How I reached my personal goals with microdosing
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Microdosing experimentation part III
If you haven’t already checked out part I + II of my micro-dosing experience you can find them here and here. I wanted to write my third and final post of this protocol to sum up my experience and my personal takeaways. It’s been over a month since I ended the experiment. I did end 3 days early which I’ll be telling you about, as well. First off, would I recommend micro dosing? Absolutely, I feel like there’s very few people I wouldn’t recommend this to. I ended the protocol feeling both gratitude for the progressive laws in the Netherlands, and at the same time a bit bitter that other countries have laws against selling and consuming this plant, therefor so many people don’t have legal access to this healing substance.. Let’s go back to this specific protocol. I purchased the truffles through a company named Earth Resonance and they provide a support ebook with each each order. They recommend setting an intention when starting the protocol. They also have you evaluate which areas of your life you’d like support in during the experience. They give you a little example triangle that you can make and fill out on your own. Example pictured below. Over the past year I’ve learned how immensely powerful intention can be and I’m learning through both this experiment and my herbalist friend Whitney Artell that this is a very lovely and receptive way to work with plants, as well! Where intention goes energy flows. Personally, I chose to focus on my business, my health, and my finances. So what happened over these next 27 days? Well it felt like a bridge of sorts. I started getting more intentional about these areas. I hit my best financial month in business but I also gained more clarity and confidence in this area. On the same day I started the protocol I also started a 40 consecutive day Har for prosperity meditation. The protocol and the 40 day meditation felt very supportive for one and other. Again, the power of intention! The biggest thing was my eczema improvement. I went from having more days where I was struggling with my eczema than not, to the opposite! I stopped 3 days early because I was having pretty significant anxiety, to be completely transparent. The anxiety was more body focused anxiety and I can tie it back to not eating enough on the protocol. The anxiety was a bit wirey. I mentioned in my previous posts one of the drawbacks was that I wasn’t as hungry. I had lost about 2 kilos and I’m already pretty small. The anxiety lasted about a week after I ended the protocol and I made an effort to eat a bit extra during this time which definitely helped. Over a month later and things have only continued to improve in all of these areas. The truffles seem to be a really beautiful support system to my goals and helping me achieve them. I had previously wondered if maybe I would feel a bit dependent on the truffles if they supported me in any areas of my life, but by the end of the experiment I could feel my body letting me know we didn’t need to work with them anymore for the time being. They had supported me exactly enough for the time being. As a teenager I was put on many different medications from Ritalin, SSRI’s, to steroids and Immunosuppressive drugs. Although, I’ve been free from these for almost a decade now, I wonder what the world would look like if instead of a heavy focus on pharmaceuticals, there was more of a focus on plant based medicine. I do think these pharmaceutical drugs have heavy side effects that I had to mitigate for years after stopping them. Between microdosing and my TCM herbs I take, I haven’t experienced or read about anything like this with plant medicine. I think on an energetic level this plant is uplifting. They really do seem to connect you with the present moment more. I will definitely do this protocol again when I’m feeling the call again (+ make sure to eat consistently.) My biggest take way is that I have everything I need inside of me and the plant supported me in bringing that out even more. We as humans are so much more powerful, capable, and magical than we give ourselves credit for. If you are ever doubting your power or need some emotional, mental, or spiritual support I think looking to the plant realm for support is a beautiful + healing option. Blogpost by Jewel Mondros - blogpost
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Welcome or welcome back. We find ourselves today at day 18 of the 30 day micro-dosing protocol and I am happy to share with you how it is going. If you didn’t read my first blog, you can check it out below if you’re curious. I decided to do a 30 day micro-dosing protocol. I am micro-dosing truffles / psilocybin. This particular protocol is created by the company Earth Resonance, here in The Netherlands. They not only ship the organic truffles to your home, but they also provide you with a protocol. The protocol is designed to support you in monitoring and increasing your overall wellbeing during the 30 days. Basically, they work to enhance your experience with charts to monitor your progress, breathwork, and meditation suggestions. I’m using what one could call a bit of “chaos magic” for this protocol. I am mostly following the steps, but also using my intuition and some outside research to adjust. Instead of taking a dose every other day, I am taking a dose every 3rd day which seems to be the most researched way to do it. The one other “rule” of the protocol I did not stick with is cutting out caffeine. It calls for no drugs, alcohol, or caffeine. The first two I can do no problem, but I really love my morning cup of coffee and decided to forgo that restriction. After all, I wanted to see what difference it was making in my “normal” life. So what is micro-dosing? Micro-dosing