micro, mEcro, macro

+ when is micro not the answer.

It is becoming ever more common knowledge that altered states, done right, can leave us better.
The level and frequency of engagement with psychedelics should fit the desired benefit / task at hand. I believe in analogies as a way of encapsulating more complex information into neat elegant knowledge packets that stick. Below I offer such analogy to levels of engagements with psychedelics. Even advanced practitioners who may find the basic framework intuitive, find it useful when communicating with others.

Broadly speaking, people speak of microdosing (around sub-perceptual) and macro (full on) experiences. I find that between the micro and the macro, there is an important layer- the term I coined for it is mEcro. I think of these 3 layers through the lens/ analogy of a house cleaning. As within.

1. Micro: Microdosing is meant to be around subperceptual. The effect of microdosing is like a cleaning person that tends to the obvious cleaning tasks in our homes-🧹🧼 taking out the garbage, dusting up, vacuum cleaning, cleaning the windows. For those tasks, little involvement is needed on our part, if any. Like a rumba, it can happen in the background, all we need to do is to allow and get out of the way. Similarly- while sensitivity and dosage vary, while microdosing, one should be able to go about their day for the most part. (It is however recommended to take time in meditation/ stillness in order to maximize microdosing’s benefits). Like the above cleaning tasks- microdosing is best had intermittently and with regularity. While many may experience a positive shift on day 1 already, microdosing’s subtle changes are meant to accumulate over time.

2. mEcro™️: Not a typo. mEcro is a word I coined to describe a lighter, yet felt experience. Oftentimes people use “micro” to signal they want to be only “a little high”. If you are high- it ain’t proper micro. So instead: mEcro. The effect of a mEcro experience is like that of a cleaning team tending to some organizational tasks around our homes 🧺📨 such as sorting our our laundry, desktop or mail. A cleaning team cannot tend to those without some involvement on our part. “Have you paid this bill? Where do you want this item to go?” That is the equivalent of what within us needs to be realized, processed, or observed. Perhaps an extra boost of creativity or life force is felt. Here one is in a felt experience but can still socialize/ dance/ write/ play music/ hike/ snowboard/ ski/ sail etcetera. mEcro need not be done with any regularity- approach when called. Even when moving through a growth leap, it is recommended not to exceed more often than once a week for a felt experience. Take time to integrate and ground between mEcro engagements.

3. Macro: The third and final level is a deep experience- where we ought to stop our daily activities and just be fully immersed in that process. It is like deep cleaning our garage or completely sorting out our closet🧥👘🥼. In order to complete the task our cleaning team needs us fully engaged. Keep? Donate? Throw out? Fix? This is what a macro experience/ ceremony is like. One better allocate a time free of distractions for that activity and nothing else. This is not a hike friendly level of engagement. Here you are likely hugging a pillow, a tree, your inner child, a bucket or your knees. When this processes come on they can feel like a lot. Especially if it has been a while since you engaged with such work or it is your first time. Cleaning one’s garage for the first time in decades, one is likely to find some cob webs. Do not wait for a mice infestation aka a crisis to clean your garage. Engage proactively and willfully. AND- do not overdo it either. Macro experiences should be approached with rigor and reverence and be integrated properly. A macro experience that is not properly integrated can feel like one has emptied their entire closet for a re-org and only sorted through half, leaving the other hand splashed all over. Outside of a growth leap, once a season is a good place to max it, once a year is a good maintenance cadence.

So far on the general framework. Pretty intuitive. Below are a couple of applications

(1) We don’t use a rumba to move a piano aka when is micro NOT the answer? When people approach me and share that themselves or a loved one is in a crisis of sorts, and ask should that person microcode, I say: We don’t use a rumba to move a piano. Meaning- when we need to do deep cleaning, a rumba running in the background won’t do. Rumba can rather bang against the thing and not move it.
<An alternative version of the same idea: To a woman in labor we don’t give an Advil. What can a woman in labor get for that pain? For that pain, she can get a baby. Some discomfort may very well be on the menu. That pain is not noise, it is signal. Done right, that discomfort can mark the portal to a new life.>

(2) I began microdosing and felt great BUT THEN.. aka: when microdosing stops being the answer. Some people experience an improvement when they begin macrodosing but then comes a time that macrodosing can become agitating to them. What happened? The initial “house cleaning” brought about an improvement, then a deeper layer is revealed (perhaps the awareness one needs to bring about a change in their life/ work/ relationships) and that awareness needs to be addressed or acted upon in order for the discomfort to pass and for a greater, long lasting positive change to come about.

May we know when to micro / mEcro / macro dose towards a better self, and do so in service of greater than self.
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