most of your experience.

Substance: we will discuss what substance and at which dosage you feel called to work with, focussing on harm reduction and establishing a relationship with the medicine based on reverance and respect.

Integration

Meaning ‘to bring together to make whole’, integration is the process of bringing together the insights and learnings from psychedelic or spiritual experiences into your everyday life. Our integration sessions will focus on grounding practices to help you land gently after your journey, space to discuss and process the experience, and setting intentions on how you will use the insights your received to make positive changes in your life. We can use the tools and techniques to make use of the enhanced neuroplasticity of the brain in the period of time that follows a psychedelic journey to assist you in the integration process.

I have personal experience integrating ontological shock through my own hexagonal model that emerged organically (see diagram below). I have written an essay on what helped me to integrate ontological shock and have completed a research project on using hypnosis for psychedelic integration. I have experience integrating several psychedelic journeys as well as what I have perceived to be an experience of kundalini awakening. As such I can provide advice and support from personal experience and will hold a completely open and non-judgemental space for you to navigate the process of integration.

Microdosing

Microdosing involves taking psychedelics at sub-perceptual doses. While the jury is still out regarding the scientific evidence of the acclaimed benefits of microdosing, anecdotal evidence shows benefits including enhanced creativity, focus, problem solving, empathy and nature connectedness. Some people find benefits from microdosing to self-medicate for anxiety, ADHD and cluster headaches.

If you are looking to explore microdosing protocols, I can provide information and advice on which protocol may be suitable. I can also provide coaching and support to assist you in maximising the benefits of microdosing using various tools and techniques.