Small Steps
Keeping up with your own ‘homework’ is one of the most important aspects of being a trustworthy Plant Medicine integration specialist.
What I mean by this is going through the experiences your clients have when coming out of an altered state of consciousness.
A few times a year, I take time out to do exactly this by joining a multi-day Plant Medicine group ceremony as a participant.
And every time, this first-hand experience teaches me so, so much.
Drink at the Source
I get to drink at the source again and I get to remember things that I’d forgotten or that got lost in translation being a member of Western society.
And this waters the ‘medicine bundle’ that I carry and enriches the ‘treasure box’ that I became a custodian of in this life.
It sharpens my ability to be a conduit between the different realms by seeing through the veils that exist between them.
Valuable Homework
This is all sacred and very necessary work, but the truly valuable ‘homework’ to bring back to my integration clients is how, time and time again, I get to re-experience:
-How vulnerable, alone and overwhelmed you can feel going back into the world again.
-How liberating and humbling it is to be stripped of everything that you no longer want or thought you needed.
-How big of a gift it is to have loved ones around you who cook your favorite food and give you a soft landing back home. One whose chest you can fall asleep and feel safe, comforted and loved.
-How immensely drained your body can feel after functioning on minimum sleep and maximum brain capacity in this altered state of consciousness. How important it is to give your body the rest and time to re-align after this body + mind-altering process.
-And how you go back and forth between feeling immense gratitude for being alive and inhabiting a human body and simultaneously having a scarred heart because of the state our planet is in right now…
This whole spectrum (and more!) is exactly what your ‘life after ceremony’ or the integration part of working with Plant Medicine entails.
Best Practices
The understanding of what integration truly entails will come with bringing it into practice in your day-to-day life.
To make this more concrete:
While everybody has his or her unique process, there are ‘best practices’ that will support you in sustaining the transformation and change in your everyday life in a way that lasts.
I always start with three general principles:
1) Take small steps
2) Give yourself time (don’t rust and don’t force)
3) Commit to small action points and build from there.
And (last but not least!): to commit to following these ‘bread crumbs
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