Before my hiatus from mushroom heaven, I was taking it in the morning with coffee and coconut oil with nothing else other than my supplements for breakfast.
Greg’s follow-up questions: What other supplements do you take with it?
Mushroom Heaven and I have been in five years off and on relationship.
In this time, Mushroom Heaven has been a facilitator for flow states, physical endurance, and greater awareness of the self. For me, Mushroom Heaven has been an incredible driving force in my own personal development. I don’t think I would have progressed as quickly as I did in my career, personal growth, and healing if I had not been exposed to what mushroom heaven has to offer.
What kind of growth? What kind of healing?
I have experimented with doses as high as 3grams (10 capsules) and as low as 300mg (1 capsule).
I definitely found my personal requirements to be in the range of 2g to 3g per day, considering my stress levels, the nature of my work, and the nature of the mind I was born with, however I will say even with doses as low as 300mg to 600mg there is already a perceptible difference in my cognition. I will say the 3g/per day dosage felt like a bit too much, as I found it difficult to control both the physical energy and what I could perceive as a mental energy.
Greg, let me know if you’d like to go in depth with anything I mentioned here. I found this reflection satisfying, so, I’m excited to do more if need be.
Armando this is excellent, thank you so much for this!
This is top notch material, but if you’re interested in probing deeper into discernment and articulation, I would ask…
Could you say anything about the quality of energy that you get from mushroom Heaven?
How can you discern that the energy isn’t just from the coffee you drink?
What kind of stress are you experiencing in your daily life?
How does mushroom Heaven help you tolerate or metabolize this stress?
What hour of the day do you take mushroom Heaven and what’s your process exactly?
Do you ever up-dose?
Do you recommend Mushroom Heaven to friends?
What do you say when you tell them about it?
How do you know when to cycle-off and cycle-on?
When it comes to the energy experience of MH, it is evident that this is a long lasting, sustained energy with a gradual lift and a gradual descent. Very different from the sharp, edgy, anxious energy that coffee provides. I am aware of the distinction since I have taken mushroom heaven for extended periods of time without any kind of caffeine. If anything, I do feel a sort of synergistic effect when taking mushroom heaven with caffeine like the way L-theanine rounds out the sharpness of the caffeine high.
When it comes to daily stressors, the main one I can pinpoint is the expectation of perfection and speed established by the standards of the company I work for. For better or for worse, the owner of the company, my father, set these expectations up upon me. In turn, I begin to set these expectations upon myself in almost everything I do. Mushroom heaven allows me to deal with this primary stressor by attacking it from different directions.
It seems that metabolically, my body is having an easier time dealing with releases of cortisol. I am experiencing less of my auto immune indicator is that have historically been triggered by stress. Namely, psoriasis on my face and scalp. I also experience an easier time with digestion when it has been an issue in the past whenever I was under any kind of stress.
Beyond benefiting the way in which my body deals with excess cortisol, it also has a way of helping my performance in everything I do so that I can meet these expectations and feel a lower level of stress, as I am not concerned about being insufficient. The amount of energy provided to me in combination with the level of focus and emotional resilience already lower the amount of cortisol I experience at any given moment.
Typically, I take mushroom Heaven in capsule form first thing in the morning along with my other supplements.
This is usually at six to 6:30 AM.
In about 15 to 30 minutes I am already feeling effects.
In the past, I would weigh out about 3 g of the powder, at about 60 to 80 g of water, and whisk in a W pattern in a rather wide bowl using a Matcha whisk.
I have found that the oxygen being introduced with the whisking method, releases some of the sweetness that mushroom heaven has to offer and keeps some of the bitterness at bay.
I have experimented with up dosing in the past, but this was usually going into a weekend after a long day of work where I wanted an extra boost of energy to get me through whatever I was doing later that night. I have found it as especially useful during long nights of wine research as it seems to help mitigate the negative effects of alcohol. Typically, my up doses have been in the one to two gram range.
I have recommended mushroom heaven to several people now. In my slightly younger days of ignorance, I would tell the Homies that mushroom heaven was like “Natty Adderall” in that it provides a very clean-feeling energy and focus. Nowadays, I talk about the wonders of stress-relief, and sustained energy.
I sometimes mention that mushroom heaven can be a little intense in the way it pushes you forward. This intensity I have felt, comes and goes, depending on what exactly is happening in my life. At times the signals to push forward would be so strong that it would get downright overwhelming. I would feel out these moments and lower my dose drastically to .3 to .6 grams or, stop taking it all together for about a month or two. I have found that this allows me to slow things down a little bit and re-enter while also allowing myself to get back into the mushroom heaven ritual with a greater appreciation for the benefits it brings me.
Since I have started taking mushroom heaven, I have been in two romantic relationships. You better believe I got these girls on that mushroom heaven. I also have another friend who has been an enthusiast for about a year or two and has been loving it as an everyday supplement and he synergistic part of his psilocybin microdosing regimen.
