Awakenings, by Northwest Ohio Ketamine -- expanded services with the same trusted care and continued commitment to your well-being.
by Northwest Ohio Ketamine
Awakenings, by Northwest Ohio Ketamine -- expanded services with the same trusted care and continued commitment to your well-being.
Expectations are based on beliefs and assumptions about how things should be or end up. These may have deep roots in past experiences, teachings, upbringing, and culture. There may be external and non-personal factors that often play into expectations. The problem with expectations is that they can lead to disappointment when they are not met. An example from everyday life is a peer challenge such as sports: if you fall short, you are disappointed, and that affects the joy and satisfaction of participating.
Intentions, on the other hand, refer more to the goals or purposes we have chosen. It is what we bring to the table and is about the process and the journey, but without “expecting” a specific result or timeline. Intentions are of our choosing, while expectations usually have external factors directing us to a particular result.
It is important in psychedelic therapy, including ketamine therapy, to set intentions without expectations. You need an open mind and an open book—not a fixed path or timeline to completion. With good intentions, there are no disappointments.
When we have intentions, we are focused on our own actions and our goals. Intentions are necessary for us to imagine what we want for ourselves and our lives. Expectations are the gauge by which we can measure our progress toward what we set out to accomplish. The problem with expectations is that they can lead to disappointment and conflict when they are not met.
Psychedelics, including ketamine, can bring up memories, thoughts, emotions, even parts of ourselves we have forgotten. Painful experiences, unprocessed trauma, and grief can all arise during a journey or treatment session. Many journeys, of course, are beautiful and even pleasurable. Regardless of the experience, integration is part of the process of expanding the experience and incorporating the feelings, insights, and discoveries from the experience into one’s daily life.
Like much in life, you need to practice what you learn to have the intended impact. It takes practice and focus to implement positive changes. You can integrate as an individual, with a group of peers, or with an integration coach. Critical to the process—or at least helpful—is journaling: write down thoughts, emotions, visions, and impressions. It may be helpful to record (audio) your journey so that you can document feelings, thoughts, and visions in real time for later reflection.
Ketamine treatment is a process, and each treatment or session is often different, generally building on earlier experiences—particularly if you have taken time to journal and integrate the experience.
Expectations cause us to project our ideas onto a situation. We’re putting people and circumstances into boxes, and those boxes often have negative labels. It’s what we focus on that catches our attention, and we interpret everything we experience according to our expectations.
Intentions, on the other hand, refer to the goals or purposes we have chosen for our own behavior. They are conscious choices. An intention is also what we bring into a situation. It is a holistic, embodied state. We focus our attention and awareness on what we’d like to bring into the situation for it to be a good experience. Intentions are typically based on our personal values and desires.
A core difference between intentions and expectations is choice. Expectations are passed on to us either through culture, our past experiences, or our family dynamic. Intentions are conscious choices we make in our lives about how we want to live. There’s nothing unconscious about them. Expectations are formed habitually and happen in our default, autopilot mode. Expectations narrow our experience and those of others. Setting an intention and embodying it is an act of liberation. Having an intention opens up new possibilities for a situation to develop.
Another key difference between expectations and intentions is that expectations are focused on external factors, while intentions are focused on our internal motivation. When we have expectations, we are looking for others to meet our needs or desires. When we have intentions, we are focused on our own actions and our goals.
Intentions are necessary for us to imagine what we want for ourselves and our lives. Expectations are the gauge by which we can measure our progress toward what we set out to accomplish. The problem with expectations is that they can lead to disappointment and conflict when they are not met.
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