Psychedelics open new perspectives and loosen rigid neural patterns, but lasting change requires your own work. The drug shows you the door; you have to walk through it by recognizing triggers, choosing different responses, and building new habits. Without that effort, your brain reverts to old patterns.
What is so important to understand about psychedelics is they will open the door of perception and show you, but you have to walk through the door. You're the medicine. Your internal healer is what's doing the healing, not the drugs, not the psychedelics. You're the one that has to make the changes and do what it shows you. And if you don't do that, you're gonna end up back where you were, you know? And the psychedelic— Mm-hmm. And make some changes in the brain. But the thing is, is that if you go back to the same exact patterns Your brain's gonna go right back to those patterns and it's gonna be very easy 'cause that's what your brain is used to, you know? So it can, it does help loosen everything up and gives you a better chance of really changing the patterns, but you have to change the patterns. Yeah. And that means becoming mindful in that moment, making a different choice, and it gives you a better reason to, you understand, you can see. See things better because of the psychedelics. But in that moment, you're the one that makes the choice. Am I going to take this or not? Am I going to go into this situation where I know it's going to trigger me or not?
