We need to look after ourselves in every way. Our physical and mental health are known to be deeply important and closely interlinked to the thought of us living a productive and healthy life. If we eat well and get enough rest, we have the mental capacity to deal with whatever life throws at us. I would suggest it goes deeper than that, we are looking to develop our thoughts about the nature of existence and our own philosophy and wisdom.
At a certain stage in life many people choose to focus on personal development, setting goals and targets to reach. These can be measured quite easily when it comes to physical health. We can measure weight loss, muscle gain, and overall improvement in our health. Mentally, we might learn new skills—like a language or how to write and deliver a business plan. Both areas require downtime and digestion. If you lift weights, your body needs recovery time. If you learn a language, you need time to build confidence and process before using it in daily life.
When people attend a personal development or creative workshop, the benefits aren’t always as easy to identify. Maybe we can think about it in a different way.
When we attend a creative, healing, or personal development workshop, we are not only learning the mechanics of something—we are updating our entire being, our philosophy, and our understanding. This takes time to integrate and cannot be measured by a certificate at the end of a workshop. Many people aren’t fully aware of this process or how it works. When we learn something new, it often means something within us is no longer resonating. We need to hold space for the new truth to enter our being, and for the old belief or paradigm to leave. This is where it’s important to give time and space for your own aftercare and integration.
When we take in knowledge, we need time for digestion and to find where it sits within us, identifying any conflicts within our belief system, and hold space when turning new information and knowledge into our own wisdom.
How Does This Work?
We bring knowledge into our conscious mind, attending a workshop, demonstration or retreat. The practitioner shares their knowledge and wisdom. Something resonates within our mind or body. Our energetic system thinks, “Yes, that feels right and makes sense!”
Step One: We need time to think about it—allowing our conscious mind to understand. It’s their wisdom, not ours (yet), but we can find a truth within it. This is the first step of integration.
Step Two: We feel the truth within the knowledge that resonates with us. Our emotional self-engages in the process. We consciously understand the information, and our emotions confirm that it resonates and feels authentic.
Step Three: We listen to the feedback from our body. The new feelings give us physical confirmations when we verbalise our thoughts around the new information. This reinforces what we are thinking and feeling.
Step Four: We hold space and connect with our spiritual self—our spirit and belief system. We ask: How does this integrate? How does it fit with what I believe, who I believe I am, and what I stand for? We wait for an answer and allow the integration in to our being, turning knowledge into our wisdom.
By following these steps and allowing time for aftercare and integration, we can find the spark within someone else’s shared knowledge that resonates as truth and turn it into our wisdom.
How many times have we suddenly thought, “Ahh, now it makes sense!”? Or when one person tells us something and we finally listen and make a change? Why does that happen?
Firstly, we held space for aftercare and integration—it always makes sense once it has processed through our system. Secondly, we listened to that particular person because they spoke authentically from their wisdom, not just from the knowledge of others.
How do we recognise the difference? We feel it. We know it. It resonates deeply— we feel the truth within our system.
What Is the Aftercare and Integration Space?
Aftercare and Integration, a space by Richard Stuttle
Take time each day to resonate on the frequency of you and those you harmonise with. The idea of the Aftercare and Integration space was born from people attending workshops, demonstrations, and retreats—and afterwards finding themselves back in their daily lives, having to integrate their learning alone.
During many workshops and retreats, we hold space for each other. I begin each day with an energetic alignment. Many people have asked to record the alignments—but they are created in the moment, with the highest intention for the group.
Make 10-20 minutes each day for yourself in this space, I create alignment tracks specifically designed to listen to each day for aftercare and integration, under the title Active Relaxation. The tracks evolve as the space evolves with what’s happening within the energy of the space and as more people come together.
This space and newsletter are different from ‘Richard’s Monthly Update’ newsletter. Everything in the Aftercare and Integration space is offered freely—there are no advertisements for workshops or demonstrations or items for sale. This space is entirely for people to hold space for themselves.
Each month, there will also be a different healing focus. Simply hold space and offer a thought for others. We can go so much further in group energy!
What Is Active Relaxation?
Active Relaxation is a state of relaxation and personal alignment to rediscover the feeling of you. It brings awareness to your knowledge, your wisdom, and to what no longer resonates as a truth with in you. It’s a space where you feel both relaxed and actively aware of the world around you and the energies of the unseen world.
A core part of the Aftercare and Integration space is the ‘Active Relaxation’ track. A 10–20-minute guided alignment track created within the energy of the space. It’s a track to listen to daily to connect more deeply with the authenticity of you. It’s not a meditation, but a space of active relaxation—where people can come together, each in their own time, to align with themselves and connect to a frequency others can join. This happens very simply by stepping into your own alignment and authenticity.