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Ayahuasca Integration – How to maintain the magic of Ayahuasca
Your first week after Ayahuasca You had a life-changing Ayahuasca experience and you feel amazing and now you ask yourself, “how do I maintain this magic for as long as possible in my life?” Or maybe you dealt with some deep emotional pain and you are asking yourself, “what is next, how do I handle this?” Where do you start when returning back to you day-to-day life? This blog will help you with your Ayahuasca Integration. The first part of the blog is how you should handle the time immediately after the ceremony (the next 3 -7 days), what you should and shouldn’t do. Then we move over to the best practices for Ayahuasca integration and in the last part you will find in depth ways on how you to deal with the more complex topics of life that will come up. Key takeaways: Decompress after an Ayahuasca ceremony. Rest and eat well and journal on your experience, plus the homework you received on Ayahuasca. Do not share your Ayahuasca experience on Social Media. After an Ayahuasca ceremony it is great to revisit your habitual ways. What places, people, thought patterns etc give you energy and what takes energy from you. Cut the things which are not beneficial for you and start doing more the things that make your life better. Implement a spiritual practice to stay grounded. Trust yourself and take one step at a time and allow for things to develop. Many times deep fundamental changes take time to actually come to fruition. This is the time that actually determines how valuable the Ayahuasca is to your ceremony of your life. Do your best and forget the rest :). Table of Contents What not to do after an Ayahuasca Retreat Do not share your Ayahuasca ceremony on Social media or friends or family Before you do anything after your Ayahuasca ceremony, it is important that you do not to certain things that you will regret later on. And that is to start sharing about how your life has changed after Ayahuasca. Of course not on Social Media, but the best also not with friends and family. I understand it is a very natural impulse to want to share after you experienced a strong emotional impact and you want to let other people in on that. But it is better not to.. Why? Because you might have changed, but the people in your world have not. You have gone through a transformational experience, but they have not.. For you all of this makes perfect sense, but for them it does not… And it is ok. There are other things you can focus on. Things have shifted inside of you, but honestly you have not changed yet. To what degree you will be able to integrate your experience in your day-to-day life is yet to be determined. The best thing to do is to start making changes in your life, letting go of what you know you need to let go of and once people start noticing that change in you, then it is a good time to share. But do not become the ambassador for Ayahuasca, telling everybody that all of there problems can be solved if they too have the courage to drink Ayahuasca. (I used to be like that…) but it is not the way. Do not be in intense environments Other than not sharing your experience right after your ceremony it is also important that you do not go into high energy / pressure situations. Don’t go to a party, do not have a difficult conversation right away (this should happen, but give it a moment). Do not go back to autopilot Also after coming home from the ceremony you will find your life how you left it. You will be tempted to go back to certain habits and routines. These are normally running on autopilot. Now that you did take a step outside of your day-to-day life you do get a change to revisit that autopilot. Does this habit serve me? You will generally feel a deeper connection with your body. Listen to it and let it guide you. Do you actually want to drink coffee or is this just a habit that you usually fall back into? Smoking a joint in the evening to relax? Do you really need it or is this just your old auto-pilot self? You will notice yourself opening the same apps and websites? Do you actually want to spend time on them or is it best to significantly reduce or possibly even cut them out of your life? Your friends will have the same conversations… Do they resonate with you? Do you want to engage in gossip, mindless chatter or do you notice that this does not serve you any more? In this case it is important that you listen and really follow it. You can fall back a lot faster to old (deeply ingrained patterns) than you anticipate. I recommend you do not tell yourself, oh I just did so much work, I can allow myself to do some unhealthy things. (sure you can do that, but does it really serve you?) It might seam like I am over exaggerating here… I just want you to be really aware that you are in a special state right now, a moment in your life when change can happen. Use it wisely. Must read Blog: Ayahuasca mistake – Avoid these common 6 errors after drinking Ayahuasca What to do: rest, eat well, decompress and journal The best thing you can do is rest, hydrate and eat! You might not notice, but you have not eaten for more than 16 hours, you are dehydrated, Ayahuasca is a challenge to the body, so make sure you replenish (high protein recommended)! This is very important, if you do not do this, it is likely that you will get sick. As you probably know by now it is easy
