How Complaining Rewires Your Brain for Negativity & How to Stop

"…There’s something called 'experience-dependent neuroplasticity,' which is the continuing creation and grouping of neuron connections in our brains that take place as a result of our life experiences.

Neuroscience teaches us that neurons that fire together, wire together. Donald Hebb, a Canadian neuropsychologist, coined that phrase back in 1949. What this means is that whenever we think a thought or have a feeling or physical sensation, thousands of neurons are triggered and they all get together to form a neural network.

With repetitive thinking, the brain learns to trigger the same neurons each time.

So, if you keep your mind looping on self-criticism, worries, and how nothing is working out for you, your mind will more easily find that part of your brain and will quickly assist you in thinking those same thoughts again.

This shapes your mind into greater reactivity, making you more vulnerable to anxiety…"

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The Beneficial Psychedelic Experience | THE SHAMAN

Anything from magic mushrooms to Ayahuasca can provide you a beneficial psychedelic experience, as long this is the goal you are after.

The sacred psychedelic plants are part of the human culture since time immemorial. The shamans rely on these plants for achieving altered states of consciousness. In these states the spiritual workers are able to tap in to realms of existence otherwise unreachable. Accordingly to the mainstream historians, psychedelic plants and substances are been used for more than 10,000 years. Evidences of shamanic-ritual usage of San Pedro cactus in Peru for example, are dated 8600 B.C. The magic mushrooms usage in Mexico and Guatemala has long roots. Artifacts like the mushroom stone (apx. 3000 years old), are a definitive evidence of how important the hallucinogenic mushrooms were for the people. The Batel plant was wildly used in Asia. The first evidence of Batel usage pointing back to 2660 B.C. …

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