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old you, you may feel the kind of
confusion that Doug did.INTEGRATION
The fall is an important part of the
journey. Not just because it is humbling,
but it underscores the need for
integration and initiates the integrative
process.
In the integration phase, you may
find yourself, like Doug, negotiating
contradictions. Your inner
developmental process may seem to
demand radical freedom to practice,
travel, or renegotiate the terms of your
life. At the same time, you are called to
honor your commitments to family or
career, all while navigating the realities
of survival in the 21st century.
Integrating spiritual change happens
only when you take the insights of your
awakening and radically apply them to
your life, allowing them to percolate
within you and change the way you
express yourself—in actions and
relationships. It’s one thing, for
instance, to recognise in yoga class that
you are one with the earth. It’s quite
another to alter your life to bring it inline with this recognition. To do so may
involve modifications in your diet,
changes in the way you use your body or
consume goods and services and shifts in
your internal attitudes. The integration
process is what grounds your
transformative experiences, making
them actual lived ways of moving in the
world.
Integration demands that you put
effort into consciously turning insights
into action. Yet—and here is the
inherent mystery of the transformation
process—the integration stage happens
beneath the surface of your
consciousness. True transformation is a
natural process that affects how you
think, act, and feel in each situation.
This means that you cannot control the
pace of transformation any more than
you can control the way in which an
apple tree flowers and bears fruit.
Ripening must take place, both in fruit
trees and in human beings.
A practitioner friend of mine has
been going through a long process of
deep shifting recently. For several years,
she had been longing for intimate
connection, which seemed to be missingfrom her life. Then, her world was
blown apart by a sudden love affair,
which seemed to embody the intimate
communion she’d longed for. The
relationship was too intense to last,
and when it ended, it sent her into a
period of confusion and uncertainty
much like Doug’s. But she knew
enough not to try to make any
quick decisions, and instead to sit
in the uncertainty and let the
situation unfold.
She committed herself to working
with a therapist and began meditating
for long periods each day. As the
insights she gleaned in therapy meshed
with those that arose in meditation, she
began to experience her kinship with
the living energy in the natural world.
Over a period of months, as though
she’d stepped over a kind of threshold,
more and more of her encounters with
others were informed by her growing
sense of shared energy. Very naturally,
her ways of relating to other people
began to deepen. She stopped needing
to fill silences with social chatter. She
stopped feeling anxious about
connecting with others.
continued on page 97yj77_54-59 quantam leap.indd 59 19/7/19 5:55 pmWeoffer:
- TeacherTraining
Our460-hour,
internationally
recogniseddiplomais
oneoftheworld’smost
comprehensiveteaching
courses - YogaCertificates
CoursesinYinyoga,
preandpostnatalyoga,
seniorsyoga,meditation
andpranayama - Membership
Hugebenefitsincluding
discounts,ongoing
support,statewide
workshops,exclusive
offers,magazinesand
newsletters
LOVE YOGA – LOVE IYTA
InternationalYogaTeachersAssociationisthelongest
runningnon-profityogaorganisiationinAustraliaLOVEYoga–
you’llLOVE IYTA
w:iyta.com.au p: 1800449195
old you, you may feel the kind of
confusion that Doug did.
INTEGRATION
The fall is an important part of the
journey. Not just because it is humbling,
but it underscores the need for
integration and initiates the integrative
process.
In the integration phase, you may
find yourself, like Doug, negotiating
contradictions. Your inner
developmental process may seem to
demand radical freedom to practice,
travel, or renegotiate the terms of your
life. At the same time, you are called to
honor your commitments to family or
career, all while navigating the realities
of survival in the 21st century.
Integrating spiritual change happens
only when you take the insights of your
awakening and radically apply them to
your life, allowing them to percolate
within you and change the way you
express yourself—in actions and
relationships. It’s one thing, for
instance, to recognise in yoga class that
you are one with the earth. It’s quite
another to alter your life to bring it in
line with this recognition. To do so may
involve modifications in your diet,
changes in the way you use your body or
consume goods and services and shifts in
your internal attitudes. The integration
process is what grounds your
transformative experiences, making
them actual lived ways of moving in the
world.
Integration demands that you put
effort into consciously turning insights
into action. Yet—and here is the
inherent mystery of the transformation
process—the integration stage happens
beneath the surface of your
consciousness. True transformation is a
natural process that affects how you
think, act, and feel in each situation.
This means that you cannot control the
pace of transformation any more than
you can control the way in which an
apple tree flowers and bears fruit.
Ripening must take place, both in fruit
trees and in human beings.
A practitioner friend of mine has
been going through a long process of
deep shifting recently. For several years,
she had been longing for intimate
connection, which seemed to be missingfrom her life. Then, her world was
blown apart by a sudden love affair,
which seemed to embody the intimate
communion she’d longed for. The
relationship was too intense to last,
and when it ended, it sent her into a
period of confusion and uncertainty
much like Doug’s. But she knew
enough not to try to make any
quick decisions, and instead to sit
in the uncertainty and let the
situation unfold.
She committed herself to working
with a therapist and began meditating
for long periods each day. As the
insights she gleaned in therapy meshed
with those that arose in meditation, she
began to experience her kinship with
the living energy in the natural world.
Over a period of months, as though
she’d stepped over a kind of threshold,
more and more of her encounters with
others were informed by her growing
sense of shared energy. Very naturally,
her ways of relating to other people
began to deepen. She stopped needing
to fill silences with social chatter. She
stopped feeling anxious about
connecting with others.
continued on page 97