Preparation
Preparation is an essential part of this coaching process—crucial to your success. It ensures you are mentally and physically ready to enter an expanded state of consciousness. A key part of this is developing a clear intention for your journey. Preparation is about setting intentions—getting crystal clear on what you want to achieve and what you hope to gain. Clear intentions potentiate your outcome. I guarantee it. When you set intentions with precision, you give your experience purpose, direction, and focus—like setting a compass for your journey. You know where you’re going, and your prayer refines itself naturally. Intentions not only add wind to your sail, they help steer you in the right direction, shaping the unique unfolding of your experience.
It's one thing to know some thing, it's another thing to do something about it.
The Bridge from Awareness to Action
Recognizing the need for change is one thing. Actually stepping into change is another. And as we all know, implementing change… well… isn’t always a cakewalk. It’s one thing to know something—it’s another thing to act on it. But here’s the opportunity: Psychedelics make the mind more malleable, opening a window of heightened mental flexibility. This is the perfect time to begin embedding deeper shifts in your life.How you create the change that’s calling to you is your unique journey.Because the HOW depends on the WHAT, which depends on your WHY.
"When you know your WHY, you’ll know your WAY."
When you know your WHY, you'll know your WAY.
And depending on what your WHY is, you’ll need to draw upon different resources to find your WAY.
Your goals may extend far beyond simply feeling good or fixing an immediate problem. You may be looking to:
- Tap into deeper spirituality and experience reality beyond your current beliefs
- Break through limiting thought patterns and connect with something greater
- Heal a relationship or improve how you engage with the world
- Unravel the roots of persistent emotions—grief, anger, fear, or old wounds
That’s where intention-setting comes in.The universe loves specificity. Refining your intentions moves you closer to your goal. Simply put: You have to know where you’re going before you can get there.
"You are a sacred, worthy, luminous being. You are love and your love is for giving and receiving."
– Dr. Tom Pinkson
Written by Sergio Nikita Lialin
Sergio is a psychedelic preparation, guidance, and integration coach with over 30 years of experience. His highly unique approach blends the ancient wisdom of indigenous cultures of Latin America, where he studied extensively, with Western training in integrative medicine and psychology.
Bridging traditional guidance with neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and modern psychology, he has developed a proprietary and transformative coaching style. As a lifelong healer, artist, and spiritual counselor, he has compassionately guided individuals and couples toward healing and fulfillment, drawing inspiration from his mentorships in Mexico, Peru, Brazil, and Colombia.He is currently mentoring mental health professionals in psychedelic-assisted therapy.
He can be reached at PsychedelicTherapyMentor@Proton.me