In this audio I describe this ground-breaking information on how to heal with psychedelics from the book How to Change your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan.

The article I mention By Robin Carhart-Harris on The Entropic Brain on psychedelics is here https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00020/full

00:00 Intro to the book and my work
02:40 outline of the book: history, natural history and personal experience of the author Michael Pollan, origins of psychedelic research LSD/mescaline - began in the 1940s/1950s with the 1960s counterculture and anti-war movement
04:59 The War on Drugs began and class A restrictions still in place 50 years later.
06:21 His own experiences with LSD, psilocybin and DMT
07:00 The neuroscience - switching off the Default Mode Network in the brain creates unusual new connections. Disconnection dissolves - we become one with all that is and love as the ultimate meaning
10:16 Drug assisted psychotherapy - the research from the US and the UK - particularly at Imperial College, London under David Knutt - one of the major research groups in the world. The new renaissance.
14:20 Predictive coding is how the brain avoids uncertainty - entropy is controlled therefore by making things predictable and limited. New states require rewiring of regular reality to include magical thinking much like young children have with neuroplasticity
17:00 New expansive awareness has HUGE potential for healing disease states like depression, anxiety and addiction, overcoming the fear of death in terminal cancer patients but also promoting creativity and productivity in healthy people (when microdosed)
19:24 The potential to help trauma/PTSD when traumatic memories are over-written by psychedelics and other forms of altered state promotion like EMDR. All require a safe therapeutic container.

Look out for my new book tentatively titled Mind Magic - summer 2024

**Watch a video**
HOW TO HEAL BIRTH TRAUMA WITH EMDR https://youtu.be/JmtarRiGsgY
QUANTUM HARMONIC RESONANCE IN THE BODY https://youtu.be/DMKLkIw6PXI
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEU
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8

Work with me:
ORDER A BOOK: See my books here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Patricia-Worby/e/B015TM124G
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*If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP*
CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/
Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass

OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES
Group Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.com
Author/Book site: https//patriciaworby.com
Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.

COMING SOON:
Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com

Psychotherapist Virginia Satir (1916 - 1988) remains one of the most influential family therapists there have ever been but she is virtually unknown now outside of psychology. She taught the importance of feelings over thoughts and blew the current understanding and practice out the water with her emphasis on safe emotional connection and the reasons people repeated certain scripted behaviors. Her work was the basis for Richard Bandler's development of NLP but she is seldom acknowledged or celebrated.

When I was a fledgling therapist I was asked to model myself on someone who worked the way I wanted to and I found her by accident and noticed something very important. She touched people! Both figuratively and physically she stressed the importance of safe emotional connection through touch, sight and sound. She believed everything was vibration and that to be human was a magical thing of divine expression.

Find out how her work has influenced mine and what I wished I'd known about self-esteem and becoming fully human.

Her expressed wish was that everyone could look the mirror and say "the world is a better place because I'm in it".
Find your work here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ITT44xDLXI

00:00 Intro to Virginia Satir as a model for the work I now do
03:00 The importance of emotions in working with people in therapy - sight, sound and touch (sensory inputs through the body) enables people to feel safe and is the basis of behaviour
06:11 A faulty model of the world that we learned as children becomes the basis for how we related now - a faulty projection of reality. Power vs. intimacy.
10:05 The body expresses the dysfunction because the mind cannot (it's repressed). Rage then ensues which is driven into symptoms.
11:48 Power dynamics between people. Being present vs. being defended. Freedom to disagree via safe connection vs. reactivity.
13:07 The need to be right will be defended even if it is dysfunctional (Peter Crone) to avoid feeling uncertainty.To be truly intimate have to be willing to acknowledge difference.
15:53 Each human being is the unique manifestation of a divine force. We need time to explore ourselves to be in true relationship with others. We ask to be heard by someone.
17:30 We are vibration - so how we use our bodies matters. Being in true connection whilst disagreeing gives us energy. In battle with our experience.
19:34 The importance of meaning and interpretation in communication. Having an accurate picture in order to respond appropriately
21:56 How the vulnerability of not knowing is part of the solution not the problem. Our difference needs acknowledging and a willingness to not know.
23:32 Every situation in our life in which we struggle shows us where are not free or out of alignment with our true selves.
24: 30 How I work with the body to build self-esteem

Find Peter Crone's conversation with Rangan Chatterjee here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnsUif-CzOg

*If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP*
CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/
Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass

OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES
Group Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.com
Author/Book site: https//patriciaworby.com
Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.

COMING SOON:
Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com

Anxiety is not a disease in the sense that doctors describe. It is a message from the body that something in your environment feels unsafe.

For original article I'm commenting on go here. https://www.carolynspring.com/blog/six-steps-to-managing-anxiety/

00:00 Intro - everyday trauma impacts the mind to create a sense of unsafety which can be easily triggered in current life causing anxiety as a symptom
02:50 Anxiety has a purpose - to keep us safe the amygdala will fire a warning signal to DO something to change our situation. Anxiety is normal - to draw your attention to something emotional that hasn't been resolved activating your sympathetic fight and flight system.
05:00 A backbrain phenomenon from past trauma in your history that was unable to be processed.
07:10 Lack of belonging, status, and safety can create physical symptoms of collapse including insomnia. Getting curious as to how to make your environment safer and learn how to soothe yourself.'
10:00 Relational safety. Stressful, competitive, insecure environments.
12:12 Managing anxiety with havening, breathwork, play and connection to overcome nervous dysregulation. How to collaborate with you body via sleep, diet and movement, especially walks in nature and allowing.
14:40 Cognitive reframing - not being anxious about being anxious. Making friends with your anxiety.
Not making it your identity. You are doing anxiety, showing this behaviour, especially when highly sensitive. It's not who you are.
16:31 You are not ill, you lack the skills you need. I teach this at my monthly Community group calls (see my website below to book)
17:50 Your focus matters - not broken but wounded. Get help and support (not try to fix it) but to be with you while you learn what your childhood adverse experiences have created.
20:00 Increasing resilience by dealing with the past needs another to help you. And they have to be safe to you bodily. That's why I do Discovery calls prior to re-regulation work.
**Watch a video**
QUANTUM HARMONIC RESONANCE IN THE BODY https://youtu.be/DMKLkIw6PXI
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEU
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8

Work with me:
ORDER A BOOK: See my books here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Patricia-Worby/e/B015TM124G
MY INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/alchemy.therapies/
MY WEBSITE: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/

See my books on amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Patricia-Worby/e/B015TM124G
Join in my Emotional AUDIT (Evergreen) Trauma Healing programme OR
Take part in the group monthly Community Sessions where we discuss a range of topics.
https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/booking-calendar/online-community-membership

*If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP*
CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/
Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass

OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES
Group Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.com
Author/Book site: https//patriciaworby.com
Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.

COMING SOON:
Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com