Psychedelic Integration

Psychedelic integration plays a pivotal role in the entheogenic journey, offering us a pathway toward enduring healing and transformation. This process delves into the profound wisdom and revelations received through the psychedelic experience, and then weaving these insights into our daily lives.

By recognizing and embracing the perpetual journey of healing, learning, change, and growth that unfolds post a psychedelic encounter, and by implementing these changes deliberately, consistently, and in an integrated manner, we unlock the potential for sustained and lasting transformation. This approach resembles nurturing a garden – dedicating careful attention and deliberate intent results in blossoms that endure throughout time.

Integral to the concept of integration is the act of addressing unresolved trauma and grief that might have been uncovered during the psychedelic experience. It provides an opportunity to confront these difficult emotions and navigate them with newfound insights and perspective. This process can lead to a sense of emotional liberation and the healing of deep wounds, allowing for a more holistic transformation.

Seeking counseling or coaching from professionals experienced in working with psychedelics can greatly assist in the integration process, offering valuable guidance along our unique path. It's important to note that while a single journey can provide profound insights equivalent to ten years of growth, it doesn't automatically translate into ten years' worth of change.  

Transformation is an active process, and the integration period following a psychedelic experience provides the space and opportunity for these insights to take root and manifest into lasting change.

Integration is the key to manifesting these newfound understandings and intentions.

Integration also includes:

● Thoughtfully make changes based on new insights

  • Concretize insights or new perspectives

  • Coping with fading of experience and returning to older habits and behaviors

  • Adjusting back to regular life

  • Increase engagement with non-rational domains such as creativity, movement, art, dancing, nature, etc.

  • Addressing psychological content that emerges, such as trauma

  • Making sense of confusing experiences

  • Making meaning or generating useful narratives/stories

  • Address lingering distress or symptoms

  • Resolve conflict between psychedelic experience and one’s prior belief systems

  • Building and increasing connections and social support

A psychedelic session can evoke a range of emotions, including openness, letting go, purging, catharsis, healing, remembrance, reunion, trust, love, and bliss, among others. However, the incredible insights gained from this work can become overwhelming and disheartening if we return to an unchanged home environment without proper support and guidance on how to move forward. It's important to set aside dedicated time and create a supportive plan and environment to facilitate the integration process with clarity and ease.

Integration Tools

Here are some general recommendations that have proven useful for grounding and integrating the psychedelic experience into our lives. Keep in mind that these tools may have varying effectiveness for each individual, so it is encouraged you to explore and discover what works best for your unique journey.

Ways to Connect with the Body

◯ Hydrating ◯ Nourishment ◯ Fasting ◯ Detoxification ◯ Breathwork ◯ Movement ◯ Stretching ◯ Quality Sleep ◯ Body Work ◯ Energy Work ◯ Massage ◯ Acupuncture ◯ Saunas & Steam ◯ Cold Plunges ◯ Swimming ◯ Dance ◯ Martial Arts ◯ Sports & Activities ◯ Somatic Therapies ◯ Co-regulation ◯ Physical Touch

Ways to Connect with the Mind

◯ Meditation ◯ Study ◯ Journaling ◯ Reading ◯ Writing ◯ Poetry ◯ Creativity ◯ Imagination ◯Music ◯ Mind Games ◯ Reconnecting with old hobbies

Ways to Connect with Emotions

◯ Shadow work ◯ Get Vulnerable ◯ Allow for Tears ◯ Feel Sadness ◯ Feel Anger ◯ Acknowledge Shame ◯ Understand Guilt ◯ Share Your Feelings ◯ Feel Emotions Deeply ◯ Give Emotions a Voice ◯ Speak Up & Communicate ◯ Confront People Tactfully ◯ Own Your Emotions ◯ Admit When Wrong ◯ Make Amends ◯ Breath When Triggered ◯ Respond vs React ◯ Prioritize Self-Care ◯ Cathartic Exercises ◯ Primal Screaming ◯ Journaling & Reflection ◯ Nature’s Therapies

Ways to Connect with our Spiritual Body

◯ Presence ◯ Meditation ◯ Prayer ◯ Study ◯ Existential Inquiry ◯ Spiritual Discipline ◯ Spiritual Ritual ◯ Moral Compass ◯ Compassion ◯ Forgiveness ◯ Non-Attachment Virtues & Principles ◯ Service to Others ◯ Connection to Nature ◯ Cleansing ◯ Purifying