✨Microdosing: Earth's Greatest Change-Agent: Preparing your Life for a Brand New Timeline
You’ve heard about the remarkable physical and mental health benefits of microdosing: the healing of headaches, depression, chronic pain, anxiety, insomina, PMDD, long-haul COVID, nervous system conditions, cognitive decline, stroke recovery… and so many more conditions practice can support and heal.
🌠 But perhaps the most profound gift of all of earth medicine practice in modern times is its ability to catalyze change, prepare us for transformation, and ready us for the next chapter of our lives.
Over the course of supporting many hundreds of people in practice during the last six years, it’s been wild to me how often people are called to practice right before their life is about to go through an incredible expansion… ready or not! In hindsight it becomes clear that nature summoned us in order to help us prepare - physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually - for a brand new timeline.
While the first weeks of practice can be subtle, once people look back six months… a year later… three years later… they can see with amazing clarity how much they - and their experience of life - has completely changed. Nature was the key - quiet, subtle, yet profoundly powerful - that initiated and opened the door to change.
In a time when so many of us are being initiated into change, how can microdosing support the process??
Microdosing initiates cascading positive change, naturally. You begin practice and find yourself sleeping more restfully. You wake up earlier and take in the sunrise. The dawn’s rays reset your metabolism, and you feel more energized. With more energy, you feel like exercising and moving your body; you’re drawn to eat better and release alcohol from your life. With better diet & nutrition, you develop a new relationship with your body - you truly inhabit your body for the first time since childhood. With a stronger awareness and new connection to yourself, your intuition grows stronger - your instinct awakens - and you begin to move through your daily life in a brand new way.
Daily Integration = Long-lasting Change. Many people think change happens to us like a bolt of lightning - externally, through force - when in reality the deepest, most long-lasting change takes place quietly, over time, almost imperceptibly with gentle devotion. When I look across all my clients over the last six years, a clear pattern emerges: the people who had the most seemingly miraculous, near-instantaneous healing, growth and spiritual expansion were the people who had laid down a foundation of healing over many decades before meeting the medicine.
I often share with my clients: Spirit sees all. Every effort we’ve made - large or small - all the work, programs, modalities, and medications we’ve tried over the years… spirit sees it all. Psychedelic work doesn’t begin when you take your first dose - it begins many years prior, and everything you bring to practice - all the devotion & dedication you bring - nature sees it, amplifies it, and brings it forth. Microdosing helps you weave & integrate all the other healing and growth you’ve done in the most every-day, effortless and magical way.
Microdosing - especially guided microdosing - helps you begin to see yourself in a brand new way. So much of our western healing models are oriented to locate “the problem” within us. We receive a diagnosis; we become a condition. We become part of a narrative and story that points to us as the thing to be fixed and managed; we are expected to adapt to our existing environment & conditions, rather than questioning or seeking inquiry around those conditions.
Again and again, I witness my microdosing clients growing to see themselves in a new and different light: What if there was never anything “wrong” with me? What if my symptoms were actually just a sign that my body was making its best effort to protect me? What if it’s not me who needs “fixing,” but rather my environment, lifestyle, and relationships that need to be tended? What if the things I viewed as a problem or frustration were spirit looking out for me, nudging me toward my greater alignment?
When we awaken to the possibility of a different perspective about our lives, a lightbulb goes off! We are free to wonder: If I have the capacity to write a new story about my ability to heal, what else might be possible for me??
One of the greatest misconceptions about earth medicines is that they function similar to a pharmaceutical drug… a simple, standard, predictable mechanism toward a certain outcome. But pharmaceuticals don’t invite us to change - they override our physiology to demand it.
With earth medicines, we are active participants in a relational experience; nature may take us by the hand, but it’s up to us to rise and dance with her. And we change and transform in the process of the dance. With active participation in our own growth and healing, we gain confidence - step by step - and learn to trust ourselves more. We become more sure-footed. We have greater faith and knowingness in our bodies, and we grow in our capacity and resilience.
Passively taking a prescription drug doesn’t ask anything of us, and that is part of their allure; earth medicines ask us to stand fully upright in our lives, to challenge ourselves, to stretch into new places, and reach into unfamiliarity. The more we participate and lean into practice, the more we build the muscles to adapt, the resourcing to weather adversity, and develop the still, steady center to carry us through moments of external chaos and navigate transition with grace.
When I sit with my clients - or with my own experience - I realize it’s not change itself that scares us.
The most challenging part of change is that unfamiliar and deeply uncomfortable space in-between… The one where we’ve released what we’ve known, but haven’t yet landed on where we’re going. …Knowing full well that the space in-between is rigged with reminders and memories, mined with doubts & uncertainty, and often woefully absent of templates or affirmations.
It’s not an easy space for any of us to be, and that’s why we grow the most from our time spent there.
We’re living in a moment in our collective human evolution when we’re being asked to change, to look beyond what presently exists, to imagine a life and future that doesn’t exist here in the maya - yet. We’re entering a collective “in-between,” and nature’s medicines - and her human guides - are here to accompany the journey, to be by our side at a moment in our lives when everything is about to change.
What is the role of a Guide in supporting people in the “In-Between?”
Nature is the ultimate change-agent, our wisest teacher, our truest guide. As guides and participants in microdosing practice, we are change-agents, too. Just as Nature models adaptation and evolution, we serve as models with our own devotion to embracing the vulnerability of change and draw from the same faith we serve our clients. We don’t just study the practice; we live inside it.
This is where earth medicine finds us, tends us, and does its deepest work. Where it asks us to stay, to be present, to sit in the unknown for as long as spirit - our greatest mentor - guides us to. We grow strong and clear in the in between - more true to who we are - we listen, we learn. We simplify on the outside in order to deepen inside. We get to notice and feel our spirit with more nuance and clarity, pull it free from the past, free from our stories, free from our conditioning and constructed identities. As we become the bravest, truest version of ourselves, we invite & inspire others to do the same.
As guides we can only guide our clients as far as we have gone ourselves, and that’s why our personal experience of life is such an important element of our guideship and who we’re meant to serve. One of the greatest gifts we can give and model to our children, our loved ones and our colleagues is our receptivity to change, our willingness to stand in the in-between, our ability to adapt, and the cultivation of a life reflective of the future we’re living into - creating real-time - embodying a greater wisdom, maturity and self-leadership.
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