Micro-dosing psilocybin involves consuming a very small, usually imperceptible amount of the psychedelic substance created by mushrooms. By doing so, we disrupt the typical neuro firings of the brain and are more susceptible to growth and learning. When we slightly alter parts of our brain, we are able to view things from a slightly different perspective.

Allowing ourselves to view things from a different perspective, opens us up to new ideas. It allows us to take our traumas from the past, and to look at them in a slightly different light. This allows us to make more sense of the trauma. To understand why it was an event from the past, and should not necesarilly create negativity or limits in our life now.

There have been numerous studies of the effects of psilocybin on the brain. The following is the finding of one such study:

"When we combine all of our findings, it would appear that psilocybin reduces intercommunication between the anterior cingulate cortex and distant brain regions and makes activity both more excitable and more irregular. These results support the idea put forward by Robin Carhart-Harris and Karl Friston in their REBUS model (Relaxed Beliefs Under Psychedelics), which posits that psychedelics disrupt the influence of top-down modulation upon sensory information coming into the brain, instead favouring incoming sensory input. This means psychedelics may enable the brain to rely less on prior beliefs and expectations, and be more receptive to incoming information. (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-circuitry-action-and-awareness/202209/what-psilocybin-does-the-brain)"

The above findings support the idea that micro-dosing makes us more susceptible to learning. They slow, or shut down the parts of our brain that want to remain rigid in our past beliefs. The reason our past traumas continue to sabotage our lives, is because we become rigid in our beliefs that were formed from those traumas. By removing some of that rigidity, and fixation on our beliefs programmed from past traumas, we are more likely to be receptive to new, outside information that realigns our perspective. It allows us to look at ourselves less like victims, and more like the powerful, capable beings we are.

Maintaining a regular micro-dosing protocol ensures that we have the best chances at being receptive to new, helpful information. It prevents us from feeling stuck in life. It prevents us from dropping balls because we did not feel worthy to accomplish something. Being open and receptive to new information, and avoiding the rigid state of feeling engulfed by your traumas and what you interpret them to mean, makes life a far more beautiful experience.

References

Golden, C.T., & Chadderton, P. (2022). Psilocybin reduces low frequency oscillatory power and neuronal phase-locking in the anterior cingulate cortex of awake rodents. Scientific Reports 12: 12702.