The following are five ways in which drinking the Ayahuasca brew, with intention, and with the support of trained facilitators, can help to improve your life:
Improved Self-Awareness:
Ayahuasca can help a person gain a better understanding of themselves and their place in the world. Ayahuasca can help with this by providing deep psychological insight and recognition of one’s connection with others and with the earth, and also by making it difficult to avoid the realities of one’s life. It can open up perceptions, increase self-awareness, and help one see and understand their thought process with a high degree of acuity.
Improved Emotional Well-Being
Ayahuasca can help a person work through emotional issues and improve their overall emotional well-being by illuminating the root cause of depressive, anxious, and addictive symptoms, therefore allowing one to heal themselves with this intimate wisdom of oneself.
Ayahuasca has been shown to increase both creativity and empathy, and improve the centeredness of one's mood and emotions. Ayahuasca may also reduce stress and depression and contribute to neurogenesis, which refers to the production of new neurons and new connections among existing neurons.
Ayahuasca ceremonies treat the whole person - their body, suppressed emotions, mind, and spirit. partaking in ceremony with this shamanic brew can produce deep relaxation and can help in getting rid of pent-up grief, anger, stress, and other dispirited emotions.
Improved Physical Health
Ayahuasca has been used as medicine in indigenous South American cultures for thousands of years to treat a variety of physical ailments. As many ailments are rooted in the mental, emotional, and spiritual parts of one’s being, healing these parts of one’s being can mediate the healing of the physical body as a whole.
Improved Spiritual Connection
Ayahuasca can help a person connect with their spirit, and gain a deeper understanding of the world around them and inside of them. Ayahuasca helps with this by expanding and deepening someone's understanding of their own known experiences, along with their consciousness capacity in ceremony. Basically shining a new light on your life circumstances and history, seeing your life from a totally new perspective. A higher perspective.
Ayahuasca can help people understand their relationship with their environment and how their mental, emotional, and physical health are interconnected, thus opening one to the experience of oneness that is at the foundation of spirituality. This understanding can lead to improved behaviors which allow individuals to make positive changes in their lives while also increasing awareness of all aspects of existence.
Improved Creativity
Ayahuasca has been found to stimulate neurogenesis and enhance creative thinking while decreasing conventional convergent thinking. Small studies show enhancements to creative thinking and psychological flexibility for people who take ayahuasca, which could also increase its therapeutic potential. Ayahuasca has been shown to improve cognitive processes - like flexible thinking, empathy, metacognitive awareness, and well-being- that are generally compromised in stress-related psychopathologies.
More on Ayahuasca benefits and side effects with clinical studies: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/ayahuasca
