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Eleanor Mills

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81 total appearances

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Begin Again with Davina McCall
Begin Again Moments: Psychedelics

Which I think is a really clever way of describing it.

Begin Again with Davina McCall
Begin Again Moments: Psychedelics

It really stuck with me.

Begin Again with Davina McCall
Begin Again Moments: Psychedelics

And so it's very good for people.

Begin Again with Davina McCall
Begin Again Moments: Psychedelics

If you're on PTSD, you're kind of stuck in grooves or it's good for people who are anorexic or obsessive compulsive or depressed where their brain has got into deep grooves.

Begin Again with Davina McCall
Begin Again Moments: Psychedelics

And this just allows you, and when you see it under brain scanners,

Begin Again with Davina McCall
Begin Again Moments: Psychedelics

You can see new connections being made because it takes offline something, the default mode network, which is the front bit of your brain, which basically tries to control everything all the time.

Begin Again with Davina McCall
Begin Again Moments: Psychedelics

And it allows your brain to make new connections.

Begin Again with Davina McCall
Begin Again Moments: Psychedelics

So I think it's a really worthwhile thing for people to do at this point.

Begin Again with Davina McCall
Begin Again Moments: Psychedelics

And it is quite scary.

Begin Again with Davina McCall
Begin Again Moments: Psychedelics

But I think if you go and do it in a therapeutic way and what they have is they have what they call trip sitters or psychedelic ninjas who are with you all the time, who are there to kind of be as your guardian angels.

Begin Again with Davina McCall
Begin Again Moments: Psychedelics

And you do it.

Begin Again with Davina McCall
Begin Again Moments: Psychedelics

So they talk about set and setting.

Begin Again with Davina McCall
Begin Again Moments: Psychedelics

So you do it in a very careful place where you can't jump off a balcony and somebody kind of looks after you.

Begin Again with Davina McCall
Begin Again Moments: Psychedelics

But I think what it allows you to do is to really kind of reset your sense of yourself.

Begin Again with Davina McCall
Begin Again Moments: Psychedelics

And for me, it opened me up to a whole kind of spiritual aspect of the world, which I think I'd been very resistant to.

Begin Again with Davina McCall
Begin Again Moments: Psychedelics

But in Jamaica, it is legal.

Begin Again with Davina McCall
Begin Again Moments: Psychedelics

It's a class A drug, but in Jamaica, it is.

Begin Again with Davina McCall
Begin Again Moments: Psychedelics

They never got around to making it illegal.

Begin Again with Davina McCall
Begin Again Moments: Psychedelics

And so you can do it there.

Begin Again with Davina McCall
Begin Again Moments: Psychedelics

But if you're going to go and do it, I would really recommend doing it under controlled conditions because it can be quite frightening.