S04E03 About Spiritual Bypassing

This week’s pod is about Spiritual bypassing, a term coined by John Welwood in the 1980s that he used to define as when we use spiritual ideas, practices, or language to avoid facing painful emotions, unresolved wounds, or real-life responsibilities. We want to be healed and therefore rush to perform healing, integration and alignment at the expense of true healing. It is a performance, a shiny coat of oneness, surrender, light and love we cover our grief, anger, shame, or trauma with instead of actually working through them.Spiritual bypassing is a survival mechanism, it is avoidance of our shadow, unhealed, human parts and it gets in the way of true healing, authenticity, vulnerability, connection with ourself and others and true freedom. It is disempowering and exhausting. When we allow ourselves to truly feel and heal, we find safety in ourselves and therefore safety with others and the world around us.See you next week,Miranda x