A practice is a habit. Our habits result in a strengthening of those behaviors and skills. If you want to become good at something - it has to become a habit for you. In my life I have applied this to many endeavors. A dancer dances. A performer performs. A director directs. A sculptor sculpts.
But these habits, although they lead us to mastery, create repetitive grooves in our lives and minds. By the time we are down the road, we are well aware of how those habits have helped us and also how they have limited us - even how they have failed us. We are aware of which opportunities have passed us by because we were operating under this set of assumptions and habits.
Psychedelics, especially psilocybin, give us a vacation from our mental grind…our habitual framing of the events in our lives and the lives we witness around us.
I tell the story of my life like this. I tell the stories of other people’s lives like this as well. What if that story is tired. What if that story is so strong, I don’t feel like I can change it even though I now find it boring.
I am skiing down a hill and this story is the well worn path that allows me to travel at such speed. It keeps leading me to the same spot on the mountain though.
This loop, this groove got you this far. What else is there for you in this life if you change your approach or adjust your mental habits? Life is long and can be repetitive. Where could a new habit lead you?