One of the most common conversations I have with clients on their awakening journey is that of the importance of Integration, or Chewing the Cud, as Thomas Moore referred to it.

Integration is a fundamental necessity to our awakening/healing/spiritual journey, in my experience. It is what enables transformation, embodied wisdom, maturation, to take place. It increases our multi-layered intelligences of ( Emotional IQ, Spiritual IQ, Relational IQ, Somatic IQ ) and cultivates deeper compassion, self/other respect, integrity.

Time alotted to integration, is the difference between quick fixes or changes in life that keep us skimming the surface, moving from one thing to the next, without digesting, assimilating the nutrients or learning to deepen our sense of intimate connection with self and Heart-Soul presence, as well as our wizening and wholeness.

In the contemporary spiritual climate seeking has become more of the norm, which is beautiful and as it should be during this time of mass awakening. Many are seeking experiences, teachings, and practices. Often there is a flitting from one magical moment to the next, or as the masters of old used to say, digging many shallow wells, instead of one deep well.

This can be understood as an initial phase of this process … all senses are activating, the programming is being stripped away, and there’s a great influx of new revelations. It’s all in perfection!

And, it’s important to sense when the invitation comes to move to the next phase. The phase of diving deeper within oneself and listening for ones True Alignment, not simply more information or experiences.

We live now in a smorgashboard of spiritual stimulation, yet there’s a lack in our capacity of embodiment which entails bringing our energy back home to our center, rather than focused externally. Constant outward activity, intellectual pursuits, or even energy healing pursuits without balance, postpones the deepening of the Sacred within all of the choices at our finger tips.

Integration, chewing the cud, asks us to s l o w d o w n the speed at which we take in more stimulation, more learning, and find stillness within our own being, and connect with our own depths.

When we are seeking and experiencing, there’s a high that comes from the epiphanies, clarity, and freedom, from some chains that have bound us. We access expanded states of awareness, perception, and have heart-openings that bloom. We indeed wish to celebrate the butterfly speading its wings!

These are the medicines that propell us into next levels and higher frequencies. However the medicine must be ingested and swallowed, then digested and assimilated, in body, mind, heart, and soul. Integration is the taking in of the nutrients, letting them break down and access the proper channels for deep, true healing and embodied revelation.

This is how transformation imprints and upgrades us into rebirthed and renewed beings … permenantly. Integration spiritually and emotionally matures us, into living sacredly embodied lives.

Without integration the shifts are temporary & remain primarily within the realm of idea, thought, perception via the mind. We will always search for the next experience when this is the modus oporandi.

Our wisdom, embodiment, depth of being, and Soul connection begins with integration. This is permenant. Everlasting. Evolution. Divinely Empowering.

Stop. Slow. Learn how to feel and sense the subtlties of Life.

Integration is a process of Soul Presencing. This Soul Presencing isn’t some lovely phrase or cute way of making something sound woo-woo. It’s an actual experience that comes from knowing oneself deeply in the subtle expression of who we are. This inner connection comes from being able to touch the core of our Truth, that connects us to That Divine Force which is bigger than us.

When we open ourselves to the inner realms, we take Life into our being. When we slow down and take the time to sit in stillness, beyond just our meditation practices in which we are still ‘doing’, we enter into the subtle nuances of us and all that we have been experiencing.

Integration is a time of sacred intimacy, of wholy-wholeness.

Integration is a time of pause. It begs us to uplug and untether for a period of time, and that time is unknown. This can be challenging to our egoic personality state.

Integration enables us empty the cup of all that is no longer relevant, so that it may be filled with the new. We get to feel all the feels, and release what no longer is true. Integration prepares us to sacredly embody all that we have experienced and learned, so that the wisdom becomes us.

There is an artistry to Integration. It’s not easy to let go of the reigns and uplug from all of the experiences constantly pulling us outside of ourselve. Yet, once we begin to surrender to this sacred balancing in our lives, the truth of all that we seek is within, becomes clearer. That then becomes the new call.

Integration connects you to the your true voice, which sings the song that calls you Home, to you, within you. Integration gifts us with a way of Living in and as the Sacred.

To listen to some of the subtle nuances that inhibit our ability to choose the path of Integration, tune into this short video.

Reach out to learn more.

Sacred Stillness Blessings ~

Lotus