por Daniel Ter Jan 15, 2008 8:12 pmHere are some tips from the Psychedelic Emergency Services (PSYEMS) team for working with someone who is in the midst of a difficult psychedelic experience:
• Honor and respect the person having the crisis.
• Sit quietly with the person, making them feel safe.
• Reassure them:
1) This will pass, this is a process.
2) This is an experience other people have had.
3) There will be support afterwards.
• Wait and calm them down through talk, knowing the duration
of the substance taken.
• Walk with them, talking or not.
• Have them express the experience through sound.
• Have them move through it, through a physical expression,
holding a certain posture or letting the body go.
• If you know how, do some deep, intensive bodywork, or just hold them
(meeting their needs) or gently massage them. Always ask for permission
regarding any kind of physical contact.
• Have appropriate sitter regarding male/female, important when
recall of sexual abuse or release of sexual energy takes place.
• Encourage the person to recline, eyes closed or blindfolded,
and listen to comforting music.
• If their emotions are overwhelming them, encourage their expression.
• When the person is calm enough or has come back from their difficult
psychedelic experience, have art supplies and writing material available.
in MAPS BULLETIN: volume XVII, number 3, winter 2007.
Mais info:
http://www.maps.org/ritesofpassage/difficultexperiences.html
• Honor and respect the person having the crisis.
• Sit quietly with the person, making them feel safe.
• Reassure them:
1) This will pass, this is a process.
2) This is an experience other people have had.
3) There will be support afterwards.
• Wait and calm them down through talk, knowing the duration
of the substance taken.
• Walk with them, talking or not.
• Have them express the experience through sound.
• Have them move through it, through a physical expression,
holding a certain posture or letting the body go.
• If you know how, do some deep, intensive bodywork, or just hold them
(meeting their needs) or gently massage them. Always ask for permission
regarding any kind of physical contact.
• Have appropriate sitter regarding male/female, important when
recall of sexual abuse or release of sexual energy takes place.
• Encourage the person to recline, eyes closed or blindfolded,
and listen to comforting music.
• If their emotions are overwhelming them, encourage their expression.
• When the person is calm enough or has come back from their difficult
psychedelic experience, have art supplies and writing material available.
in MAPS BULLETIN: volume XVII, number 3, winter 2007.
Mais info:
http://www.maps.org/ritesofpassage/difficultexperiences.html
