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3. Plant Medicine: How It's Changed My Life, My Relationships And My Mental State!
101 Plays3 years ago
I really dive deep on how plant medicine/psilocybin have changed everything for me in just 6 months! Microdosing is more than just a quick fix, it's a practice that you commit to in life. This is the future of medicine!
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Transcript
Introduction & Podcast Direction
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Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Unlocking with Adam Pike. And my main mission on this podcast is to unlock potential in your life that you didn't think was possible.
00:00:14
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I'm going to be honest. I wrote that intro down a few weeks back, right? And I started thinking about, okay, like what does that really mean? And what direction am I going to go with this podcast? And I don't have a clue what I'm doing. But then I started thinking more.
00:00:39
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Okay. Ever since I left my job, what seems to be forever ago, um, what am I doing?
Adapting to New Life & Content Creation Challenges
00:00:49
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What, where am I going in life? What like, I literally haven't been asking myself that a lot. Like, do you even know what you're doing? And no, I don't have a clue what I'm doing. I really don't.
00:01:03
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But I'm trying to figure it out, and I've come to a conclusion that it's probably going to be like this. For as long as I'm working on my own, I'm always going to be trying to figure it out. And I seem to be figuring things out. Things seem to be running pretty smoothly.
00:01:29
Speaker
It's just a different, it's just a different way of living, right? Like before, you know, just collecting a paycheck, you just show up, you knew what you had to do, and everything was just easy, right? It was just very comfortable. You just have money just coming in and over. And now it's like, okay, shit, what am I gonna talk about this week? What content am I gonna make this week? And you're just constantly trying to
00:01:56
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make new content, like reach more people and kind of make sense when you're talking. You know what I mean? It's a, it's a very, very, very different lifestyle and it's hard. I'm not gonna lie. It's hard, but life is hard. And I actually made a video about this yesterday, but like when things are hard, you just have to push through it and you have to figure it out.
Reframing 'Bad Days' as Challenges
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instead of when something's hard gets like stressed out and then your whole day's ruined. Then you have these bad days, right? Bad days are not a thing. It's just things get hard. People get stressed out. They don't know what to do with themselves. They just tell themselves that they're having a bad day. So
00:02:46
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Anyways, I like I said, I just, I don't know what direction this podcast is going. I just get on here. I have something I want to talk about and I talk about it and I just go on these rants. I don't, I don't have anything written down. I'm just talking off the top.
00:03:07
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I'm gonna be honest with you. So this is me being completely honest. So I also just want to say thank you to Everybody who has listened to this podcast right that I was actually terrified that nobody would give a fuck if Adam Pike did a podcast but For those of you who have listened I I thank you a lot thanks for showing up every episode and
00:03:36
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giving this a
Exploring Microdosing: Benefits & Impact
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listen. So yeah, today I want to dive in deep about microcybin and how it has changed my life. How still a cybin, like microdosing psilocybin, I'm also microdosing LSD, how that has changed my life in a positive way.
00:03:59
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So well, let's just dive right into it. One thing that really always stands out for me is the overthinking. This is how it used to be. For example, if I was invited to a party, maybe I was invited like to a restaurant or a bar and I only knew one person there and there was going to be a lot of other people there that I didn't know.
00:04:27
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I would sit at home and be going over in my mind like, do I really want to go? Like scared to go. I used to be scared and I would be pounding drinks trying to like just get loose and feeling good and like I would literally talk myself out of so many things. I remember even when I applied for Big Brother and I was doing my finals in Toronto and
00:04:56
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Man, I was terrified to do the interviews. Like, so nervous. Like, so nervous. And I just would like...
00:05:09
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do. Even when I went on the show, I remember I had to do one of the first house meetings or when you win a competition, you have to do like a, I think it's called a meeting. I forget the term. But anyways, I had to get out in front of the house and talk and oh my God, terrified.
00:05:32
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And I think that just stems back to when I was in high school or junior high and I had to do a presentation. Man, I hated it. I hated it with a passion. And I don't know, why? Why did I hate that? It's actually quite easy. Every time I would build myself up and get in my head, but when I would do it,
00:06:02
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It was fine. And I like, I would ask, you know, if I had to give up or like, if I had to do a meeting and a big brother, like everyone was like, oh, you did a great job. But in my head, I was like, ah, you know what I mean? So yeah, I used to overthink a lot about everything and talk myself out of doing a lot of things. And I've been microdosing now for six months. I think it's going on six months. Well, let's say that.
