Intentionally Integrate
Integration is the ability to incorporate learning in a complete and holistic manner. It’s the ability to transfer information, techniques and strategies into knowledge, skills and principles.
Applying intention and focus accelerates integration of truth and love into our lives and relationships. How we connect and weave together these strands of life lessons to deliberately apply them and live them in other areas of our life speeds the process of integration and allows a greater realization in all aspects.
The principles are split up into two parts. The first is an internal infrastructure of conscious awareness, courage and grit. The second group of principles are more dynamic consisting of action and mental acuity to learn, improve and persist.
Infrastructure
Awareness ~ Mindfulness ~ Integrity ~ Courage
Dynamic Diligence
Do It ~ Learn From It ~ Improve It ~ Keep Doing It
Every person has been or is in the process of realizing truth in their life. The first and most crucial step is always awareness. Stop and ask yourself what am I noticing? How is my response to life aligned?
Being awareness, we embrace the moment, own the process ~
Intentionally integrate and respond to life!
Integrity is the coherence of truth, our true nature and expression of life. Integrity often shows up in the congruent alignment of what we want, say and do.
Get quiet and clear as you inquire: "Who am I? What's important? What do I want?
Investigate: "How do my thoughts, words and actions align?"
Action: "What true expression of life is evoked?" Click here for a values exercise.
The key to success is not a mystery. Successful athletes, leaders, artists, physicians, musicians, writers or researchers all have a greater ability to integrate quicker, deeper and more effectively than others in their field.
It’s a fine line between risking enough to bring us to our edge of growth or challenge and being scattered, reckless or paralyzed in fear. On the other hand safely staying in the comfort zone seldom will reach true potential. The ability to acknowledge and face fear requires courage. People of grit ~ know themselves, their edge and consistently choose to challenge, grow and develop past fear. When was the last time you bumped up against your edge? What was your most recent experience facing fear? Mindfulness trains the brain to let go, adapt, face and accept fears. These crucial components are the infrastructure of integration.
Common Fears to Face: How do these bring you closer to your edge?
Pain, Safety, Security, Rejection, Loss, Success, Failure, Commitment, Uncertainty
Engaging requires attention and/or effort. All planning and no doing may perpetuate stagnation. When in doubt of what to do choose to: intentionally be still and notice OR intentionally pick a direction to move forward. More will be revealed along the way. When in motion feedback can become obvious. Doing the footwork is the fastest way to find the next step. What fear do you need to let go, accept and/or face in order to move forward? Getting into action facilitates facing and working past fear. What excites and scares you at the same time? What do you need to do it!
Doing creates the opportunity to learn, analyze and improve the information, technique or strategy. First do then improve the process to create effective steps to repeat. Awareness of these small successful steps transforms learnings into knowledge, skills and principles quicker, deeper and more effectively.
The last step is to apply persistence to keep the momentum going, keep improving and moving toward what works, keep creating effective processes and eventually integration is complete. The knowledge, skills and principles become the new embodiment woven into the core of being.
Once we have success we can transfer this knowledge, skill or principle to other areas. How use this approach to intentionally integrate? What is the strength of your scaffolding?
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