As we mentioned, many people (including us) find their way to psychedelics through recreational use. However, it’s important to take care around these experiences to ensure safety, harm reduction, and to make sure we aren’t opening ourselves to danger or harm through a lack of attention and intention. It’s easy to be mindless and reckless when we don’t have proper respect for medicines, and these are sacred tools that have so much to teach us, even when used for enjoyment and connection.

It’s also ok and good to have fun and enjoy yourself, even when you’re healing!⁣ 

So much of the rhetoric around psychedelic healing is heavy, full of work and caution, but we believe that joy and connection are just as powerful as releasing pain and digging out traumatic wounds. Joy is vital to the healing process. It’s absolutely okay to create a fun-filled, healing relationship with psychedelics, especially when we do it with intention and purpose.

Shifting our mindset and adding intention into the mix, even if that intention is to enjoy yourself, connect with others, and have fun, helps create a conversation and relationship with the medicines, allowing an opening to expanding our consciousness and awareness, and leading to personal growth and healing. ⁣

How has intentional psychedelic use changed your life? Have you transitioned from recreational to intentional or healing use? What do you think about bringing intention into your personal psychedelic practices? Let us know in the comments!