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[linnai.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Bit of a controversial question perhaps.

What does anyone know about integration? NOT the forced "everyone needs to be one" sort of integration but spontaneous, natural integration and also temporary intregration or anything of the like.

(While I have heard that most integration is non-permanent anyhow, this isn't quite what I mean but having a hard time figuring out how to communicate the thought better, forgive me)

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[calliopeaurora.livejournal.com]

I personally have no intention of integration and have been a healthy and somewhat co-operative multiple (although trauma-based) for a few years (some of which I was unaware of multiplicity for).

From what I know of re-birthing, self-soothing is very different. However, I am not sure we are talking about the same self-soothing here. Self-soothing in the context I have used it means to soothe oneself (or many) through means of the skills within ourselves and the things we know will calm us. Say if one of your group was distressed by something and you knew that their favourite stuffed toy always made them smile and cheer them up it would be helping them to get the toy and use it to calm them. It works with favourite smells and memories as well. Sometimes it's not a simple as I've explained though.

I also think that America and Australia are two very different health systems as multiplicity isn't well known and considered (although not true) very rare and is only heard of if it is in an ill-representing movie.

Sora

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebirthing
(this, of course, is nothing like traditional rebirthing ceremonies, which are largely initiatory in character)