00:06:29
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And I don't overthink anymore. At all. Like, I don't mind going if someone asks me to go somewhere or if I'm invited to something and I'll just go. And if I don't want to go, I'll just say no. I used to never say no. I always had to be like, oh, I just felt like I had to go places, right? I just do whatever I want to do now. And I don't think twice about it.
00:06:54
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And it's really nice. It's really nice not having to overthink about everything in life. It is. It's great. Another thing, I'm very in control of my emotions. I used to be the type of person that
00:07:15
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just say I was in a relationship and that person got angry at me or something like that and they were mad that I would literally allow their emotions to control my emotions and then I would also be like mad or sad or whatever and it's just like that's so wild to think about.
00:07:38
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If, you know, something didn't go my way, I would get like heated. I would be like angry and I would let that emotion run for probably days. And I would just be in these weird moods and like, it's, that sounds awful. It sounds like something that I never want to go through again and I'm not, I'm not going through any of that shit. Now it's like,
00:08:09
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I feel an emotion coming on and I process it in my head and I don't react to anything, right? Before something would trigger me, I'd have the emotion and then I'd react and then it's just a shit storm. Now it's like, oh, okay, I feel something coming on. Like, for example, the other day, me and Rebecca,
00:08:29
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I don't know what happened. I actually don't even understand what happened, but something triggered me and you know, I got in this weird mood, but literally like a couple of minutes later, I was like, what are you doing? Like, what are you actually doing right now? Give that up, go apologize and just move on with it, right? I would never in a million years do that before. You know, I was just, I was never wrong. I was always, I was always in the
00:08:58
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emotion for days, right? So being in control of my emotions now is amazing. I have less mood swings. I have way less mood swings. Like I said before, like other people's emotions would control my emotions and I'd be up and down and like one minute I'd be happy and then I'd be sad and like it was just all over the place and I don't have those mood swings anymore.
00:09:27
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I'm very consistent with how I feel throughout the day and I always wake up happy and I go on about my daily routine and it's always consistent. I don't wake up anymore with these random off days or feeling like at a place.
00:09:47
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Not knowing what's wrong with me and having anxiety like just trying to talk to people to get myself feeling better Having to go do something to get my mind that like that never happens anymore the only time that that has happened in the last Couple months has been when I went out and
00:10:10
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drank my face off and woke up the next morning with hangs, uh, anxiety. Cause that is, that's a real thing and I fucking hate it. It's like, honestly, drinking to me is not even worth it now. The only time that I'm going to be drinking in the future is if I'm on vacation or if there's like,
00:10:32
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some big event going on or you know what I mean? I've committed to myself that I'm not having these random ass nights going out partying all weekend long for no reason. Like why? Anyways, but that's a topic for another time. So yeah, there's way less mood swings. Everything is very consistent and I'm just happy all the time.
00:10:58
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I view things differently now than I used to. I used to be a little shithead before. Like a complete shithead. And it's like I just have a new set of eyes in this world now.
00:11:18
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It's like I just see everything differently. I am analyzing things and thinking about how other people are feeling. You know what I mean? I just view the world differently. I talk differently. The thoughts in my brain are different. The way I process stuff in my brain is different. It's actually wild.
00:11:46
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And what that does is with the psilocybin and LSD, it creates new thought patterns, new connections in your brain. So instead of having these same sad thoughts that when you're depressed, you have these same thought patterns that just brings you down into a deep dark hole and you don't know how to get out of it,
00:12:10
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Now i have these new ways of thinking like these new thought patterns and i still have these bad thoughts but then i'll process it in my brain and then i'm like okay like we felt like this before but you know let's not do that this time out so it's all these new connections that my brain is making with the psilocybin it's almost like a technology it's like your
00:12:42
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all this new information and it's very, very interesting. I'm still learning. That's something I want to add is I am still learning about microdosing and the different ways to use it. I am still learning and I'm always going to be learning.
