What if this life is a very different experience than you thought it was? These are the kinds of questions that we begin to ask during and after plant medicine and psychedelic experiences. Yes, there are the specific insights about ourselves and things that help us heal in the moment but the bigger picture questions are inspired by the fact that we can even have these experiences that are so expansive and beyond what we thought was possible in this reality. Did we dip into another reality? While our body remained in this one? Some people may see it that way and it’s an interesting idea but what serves most is to consider the fact that we’ve just been introduced to the idea that there’s so much more to this experience we call ‘life’ than we realized.
What if our thoughts (which the medicines/psychedelics/higher consciousness love to focus on to help us improve our experience) are far more powerful than we had imagined? What if we can harness these thoughts to create a better experience for ourselves? What if all of those things in life that we think are in our way are illusions? What if we begin to consider our thoughts to be navigational tools for this life? Now there’s a thought. 😉 That’s a very promising thought to follow. Where do you want to go in your life? Whether it’s a place or a situation or feeling, using your thoughts to navigate would be a very interesting approach but the ‘feeling’ is really, your ultimate destination because if you want to go to Italy and end up there and miserable, you would be quite disappointed no? Time for a new destination?
We often pursue psychedelics and plant medicines with intentions around feeling better and are introduced to very different ways of perceiving our lives in response to this intention/request. We have these revelational and profound moments of insight and then end up back in the lives we created from our previous perceptions of what this life is and how it works (or doesn’t ;-). So, then it’s time to navigate towards a life that better reflects this new understanding and although there is work to be done on the outside, the greater and more impactful work happens from the inside out. We walk away from these experiences often feeling wonderful and we don’t want that to wear off. Eventually, after getting back into our lives, it often does wear off to some degree and so we then try to set our sights on achieving that feeling again. Changing ourselves and how we think of life and how we approach it in our minds and hearts is the course we set to achieving that feeling again.
Returning to the wondrous question of ‘what if’ is a good way back to that good feeling. Keep the doors of ‘what if’ open inside of you. The kinds of ‘what if’ questions that acknowledge the incredible power we have that these experiences constantly hint at. These are the ‘what if’ highways that lead to new and better ways of living and thinking of this experience we call ‘life’.
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