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Certain breathing techniques also manage to expand the perception of reality to such an extent that drugs are unnecessary. Holotropic breathing, for example, a kind of ritualized hyperventilation, can produce psychedelic experiences: seeing intense colors and moving shapes, feeling at one with everything. The default mode network shuts down, the ego dissolves. We free ourselves from our cognitive straitjacket, feel at ease, see new perspectives, and thus indirectly and intuitively untie knots and solve problems. We dock into an inner wisdom that is greater than we believe in the state of control. Trance can help not only with inner alignment, expanding our narrow reality and relating it to larger contexts. They can also heal wounds, knots, and addictions.

Even without trauma, noises can lead fascinatingly quickly to inner expansion. They then act as accelerators of deep self-knowledge: new perspectives, real feelings, the true self emerges. It's like your reality gets an upgrade.