00:13:06
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just take a pill and that's it. There's so much to know about microdosing and what it does to you and how you can apply it to your life. And it's a lifestyle. It is. It's literally a
Microdosing as a Lifestyle for Growth
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lifestyle. It's just something now that is engraved in my life and it's always going to be there. And I find it just helps me grow and I'm just on a steady growth incline. You know what I mean?
00:13:34
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Before it was like I was just the same person and As much as I thought that I was like doing my best and you know reading these best My best self book and all these positive books I was still a fucking shithead But now it's like it's like everything is just different. It's just really different and I
00:14:07
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I find that I'm very curious as well. I just, for example, if I'm out hiking, right? It's almost like I hear the birds chirping more clearer and it's like, you know, I'll see this plant and I'm like, whoa. And I'm like, I'll go like check it. It's almost like I'm a little kid again. That's just curious about everything.
00:14:31
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Right, because we live our lives most of the time just mindlessly doing things, right? You get up, make your coffee, pack your lunch, get in the car, you drive to work, your brain's like you just throw on music, you go do it. Like you're doing all these things throughout your life, every single day, just mindlessly doing it. Like how many times have you drove down the road in your vehicle and
00:15:00
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you don't even know how you got there. You're probably gonna drive for 10, 20 minutes and your brain shuts off. It's like you're mindlessly doing things and you're not paying attention to...
00:15:12
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most things right now it's like i'm always paying attention to a lot of things that i was never paying attention to before and i just i noticed things differently and it's it's like i am living in you know 6k lte
00:15:32
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if that makes any sense. It's like when, how can I explain it? It's like when somebody said this in one of my classes the other day, it's like having dial-up internet and then going to, what did he say? Full speed or fast speed internet or whatever. Anyways, you get what I'm saying. That's what it's like when you start microdosing.
00:15:56
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Um, I find them way more focused too, like way more focused, even, even doing this podcast, like this is the task I am doing. This is what I am focused on. I'm not focused on anything else. I'm not worried about anything else. And this is what I'm
00:16:18
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Before, I used to find that my brain was just scattering. It was just all over the place. One minute I'm thinking about this, next minute I'm thinking about this, and I would never just do something, right? I probably, I used to pro-crap, what is that word? I can't even think about the word right now, sorry. I hate when I have those moments when you're about to say a word and you just go blank, you can't think of it.
00:16:45
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But anyways, there used to be times where I would like sit on the couch and think about doing something and, but not doing it. And then thinking about, Oh, well I could be doing this too, not doing it. Oh, I could be doing this. And, and hours will go by. You're probably, you know, scroll on your phone and I'll go, I'll go do this. And you go back on your phone and you're just, you're just there thinking about doing things and not doing things.
00:17:13
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I used to waste so much time doing that. Now it's like, okay, boom, podcast, let's go do it. Let's get it done. Workout. Okay. Let's go do it. Okay. I gotta go, uh, do an outside workout. Let's go do it. I gotta do this. And I'm very, whatever task I'm on, I find that I'm a lot more focused now than I ever was. Right. Even reading.
00:17:36
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I used to read before. Man, I would read like five pages and be thinking about what I was doing tomorrow. I would never focus. And now, since I've been microgosing, it's like I read and I'm really focused on what I'm reading. And I take in the information more. I am doing these classes once a week now. And I used to hate, hate anything to do with teaching and classes and learning.
00:18:06
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Now it's like, I'm really engaged. I'm really focused on what, like I'm very interested on what this person has to say. So yeah, I find with everything that I do in life, I'm just a lot more focused than I ever was. My creativity.
Creativity & Relationship Enhancements
00:18:24
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So they have this microsibon, they have this products called the Macro Jedis, right? Or you're gonna get the macrosibons.
00:18:33
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And honestly guys, when I take a few of these pills and I take a macro dose, my brain just gets the most creative. Like there's times I'm going to, for example, right? I, when I was like on my way out the door with, um, my last job.
