3 Things you Must Do to Integrate all Your Eclipse Season Lessons Now!
/Woohoo! The first Eclipse Season of the year is over (almost š!!). And now that the chaos of the past month is starting to settle, youāve got some super important work to do, to make sure you extract and integrate all the healing and wisdom you were meant to receive, during the extremely transformational season!
I know this past month of Eclipses has felt long and intense for so many of us (whether you were consciously working with the eclipse energies or not). We came face to face with our biggest fears and emotional triggers... relationships went through massive shake ups (and maybe even endings)... and some of our big goals for 2021, seem to transform overnight!
And as the intensity of the season starts to die down, and life begins to re-stabilize, the tendency is to want to just move on from it all, dive into something new, and enjoy the Summer, without looking back!
But I caution you against being too quick and eager to just move on from Eclipse season nowā¦.
Because, one of the biggest ways we rob ourselves of healing, growth, and transformation is by jumping from one cycle to another in our lives, WITHOUT TAKING TIME TO REFLECT BACK ON THE PREVIOUS JOURNEY & INTEGRATE ALL THE LESSONS!
Just as farmers take time to harvest their crops, enjoy the fruits of their labor, and clear the fields at the end up the growing seasonā¦ we too must take time now to HARVEST our own āfruitsā and lessons from Eclipse Season, before beginning anything new.
When you skip the work of āreflectionā and āintegrationā (and dive immediately into something new), you end up:
āļøAT BEST, missing opportunities for healing and growth, only to have to repeat them later. While also limiting how quickly and easefully you can manifest and create changes in your life.
āļøAnd AT WORST, totally misinterpreting the lessons and wisdom, and walking away from Eclipse season with even more non-serving stories, patterns, and wounding.
Now, you may find yourself wondering, āSo, how does one go about doing this work of harvesting and integration? š¤ā
Iām glad you asked!
Here are 3 STEPS TO HARVEST AND INTEGRATE LESSONS, after every single Eclipse Season (or at the end of any relationship, project, or experience).
1. CELEBRATEš
We have a tendency to obsess over our mistakes and how much further we must go to get to some ideal version of success. Meanwhile, we completely neglect to acknowledge and celebrate the hard work and progress we have made!
When you DONāT pause to celebrate all of your hard work and progress (no matter how insignificant it seems), you find yourself in a perpetual state of ānot enough-nessā. It also creates a false sense that youāre in a never-ending race with no finish lineā¦ which is exhausting!!
When you DO take the time to consistently pause to celebrate and feel proud of yourself for your hard work and wins, your confidence, self-love, and energy levels start to skyrocket!!
2. SEPARATE THE WHEAT FROM CHAFFš¾
In order to harvest wheat and make it digestible, you must first separate the edible part of the plant (the wheat), from the inedible part (the chaff).
Similarly in your own harvest work, after celebrating the things that feel easy to celebrate, itās important to also acknowledge and honor anything you feel was a āmistakeā, āfailureā, or didnāt turn out the way you wanted it to (the chaff).
And then, separate out the attached wisdom and lesson in that āmistakeā (the wheat). Remember, there are no failures in lifeā¦ only experience and feedback! SKIP THIS step, and you miss out on lessons, only to have to repeat them again and again, until you finally digest them!
DO THIS step, and youāll learn, grow, and successfully manifest quicker than ever before!
3. FORGIVEš
When I was a new life coach just starting to work with clients, I was shocked to see how much shame, guilt, and resentment everyone seemed to be carrying around as baggage, every single day of their lives! And I believe this is directly related to our struggle with forgiveness.
When you DONāT regularly practice forgiveness (towards yourself and others), you end up collecting shame, guilt, and resentment from every experience that doesnāt work out perfectly (which, letās be honest, is most of them). And then you bring that heavy emotional baggage to every future relationship and experience, unconsciously sabotaging it with your unhealed shame, anger, and resentments.
When you DO consistently forgive, you release pent up shame, resentment, and anger before entering something new, which prevents you from poisoning new things, before they even have a chance to get off the ground!
And so in this post Eclipse season period, I lovingly urge you to first take some time to rest + recharge yourself (because Eclipse season has been š³)ā¦..
And then, roll up your sleeves and do the powerful work of REFLECTING on and DIGESTING all the synchronicities, breakthroughs, (and breakdowns!) from the past month. Because this INTEGRATION work is the key to how much you transform, heal, and manifest this year!