Intentional Awakening Podcast: Episode 8: Spiritual Bypassing

Today’s Angel Card Word of the Day is “Kindness” once again as it is always important to be kind to yourself and be kind to others. In times of awakening, enlightenment, and evolving- people tend to feel like they need to escape the human part of themselves and in these moments of connecting with our souls, we feel free and a sense of non-attachment or “bliss.” Essentially a spiritual bypass is using spirituality to avoid confronting hard truths. Kathy relates a book she is reading, “Awake,” states that it's not the emotion that is the issue, it's your emotion about the emotion. We have to acknowledge that we are spiritual beings and still human and have to face these truths and tough feelings. Usually in a spiritual bypass, one is not aware they are bypassing using toxic happiness, maybe ignoring self care, avoiding human contact and intimacy, or ignoring human responsibility. This bypassing can also cause a false sense of superiority which is not what awakening is about. Terrie shares the importance in understanding that energy is constantly moving and giving yourself the permission to allow these emotions to move through you. I feel ___ but I am not ___. Feeling emotion is feeling energy in motion. Self reflection and plugging into your humanity with awareness  can be the solution to the bypass. 

 

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