Patient’s Guide to Mindset Support and What to Think About During Ketamine Therapy
Preparing your mind and body is one of the most helpful things you can do before starting ketamine therapy.
This guide explains some key topics.
- why mindset support matters
- what ketamine therapy may look like
- how your nervous system plays a role
- what to think about during ketamine therapy
- How the Limitless app can help you
What Ketamine Therapy Feels Like and Why Preparation Helps
Many patients explore ketamine as a way to find relief from depression, anxiety, trauma, or chronic pain. They often want to know how mindset support can help them feel safer, calmer, and more prepared for ketamine treatment.
Ketamine therapy feels different for every person. Keep your mind open to the possibilities and try not to form a rigid expectation of what your experience will feel like.
Many patients describe a shift in awareness during treatment. You may feel relaxed, emotional, thoughtful, or disconnected from your normal sense of self. Some people see colors or imagery. Others feel lighter, calmer, or more open. These sensations are normal.
Because ketamine creates this inner space, your mindset is important. A calmer nervous system can help you enter the experience with less fear. Clear expectations can help you feel steady even if something new or unexpected comes up. Emotional readiness can help you understand what you feel and think after the session.
Mindset support gives you a strong foundation. It can lower fear, help you feel safer in your body, and support the way you process your experience afterward. Mindset support does not change the ketamine medication itself. However, research shows that emotional readiness and nervous system regulation can support the overall effectiveness of treatment.
Is Ketamine Therapy Safe? Understanding Safety in Simple Terms
Many patients ask, “Is ketamine therapy safe?”. Ketamine therapy has a strong safety record when it is given by trained medical professionals. During treatment, your provider checks your oxygen, heart rate, and blood pressure. They make sure you stay safe and supported the entire time.
Even when you are medically safe, you may still feel nervous or unsure. This is a normal reaction, especially if it is your first session. You might notice fast breathing, tight muscles, or racing thoughts. These are signs that your nervous system is active.
Mindset support helps your body settle. When you use grounding tools before treatment, you help your nervous system shift out of stress mode and into a calmer state. This can help you feel safer, steadier, and more open during the session.
Our Limitless Learn portal contains breezy courses with guided tools that help educate and empower ketamine therapy patients. Feeling more informed and prepared can help regulate the nervous system before treatment.
Your Autonomic Nervous System and Why It Matters in Ketamine Therapy
The autonomic nervous system controls your automatic body functions. These include your heart rate, your breathing, and your stress response. It has two main parts:
Sympathetic system (fight, flight, or freeze)
This part activates when your body feels stress or danger.
Parasympathetic system (rest and recovery)
This part helps your body slow down, relax, and restore balance.
When you live with long-term stress, chronic pain, trauma, or anxiety, your sympathetic system can stay active more often than needed. This means your body might feel tense or alert even when you know you are safe.
Ketamine therapy may help interrupt some of these stress patterns. Mindset support helps guide your body into a calmer state so you feel grounded during the experience. Many patients describe this as a gentle reset of their nervous system. A reset happens when your stress response settles and your body can shift back toward recovery mode.
Limitless Microdoses and guided tools, such as slow breathing and calming imagery, help support this shift.
What to Think About During Ketamine Therapy
Patients often ask what they should think about during a ketamine session. The truth is that there is no right or wrong way to think. Ketamine can help steer your thoughts in a natural way.
Many people simply observe what is happening without trying to control anything.
Still, having a gentle intention can help you feel anchored. An intention is a simple focus for the session. Examples include:
- I want to let go of a traumatic experience
- I want to understand something that has been challenging
- I want to feel more supported inside myself
- I want to explore my emotions with openness
- I want to release something that feels heavy
If your mind wanders, that is completely normal. If you start to feel unsure, calming phrases can help. Some helpful phrases include:
- I am safe
- I am well
- I am resilient
The Limitless app offers guided tools that help you choose intentions and calming phrases that support your session and keep your mind steady.
Mindset Support Before Your Ketamine Session
Preparing your mindset before treatment helps you enter the experience with more calm and confidence. Even a few minutes of preparation can make a difference.Helpful tools before your session include:v
- slow breathing to settle your body
- grounding exercises to help you feel stable
- short guided imagery sessions to calm your mind
- intention setting
- supportive self-talk
These tools help regulate your nervous system. When your nervous system is relaxed, your body feels secure.
