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Apply Psychedelic Neuroscience to Optimize Integration & Personal Development with Manesh Girn - 68

Sep 3, 2023

Psychedelic neuroscience expert, Manesh Girn, discusses leveraging our understanding of psychedelic neuroscience to optimize integration and personal development. Topics include neural plasticity, the impact of psychedelics on the 5HT2A, critical periods, metaphor and meaning making, mental health issues, the power of stress, and the role of gamma brainwaves.

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Psychedelics enhance neuroplasticity, allowing for the exploration of new avenues of information and facilitating personal transformation.

Understanding the neuroscience of psychedelics helps us explore their potential for optimal living and highlights the importance of mindfulness and a supportive community.

Psychedelics enhance self-directed adaptive neuroplasticity, and integrating the psychedelic experience in real-life contexts supports meaningful transformation.

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Neuroplasticity and Psychedelics

Psychedelics enhance neuroplasticity, the brain's ability to change connections and facilitate learning or adaptation. The main receptor targeted by psychedelics is the serotonin-2A receptor, which is densely located in the areas responsible for learning intergenerational or cultural knowledge. Psychedelics disrupt the usual patterns of activity in these areas, allowing for the exploration of new avenues of information. Leveraging our understanding of psychedelic neuroscience can optimize integration and support personal transformation.

The Role of Psychedelics in Slow and Steady Transformation

01:27

Adapting vs Assimilating: Navigating Dysfunctional Cultures

01:18

The Role of Imagination in Psychedelic Experiences and Therapeutic Benefits

01:22

Introduction

2min

Psychedelics and Sacred Plant Medicines for Human Flourishing

6min

Understanding the Neuroscience of Psychedelics

7min

The Rebus Framework: Revisiting Internal Beliefs and Frameworks

12min

The Connection Between Mental Health and Nervous System Dysregulation

7min

Being Intentional and Cultivating Healthy Relationships

23min

Exploring the Role of Gamma Brainwaves and Trusting One's Knowing

2min

Understanding Altered States of Consciousness and Neurogenesis

3min

The Role of Psychedelics in Memory and Identity

18min

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Apply Psychedelic Neuroscience to Optimize Integration & Personal Development with Manesh Girn - 68

How can we learn to leverage our understanding of psychedelic neuroscience to optimize integration so that we can more effectively support ourselves and others on the path of personal transformation?

This is the central question of today's episode featuring psychedelic neuroscientist, Dr. Manesh Girn.

Manesh Girn is also a guest teacher for TRANSILIENCE where he will dive much deeper into the topics we explored here today.

In this episode:

Neural plasticity & self directed adaptive neural plasticity.
3 Reasons it’s important to understanding the neuroscience of psychedelics.
And how we apply those 3 reason to inform optimal integration.
The effect that psychedelics have on the 5HT2A
Critical periods, and the specific critical period that psychedelics help to open.
Metaphor and meaning making.
Why transformation is a slow and steady process, and why that’s actually a good thing
Manesh's perspective on how mental health issues originate as nervous system dis-regulation
Discomfort as part of the transformation equation.
The power of stress and how stress can be highly adaptive.

Access full transcript and learn more about Manesh Girn here.

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