JOIN TRANSILIENCE & Become a Skilled Psychedelic Coach. Starts September 13th. Apply Now. Transilience is A 6 Month Facilitator Training to Learn how to support yourself and others on the path of psychedelic integration to fuel personal transformation. Apply Psychedelic Neuroscience to Optimize Integration & Personal Development with Manesh Girn - 68 How can we learn to leverage our understanding of psychedelic neuroscience to optimize integration so that we can more effectively support ourselves and others on the path of personal transformation? This is the central question of today's episode featuring psychedelic neuroscientist, Dr. Manesh Girn. Manesh Girn is also a guest teacher for TRANSILIENCE where he will dive much deeper into the topics we explored here today. In this episode: Neural plasticity & self directed adaptive neural plasticity. 3 Reasons it’s important to understanding the neuroscience of psychedelics. And how we apply those 3 reason to inform optimal integration. The effect that psychedelics have on the 5HT2ACritical periods, and the specific critical period that psychedelics help to open. Metaphor and meaning making. Why transformation is a slow and steady process, and why that’s actually a good thingManesh's perspective on how mental health issues originate as nervous system dis-regulationDiscomfort as part of the transformation equation.The power of stress and how stress can be highly adaptive.  Access full transcript and learn more about Manesh Girn here.