When Healing Gets Hijacked
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[Laughter] oh okay so this week we're missing
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Amanda um she's taking So she never takes time off and she gets So um I'm
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going to step in for her on this opener um this week this is a good show we're
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pulling back the crystal curtain and we're talking about spiritual bypassing
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i think we've all kind of heard that before but it's hard sometimes to know what that is but have you ever caught
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yourself saying "Oh this is all love and light." When what you really wanted to do was scream into your pillow or ugly
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cry at the Trader Joe's parking lot um so maybe you've told yourself "Oh everything's forgiven i've done my
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forgiveness work it's all forgiven." But then you run into someone and deep down you're replaying the conversation you
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want some you want to get back somehow all that stuff's going on um I've been
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there i'm sure you guys have too so that is spiritual bypassing and it's really
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sneaky and it can look like insight or it can sound like wisdom and feel super peaceful
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um on the surface but underneath there's a whole mess of avoidance unprocessed
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pain and the deep fear of being vulnerable so how do we know when we're
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actually healing h interesting and and when are we spiritually sidest stepping
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or bypassing so buckle up because today we're going to go into it we're going to
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hopefully have some stories i still do it and I I mean not like I'm enlightened or healed or anything but I work really
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hard to be a good person and sometimes I feel
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like I think I'm there and then those old stories come in and I I act on them
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so um anyone else anybody do any spiritual bypassing
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here or is that a show i'm the only one
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uh I don't think so certainly have in my life um it's something that I've become
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aware of in the past several years and actively tried to avoid doing but it can
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be tricky to identify like when you're spiritual bypassing and when you're just having a spirit a moment of spiritual
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maturity and growth so yeah explain some more about spiritual bypassing what do
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you mean and um you is there an easy way to talk about it um I think it's about I
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think what well let me it might be easier for me to talk about what spiritual bypassing is not um I think
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when we are not spiritual bypassing we are allowing the full range of human
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emotions and not um not stuffing down
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fear anger rage sadness because we judge those as lower vibration states or less
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than um it's it's allowing the human experience to be what it is and and
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allowing those um emotions to express
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without uh wallowing in them so that's that's
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kind of what's coming up for me so then let's see penny you want to take the opposite so what does that mean
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spiritual bypassing is then oh well um I kind of do what you're
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talking about which one the wallowing or the allowing
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well um so I have spent many many many many many years of my
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life stuffing down everything because it wasn't safe for me to feel it and I
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think that's part of my spiritual bypassing that I'm un unpacking is that
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um you know I I've it it wasn't and I mean I've been out of that house for 45
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years but but it just wasn't safe to um
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to feel because if you felt there could be some hell to pay and if you you know
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so I'm I'm not sure if I'm answering your question Morgan but Um for me as we
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were even just beginning to even talk about this is I I feel that I've spiritually bypassed a lot because I
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didn't feel safe and I think that's what you said too in the beginning Melissa not I think I heard you say that and so
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um yeah I don't know you didn't feel safe to express your emotions right and
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so that kind of spilled over into everything
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because um you know if I couldn't if I was taught as a kid that it wasn't okay
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to express them then how could I even take care of them myself because I wasn't taught how to take care of them myself you know what I'm saying does
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that make sense so I think spiritual bypassing in that that way is like I don't need or I
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can't express my whole range of emotions and there's some shoulds in there it sounds like I should be more spiritual
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about this i should be able to just forgive and so you kind of act from that
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should place um like being the real spiritual person and putting a spiritual spin or a
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practice on something without allowing the feelings to be there
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that's a good summary Melissa thank you yeah and I think forgiveness example hits really close to home that's one
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that I think a lot of people can relate to it's like that saying that you've forgiven someone but still harboring a
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lot of resentment around the situation or a lot of um whatever that's a very
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clear example what about you Driscilla yeah I kind of
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describe it as um a way that we make excuses for human
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behavior even our own and saying it's because of our spiritual
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beliefs can you give an example yeah like
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um like if you have someone in your life and they are rude or mean they you know
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and you know it's intentional and you might say well who
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knows what they might be going through which is true but only if you it it can be true
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factually that we don't know right um but if those things that they're doing to you
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are intentional and they're hurtful and you don't address them then of course
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it's going to create some um points of contention um that's undelt with right
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so you're you're making excuses for the human behavior at the expense of your
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spiritual growth and you're you're basically not elevating yourself and
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that's why it's bypassing like the the fact that we continue to have those same
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experiences is because we're bypassing and it's really intended for growth and
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yeah what would the non-spiritual bypassing way of dealing with that type
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of a situation look like the non- bypassing way um I I think just
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dealing with things with with compassion and with the intention of resolving the
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issue like I love you i accept that um there's
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stuff going on with you that I may not be aware of and I'm not going to allow myself to be treated in this way or
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whatever right yeah and and I and I do think that it happens like more often
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than not in spiritual communities um because we do heir on the side of
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giving a person a break you know and not challenging not dealing with conflict
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and um and it gets really gray i know you all probably heard me say it a lot
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because it does become challenging to kind of know the difference between am I
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spiritual bypassing or am I really growing at a level that these things are
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so minor that it's not worth bringing up right and I think the way that you can know that is if
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um you know if you're in that person's presence or you know you're discussing
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it with someone and there's still uncomfortable feelings or feelings of resentment or anxiety or whatever that
