Phenomenology

Phenomenology — the study of lived experience as the primary source of understanding.
It claims that truth is encountered through direct experience, not through beliefs, theories, or inherited concepts about reality.

Phenomenology shifts philosophy out of abstraction and back into life. It values how reality is felt, perceived, and lived rather than how it is explained. It reminds us that the meaning of anything begins where we experience it, not where we rationalize it.

Integration builds on this by adding awareness to experience — seeing not only what happened, but how it is being held, interpreted, or distorted. Experience is the doorway; integration is the movement through it.

Experience shows us life; awareness lets us live it.