EPISODE · Apr 26, 2026 · 20 MIN
Why Spirituality Can Disconnect You From Yourself
from BREATHE - This Is Life · host Monika Schuster
In this episode, we explore a blind spot in modern spirituality:Why your journey into the “light” might not be bringing you closer to yourself…but actually pulling you further away.Maybe you’ve started meditating, opening up, growing, evolving…and at some point, something inside of you didn’t quite come along.Your body.Your emotions.Your humanness.In this episode, I speak about what is often called spiritual bypassing —and why light without embodiment can easily become a subtle form of escape.But this is not about rejecting spirituality.It’s about deepening it.Because real connection doesn’t happen by rising above yourself…it happens by returning.To your body.To your emotions.To what is real.We talk about fear, sadness, love, joy —the primary emotions that have always been there.And what changes when you stop avoiding them…and start allowing yourself to fully feel.Because the truth is:The more you allow yourself to feel pain,the more you can feel joy.Presence is the bridge.And maybe that’s where true awakening begins —not in leaving yourself behind…but in becoming fully, honestly, present within yourself.
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In this episode, we explore a blind spot in modern spirituality:Why your journey into the “light” might not be bringing you closer to yourself…but actually pulling you further away.Maybe you’ve started meditating, opening up, growing, evolving…and at some point, something inside of you didn’t quite come along.Your body.Your emotions.Your humanness.In this episode, I speak about what is often called spiritual bypassing —and why light without embodiment can easily become a subtle form of escape.But this is not about rejecting spirituality.It’s about deepening it.Because real connection doesn’t happen by rising above yourself…it happens by returning.To your body.To your emotions.To what is real.We talk about fear, sadness, love, joy —the primary emotions that have always been there.And what changes when you stop avoiding them…and start allowing yourself to fully feel.Because the truth is:The more you allow yourself to feel pain,the more you can feel joy.Presence is the bridge.And maybe that’s where true awakening begins —not in leaving yourself behind…but in becoming fully, honestly, present within yourself.
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