The time between an insight and embodiment can feel like living in-between. Between the old and the new, between two worlds, between two lives or two states of being. You have let go of the old, but the new has not yet revealed itself or fallen into place.

Awakening can reveal deep truths. It can be insights into the nature of reality or about what we have been carrying around inside as part of our conditioning.

Each time a truth reveals itself, there is a collapse of the old ways. Our old reality, or a part of it, falls away.

Sometimes, what we discover deepens our understanding of reality and what we already know.

But other times, what we realize shakes our reality at the core, because we see beyond the ways we have been thinking, acting, or perceiving ourselves and the world.

We need time to integrate and embody the changes

When the truth reveals itself, we can’t unsee what we have seen. We can’t go back to the way we were before.

But our body and mind, and our life in the physical world, need time to keep up.

It takes time to embody the new reality we have discovered.

The deeper the insight or truth you discover, the bigger the change will be, and the longer it usually takes for the body and mind to adjust – and for your life in the physical world to keep up with the change that has happened within you.

The deeper the truth, the more time you usually need to embody it.

The time of integration can feel like living in-between. Between the old and the new, between two worlds, between two lives or two states of being.

You have let go of the old, but the new has not yet revealed itself or fallen into place.

It can be a time of uncertainty, a time of waiting, of being in-between.

But that period is usually needed to integrate the new reality before you are ready to move forward to something new.

If you are in that space right now

If you are in that space right now, allow your body and mind to rest and integrate the new insights. And allow the changes in the physical world to take time, if needed.

Honor yourself, your body, and your inner world. You are going through deep changes, and you need space to adjust and integrate.

It may feel uncertain and uncomfortable at times, but you will not stay here forever.

Your next steps will reveal themselves.

It may take some time, but they they will appear as you are ready.