is taking a low dose of a substance. The micro-dosing of psychedelics does not produce the same trippy or hallucinogenic experience that taking an actual substantial dose does. A quick google search on “the benefits of micro-dosing psilocybin” and you will find an array of both scientific research and personal accounts. I’m here to tell you my personal experience. My overall analysis/ theory / intuition is that micro dosing much like a trip, supports whatever you have going on in your life. However, it’s much more subtle and carries less risk of a “bad” experience. I think that whatever one is tending too, working on improving, setting intentions for the mushrooms are a nice support. I am also becoming increasingly aware of how important intention setting is in life in general - but more on that later.. I’m also speculating that they could support you in what you need, much like how CBD works at balancing whatever your mind needs ( info based off of a podcast I listened to I haven’t really tried cbd). Let’s start with my perceived benefits. Habits. For the past couple of months I’ve been working on my daily habits. Bringing in new habits that will increase my productivity, my health, my mood, and my overall well-being. Some of these habits include no phone one hour before bed and 1 hour after waking (It’s a bit cringe that I ever did it any other way, tbh), journaling in the morning, adding in meditation daily, to name a few of the newer ones. In the past 18 days I’ve not only stuck with these habits but also added in additional habits including daily reading, a Har prosperity meditation I do every morning, and I’ve started setting time aside daily to learn Dutch, again. EVERYDAY. The biggest part of all of this is I am really enjoying each of the habits and not just doing them to “be better” or “get better.” This goes back to my original post, I didn’t realize how distracted I truly was prior to this experiment. Meditation. I consider myself super woo, but meditation as not been my primary source of daily mindfulness. I prefer movement mindfulness like yoga, and walks by myself in nature. I now find meditation pretty easy to slip into and actually enjoy it. My health. My eczema has significantly improved since I started the protocol. Not only does it look and feel better, but I think and worry about it significantly less in my daily life. I am also on a mixture of Chinese herbs, so I’m sure it is the combination of the two. Nonetheless, this is huge, and a side effect I was not sure if I would actually get to experience. I am also sleeping better. Not AMAZING, but fine. The downside. Anxiety. I would say although my overallwellbeing is improved, my anxiety is increased. Even on the days where I am not taking a dose I feel a bit more anxious. The anxiety doesn’t last long, but it’s there. Earth Resonance actually offers an option for coaching for people embarking on this journey, and I think that having a support or coach going through this would ease my anxiety a bit. Overall, I would say it’s a quite positive and subtle experience. I’m excited to see where I’m at when I finish the 30 days. I will post another update at some point. Thanks so much for reading! blogpost by Jewel Mondros - blogpost
Erfahren Sie mehrMicrodosing experimentation - Part I
Hello! Many of you on instagram were curious (I would be) so I’ve decided I will document my experimentation with microdosing psilocybin here on the blog. I will start by saying I am currently in The Netherlands where truffles are legal and you can purchase them at a shop or online. I decided to purchase from an online company called “Earth Resonance,” I was drawn to their earthy wellness vibe and the amount of concrete information they provide. They also send you a 30 page ebook with meditations, breathwork, and ways to monitor your progress over the 30 days. I don’t take this sort of thing lightly so it was nice to have some guidelines and framework from a company focused of wellbeing and self development. As for why I wanted to do the 30 day micro dose experiment, I cannot give you a short answer. I experimented with psychedelics when I was a teenager, and although my experiences were almost always quite transformational it was still for recreational purposes. I have a lot of reverence for mind altering /expanding substances now, and to be quite frank a bit of fear, so, from more or less now until then it wasn’t something I was up for. I had been hearing a couple of people around me in different circles mentioning them, and then I had a dream where I was full on tripping. This is usually how something starts for me. I woke up one Saturday morning after some pretty wild and lovely dreams and something had changed. It was like I got a message while sleeping that this was the medicine I now needed. I asked my husband if he wanted to do some mushrooms with me (he said no.) looked up a shop I could buy them at, and walked to go pick them up. I was definitely nervous but the woman at the shop reassured me as long as I, 1. took them on an empty stomach 2. Didn’t drink or smoke on them 3. Was in either my apartment or nature 4. Went into it with openness and without fear I wouldn’t have a problem. I followed her instructions and I also set an intention. “I am open to receiving whatever I need from this.” It felt like 6 hours of intense healing for my body, mind and soul. It was really what I imagine meditating every day for an hour your whole life would do to the mind. I received some downloads, but it wasn’t anything I didn’t already know inside of me. It was a remembering. It also made me question why I was so fearful to begin with. What was I so scared of? Something that I’ve been personally healing is a stubborn bout of eczema and this is, I think, the ultimate reason for my decision to embark on this psychedelic journey. I’ve been in acupuncture