How to integrate a challenging psychedelic experience

In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison talk about how to integrate a challenging psychedelic experience. They discuss what the integration process typically entails, some recent research on integration, what can make a psychedelic experience challenging to integrate, how the preparation process affects the integration process, special tips for integrating challenging experiences, and much more.
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A bundle of good advice and helpful thoughts, thank you! Just one thing got me thinking, which is if it really is a good thing to “shelve” challenging trips. In my experience psychedelic trips don’t age well. And they not only give you what you need, they are also tailored to fit your psychological/mental abilities at the time for processing them - but this is more of an intuition than a scientific fact. The trouble with not processing them while fresh on your mind is that we tend to lose the feeling of urgency and - especially for very challenging or even painful trips - avoid going there again emotionally or mentally at later times. They do infiltrate into your unconscious mind or into your dreams, though, and do what they do without you actively processing them. Or they start to “rot” and infect other parts of your psyche. And one more thought on this from a spiritual perspective: Maybe the “lesson” of a challenging trip is not a wisdom, but an improved skill, even though you went into it with the intention of getting answers. So there may just be nothing to integrate (just to acknowledge). We are all here for a reason, it's not so much about us. Let's just let the universe play itself out through us. 🙂