Inner Healer

Curiosity, respect and trust in the inner healing intelligence are usually more helpful than theories on pathology.  Michael Mithoefer

If you cut yourself with a knife and you stay out of the way (keep it clean and the wound edges opposed), the wound will heal itself.  Even a surgeon does not do any healing.  He simply puts the tissues back in the right order to allow the body to heal.  The bones, skin, fascia and tissues all knit together by themselves.

The mind is no different.  There is an inner healer that is constantly attempting to return to health and wellness, including mental well-being and health.

The psychedelic experience is an unique one for everyone, every time.  For this reason, it is very difficult or impossible to know what is going on for an individual in a psychedelic experience.  If you can remember this inner, healing intelligence, you can rest in the knowledge that whatever is going on in the experience is serving a purpose.  It might be trying to convey a new meaning or understanding.  It might be throwing up an extreme example of how particular emotions, thoughts or behaviours are negatively impacting us.  Remembering the inner healer at such difficult times might assist in staying with the experience to see where it leads.