Drinking Ayahuasca can offer a diverse range of healing benefits. The medicine undoubtedly has an intelligence and meets each participant where they are, bringing them the experience and bealing that they most need at the time. In the Shipibo Amazonian tradition, the healing potential of the ceremony is strongly influenced by the Curandero leading the ceremony and the plant spirits they work with. Each plant has its own powers and properties, and so a Curandero who has formed a relationship with a plant with a specific healing power will be able to bring a great potential for the healing of a condition that that plant has the power to heal into their ceremonies.

Some of the most commonly experienced, more general benefits from drinking Ayahuasca include:

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• Detoxification: Physical, mental and emotional detoxification, through 'purging' can have a range of benefits from improved physical health, feeling 'lighter' and experiencing more mental clarity, to the realease of toxins on any level that are contributing to pain and disease in the body. This relesae can lead to profound levels of physical, mental and emotional healing.

• Emotional Release Release of suppressed emotions can lead to greater levels of mental clarity, better decision making, increased self-awareness and an improved overall level of wellbeing. As suppressed emotions stored in the body can be great contributors towards illness and disease, releasing these emotions can lead to profound levels of physical healing.

• Trauma Release Release of traumatic memories and suppressed emotions related to those events can lead to healing on every level, and to self-understanding and understanding of ones behavioural patterns, and provides the opportunity to heal from the event, develop new perspectives around the event, and embrace new, healthier, mental and behavioural patterns.

• Healing Conditions At Their Root Ayahuasca can often reveal to us the root cause of an illness, addicition or problem, giving us the opportunity to understand it, release it and heal from the event. Profound, positive changes in health, behaviour and thought patterns can naturally occur following such deep healing, and, with an understanding and release of the cause, we are able to make changes and move forward in life in a way that prevents its re-occurrance.

• Self-Understanding Through showing us the nature of our problems, and giving us an insight into our subconscious and unconscious mind, Ayuahuasca can assist us to reach greater levels of self-understanding. Understanding out thoughts, emotions and actions, and learning to love and act compassionately towards ourselves can lead us towards a better understanding of our choices and establishing more fulfilling relationships and a healthier relationship with our bodies, thoughts and emotions.

• Energetic/Spiritual Healing It is understood in the Shipibo tradition, and in many Shamanic traditions, that illnesses can be caused by the presence of malicious energy and/or spiritual entities. Where this may be a more difficult concept to understand with our Western minds and culture, Ayahausca often brings healing when other modalities have not worked, becuase the issue is being approached from this different angle. Energies and entities that may be present can be cleared away with the assistance of an experienced Curandero, and an improvement in physical and mental health follows very naturally in the absence of these energies.

• Spiritual Connection Ayahuasca can connect us with our 'higher' or 'spiritual' selves, giving us a wider perspective on life and our place in the Universe and a heightened understanding and expereince of emotions like love, compassion and forgiveness. We may also connect with the spirtual world, communicate with spiritual entitties, and receive spiritual teachings and messages. For those who have been experiencing spiritual disconnection, Ayahuasca can facilitate a re-connection with ones own spirit, the spiritual world, and with the Divine inside oneself, and in the exterior world.

• Finding Purpose And Meaning Through the spiritual connection that Ayahuasca often facilitates, and through the wider and different perspectives of life that may be experienced, new levels of purpose and meaning can understood around ones life. Ayahuasca often reveals a life purpose or highlights what brings meaning to one's life, and can reveal the best or most beneficial path for one to take.

• Creativity Enhanced creativity can be inspired by the visions and insights experienced in ceremonies, and Ayahuasca can help us to work through creative or mental blocks, allowing for new inspiration around creative projects or inspiring a heightened level of creativity within our lives. We can be reminded that we are, in essence, creative beings, and can be opened up to expressing our creativity in many areas of life.