Power Of Awareness <\/a>Mindfulness Course I am nearing completion of, and Steve’s Pavlina’s Character Sculpting course which I started in January this year. So I have decided to take the opportunity of this post to write out my intentions and to share them with you.<\/span><\/p>\nMy intentions for PsyJuly are:<\/span><\/p>\n\nto cultivate and embrace the experimenter\/explorer mindset and overcome debilitating perfectionism.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\nto be pushed to think differently about how I create<\/span><\/em><\/li>\nto evolve my relationship with and how I tap in to inspiration, channel it, and express it in the outer world as form that can be shared with others.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\nto develop a clearer flow from inception of an idea to expression of it<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the long term, this will enable me to publish more frequently and share more, <\/span>thus creating more ripples and having a larger positive influence on the world.\u00a0 If I am able to share more, this will enable me to do more of my original intention when creating Maps of the Mind:<\/span><\/p>\nto share my experiences, to pass on ideas and resources that I enjoy or have been useful to me, and to share my thoughts, some of which I hope can inspire others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
To that I’d like to now add: \nand have a positive influence on the world.<\/p>\n
To those intentions I’d like to add:<\/p>\n
\nto explore my own thoughts on the topic of Psychedelics. <\/span><\/em>After years in and around the psychedelic world\/community and approaching a decade of personal practice, it will be a great chance for me to assess where I’m at on my journey.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\nto present myself and my thoughts without over-editing. To use the challenge and awkward feelings I encounter as a practice in openness and honesty.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThe challenge won’t enable me to get in to my over editing ways. So, prepare to see a rawer, unedited version of John!<\/p>\n
The rules of the game<\/h2>\nTo publish one post each and every day for 30 consecutive days, \non the theme of Psychedelics.<\/p>\n
Day 1 : July 1st. \nDay 30 : July 30th.<\/p>\n
Click publish on each post by midnight CET time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That’s it. The rules outside of this are loose. The post could be: \na text post, a video post, an audio post, a post linking to other resources, a list post etc. There is no lower word limit (generation of words is not something I need to work on); the key is clicking ‘publish’ each and every day. I am allowed to create more than one post per day and save them for other days so I can have a day off. I may also use previously written but as yet unpublished material that is knocking around on my computer. Guest posts are also fine, so long as I write some kind of intro or outro for it myself.<\/p>\n
What to expect \/ What I’d Like to Cover<\/h1>\nMy Experience as:<\/h3>\n\na psychedelic practitioner<\/li>\n a guide\/facilitator<\/li>\n a retreat organiser<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTips & Practical Info:<\/h3>\n\nHow to make the most of sessions<\/li>\n Mindset<\/li>\n Tools<\/li>\n Session\/Protocol creation<\/li>\n DIY Resources<\/li>\n Preparation<\/li>\n Navigation<\/li>\n Integration<\/li>\n Supporting Practices<\/li>\n Magic in psychedelic practice (AKA psychology, consciousness hacking, self programming, de-conditioning and re-conditioning)<\/li>\n Ritual<\/li>\n Non-psychedelic consciousness enhancers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nMy Thoughts & Perspective on<\/h3>\n\nHow psychedelics play in to change on individual and collective level<\/li>\n Their role in our species development at this time; psycho \/ activism, problem solving (collectively we are facing some pretty huge problems at this time), community building.<\/li>\n The psychedelic movement and its shadow side<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nMy Favourite & Recommended Psychedelic Things<\/h3>\n\nBooks<\/li>\n Films<\/li>\n Influencers\/figures<\/li>\n Articles<\/li>\n Music<\/li>\n Websites<\/li>\n Resources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n…and potential for many more. Let’s see how much of that I can cover!<\/p>\n
Psychedelics are something that I feel I could write and explore forever about, so the potential for ideas is not something I am worried about at all. Ideas are not something I am short of and writers block, in the sense of not knowing what to write, is never an issue. My block, or greatest Resistance, is my over-perfectionism, which can at times lead to an unhealthy obsessiveness. So this is the challenge and block that I am focused on overcoming.<\/p>\n
I hope you will join me on this journey and hopefully in the process glean some insight, useful information… and enjoy the ride. I am excited! If you know of someone else who may enjoy, please share and I hope that this can spark some debate and continue to push the psychedelic movement forwards. I also invite you to speak about psychedelics a little more during the upcoming month, with whoever you like. I hope that this series will be able to provide some fuel for those conversations.<\/p>\n
Perhaps you have one final question….<\/p>\n
Why Psychedelics?<\/p>\n
I’ll answer that tomorrow \ud83d\ude09 See you then!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Welcome to 30 Days of Psychedelics! I have recently gotten a bit obsessed \/ addicted to 30 day challenges. Since the start of Corona, I have completed the following: 30 days of cold showers\u00a0 3x 30 days of yoga (thanks Adrienne!) 30 day digital detox 30 days of speaking to a new person 30 days […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[245,35,244,162],"class_list":["post-6492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-psychedelics","tag-30-day-challenge","tag-blog","tag-blogger","tag-psychedelics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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