INTEGRATE What Happens In Between

• Movement

  Get grounded and connect with your body through creative movement and play.

• Touch

  Bodywork, hugs, tickles, cuddles, shaking: anything that releases the stored past and helps us settle into our bodies and calm our nervous system, including sexual pleasure and self pleasure.

• Meditation

  Engage with your mind in a way that is actually fruitful and exciting.

• Breath

  Revisit altered states of consciousness to work with your subconscious in a safe and controlled space.

• Reflection

  Articulate your insights, privately or with others who can relate and mirror your experience back to you.

• Environment

  Redesign or reorganize your physical world. Create flow, positive energy and even sanctuary where you live, sleep, work and play.

• Play

  Do things for the pure experience of play, joy, fun, expression and presence: sports, cards, sex, board games, time with kids. What we learn at play sticks.

• Acts of Service

  As paradoxical as it sounds, one of the most powerful ways to evolve is to get ourselves out of the way. Acts of service are amazing integration processes.

• Witness & Acknowledge

  Especially powerful for couples and families: when you see your partner, friends or family behaving in new ways, point it out, acknowledge it and talk about it.

• Symbols

  Create and bring symbols into your environment and life: daily practices and prayers, altars, artwork, talismans, jewelry.

• Music & Sound

  Sound baths, tuning forks, singing, drumming circles, intentional playlists for dance, workouts, meditation and sleep. Tone, make sounds, hear and feel it completely. Art decorates spaces; music decorates time.

• Listen to Your Body

  Is your body asking, quietly or loudly, for something? To stop sugar, alcohol or weed? To move, lift, rest, fast, eat well, dance, be intimate? What does your body want?

• Professional Support

  Hire the most strategic professional to move yourself (and your partner) forward: an IFS specialist, fitness trainer, organizer, couples coach, therapist, breathworker, meditation teacher, art therapist, stylist, sexuality coach, sex therapist or dietician.

• Bonus: Be George Costanza

  This one is fun, or at least it can be. For the two weeks after your journey, do the opposite of your instincts, your default mode network and your unconscious habits. Drive a different route to work, brush your teeth with the other hand, say "thank you" when something triggers you, go to bed early or stay up late.

If you have a process, course, coaching or program that fits in one or more of these categories, we would love to share you with our community.