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Ketamine is indeed a transformational medicine, but did you know that you need more than ketamine to get better? In this blog, we want to remind everyone about this and why ketamine isn’t a magic bullet.

Treatment doesn’t just involve ketamine infusions. It involves your time and effort as well to make the treatment more impactful.

The Journey Begins and Ends with YOU

When you receive IV ketamine treatments, it's going to take work and effort on your end to continue and increase your progress. Treatment doesn’t start the day you step inside the clinic, it happens even before that. This includes preparing yourself before the infusion through incorporating good habits into your life. Another active role that you get to play throughout the treatment is setting an intention for yourself, becoming fully conscious of your ketamine experience, and integrating after the treatment. All of these steps involve your active participation in order to create a truly transformative ketamine journey.

Want to learn more about the 4 very important stages when using ketamine as a transformative medicine? Read our blog How To Use Ketamine As A Transformational Medicine.

Ketamine, as a catalyst, is there to give you that little push to make more positive changes in your life.

Using Ketamine As A Catalyst

It is no doubt that ketamine, through its dissociative properties, is an effective catalyst to help you get better. Ketamine is there to give you that little push for you to make more positive changes in your life.

To give you a better understanding of ketamine as a catalyst, think of ketamine as getting someone unstuck from quicksand. That person may be in a depressive state aka “in quicksand” and ketamine can help pull them out of that deep depressive hole. But once that person is out, they still need to continue walking to be fully free of all that sand. So yes, ketamine can get you out of your state of depression, but you have to do your part and keep moving forward to fully heal.

Another good example is someone getting hip surgery. Yes, surgery is indeed effective, but you need to follow it up with physical therapy and rehabilitation. If not, that patient will not fully heal. Similarly with IV ketamine, although it may help significantly, if you aren’t really going to put in the work after, the sessions may not be as effective.

To read more about ketamine as a catalyst, check out our blog here.

When your brain is more open to change due to ketamine’s properties, this is the best time to incorporate new good habits.

Taking Advantage of Ketamine

Because ketamine seems to give people a boost of energy, that is the best time to incorporate new changes and habits into your life. And not only does ketamine push you to do better, it could also decrease anhedonia or some of those negative thought patterns and beliefs.

Once your brain experiences neuroplasticity and is more open to change, that is when you want to take advantage of the treatment. Get into the habit of eating healthier, becoming more positive, helping others, and more. This is why you’ll need more than ketamine to get better. Yes, ketamine is important, but the effectiveness of the treatment will also rely on your actions. And when you make those changes, that’s what’s actually going to make a bigger difference more than anything else in your life.

What other actions can you take to maximize your progress? Read our blog 5 Ways To Maximize Progress After Your Ketamine Infusions to find out.