Devon- Build Happiness

ER/EMS vet | Ketamine guide | Dad of 4 building happiness in N. Idaho | Mirror-breaker sharing Tao wisdom & emotional tools. #BuildHappiness

[Devon- Build Happiness @DevonBuildHappy]

Imagine doing a ceremonial dose here, only a half mile from your home. You built this space by hand, carted every stone and bags of rocks via wagon, sledgehammered every stump out from trees you cut. Soooo ready for spring to do more work on it!

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@TheK_Nox Or at least lift your body :)

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@current_access Its our cats fault.

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@Dyl_dose People cant sleep on steps, it used to just be the normal, now its hard to even move.

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@omgsidewalks Purpose, diet, exercise, love of self and forgiveness. Then to help concrete it all into form, micro dosing psilocybin.,

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@StevenTRobinso1 So you’re saying the double arch french door frame my wife wants for the hallway is going to mean i need to become the hulk? Say no more!

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@OldHollowTree 😝 you need to put honey on that list. Perhaps you need to grow the plants nearby to sell some “mad honey” 😉 $114 for 3.5oz 😵

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@klara_sjo Not my kool aid!

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@taylorburrowes It should be our minimum standard, anything less means we probably cant carry our wife to bed 😮‍💨

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@APsychedelics A harsh truth

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@anymanfitness I take no offences to the resemblance of this physique 😝

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Every time Soulcybin is having special offers i like to reiterate the nature of how psilocybin heals and my personal experience. 🖖

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How Science Just Proved What I Experienced: Psilocybin Rewires the Brain, Weakening Negative Thought Loops

Imagine your mind stuck on repeat, the same worries, self-doubts, and old stories spinning like a broken record. That inner critic that won't quit. The rumination that steals your peace.

What if one experience could weaken those stuck loops and open fresh pathways to presence, sensory life, and purposeful action?

Science now confirms it. And I lived the shift.

In December 2025, researchers at Cornell University's Kwan lab (lead author Quan Jiang) published a landmark study in Cell. Using an engineered rabies virus as a precise neural tracker, they mapped how a single dose of psilocybin reshapes brain connectivity in mice, one day later.

The results:

- Psilocybin weakens cortico-cortical feedback loops, the rumination highways that trap us in repetitive negative thinking.
- It strengthens pathways from sensory input regions to subcortical action areas. Less getting lost in your head, more turning real-time sensations into doing.
- The rewiring is activity dependent. Whatever circuits are active during the experience get reinforced. Silencing specific neurons flipped the changes, proving your thoughts and inputs during that window literally shape the new brain highways.

This explains why psilocybin shows promise for depression: it breaks stuck cycles and reconnects you to the living world.

My Rewiring Story:

As an ER/EMS veteran and dad of four, I carried stress and old trauma responses. Even after slowing down, some loops lingered, replaying scenarios, future-worrying, that voice saying “not enough.”

I started microdosing psilocybin, low perceptual doses (often 150mg Gentle windows of enhanced plasticity.

During those windows, I fed my brain better input:

- Dr. Caroline Leaf’s Switch On Your Brain gave me a practical 5-step process (Gather, Reflect, Write, Revisit, Active Reach) to detox toxic patterns and wire in healthier ones. Doing the work while microdosing made every reflection land deeper.

- Charles Haanel’s The Master Key System (24 lessons on focused, harmonious thinking) taught that consistent thought is creative. I’d hold one ideal in mind “I am connected to infinite intelligence” and let it marinate. The activity-dependent science now explains why it stuck.

- Alan Watts lectures on ego dissolution, presence, and “the wisdom of insecurity” hit viscerally. Less mental chatter, more direct contact with birdsong, cold air, a child’s laugh, the sensory strengthening the study describes.

Microdosing opened the door. Switch On Your Brain provided mental hygiene. The Master Key System gave direction. Watts offered freedom.Cory Asbury’s songs connected god and a similar journey.

What Changed:

Negative loops started but faded faster. Sensory input (nature, family) pulled me into the moment and action instead of rumination. Old EMS stories felt less sticky. Creativity and intuitive “builder” energy rose. I felt more aligned with the Tao.

