What Gets Integrated?

1. Mind-Body Integration

- The Split: Living in your head, disconnected from physical sensations

- The Integration: Thoughts and bodily sensations inform each other; you can “think with your body” and understand your body’s messages mentally

- Example: Instead of just knowing “I’m stressed,” you feel the tension in your shoulders and use that body wisdom to guide your choices

2. Emotional-Physical Integration

- The Split:*Emotions stored as tension, numbness, or pain without conscious awareness

- The Integration: Recognising emotions as bodily experiences and allowing them to move through rather than staying stuck

- Example: Grief held in the chest begins to release through breath and tears; anger in the jaw softens as it’s acknowledged and expressed

3. Past-Present Integration

- The Split: Traumatic memories locked in the body, causing you to react to present situations as if they’re past threats

- The Integration:*Bringing awareness to stored experiences, processing them somatically, and updating your nervous system to recognise safety now

- Example: Your body holds a childhood freeze response; through integration work, you teach your system that the danger has passed

4. Spiritual-Physical Integration

- The Split: Spiritual experiences or insights that feel “out of body” or ungrounded

- The Integration: Embodying your spirituality so it lives in your cells, breath, and daily actions

- Example: Meditation insights don’t just feel peaceful on the cushion—they change how you move through the world

5. Fragmented Parts of Self

- The Split:*Inner child, shadow aspects, or parts created through trauma exist separately, often in conflict

- The Integration: These parts come into dialogue, are witnessed, and become part of the whole self

- Example: The part that pushes hard and the part that needs rest learn to work together instead of warring

6. Sensory-Energetic Integration

- The Split: Disconnection from subtle energy, intuition, or felt sense

- The Integration: Trusting and following the body’s energy, boundaries, and intuitive knowing

- Example: You can feel when something is “off” and trust that signal rather than overriding it.