[Solved] How can psychedelics break ingrained thought patterns? What neurological changes occur with the use of psychedelics?

Psychedelics help to to break ingrained thought patterns because they temporarily change the way the brain processes information. This is like a “neurological reset,” in which old patterns, negative beliefs, and automatic thoughts lose their grip.

During a psychedelic session with, for example, psilocybin (truffles), a legal LSD analogue, or other psychedelics takes the activity of the Default Mode Network (DMN) temporarily off. This network is responsible for self-reflection, worrying, and maintaining the ego. When the DMN is less dominant, other brain regions communicate more freely with each other. This results in new connections (neuroplasticity), which enables the brain to think and feel in a new way.

After conversion to psilocin, psilocybin can induce the release of BDNF (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) increase. This is a growth hormone that helps nerve cells repair and stimulates new synaptic connections. This neurochemical change makes it easier to change deeply ingrained patterns such as anxiety, perfectionism, or self-criticism during the period of increased neuroplasticity.

During sessions, it is often experienced that suppressed emotions or beliefs surface. Instead of avoiding them, one can live through them with compassion. This process creates space for self-acceptance and change of perspective, which is crucial for recovery in cases of burnout, depression, or trauma, for example.

This is often said during truffle sessions or MDMA therapy:

“During my session, it felt as if the walls in my head softened. The voices of doubt and self-criticism fell silent. A different perspective emerged, a softer voice, which said: you are good just the way you are.”

After a session comes the integration phase. In addition to the standard included integration, we also offer special psychedelics integration days, in which one, in a safe therapeutic environment, with the aid of a low dose of psychedelics, psychodrama and Internal Family Systems-therapy teaches how to sustainably anchor new insights.

Briefly summarized, psychedelics work on three levels:

1. Neurochemical: Stimulation of serotonin and BDNF promotes brain plasticity.
2. Neurological: The DMN becomes temporarily less active, allowing new thought patterns to emerge.
3. Psychological: Old beliefs dissolve and make room for healing, acceptance, and renewal.

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