How to embrace time after your psychedelic journey

As a rule of thumb, most clients will feel rested the day after the psychedelic journey. However, there are exceptions. Suppose you have been through demanding emotional aspects within your psychedelic journey. In that case, you might have a headache and feel worn out – especially in your eyes if you cried a lot during your session. These symptoms will usually pass within the first day after your psychedelic session.

If you have been using compensational strategies to avoid symptoms, such as anxiety, for example – these might be more apparent after your psychedelic journey. Experiencing this can be painful but is not dangerous in itself – and opens a window of opportunity to process these emotions. A general recommendation is to embrace it the same way as content emerging within a psychedelic journey: Don't run from the feelings, but rather feel them and let the emotions unfold.

Allow time for reflection the day after a psychedelic journey.

Allocate time for yourself to actively retrieve the emotions and symptoms, let them reinforce themselves for a few minutes, and experience what they are doing to you in the present moment before you continue with your day.

We recommend taking notes of the inner work after a psychedelic journey to get the best outcome.

As a general recommendation, spend a little time each day taking notes of your thoughts and memories from your journey, preferably in coherent form. This will help you memorize the insights gained along your psychedelic journey. If you like to paint, draw, create music, or perform any other creative work – these are also considered great tools. Connecting with nature is also great in the days after a psychedelic journey.

It's also important to nurture yourself in the time after having a psychedelic experience. A psychedelic journey can be a fierce experience, and you can sometimes feel "pulled out of your old skin" in the days after. Social support is also an important aspect – in combination with conversations with a therapist.

The result.

With most clients, we experience that it's curing depression in an instant, or that anxiety disappears entirely, or that our current "theme" or "topic" we wish to explore is fully illuminated. In some cases, they do, but often, the first psychedelic journey is the starting line for further work – or the beginning of a breakup with the current status quo in your life.

We recommend considering the result of this experience as what you had to experience to proceed with your life.

Follow up.

Many experience a positive effect by following up the psychedelic session with micro-dosing. Microdosing is mainly done with psilocybin or LSD. The most typical protocol used is by using 0,1g psilocybin or ten ug LSD every third day. Initially, we recommend using micro-dosing for a minimum of four weeks, extending to a maximum of 10 weeks, followed by a break of a minimum of two weeks.

Talk to us about it if you are curious to get more information. However, instrumental adjustments are always involved in micro-dosing, and clients with higher sensitivity benefit the most from them.

With cases involving deep depression, it might be beneficial to have another psychedelic journey after two weeks. However, the most crucial aspect is taking the time necessary to process. Allow yourself to process the experience and lessons and integrate what you learned. A new session should emerge as a natural choice. Or you might feel satisfied with what you have just experienced and don't feel it natural to repeat another psychedelic journey at the moment.