Breathwork dmt can help you to relax, let go and connect with your soul. It also helps to clear out blockages and heal core wounds and brings you back into a state of connected consciousness. It has also been shown to reduce stress, improve mood, increase self-esteem, and promote spiritual awakening.

However, there are some breathwork practitioners that are claiming their practice may also trigger the natural release of the psychedelic molecule DMT (dimethyltryptamine). DMT is released by the pineal gland during certain conscious breathing techniques and is known to produce hallucinations in the brain. Psychiatrist Rick Straussman claims that when you participate in a breathwork journey it causes an accelerated form of breathing that reduces oxygen to the brain and thereby causes your pineal gland to release DMT. This is believed to induce a psychedelic-like experience that can lead to profound healing.

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While it is not scientifically proven that these kinds of breathwork exercises trigger the production of DMT in the brain, they do activate the vagus nerve which lowers your body’s stress response and deactivates the sympathetic nervous system. The deep, full-body breathing that is used in breathwork practices can also help to retrain the brain to calm itself and shift from hypervigilance to a relaxed state.

In addition, many breathwork journeys use a variety of other healing modalities including sound and vibrational therapies, aromatherapy, trance dancing, various Shamanic emotional clearing techniques, entity clearing, soul retrieval, and multidimensional travel. This makes breathwork ceremonies much more powerful and effective than just a standard session of controlled breathing techniques.