00:18:56
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I was terrified. I did not know what to do. You know, I thought about going back to Alberta. I was like, oh, I can do this. And I was just so confused and I couldn't make a decision. So this is exactly what I said. Rebecca, I got to do some mushrooms. And that's exactly what
00:19:19
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I have a couple pages here and I sat down and I started brainstorming and I started writing everything down what I'm going to be doing and I Just got really creative. I started thinking about what I was actually doing at work What I was putting my body through things I can be doing in life like I was coming up with business Opportunities and but you know what I mean? I actually you probably don't know what I mean. I
00:19:45
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a macrodose before, but I think that everybody should experience the macrodose. And something I want to add too is when I first started doing mushrooms, right? Like I used to just do it with my friends, you get really laffy, and that's all you would really do was really laugh when you didn't really understand what was going on.
00:20:08
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But the more that I've done it, it's like I started leveling up with how to use mushrooms as a tool. Like before I just did it for fun, but now it's like I use the mushrooms as a tool to help me in my life for guidance. It's really, just hear me out. I know there's some people that's gonna listen to this and they're gonna understand. There's a lot of you that don't. There's probably not gonna understand. But yeah, the more I do mushrooms,
00:20:38
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at doing mushrooms and I, it's like, I use it in my life when I need it. Um, like for example, when I was trying to figure out the whole job situation and going on my own and what I should do, I did mushrooms and I got clarity and I woke up the next day and I was like, I thought, I think I'm pretty sure I told my boss the next day I'm not going back to work. And that's, that's, that was that. So.
00:21:06
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Yeah, hold up. I'm not saying to go do mushrooms and quit your job. That's not what I'm saying, but it just has helped me a lot in my life.
00:21:22
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I do find when I have those macro doses that I get this big appreciation for life and I always come out the next day feeling a lot better about life. It's very, very, very magical. My relationship with my girlfriend right now is
00:21:48
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It's amazing. It's amazing. And this is something that I am not used to. I am used to chaos. And, you know, there were parts of it that was great, but I mean, it was just an up and down roller coaster throughout all my relationships I've ever been in.
00:22:05
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And it was like I was just going through this cycle, right? This constant cycle of a roller coaster. And, you know, it would always end up in me and that person breaking up. You know what I mean? But this relationship that I'm in now, it's like I am more, more like,
00:22:28
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In tune with the relationship more invested into the relationship and I communicate a lot better than I ever did I still like trust me. I'm always growing. I'm not perfect. I'm not here saying that you know, I've I've Discovered myself and I'm just perfect now and relate everything's just amazing Trust me like there's been a couple times where me and her now have gotten to like this stupid little argument, but I
00:22:58
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We get over fast and we're like, well, what are we doing? Like literally a few minutes later, what are we doing? This is we were better than this. This is not what we want. Um, we've both gone through this bullshit before. Let's not do this. Right. Before I would get into an argument, you know, I'd probably be upset and we'd build up resentment and there's no communication. And it's just, it goes on for days and you're just like, it's like you don't even like the person.
00:23:27
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It's not like that now. It's everything about my relationship is a hundred times better than any relationship I've ever been in. And you know, micro dosing has definitely helped with that is because I'm actually doing work on myself. If I have any advice to anybody out here right now, if you're in a toxic relationship, right?
00:23:53
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Do not get out of that relationship and go into another one immediately. It's the worst thing you can ever do.
00:24:03
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A lot of people are very dependent on other people for their happiness, right? They don't know how to be alone. So as soon as they get a relationship, you know, maybe they'll just blame it on the other person. They say, oh, you know, he was a fucking idiot. He was toxic. He ruined my life. And then they just go jump into another relationship and they literally attract
00:24:28
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the exact same person that they just left. And then the cycle starts again. And that's exactly what I was doing. Exactly. To the T. I would, you know, get in a relationship, do no work on myself, you know, maybe go party for a couple months, get in another relationship with another girl, same bullshit's happening again, get in a relationship, you know what I mean? And that's not nice. That is not nice. Like, you're just wasting each other's time.
00:24:58
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So my advice to you is if you're getting in a relationship or you're currently single, stay single, right? Figure yourself out. Get to the point where you are so fucking happy with yourself that you don't even want to be in a relationship. Just, just keep doing you, right? Keep working on yourself. Get yourself to the best you could possibly be, right?
00:25:27
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And one of these days, someone's going to come along in your life and all that bullshit, all that fucking nonsense that you were putting up with before is going to be a thing in the past because you've done the work, worked on yourself. And you're not relying on anybody for your happiness. You are really just relying on yourself and you're happy.
