Integration is Essential
Integration is not stagnant.
It’s what keeps the river flowing, it’s what supports the river in flowing.
It’s deep connection to self to life
It’s spaciousness - creating spaciousness
It’s movement
Gentle and deliberate and nuanced titrating
It’s refinement
If there’s no space for integration you leave yourself open to the snap back
You feel relief for a short period of time and then you’re right back where you started.
And this can become a pattern - a cycle - a loop:
Of release and going back with no real change in your physiology
Without integration you are keeping yourself stuck
Integration is the incorporating of all you have just learned or experienced, of turning the knowledge into wisdom
Of letting it all steep
It is not doing nothing
It is essential for real physiological shift and change
Integration is letting it settle deep into your knowing into your bones
So that things can be different next time
If we skip integration we are riding this rise and release wave or loop in our nervous system
The nervous system doesn’t actually regulate, there's no more capacity built - your capacity stays the same
Your ventral vagal tone doesn’t change
There needs to be integration
Slow steady deliberate times of settling its not standing still or nothing
Its deep connection to self, to what is, to the present moment
Thats integration
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