Microdosing Psychedelics: A Practical Guide to Upgrade Your Life

If you do choose to microdose during a difficult time, it may be useful to meditate, even for just five or 10 minutes beforehand.

Disrupting the DMN also helps people be more grounded in the present moment, achieving a state of mindfulness useful for battling depression.

As with macrodoses of psychedelics, your mindset going into a microdose could heavily determine the effects.

Because psychedelic substances decrease order and increase volatility, a strong goal is necessary to offset distractions and stay on purpose. Without knowing where we are going, we are more likely to end up at a place we don’t want to be. If we have a clear intention, however, we will discover the right opportunities to take the steps in the direct

Ultimately, we just don’t know much about the long-term cardiac effects of microdosing. For this reason, it’s best to limit your microdosing cycles to no more than 90 days at a time, with at least two rest days between each dose and perhaps a month or so between each cycle.

Mindfulness allows people to observe their thoughts and emotions without becoming attached to them, meaning they are less affected by negativity or preoccupations.

Many antidepressants work by inhibiting the reuptake (reabsorption) of serotonin in the brain, thereby increasing its availability.

Pharmacology professor David Nichols hypothesizes in the article that microdosing works as a stimulant by activating dopamine pathways and exciting the central cortex, similar to the effect of pills like Adderall and Ritalin but without addictive properties or other harmful side effects.

The key to the power of psychedelics, many reports assert, is improved self awareness.