Moving with the Medicine
One of the greatest challenges of microdosing & earth medicine practice is de-conditioning ourselves from the pharmaceutical narrative: “Take this pill - for this symptom - and hope symptom goes away, ideally as quickly as possible.”
Efficiency > effectiveness. Ease > exploration. And, in the eyes of pharma: the more vi$its, ‘script$ and up$ells, the better.
Very little mind is given to our symptom - When did it begin? What was going on in life at the time it began? Why is it landing in this particular part of the body, organ or system? Why this particular feeling/texture/emotion? - and instead we’re conditioned to hold it as a problem to be fixed, managed or numbed with a pill, injection or gadget.
When mushrooms and plant medicines bring forth, amplify or clarify - rather than alleviate - our symptoms, it’s a transformational moment for us to explore and an opportunity for inquiry.
What if symptoms are our exquisitely wise bodies’ best efforts to protect us, speak to us, communicate a message? Spirit motioning in a particular corner of our bodies, holding out a little sign with red arrows “Look —> HERE!” Symptoms are the end of an invisible thread laid out for us, the tail of the snake we can grasp and follow all the way to the heart of healing.
In western medical & pharmaceutical models, we tend to focus our attention exclusively upon the body or the mind and eventually - if we’re lucky - over the years we finally traverse into the origin: the root and source. And if we’re even luckier, we ultimately arrive at the energetics - the original imprinting - and the deepest place of soul-level healing. When we practice with earth medicines, we flip the script. We go right to the source, straight to the soul.
Stepping into nature’s world and all its living pharmacopeia is an entirely different experience, approach and language. Plant & earth medicines possess the codes - the innate intelligence - of centuries of wisdom. When we commune with them, they orient us to the heart of our healing. Nature doesn’t see us as a symptom or a condition but rather as a spirit and a soul, a complex, intricate being with the gift of conscious awareness and innate healing & regenerative abilities.
When we practice microdosing, we initiate ourselves into Nature’s Way - gently releasing our stories and labels, worldly identities, our diagnoses and limitations. In this initiation, give yourself grace and compassion, remembering you are releasing centuries of conditioning from our parents, society, the media, the institutions, academic training and operating off an artificial template designed to package and commodify us.
What does this look like in practical ways while microdosing?
As participants and partners to earth medicine, how can we support this initiation and transition in our approach to healing?
Instead of framing your experience as “the mushrooms are having XYZ effect on me,” try “the mushrooms are revealing XYZ to me.” Be a student of nature. What is she trying to show me?
If you’re experiencing an amplification of an energy or emotion, it often means it is on the way out. Feeling it IS the healing; you are clearing, purging, releasing density that has likely been in your auric body & tissues for lifetimes. It’s always been within you - influencing you and your experience of life - it’s just that the medicine is allowing you to feel it now.
Reframe “the mushrooms aren’t working for me” into “what lessons are the mushrooms trying to teach or show me with this experience?” If you’re not getting what you want, inquire what might nature and spirit be wanting you to give, face, realize, discover, open to or learn?
Reclassify emotions and physical sensations as energy - this will allow you to experience them in a new way, without labeling them as “good” or “bad.” Releasing the dense energies of fear, shame, pain and grief comes in so many forms: tears, dreams, irritability, exhaustion and more. Because we are so conditioned to believe these things are problematic, we can quit or deny or dismiss the experience as ‘not working.’ But it IS working. This IS healing. And if we can rename it - hold it differently - and move through it, on the other side lies so much beauty, expansion, intuition, freedom and a greater vitality.
Remember the medicine can move and speak to us in so many ways, unique to us. Sometimes it speaks to us through our bodies, other times our thoughts. It heals us through our emotions, comes to us in dreams, creates new connections and levels of awareness in our relationships. As a guide, it’s unbelievably fascinating to witness the medicine move so uniquely with each person - allow yourself to open and Move with the Medicine.
— In so many ways, being a Microdosing Guide is learning how to speak Nature’s language… to read her tracks and see her signs. To notice her patterns. Just as the medicine teaches us how to personally heal and expand, so, too, does the medicine teach us to guide.
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