Preparing for a Psychedelic Experience: Grounding
Lincoln Stoller2021-01-06T00:23:23-08:00The first steps in understanding yourself and learning to control your intentions and resilience.
The first steps in understanding yourself and learning to control your intentions and resilience.
Can you have too much empathy? Would I like to be more or less empathetic?
Psychedelics are quickly becoming a new drug of promise, not for what psychedelics can do, but for what mental health practitioners want.
The potential of psychedelics is largely determined by what you allow yourself to experience. This is determined partly by your fearlessness and partly by your awareness.
Psychedelics can be a light in the dark territory. They offer direction for training, not a trophy of success. There is real work to do. You still need to do the walking and the thinking.
Dreams are your peek into the solar system of your personality. They are a dynamic astrology in which you can play a role. This is the goal of dreamwork.
To develop a relationship with your stomach, get beyond the notion that your stomach is there to serve your needs.
For those who want good sleep but won't put themselves at risk to get it, my sleep class is an iron fist in a silk glove.
As the foundation of your ability to see holistically, emotions are an essential ingredient of any viable notion of intelligence, not a separate notion of intelligence.
Emotional Intelligence requires feeling, not intellect. It’s the manipulation of emotion that’s done using awareness.
Emotional intelligence should require a measure of positive outcome: how much and for whom. Self-awareness and emotional experience are completely different.
An exploration of the three components of personal change: rationality, emotion, and awareness.