Many patients use Limitless Microdoses in the waiting room or at home before their appointment. These guided practices help your mind and body work together.
Mindset Support During Your Session
Mindset tools can help you stay centered while the medicine is active. You don't need to use them the entire time.
Helpful supports during treatment include:
- noticing your breath
- using a calming phrase
- returning to your intention
- imagining a safe place
- observing emotions without judgment
These gentle anchors help you stay connected to yourself as the experience unfolds. Many clinics encourage patients to practice these techniques because they help create a sense of inner safety.
Mindset Support After Your Session
The time after your session is called integration. Integration means thinking about your experiences and learning from them, so those lessons can help you feel better over time. Patients may notice new thoughts, emotions, or clarity in the hours or days that follow.
Helpful integration practices include:
- journaling your thoughts
- breathing exercises to calm your body
- guided imagery through the Limitless app or Limitless PLAY
- talking with your provider if you need support
How Limitless Supports Your Ketamine Journey
Limitless was created to help patients regulate their nervous system and support emotional well-being before, during and after their medical treatments. The app includes short, simple tools that you can use before, during, or after your session.
Limitless can help you:
- prepare your mindset
- calm your nervous system
- choose intentions
- reduce pre-session anxiety
- stay grounded during treatment
- process insights after treatment
- continue your journey between treatments
These tools are easy to use and designed to support gently without over-directing the experience.
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Mindset Support for Pain Management
Ketamine therapy is often used for chronic pain. Pain increases stress in the body, which activates the nervous system. Mindset support helps calm the mind and body before treatment. This may help patients feel more settled during ketamine therapy for pain.
You can read more in our guide on why mindset support is important for ketamine therapy used in pain management.
Mindset Support for Mental Health
Ketamine therapy is also used for depression, anxiety, trauma, and other mental health conditions. Emotional readiness plays an important role in how comfortable you feel during treatment. Mindset tools help you prepare for emotional waves, new insights, and inner exploration.
You can explore this topic in our guide on why mindset support is important for ketamine therapy used for mental health.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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What are ketamine therapy benefits?
Ketamine therapy may help reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, trauma, and chronic pain. Many patients report a change in awareness, improved mood, or new emotional insights.
Is Chill Music guided or music-only?
Chill Music is music-only. There are no spoken words or instructions. For guided imagery and meditation audio experiences, for use during ketamine therapy, you can explore the Journey Macrodose channel within the Limitless app.
Can clinics use Chill Music for patients?
Yes. Clinics can license Chill Music for waiting rooms and treatment spaces. Custom packages are available for practices that want to create a consistent therapeutic atmosphere for their patients. Schedule a discovery call to discuss custom packages.
What to listen to during at home ketamine therapy?
Many patients use Chill Music during at-home ketamine therapy with nasal spray, lozenges or oral ketamine. It provides a safe, neutral soundscape that helps you stay anchored and supported.
What should I listen to during Spravato® treatments?
Chill Music is well-suited for Spravato® (nasal ketamine) sessions. It has neutral, lyric-free soundscapes that help you stay present and avoid distractions throughout treatment.
What makes Chill Music different from Spotify playlists for ketamine therapy?
Unlike Spotify playlists, Chill Music from the Limitless app was created specifically for therapeutic settings. It has no lyrics, ads, or abrupt transitions, and is composed to maintain emotional steadiness. Playlists made for entertainment can trigger emotional spikes or pull you out of the process, while Chill Music is trauma-informed and clinically supportive.
How many hours of Chill Music are available in the Limitless app?
The Chill Music channel includes over 11 hours of seamless, uninterrupted music. Tracks are long-form and designed for extended ketamine therapy sessions, preparation, and integration.
Can Chill Music help after a ketamine therapy session?
Yes. Many patients listen to Chill Music after treatment to extend calm, ease reentry, and reconnect gently with the body. It’s also useful between sessions as a familiar cue for nervous system regulation.
What is the best music to listen to during ketamine therapy and other treatments?
