Neural Annealing: Healing Trauma with Psychedelics

Your brain is basically a piece of metal and trauma is a structural defect that you can actually

melt away. This is called Neural Annealing and it is the most insane theory on why psychedelic

therapy actually works. Think of your nervous system like a sword. If it gets bent

or damaged, you can’t just hammer it cold because it will break. You have to heat

it up until it glows. That is what high-energy states like psychedelics or deep meditation do.

They inject massive amounts of energy into your brain, making your rigid mental structures

soft, malleable, and fluid. Here is the wild part.

Trauma isn’t just a bad memory, it is literally microstructural dissonance.