How to Use Ketamine as a Transformational Medicine
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Did you know that ketamine is more than just a medication? It’s something that can actually transform you. You just need to understand how to make the most out of your treatment so that you can change your life for the better. In this blog post, let’s talk about the 4 very important stages when using ketamine as a transformative medicine.
To achieve true transformation from your ketamine treatments, there are 4 stages you need to go through.
First Stage: Preparation
The work doesn’t start during the day of the treatment itself. It starts before you even step into the clinic. One week before your first infusion (if you were our patient), you will be given a set of guidelines to follow that includes things like meditation, eating a healthy diet, getting more sleep, etc. These are good habits that you need to practice so that you can have a pleasant experience during your first day of infusion. You want your mind and body prepared for the transformative journey during the ketamine infusion experience.
Second Stage: Intention
When preparing for your infusion, you need to know what it is you want. It’s important to set an intention that is very specific as to why you're doing the ketamine experience. Be very mindful about your intention and the outcome that you're interested in receiving. Intentions can give direction, like a GPS. Explore this concept more at our Set An Intention For Your Ketamine Infusion Journey blog.
Third Stage: Experience
The third stage is the ketamine experience itself. While you're having the experience, fully experience it and be present. Sometimes we have that second-person voice in our head that's constantly narrating what's going on. Let that go and fully experience the infusion.
What is a ketamine infusion experience like? Learn more here at our blog on this very topic, The Four Types of Experiences You May Have With Ketamine.
Fourth Stage: Integration
The last stage is the integration.This is probably one of the most important pieces of this process because you're going to get insights, awareness and knowledge from your ketamine experience. All of your takeaways must be practiced and integrated into your daily life so that you can make long-lasting change.
Explore this topic more at our How to Prepare For And Integrate From a Ketamine Infusion blog.
You Play an Active Role
And those are the four stages: preparation, intention, experience, and lastly, integration. If you’ve noticed, in order to make the most of your ketamine experience, you have to do the work not just during the infusion, but before and after as well. You play an active role in transforming your life and ketamine is just the instrument to aid you in doing so.
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