Chill Music was designed specifically for ketamine therapy, and it also supports a wide range of therapeutic settings. Patients and clinicians use it with oncology and chronic pain programs, regenerative medicine IV therapy, trauma-informed therapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), TMS and neurostimulation clinics, psychedelic preparation and integration, massage therapy, and acupuncture. Its neutral, steady soundscapes help create a safe and consistent environment across many types of healing work.
Can I use Chill Music while doing everyday activities?
Yes. Many people listen to Chill Music while studying, working, cooking, cleaning, or practicing self-care. The steady soundscapes give the nervous system a brief reset and gently remind the body it’s safe to relax, even in daily routines.
Who is Chill Music For?
Originally created for patients navigating ketamine therapy, Chill Music also supports a wide range of therapeutic and clinical settings including:
- Functional and integrative medicine
- Oncology and chronic pain programs
- Regenerative medicine IV therapy
- Somatic and trauma-informed therapy
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT)
- TMS and neurostimulation clinics
- Psychedelic preparation and integration
- Massage therapy
- Acupuncture treatments
Grounded in Neuroscience Studies, Exceeding Standard Playlists
This innovative playlist has been meticulously created with a solid foundation in rigorous research. It goes far beyond the ordinary playlists that you might typically encounter. By tapping into the latest findings and insights from various studies, this playlist is designed to enhance your experience significantly. It offers more than just a collection of songs; it is a carefully curated selection that aims to meet specific needs and preferences based on established scientific principles.Open the Limitless App and scroll to the bottom of the home screen to find the Chill Music channel. Inside, you’ll discover over 11 hours of seamless, uninterrupted music designed for extended ketamine sessions, psychedelic therapy, and integration practices.
Chill Music draws from:
- Polyvagal Theory: Slow, predictable sound supports vagal tone and helps keep the system in a “rest and restore” state.
- Music Therapy Research: Continuous instrumental tracks help regulate mood, lower stress hormones, and reduce heart rate variability.
- Trauma-Informed Principles: Neutral, consistent soundscapes avoid emotional whiplash and preserve a sense of control.
- State-Dependent Learning: The brain encodes memories more deeply when internal and external cues are aligned. Consistent music helps integrate insights into long-term patterns.
Sound Support Across All Ketamine Therapy Formats
Every treatment has its own rhythm, but your need for steadiness is the same. Chill Music was created to meet you in any setting, holding space across the full spectrum of ketamine experiences. No scrambling for playlists. No guesswork. Just: sound that travels with you. Press play, and let your nervous system lead.
Whether you’re:
- Preparing for a ketamine therapy session at home
- Looking for the best ketamine therapy music
- Using oral ketamine lozenges or oral ketamine losenges
- At home ketamine therapy treatments
- Receiving intramuscular IM ketamine or subcutaneous SC ketamine
- Engaging in a clinic-based IV ketamine treatment
- Music for taking Spravato (nasal ketamine)
- Ketamine therapy post-session integration music
How to Access Chill Music
Chill Music is available exclusively in the Limitless App. Download the app, and select the Chill Music channel, you’ll find over 11+ hours of uninterrupted therapeutic soundscapes, all designed to play continuously.
To explore the Chill Music channel:
- Download the Limitless App from the App Store or Google Play
- Navigate to the Chill Music channel on the home screen
- Choose a soundscape
- Press play. Let your system settle.
Customer testimonials
Chill Music has become a trusted companion for patients across many different treatment settings. These are real words from real sessions, reflecting how supportive sound can change the experience:
“I used to listen to playlists during my sessions, but I’d get jolted every time the song changed. Chill Music helps me stay immersed from start to finish, without the disruption of lyrics or sudden transitions.”
"I used my own playlist for my first session but realized I was too emotionally attached to certain songs that brought up memories I hadn’t planned to revisit. When I listened to Chill Music during my next session, it was an entirely different experience. I felt grounded and more able to stay present with the process."
“Even after my treatment ended, I still listen to Chill Music whenever I feel overwhelmed. It helps me return to a grounded state and reminds me of the calm I found in session.”
“I was nervous before my first session. Chill Music helped me get grounded, and now it’s always the first thing I play. It’s like having a familiar anchor that tells my body it’s safe to begin.”