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How do you set intention?
    #25494465 - 09/27/18 10:41 PM (5 years, 3 months ago)

What are some examples of ways you would determine intent before a trip?

What type of intent setting leads to the most beneficial therapeutic results?


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Re: How do you set intention? [Re: MushroomMandala]
    #25494620 - 09/28/18 12:33 AM (5 years, 3 months ago)

Ever heard how people say that shrooms show you what you need to see? Well if that's the truth a dark room with meditation would be best. If you want music you should have music without lyrics because they are also distracting


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Re: How do you set intention? [Re: hejAdig999] * 1
    #25494705 - 09/28/18 01:42 AM (5 years, 3 months ago)

An example of intention would be

"My intention is to heal"

This is one I use often with mushrooms.

I will spend the come up meditating on acceptance and my intention to learn and heal.

Don't overthink it too much, I never knew about intention until after I was a bit seasoned.

Began to understand and appreciate it more with dmt.

Mushrooms are medicine.

Remember acceptance, and remmeber whatever happens is the medicine working. Let it do it's thing, that's all we can do. Surrendering is the best way to alleviate potential negatives.

Remember negatives aren't negative. Simply accept it as part of the experience. Dont tell yourself it's something to run from. It's not. Just observe it. There's a reason for it. Acceptance is the secret.


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Re: How do you set intention? [Re: Enkidu]
    #25494884 - 09/28/18 05:15 AM (5 years, 3 months ago)

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Enkidu said:
An example of intention would be

"My intention is to heal"

This is one I use often with mushrooms.

I will spend the come up meditating on acceptance and my intention to learn and heal.

Don't overthink it too much, I never knew about intention until after I was a bit seasoned.

Began to understand and appreciate it more with dmt.

Mushrooms are medicine.

Remember acceptance, and remmeber whatever happens is the medicine working. Let it do it's thing, that's all we can do. Surrendering is the best way to alleviate potential negatives.

Remember negatives aren't negative. Simply accept it as part of the experience. Dont tell yourself it's something to run from. It's not. Just observe it. There's a reason for it. Acceptance is the secret.




Some good stuff here.


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Re: How do you set intention? [Re: fluorescent]
    #25497464 - 09/29/18 06:57 AM (5 years, 3 months ago)

I use an incantation to the mushroom spirits before I ingest tea. 

And during the trip, if it goes off the rails, I'll repeat that to recenter things.

Seems to work really well - intention is important.  :awesomenod:


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Re: How do you set intention? [Re: MushroomMandala]
    #25498301 - 09/29/18 02:17 PM (5 years, 3 months ago)

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What type of intent setting leads to the most beneficial therapeutic results?






:shrug:


I have never "set intention" before a trip, and mushrooms/psychedelics have been tremendously beneficial/therapeutic for me over the years I've been working with them.


I simply approach mushrooms/psychedelics with an open, receptive, quiet, and curious mind. I feel if I set a specific intention it would just mess with the flow of my experience, I'd feel like I'd have to focus on the intention of that trip rather than just letting the experience unfold as it should.





Perhaps my "intention" is in the way I approach the experience, rather than making up some specific intention that the trip is supposed to revolve around, my intention comes from my ritual/tradition & how I approach the experience.

Things like...I don't smoke any herb during the day/hours before I dose (I'm a daily smoker of cannabis)...I eat light through the day...I clean up my room/house/space where I'm going to spend most of the time through the trip...I make a cozy and comfortable space out of lots of blankets and pillows...I clear the air with some incense before I dose....I have my music for the night selected...I shower before I dose or during the come up...I say a "thank you" before I consume my mushrooms....I spend the majority of the trip with eyes closed, with dim lighting or complete darkness, and either chill music or total silence, basically with as little distractions as possible.

(if anything, I feel that's where my "intention" comes from, from how I approach my trips.......Versus just randomly eating mushrooms on a whim just to "get high" and watch some silly movie)




Personally...For me, I feel making a "ritual" or a tradition of sorts around the experience is more conducive to a beneficial/therapeutic trip rather than trying to come up with some sort of specific intention that the trip is supposed to revolve around. I don't need to set some magical/specific intention to receive a healing/cleansing/therapeutic experience from mushrooms/psychedelics....I just approach the experience in an open manner, and things unfold as they should.






