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Jonathan Robinson
6 min readJul 9, 2019

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Microdose Therapy: An Accelerated Path to Healing

For the most part, people engage in psychotherapy the same way they did a hundred years ago. It didn’t work well a hundred years ago, and it’s not working much better today. Studies show that about one in three people get significant improvement in long term talk therapy — all while paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for treatment. There must be a better way.

Fortunately, there is. I call it “Microdose Therapy.” What is that? It’s the practice of taking small amounts of certain drugs to facilitate therapeutic breakthroughs. Typically, the most useful drugs are small amounts of LSD, psilocybin (Magic Mushrooms), Ketamine, or MDMA (better known as XTC). Each of these chemicals can create powerful experiences in high dosages. Yet, what is little known is that they are excellent at helping people create powerful changes in their lives at very small dosages.

Most people familiar with taking drugs for personal breakthroughs have used such “medicines” in relatively high dosages. Whether it be an Ayahuasca journey or an LSD “trip,” you can now find many people who guide such journeys. Such guided journeys can indeed be valuable experiences. Yet, I find that people often have a hard time integrating these intense experiences into their daily life. Not so with Microdose Therapy. Because the dosages are small, the insights and experiences gained are easier to integrate into one’s day-to-day life. In fact, many studies now show that chemicals ranging from LSD to MDMA and Ketamine have strong positive effects on people when taken in small…

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Jonathan Robinson
Jonathan Robinson

Written by Jonathan Robinson

is the author of 12 books and a frequent guest on Oprah. His website is FindingHappiness.com and his podcast is “Awareness Explorers.” email: iamjonr@aol.com

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