Exploring The Healing Potential of Altered States
Changing your consciousness can change your life and accelerate your healing journey — if done with intention.
There are many angles to explore when it comes to altered states of consciousness: performance enhancement, problem-solving, spiritual curiosity, self-development, trauma resolution, and other healing purposes, just to name a few.
When authors Kotler and Wheal talk about the rapidly evolving $4 trillion “Altered States Economy” in their bestseller Stealing Fire, they talk about all of the above, and many more.
This article, however, focuses exclusively on those experiences that broadly relate to personal healing.
Because this is the lens through which I came to experience them. And I believe the healing power of inner journeys through profound altered states is not only vastly misunderstood but also severely underutilized.
Altered states of consciousness come in many shapes and have been around for thousands of years
There’s a vast range of altered states of consciousness, or “non-ordinary states”, and no one experience will be like the other. They range from meditation, hypnosis, dream…
