The Slingshot Phase
By Jenny Schiltz
Posted on December 1, 2025
There’s a moment in any real transformation where the spiritual layer crosses a threshold before the rest of you catches up. This creates the Slingshot effect.
When we cross into a new phase, a new identity, a new boundary, a new truth…for a moment, there’s clarity. There’s relief. There’s the sense of, finally, I’ve shifted.
Then our emotional body starts snarling, our mind can attack us like it’s been possessed, and our physical body can go into full-on detox: inflamed, wired, exhausted, or collapsing. It makes no logical sense.
This is the threshold slingshot. Understanding what’s actually happening when this occurs is important.
When the spiritual layer crosses first, as it always does, we shift timelines instantly. Spirit doesn’t wait. When something’s done, it’s done. At that level, the contract is closed, the chapter is over, and the upgrade has been chosen.
But our mental, emotional, and physical layers do not move at the speed of Spirit (Light). They move at the speed of matter, and that takes more time.
That mismatch creates internal pressure that feels like a backlash and chaos. We can interpret that chaos as “I’ve done something wrong,” “I messed up,” or “I’m being attacked.”
What you’re actually experiencing is the delay between a spiritual threshold and the human layers recalibrating to match it. It is the slingshot pulling back.
When we cross a large threshold, the kind that changes our internal geometry and rewrites programming, the emotional body immediately starts cleaning up whatever can’t come with us. That “clean-up mission” often feels like being shoved backward. Old grief, old fear, old patterns of self-abandonment or people-pleasing, old childhood programming… all of it rises at once because the timeline that held those patterns is dissolving.
The emotional & mental bodies freak out because they think, Where do I belong if that chapter is truly over? What do I anchor into now?
We can feel the panic even if nothing is “wrong.” This is why we can have a major shift one day and wake up the next morning with anxiety buzzing through our skin, tears that come out of nowhere, or a sudden fear that we forgot something, missed something, or did something wrong. The emotional body just hasn’t caught up to the new timeline.
Then there’s the mental body, the trickiest of all. The mind hates transition. It is uncomfortable in the unknown and is threatened by identity restructuring. So, it attacks.
The mind will do anything to reassert control.
When the spiritual layer crosses a threshold, we’ve already become a new version of ourselves, but the mind is still operating from the fears, patterns, and survival strategies of the previous version. It’s outdated software running on a new operating system, and it malfunctions. It can become vicious, make up stories, drag up old beliefs and programming in an attempt to drag us back into the familiar.
Yet once our spirit has crossed the threshold, the new frequency has already landed in our field, and we can’t be dragged back to the old for long. It is just that the old mental architecture is short-circuiting as it is exiting.
Then there is the body. The body is always the last to cross the threshold because it’s the densest, slowest-moving layer. When the spiritual self shifts but the physical self hasn’t integrated yet, the body dumps whatever isn’t compatible with the new timeline.
That can look like:
- Inflammation
- Flushing
- Tight muscles
- Nervous system overload
- Adrenal surges
- Randomly gaining or losing a few pounds overnight
- Buzzing skin
- Full-body tension
- Exhaustion
- Detox reactions that come out of nowhere
While it is very uncomfortable, it is the body letting go of the chemistry involved in the old identity.
When the soul says, We’re done with that version of ourselves, the body goes into a shedding process. It clears old stress hormones, old fear chemicals, old bracing patterns, old trauma residue. And it does it fast, which can feel like physical chaos.
Bottom line, when we first cross into a new space, we often experience incoherence. One layer is in the new timeline, while the rest are still catching up.
All of this happened to me recently. I crossed a threshold on the spiritual level; I laid a clean, decisive internal boundary that had been building for years, and the moment I crossed it, something in my system shifted. I could feel how monumental the moment was. I was choosing myself completely and unapologetically.
The next morning, my nervous system went into an overwhelmed state I hadn’t felt in years. Tight shoulders, flushed cheeks, zero tolerance for anything, emotional spike-ups, and physical tension that made no sense. My spiritual self had already moved forward. My human self was scrambling behind, confused and overloaded. It felt like being hurled backward even though I knew I hadn’t done anything wrong.
That’s the slingshot.
As I quieted myself to understand, I found the parts of me that held old roles, old responsibilities, old stories.
I then opened my crown and said these words aloud:
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The old roles, responsibilities, and stories are let go.
All of me steps forward into the new.
As we move forward on this ascension cycle, we are breaking lifelong patterns, setting boundaries for the first time, saying no where we used to say yes, choosing ourselves where we used to self-abandon, and walking away from dynamics we’ve tolerated for lifetimes:
There are three things that actually help when you’re in this incoherence phase:
- Speak alignment into your field.Say it out loud. Direct the system.Your energy will follow your instructions if you give it.
- Let the body detox without making it mean something is wrong.When the body dumps old chemistry, let it. Drink water. Ground. Move slowly.Don’t try to “fix” the detox; let it be. It’s the purge of a previous timeline.
- Stay present with the mind without believing its stories.The mind will throw a tantrum. It will say things that are not even remotely true. You’ve already crossed spiritually; the mind is just clearing its backlog.
If you’re in the slingshot right now, understand that you are just syncing layers. Your spirit is already on the other side of that threshold. Your body, your emotions, and your mind just need a moment to cross with you. Go easy on yourself. Now is the time to show ourselves radical, unconditional love and acceptance.
Sending you all lots of love,