It wasn’t overnight magic,it took intention, journaling, and daily integration. The study confirms: what you do while the brain is rewiring matters

How to Apply This (Responsibly)

1. Treat the window with respect, set positive intention.
2. Feed quality input: Read Leaf and practice the 5 steps. Work through Haanel. Listen to Watts (start with presence or ego talks).
3. Stay active: Journal, visualize, practice non-judgment.
4. Support your body: Hydrate, move, eat clean, get nature time.
5. Integrate daily: Combine with meditation or therapy for lasting change.

Science is mapping what mind pioneers have known: the brain isn’t fixed. You can rewire. Psilocybin offers a powerful window (use responsibly, legally, and with guidance), but the real magic is what you consciously put into it.

My thought patterns are lighter and more useful now. I’m building happiness with more presence for my kids and our life going forward.

Build happiness, one rewired circuit at a time

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@Jessica319C Trust me i learnt anatomy 🤣🤣😝

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A patients wife decided to sit with her husband today, they are laughing, crying and hugging.

He also thinks he is a “hotdog”

A journey without someone can either break your layers and allow some crazy healing, or dive you deeper and hiding from what needs to be let loose.

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@Aetheric369 “The truth is, we need our villains, alive and well… for without them, we have nothing to face, but ourselves.”

But when we do face ourselves the greatest changes await.

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@JHartFlips Id bend her over too

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@Hitchslap1 Tao Te Ching Chapter 81:

True words are not pleasing.
Pleasing words are not true.
Those who are right do not argue.
Those who argue are not right.
Those who know are not learned.
Those who are learned do not know.

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@ryancduff Gods honest truth right here!

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YES! Parchment paper saves lives! 😝 and food… 🤤

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I used to use aluminum foil any time I lined a pan in the oven. But food would stick, the foil would tear, and half the time it leaked. In the past 6-12 months I've become a parchment supremacist.

Bacon? Parchment paper
French fries? Parchment
Chicken tenders? Parchment
Shrimp? You guessed it, parchment

Literally anything I'd cook in the oven where I would line the pan for easier cleanup, I'll now toss a sheet of parchment paper down. It's cheaper than aluminum foil and is heat safe to around 400-425F. The food slides right off of it, and you can toss it in the trash when you're done.

You can get a multi-pack of large boxes at your local club store for around $10-15, but I've found the stuff that Sam's club sells to be the best on price and quality.

Are you still using aluminum foil or have you converted to parchment?

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@bluewmist To trust yourself, and more importantly forgive yourself, because without those, you are imprisoned, you cannot love who you will become.

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Trust, an equally important concept as Love.

But why?

With it, you move mountains, float on water and fly through space, without it, you cant even jump off the ground.

Trust is like a spiders web, it’s built over time intricately and while strong, it also can be easily broken in turn.

However some webs are 5x stronger than steel, and if allowed to build like we would a rope, it would be seemingly unbreakable.

Trust and love are nearly interchangeable, while you may trust a random dog not to bite you, you think i don’t love it. Yet to open ourselves and be vulnerable shows the attempt to love, if not love itself.

Being vulnerable or also interchangeably humble, in today’s society can be viewed as weak or emotional. But to conquer and know how and when to use such deep emotion is a power unlike any other.

A web built with love, trust, humility will never break, you may cut strands, but it will build back stronger and more effective than before, you just have to be willing to keep the work needed. to build a web so beautiful, others would want to follow its design. So decide, is the person and time worth it?

If you spent 12 years together and then decide to divorce you now have 12 years of time you hopefully got to know someone, are they so bad if you made it so long? It takes an average of 8 years just to know someone deeply. Ironically the same average marriage divorce rate is under 8 years.

Now this brings to the table, forgiveness, another connective word to all mentioned. We may hold back genuine empathy and love if we hold anything against, others, or our selves even.

Like many things in life, there are ups and downs. Without the hills/mountains we have no valleys. The valleys feel so low and often painful after being up top. Sometimes they happen fast, even in the same day. It’s easy to not want to try to get back up the next hill. But life will continue with, or without you. So choose to move, or choose to grow moss in the dark.

Trust in the water, do not thrash, and you will float.
-Alan Watts

The journey of a 1000 miles, begins with one step.
-Lau Tzu

Death is a heart break, no one can heal, but love is a memory no one can steal.

Without sorrow, we cannot know true happiness.
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