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Re: How do you set intention? [Re: openmind]
    #25498340 - 09/29/18 02:40 PM (5 years, 3 months ago)

I see mushrooms as more cerebral than spiritual personally so for me when I have intentions for a trip it's normally if something is bothering me and or stressing me out and I can't seem to figure out what it is or a solution then what I will do is spend a few hours before the trip thinking about whatever it is that I hope to bring back and that could be anything from wanting insight to understand someone and their intentions to weeding out high stress after high stress periods when there is no logical reason to be stressed or depressed.

Even with the best planning, set, setting and intentions sometimes the mushrooms need to teach you something else, just accept it and try again next time.
Often things that bother you are not the thing that is bothering.


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Re: How do you set intention? [Re: bishlap] * 1
    #25498418 - 09/29/18 03:13 PM (5 years, 3 months ago)

Why do I need to set an intention? I always go with the flow


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Re: How do you set intention? [Re: MushroomMandala]
    #25498454 - 09/29/18 03:28 PM (5 years, 3 months ago)

Whatever you set they just do their thing anyway.

But I love how shrooms do not impose on me.
There is always an interplay.
To go really deep I have to be still and allow them to work on me.
even on a high dose they let me snap right back to reality if I want to.


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Re: How do you set intention? [Re: Love_spirit]
    #25498546 - 09/29/18 04:02 PM (5 years, 3 months ago)

usually, my intention is to cry and release tension. we all need to cry oceans of tears.


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Re: How do you set intention? [Re: MushroomMandala]
    #25498628 - 09/29/18 04:39 PM (5 years, 3 months ago)

I have tried to trip with a pre-programmed "intention" a couple of times, but it never worked in the way I had expected. So I gave up on that idea.


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Re: How do you set intention? [Re: Rhizoid]
    #25498953 - 09/29/18 06:37 PM (5 years, 3 months ago)

It works in the sense that you can remind yourself why you're there which can help with accepting what you experience.

If for instance you're like I'm going to have fun, then you're there getting smacked in the fucking face, reminding yourself why you're there can help IMO.

IMO they don't influence what you actually experience, but remind you why you chose to experience it.


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Re: How do you set intention? [Re: MushroomMandala]
    #25499417 - 09/29/18 09:58 PM (5 years, 3 months ago)

This is just my thought and others can confirm or deny this but I think once you pass a certain dose, the need for a good set goes down drastically. At small doses, you might be able to subconsciously steer the trip, but once you get to the bigger doses, you are seeing what they want you to see.
Is this just a delusion I have or can anyone else confirm this?


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Re: How do you set intention? [Re: The_Awakening]
    #25499430 - 09/29/18 10:04 PM (5 years, 3 months ago)

When i do 5g+ then its going to be a closed eye trip.

Anything more than 5g for me as long as i am someplace safe and dark with my music where I can sit in meditation followed by laying face first on the floor, we are good to go :super:


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Re: How do you set intention? [Re: The_Awakening]
    #25499777 - 09/30/18 03:09 AM (5 years, 3 months ago)

yes, at higher doses, i feel like the psilocybin will just show you whatever needs to be shown for you to be humble and release preconceived notions.

i just surrender now. no need to control the experience. the mushroom is WAY smarter than me. it understands life in such rich ways. it's beautiful. i surrender to the master teacher and the teacher points me back to myself, all the things ive been pushing down or aside.


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Re: How do you set intention? [Re: Rhizoid]
    #25501163 - 09/30/18 02:58 PM (5 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

grati said:
Why do I need to set an intention? I always go with the flow




Quote:

Love_spirit said:
Whatever you set they just do their thing anyway.





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Rhizoid said:
I have tried to trip with a pre-programmed "intention" a couple of times, but it never worked in the way I had expected. So I gave up on that idea.







I totally concur with all of ^^^that^^^ .



The therapeutic/healing/cleansing aspects I've received from mushrooms (and psychedelics in general), I feel they would have never even happened if I was trying to set an intention to make those sorts of things occur during a trip. I don't know how I could make those sorts of experiences happen merely by "setting intention", I don't believe it's possible and feel it's sorta "forcing" an experience to happen.

I also feel like I'd end up a bit frustrated and disappointed if I was setting specific intentions for a trip, when/if the trip doesn't relate to or touch upon anything about the intentions I set.

So I just approach mushrooms/psychedelics/tripping with an open, respectful, & receptive mind...kinda like "going to school"...and I create a space that I feel comfortable in....I give thanks and acknowledge the mushroom before I consume it...I lay down and let the experience flow and unfold...Over the years I've just built a relationship with the mushroom and have learned how they work with me.




Not to say having intention is the wrong approach, because it is absolutely not....You know your intentions in your heart, hold it there....just don't expect your "intentions" to be the magic key to having the experience you want/need.







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