with a wonderful healer the past two months and have gotten to a point in my treatment where my condition is pretty stable. I cannot tell you what causes my eczema exactly, but that it has come and gone in varying degrees since I was a very young child. I can tell you that when you have a condition like this, you do and try everything you possibly can to get to the root cause. Especially, once you learn that western medicine is more or less what a bandaid is to a bomb. I can write more about my current eczema protocol in a separate blog at some point. I know you may be thinking “how tf would mushrooms help eczema?” Well during my earlier experience I had this breakthrough where I understood my skin was not my enemy. It was simply protecting me from something that was disrupting the balance of my body. I also experienced no irritation or itchiness the whole 6 hours. If you don’t know eczema is linked to an immune disorder, which means my immune system sends signals for my skin to attack itself (it is basically asthma for the skin). I also got the message that there is no “good” or “bad” in terms of health, relieving my mind of the sharp emotion of fear that I was experiencing daily due to my eczema. Additionally, I had read some articles about how psilocybin can reduce inflammation. Anyways, after the trip and revelations I was curious. What was going on with my mind during that time? Is it really dangerous? How can I access that state more often? I began to research and things like “neuroplasticity” came up. Neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to adapt to changes in an individual's environment by forming new neural connections over time. Neuroplasticity explains how the human brain is able to adapt, master new skills, store memories and information and even recover after a traumatic brain injury. Psychedelics and micro-dosing seem to increase the neuroplasticity of the brain making it easier to create better habits, get out of old patterned ways of thinking, AND increase healing time. I’ve had been doing a little bit of research on Joe Dispenza prior to all of this, and a lot of his theory deals with this concept of the minds ability to heal itself and the body in this way. So, ultimately, I think that maybe micro-dosing could be another tool in my toolbox. My precautions: Mentally, I am in a good place, but I do have anxious tendencies. I have a bit of fear that the microdosing could increase or aggravate my anxiety. Could it maybe make my eczema worse? I am very careful about what I ingest due to this constant concern. Since I am already in a pretty chill place mentally could I be opening myself up for problems? Some research points to the use of psychedelics to psychosis. With micro dosing this doesn’t seem to be so much of a concern BUT STILL ya girl’s still got anxiety (as I mentioned above.) My intentions: Make space for any healing to take place during these 30 days. I’m open to increase insights and focus. We talked a bit about neuroplasticity and I am wondering if there’s any thought patterns I may have that could exacerbate the eczema. I know that fear and stress are not causes of eczema but can make the symptoms worse or illicit an outbreak. I also know that fear and stress prolonged, overtime pump the body with hormones that can disrupt the bodies ability to heal itself. So I am open to seeing if maybe I can witness where this may be occurring and dissolve any of these habitual thought patterns if they are occurring. The Earth resonance protocol which I am more or less following calls for one day micro dose and the next day no dose- repeat. However, I’ve done a little outside research and most other protocols call for one day micro dose, two days no dose, which seemed a bit more appealing for me personally. One reason is because your body builds up a tolerance to the psyilosiban which is said to goe away after two days, not one. And the second reason is I would like to give my mind a bit more time to integrate the experience. So here we are at day 6. Up until today, I didn’t notice any notable effects. Maybe because this time I took the two days off my tolerance is lower. The first day I took .33 grams, the next day no dose, day 3 I took .54 grams, and then I took two more days off. So today the 6th day I took .58 grams one hour ago. The effects I’m currently experiencing feel a bit like the Ritalin or adderal I used to be prescribed in grade school. It feels good in one sense that I just went straight from the first day of my Haar prosperity practice right into a 20 minute pilates workout, and immediately followed by laundry, vacuuming, cleaning, REALLLY CLEANING, to writing this blog post. Perhaps, I forgot that maybe I am a bit distracted on a daily basis and this is not quite how easily I typically flow into each new “task” that I do. So I would say this is a positive effect. I dig it. A negative effect would be an increase in anxiety and also a lack of hunger. These are the same effects I felt on the Ritalin so many years ago. Although, the anxiety is quite uncomfortable it brings up themes of distrust which I’m happy to contemplate. I see that my mind starts to get “concerned” or straight up FEARFUL of this increase in bodily anxiety. The mind starts to go places, creating stories, but it feels important for me to question this, and then ask myself “Am I breathing?” and “Can I simply enjoy this increase in productivity without getting concerned?” The answer, well, that seems like what I should be nourishing right now. It pertains to trusting my own body. I think I will journal on this and perhaps share how I work though it at a later point. So this concludes my introduction to my microdosing experiment. I am happy for you to join me on this journey. Read here part II Blogpost by Jewel Mondros - blogpost
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