By Stacy Hernandez

I have been sitting with this idea of initiation.

Not initiation as a single moment such as a ceremony, a threshold you cross and leave behind. But rather initiation being a living process, an unfolding, an infinite awakening to deeper levels of who we are.

This is the space I am in right now, and you may be in it too.

The next level of awakening we are experiencing is a deeper understanding of ourselves, and it feels like a continuous revealing of more and more. When an awareness happens, something gets revealed, energetic blocks release, and we need space to integrate what has released and the new ways of being coming online. This process of initiation and integration reveals to us that there is no destination to arrive at. The discovery is the point; it is the process. It is infinite by nature, and this particular lifetime is one single moment within the infinite nature of our beingness.

The initiation many of us are in is the discovery of what is underneath the patterns, behaviors, thoughts, feelings that keep us stuck, complacent, out of alignment, etc. Once an awareness gets revealed or an energetic pattern releases or shifts, what does the integration actually look and feel like from the inside? This integration is us embodying our remembering of who we truly are and our new ways of being.

The Physical Level

Your body speaks to you. 

The body feels the integration you are in. You may experience physical sensations (i.e., symptoms, ailments, aches, pains, etc.) that arise within. Your body may be telling you what it wants or needs. 

Lately in my integration process, my body has been communicating clearly and consistently: slow down. Rest. Take a bath. Take a nap. Give myself space. Hug someone. Have physical touch with another. Eat this. Not that. Go for a walk. Do yoga. Lift weights. It is telling me when I need to exert energy, when I need to preserve energy, when I need connection, when I need space, etc.  

When I surrender to what my body is communicating to me, I can sink deeper into the integration, and awareness often comes forward. 

Just the other day, I woke up with a migraine, and I refused to take anything to make it go away. This was a big risk because I usually spiral into 24 hours of extreme pain and vomiting.  But what I did was start a dialog with my body, asking it what it needed at that moment. I had two hours before I had to go teach, but when I went into a sacred space of connecting with my body, it felt like time had stopped. The conversation I had with my body took me underneath the pain and into some of the wounding I am still carrying that keeps the migraine story going. The body gave me clear things to do with heating pads, massaging and releasing neck tension, caffeine, and meditation. An hour went by; I released deep energetic blocks, a big awakening of clarity came forward, and I went off to teach yoga pain-free. 

There is a physical recalibration that happens that I cannot override with willpower or schedule. The body knows what it needs to integrate these new energies as they come online, and it will make itself heard.

This is one of the things I want to name because it is easy to dismiss. When we are in a big initiation, the body is not separate from the process. It is in the process. Honor what it is telling you.

The Mental Level

As we continue to navigate the new paradigm and our sensitivities continue to expand, you may notice a shift in your mental capacities. In this initiation process, we are moving more into the heart and an expanded field of awareness, rather than staying in a 3D mental space and the 4D collective experience. 

You may feel a shift in your mental bandwidth.  

When I stay in the mental field, the space of thinking, analyzing, mental problem-solving, fixing, for too long, my mind starts to spiral, and my body usually gives me a sign that it is time to get out of my head and back into my body, heart, natural rhythms, etc.

We can try to think our way through the integration process because our ego minds want to know what is happening. Part of the initiation is surrendering into the unknown, the unseen, releasing control, not knowing and understanding, but rather just being in the moment of what is presenting.

It is a time to get out of the way and be. The understanding comes later. 

The Emotional Level

For a long time, many of us have avoided, stuffed down, and pushed aside what was coming up emotionally.

Feeling our emotions is a key piece to our integration. It helps us access the deeper wounds, stuck energy, and resistances that are in the way of our liberation, expansion, and awakening.  

Emotional integration is a process of witnessing, observing, and honoring whatever feeling arrives without immediately trying to understand it, without attaching to it or analyzing it or tracing it back to its origin.

I know for myself, the moment I do that, I am back in the mental field.

The invitation is simpler and harder than that: feel it. Witness it. Be with it. Let it be there, so it can release. 

Part of the wounding that I continue to face is the avoidance of feeling the emotional pain, but every time I let myself feel whatever emotional wants to come up, I am reminded that avoiding the feeling is harder than feeling the feeling. 

Once you can feel the feeling, it is amazing to see how quickly the energy can shift. Feeling it fully is the release.

The Spiritual & Multidimensional Level

There are also the spiritual/multidimensional layers of the integration. This is where we go into silence, stillness, the moments of contemplation and meditation, returning to the heart, coming back into our rhythms and into our bodies. We experience this from the level of pure awareness.

This is the level that cannot be rushed or engineered. It asks for space, for receptivity, for a willingness to simply be present with what is moving through.

You may notice your integration at this level through epiphanies, intuitive hits, synchronicities, energetic shifts, visitations, downloads, dreams, etc. 

Giving yourself the space and time you need in the quiet places, within your inner world, will support your integration at this level of connection and support your liberation   

A Question To Sit With

As you are moving through your own integration…

What levels are expressing through you right now? 

What is your body saying? 

What is your mental bandwidth these days? 

What emotions have been waiting to be felt? 

Where are you being called into stillness?

The integration is not a one-and-done. It is a process, ongoing, layered, infinite. This human lifetime you are in is one moment within the vastness of who we truly are. And in this moment, the invitation is simply to be with what is integrating rather than trying to push past it or stay in the old ways of being.

The initiation is not something happening to you. It is something happening through and with you.

Trust the process. Your body knows the way.

Much love! 

Stacy

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