ON INTEGRATION

[The Quiet Process of Becoming]

We live in an age of acceleration, faster detoxes, faster breakthroughs, faster healing.

But the nervous system hasn’t caught up.

Integration has become unfashionable because it asks for patience, space, and repetition, three things modern culture treats as inefficiency. People want the "now" factor and the "more" factor: more practice, more methods, more progress.

But more isn’t better if nothing is absorbed.

Digestion as a Blueprint

Digestion is the simplest form of integration. You can eat the most perfect apple, but until it’s digested, its nutrients are not available to you.

The same applies to inner work. The session, the tremor, the insight, they’re just ingestion. Integration is digestion: the quiet process of turning experience into usable energy, into embodiment.

Information vs. Assimilation

We do a lot these days, but embody very little. Information is plentiful; assimilation is rare. Consider these natural rhythms:

• Muscles grow not during exertion, but during rest.

• Yoga ends in shavasana for a reason, so the practice can settle into the tissues.

• The Earth pauses between seasons to regenerate.

Living in the Room

In trauma work, expecting instant change is like demanding your body extract vitamins before swallowing.

"The practice opens the door; integration allows you to live in the room."

My work moves in this rhythm of titration and pause:

• Activation and Settling

• Doing and Digesting

• Moving and Metabolizing

Nothing is a one-hit wonder. Change becomes sustainable only when the body has time to embody it. The body knows what to do; our task is simply to give it the time to do it.

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