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Hey Jazmin! That's how I was interpreting it. I did shadow work through Deborah Ford's meditations in The Dark Side of Light Chasers. There was a meditation, you get on the bus full of shadow aspects of yourself materialized as people, and one of them taps you on the shoulder (its a surprise, whatever your higher self wants to send you) and you take it outside the bus and ask it what its name is, what is gift is to you, and what it needs from you--wow holy crap. I was for sure some embodiment of anger was going to tap me on my shoulder, but when I turned around to see in the meditation, it was a big puffy Pixar like rain cloud, and I took it outside, and it told me it was my sadness (which was really surprising to me, because I felt like I was cool with sadness), and when I asked what it's gift was to me, it said my humanity and relateability, and when I asked what it needed from me, it said "Stand by me". I was crying when I came out because I realized how ashamed I've been about sharing my feelings of sadness in my art. I've always been good with most feelings, I thought I was down with my sadness, but I realized in college a girl called me Eeyore when I went through a depression, and then I started dating people who were also uncomfortable with any feelings of sadness in me or themselves.
My meaning of integration was putting that into action in the real world. That afternoon, after the meditation, I posted a really moody song I wrote with a lyric that went like "every part of me that I hate", that I would normally have felt very self conscious about sharing on social media--and in the past never would've shared, and my soul was so satisfied and happy that I did. I physically felt more whole as a person. So I think that's what integration means.
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