What I wish someone had told me before my first experience
1045 replies · First Time
10 years in. Looking back at my first experience with the benefit of hindsight, there's so much I would tell my younger self. What would you tell someone doing this for the first time tomorrow?
The fear is almost always the door. When something frightening comes up, try turning toward it and asking what it wants to show you. I would have saved years of difficult sessions if I'd learned this earlier.
It doesn't always feel the way you expect and that's usually the point. Your plan for the experience is not the experience. The experience knows better than your plan. Surrender, don't steer.
The integration period is more important than the session. I had multiple profound experiences and did nothing with them because I thought the session was the work. The session is just opening a door. You still have to walk through it in ordinary life.
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