The integrity of the individual is like vast network of interconnected memories.
That integrity is so complex that it defies intelligent analysis by mental means, but despite that fact, every part can be observed intuitively to affect every other part. Dissolving the attracting force of a memory changes the felt status of all other memories.
That's the very virtue of dissolving memories; that's what it's for -- establish a new equilibrium and new patterns of behavior.
But understand, as memories have more or less intensity, they also have more or less attractive, binding force.
When a memory dissolves, the absence of its binding force, that once was, leaves a hold, a space, or a breaking or interruption of the integrity that is the individual -- one that must be mended -- and all other interconnected memories must be amended, accordingly. That state has a nickname: "Swiss Cheese Mind" -- full of holes.
This mending, this integration of Swiss Cheese Mind, is the work of integration of memory, the forging of connections that makes sensitive, intelligent, resonant responsiveness possible.
Integrity is resonant, intelligent responsiveness, throughout.
It is feeling while acting, listening while speaking, sensitivity to our internal state even as we look outward.
When the attractive, binding force lets go, a decrease of tension occurs throughout the individual. That's one sense in which "individual" means "not divided."
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