00:25:51
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with yourself but this person that you meet and you bring into your life is just gonna compliment your life. You don't need this person. You don't need this person for you to be happy. You just really like them and you want them to be a part of your life and that's what happened to me. I took probably a year and what, two, three months? I was single, I loved being single, loved it.
00:26:19
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and then all of a sudden Rebecca came along and everything's just been perfect since so and I hope the fuck it stays it's not I don't hope to fuck it's gonna stay this way because you know she's also gone through her own her own shit right and she's done a lot of work herself so we both just met at a perfect time we were the timing of everything was just
00:26:44
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really crazy but yeah we've both done the work and this is why I feel like we're going to have a long successful relationship because we're both healed from our bullshit and trust me there's still times where things will come up and but we do we deal with it differently now and probably we used to deal with like before we used to deal with it differently you know what I mean
00:27:10
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So overall, relationships, 20 out of 10 since I've been microdosing.
Self-Improvement & Precautions
00:27:20
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I have more desire now to better myself than I ever had before. Before I started microdosing, it was like mushrooms wasn't in my life, so it's
00:27:36
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to alcohol a lot, right? It's a party a lot. It's a party a lot. And I know now that while I'm microdosing, alcohol is not helping me progress in my life. And it's not helping the microdosing. I can't get the full benefits of microdosing.
00:27:56
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I am hungover two out of seven days. And then those hangovers will roll into Monday and then you're feeling like shit even on Tuesday. So four out of your seven days, you're feeling like shit. That's just, that just don't like, I don't have any desire to live that life anymore.
00:28:22
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So I like that I'm just on this journey of microdosing because this is what I want to do. And when I'm microdosing and I'm taking psilocybin and I'm doing everything proper, I'm living a better, healthier life than I ever was before. So those are just a few.
00:28:48
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a few things that I can add about how micro dosing has helped me in my life. Now this is not going to like, trust me, you're, some of you guys are going to do micro dosing and it might not be for you and that's totally fine. Some of you might do micro dosing and one week into it, you're going to be like, holy shit.
00:29:14
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This is insane, like the progress I'm having to change. Some of you might take a month, right? Every body is different. Every mind is different. Every person is different. So my advice to you, if you're wanting to get into microdosing, first things first, research. Do your research. Is this right for me?
00:29:41
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Now, what I love about microcybin is their website is full of information, full of information. You can go on there and click the learn section, right? There's a section, what is microdosing? Boom. Microdosing 101, everything you need to know about microdosing, here it is. A lot of people won't read that. They'll just hear someone else being like, oh, microdosing is great. Okay, I'll take it. Guys, do your research.
00:30:09
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they have a ton of blogs on there. There's endless amounts of blogs, endless, interesting reads about microdosing and what it does to you. There's a section there they have on their website about mental health. Um, you can download the, uh, the, the microdosing guide, the beginner guide. They have a, um, uh, there's, there's just a lot of information on microsilence website that you can check out.
00:30:40
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dive deep into the microdosing. So definitely that's the first step. Do your research. Second step, reach out to somebody like me that knows about it, right? I can get you on your feet, show you what products to start with because there's some people that will literally go eat two grams of mushrooms. They'll have a terrible experience and they're terrified and they'll never want to do it again. And there's a lot of those type of people.
00:31:11
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into mushrooms, psilocybin, right? So there's certain products that I would definitely recommend. And then third is just being consistent, right? Actually following the protocols, being consistent with it, giving all your attention to what's going on in your body. And then fourth is just making it like a part of your daily life and doing the work on yourself.
Conclusion & Listener Engagement
00:31:40
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So anyways, that is, I'm gonna clue it up. I think I got through a lot of good information there. I hope I made sense in what I was saying.
00:31:52
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Again, I appreciate you guys coming by and listening to me go on rants Until the next episode and if you like this episode, you know hit the download Hit the like I don't even know how podcast works. I realized my last two episodes. I was saying subscribe and download like and
00:32:13
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I know you can download podcasts, but I don't know if you can subscribe or maybe you can follow me on Spotify. I don't know how that works. But anyways, much love for anybody that's on here supporting me. So until the next episode, we'll talk then.