by Nancy Robbins
As we progress on our journey through life we learn by expanding our awareness and gaining new wisdom. We reach into the wisdom from high places – whether it is sources of revered knowledge, inspiration from higher dimensions, wisdom found in higher consciousness, new perspectives, or new visions that teach and guide us. We reach upward to receive awareness – and then we need to bring it downward into our daily lives to live it. We need to integrate new awareness into our life. Then the seed of awareness can be planted in our earthly life. Even spirituality needs to be anchored so that it is fully integrated into our reality. Without the second movement, spirituality can become fascinating, inspiring, even transformative for a moment, but remain disconnected from the life we’re actually living. Integration isn’t merely understanding something. It’s when awareness begins to change how we live, respond, feel, think, choose, relate, and make it active in our life that we then can embody it fully into our lives.
- Awareness says, “I see something I didn’t see before.”
- Understanding says, “I recognize what it means.”
- Integration says, “I bring this understanding into who I am.”
- Embodiment says, “I live it.”
The following meditation will take you on a journey of integration and embodiment where you can take your new awareness and bring it fully into your life so that you can live it in your physical world, allow it to become part of your emotional experience, consciously understand and choose from it, and connect it with your spiritual self and the greater whole, and then bring it all back down to your daily earthly life and plant the seed to manifest. This journey also takes you through the lower chakras where we connect to our physical world. It moves us from the Root chakra of our physical self, to the Sacral chakra of our emotional and sensual self, to the Solar Plexus chakra of our mental self, to the Heart chakra – the multi-dimensional bridge to our spiritual self and divine spark.
Relax now and quiet your mind and emotions and settle into stillness closing your eyes. Take a deep breath and release any tension on the exhale. Inhale taking in inspiring new energy and exhale releasing old energy ready to be released. One last inhale and exhale.
The Hallway of Integration Meditation
You have your eyes closed still and you bring to mind a new awareness that has recently come to you. You may have diligently sought this new knowledge, or it may have come to you as a nice surprise. You have by your own sovereign choice discerned to accept this new awareness to enhance your path. So now you plan to integrate it more fully into your life.
You open your eyes and find you are sitting on a beautiful wooden bench. You have a view of a long stunning hallway with walls of stone and wood, lined with lush potted plants and red flowers. Natural light is illuminating the hallway. It has a sense of solid footing, earthiness, natural growing life. You think about your new awareness – your new seed you want to manifest from.
The long hallway makes you feel like a child again and you want to get up and move, slide down the hallway, or skip. So – “How can you also take your new awareness and move it into your physical life? Does it change your activities – the way you walk, play, work, dance? Or do those activities embody the new awareness? What physical action would do that?” You continue walking down the hall with its warm wood floors and the earthy scent of leafy foliage. You take a deep breath feeling grounded. You ask yourself – “What instincts do you have to physically embody your new awareness? Does this awareness symbolically refer to an animal? How would that animal move with this embodied awareness?”
You experiment on this long hallway with ways to move with this awareness in your body. You ponder – “Does this awareness inspire you to dress yourself differently? Does this awareness affect your choice of food and drink that you nourish yourself with?”
When you feel you have played with ideas for physically embodying your awareness enough, you walk to the end of the hallway and turn the corner into a new hallway.
You stand at the end of a long hallway of golden-orange walls that is lined with circular fountains and flowing banners of bright orange. Lush flower arrangements fill the alcoves in the walls and sunlight shines in from above. The atmosphere is cheery, playful, lush, sensual and pleasurable. The bubbling, splashing fountains bring you giddy joy and the exuberant colors make you feel alive. You feel serene joy as you gaze down this hallway. You walk slowly down the hall feeling the caress of the gauzy orange banners that flow with your movement and air circulating the hallway. You feel your senses are awake and wonder – “How do your senses respond to your new awareness? How are your emotions affected by it? Do these emotions flow through you or are you resisting them?”
