Spiritual Bypassing

Spiritual bypassing means to me ignoring the less positive aspects of oneself in favor of the positive, without dealing with the less positive. An example would be ignoring anger by stuffing it and acting as if you didn’t have anger. While I’m not suggesting to let anger control you, I do believe you need to acknowledge and work through it. You need to experience, acknowledge, and deal with all emotions as an observer. The danger of Spiritual Bypassing is to let the negative emotions become unconscious reactions. Working through them, and observing them without attachment, allows one to consciously act.