You pause at a fountain and touch the bubbling water as it sparkles and splashes in your hand. You ponder further – “Do you feel excited, has your heart expanded with love, do you feel anxious with change, do you feel wonder and child-like excitement, or do you feel cautious in your further exploration?” You move further down the hall and smell the sweet aroma of the floral arrangements protruding from an alcove. The velvety colorful petals delight your soul. You wonder – “Do you have a new affirmation that will positively reinforce an emotion that you wish to align with your new awareness? How does this new awareness add to pleasure in your life?” When you have fully experienced this hallway, you decide to continue on your journey.
You turn the corner and find yourself at the end of a golden hallway lined with shelves of books, and mirrors with lit sconces of flame. Golden sunlight illuminates this hall that reflects inspiration, wisdom, clarity of thought, and brings an uplifting feeling. You slowly walk down the hall observing the various books that inspire you. There is so much wisdom to connect with. You also look into the mirror and see yourself clearly there – you ask yourself – “What do I believe now? What perspective has changed? What choices follow from this understanding?” You continue walking down the hall perusing the books. It inspires an idea – “Is there an affirmation that will help me positively embody this awareness in my conscious thoughts and decisions?” You continue down the hallway reflecting on how this new awareness becomes part of your daily thoughts. You turn the corner at the end of the hallway and move to the next hallway.
You are in a soft pink hallway with rose-colored gauzy curtains that flow in the breeze of open windows. Large Rose Quartz and Emerald crystals line the hallway and pots of pink roses all reflecting the powerful beauty and love energy of the heart. The ceiling sparkles reflecting light like stars. Paintings of natural landscapes and people connected in Oneness line the hallway. A central starlike light hangs from the ceiling, reminding you of your own divine spark within your Heart. The heart is a multi-dimensional space and a bridge between the physical and the spiritual, between earth and heaven. You feel this hallway connects you to the love in your heart, but also the heart of the Earth. The hallway extends into the distance almost like infinity – almost into the cosmos. You can move as far down this hallway as you wish into the higher aspects of your heart and into your spiritual levels.
This hallway nourishes your soul and gives you room to breathe freely with fresh air and gentle beauty. You move down the hallway feeling embraced lovingly. How does this new awareness affect your heart and your sense of compassion? How do you feel nurtured by this new awareness? How does this new awareness change your spiritual perspective? You pause at a window and take in the fresh air as the rose-colored curtains flow around you. They almost feel like soft caresses of angel wings that emotionally comfort and uplift you. At the windowsill is a large emerald crystal. Emeralds are like the wellsprings of the heart – fountaining truth and love that gives you inner strength. Emerald’s energy flows into you with its gifts. You ask yourself – “Do you feel this new awareness uplifts you further into your higher potential? Does it contribute to your spirituality? Does it contribute to a sense of Oneness?” You continue down this hallway exploring as far as you wish to into your spiritual self.
Then you pause and reflect on all you have gained in this hallway. You pivot and retrace your steps through your heart energy remembering your decisions on how you will embody your new awareness in your heart and spiritual life. You turn the corner and retrace your steps through the golden hallway of books and sconced mirrors. You recall your new affirmations and conscious thoughts that you will bring into your life. You turn the corner again and move down the hall of flowing orange banners and fountains. You remember how this awareness has affected your emotions and the affirmations of the emotion you will embrace to manifest your new awareness. You turn the next corner and move down the hall of wood and stone and lush plants as you remember the action you will take with your new awareness. You return to your wooden bench and look back down the hallway where you began your integrating walk and reflect on all your decisions on how you will embody your new awareness on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels – so that you can plant your seed and allow it to manifest beautifully in your life.
Related product: You may also wish to work with the chakras as you integrate new awareness into your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual life.
- Chakra Sprays Kit – https://elementsdesigncollection.com/product/1424/
- Chakra Meditation Card Deck – https://elementsdesigncollection.com/product/chakra-meditation-card-deck/
Related experience: Hallway of Integration Meditation on YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@ElementsDesignCollection