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specific activity brought if there's any of that still there then um then yeah
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your chances are you're probably spiritually bypassing
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great yeah I think we all kind of
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um have that barometer have that gauge where we're like something feels
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uncomfortable here or um I like resentment and resistance tend to be two
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big things that if you're if you really feel some resentment but you're acting
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like you don't or you're really feeling some resistance to whatever is happening
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and you it's not a full acceptance but you're telling yourself
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yes I'm accepting or you're it's what you're telling yourself versus what you're feeling so do you think that if we
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acquies in a situation that that could be spiritual bypass or not
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any you know like like um let's say that okay let me find a good example in
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my head um let's say that I'm going out to lunch and I have some dietary
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restrictions and the person I'm going out to lunch with doesn't and they're like pushing their restaurant on me and
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I know that I can't eat anything there and I just don't want to argue anymore so I just say "Okay." Okay and then I'm
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resentful because that person's having a great meal and I'm sitting here with a mediocre
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crap i don't know if that's a good example but I'm just going to use that as an example so I acquiesced and I
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allowed the other person to choose the restaurant even though I had I know that I don't blah blah blah blah blah eat
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gluten eat whatever eat eggs dairy whatever but this restaurant was full of only eggs and dairy and gluten stuff so
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is that spiritual bypassing acquiescing or not or what i don't think it's the
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act of acquiescing that is the spiritual bypassing it's the harboring the
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resentment and acting all love and light and oh it's fine i'm fine that is the
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spirit in the in the name of spirituality right
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has to have that element okay that's good
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yeah so the the non-spiritual bypassing
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um route would look like acknowledging that I feel resentful about this
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i don't want to feel resentful but that's what I'm feeling right now
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excellent i think I don't know it makes sense and and I think we can work this
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out and next time I get to choose the restaurant no next time we can we can agree on a
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restaurant that we both can find you know
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i think we should talk a little more about the forgiveness one i think that was that you Morgan or Melissa that
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mentioned it i think that one is a a big one that's probably easier to understand that we all probably have done it and
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have examples of doing it um saying that we forgive someone for
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something they've done to us and then at the same time maybe thinking about how you can get back at
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them or you wish you had dealt with it differently in the moment um yeah i mean it it can be really
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complicated though like you know even with my my husband and sometimes I have
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been um on this forgiveness journey for so long that there are so many situations
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where I literally can forgive it in the moment that it's happening and it's
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painful you know um but there has also been times as Um I mentioned when we
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were talking about the grievances that things were coming back and you
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know and that's how I know I didn't truly forgive you know um but those a
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lot of the things that were coming up they were before I started doing the heavy forgiveness work you know um so I
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apparently was doing a lot of spiritual bypassing earlier on and I can I can
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assure you that that was the case and I felt it i just didn't know it was a
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thing well I just I truly just didn't know it was a thing yeah i just think
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forgiveness is so not linear i mean like it's one thing to forgive someone for
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stepping on your toe and another thing to forgive these really deepseated
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bigger quote unquote bigger um issues like like I worked for years on
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forgiving one of my relationships and so I would have moments of feeling really clean and
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clear about the forgiveness and then it would resurface as it wants to do it's a
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cyclical process of healing and I don't think that was spiritual bypassing that it felt clear and it felt um like I had
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truly accessed a place of non-judgment forgiveness love for the person and then
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those those lower unwanted emotions resurfaced and I had to go at it again
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so so there can be spiritual bypassing in it for sure but sometimes it's just
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not a very clearcut linear process and you're definitely spiritual bypassing if
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you say you've forgiven someone but you still sometimes have negative feelings about them i don't think that's true
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does that make sense yeah I I agree i agree definitely um but I I do know that
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I was spiritual bypassing a lot of the times yeah like like today what would look
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different about it um and I think this is it exactly what you're saying Morgan what would look different is that I
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would make sure that I did sit in the feelings and I would own them and I would be sure about what it was I was
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feeling and asking why I felt that way about what they did or said um and just
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to make sure I did go through um all the inquiry steps um to make sure that I
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really understand what I'm feeling and what I'm experiencing thing before I bow to
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forgive beautiful
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yeah penny were you going to say something yeah you know I I was just I I
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always like to put the Allen on lens on top of all of this and I was just
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thinking about all the um amends work that I've done and since that's like
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well making an amends is slightly different than forgiving but it's the same at times also but I'm I think it's
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mainly your I'm forgiving myself for the way I've behaved and letting the person
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know or people know that I'm this is how I'm going to change my behavior so I was just thinking about that it's it's
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layers too i think that's what you were saying Morgan is that there's layers to this work and
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um so like I when I did my first round of resentments it was I mean I I think
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uh or my amends I think that which is based on resentments by the way um I
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think that [Music] um when I did that there were certain
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people that I was willing to to do the amends to and then there was other people that I just wasn't willing to and
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um but then as you know like two years later down the road I was willing I became willing to do those amends as
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well it was just it's interesting i I'm just trying to wrap my head around this um you know how it compares to both um
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if I'm you know not bypassing or if I am bypassing and if I like when I said hell
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no I'm not going to do it to these you know make my amends to these people was that spiritual bypassing or was I just
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not ready for it you know what I'm saying and what what I would think the
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latter but I guess that's really the only question I can answer yeah exactly i think it's the latter also but I'm
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just trying to it's I'm you know I'm really sorting it out as we're talking right now so I don't have it sorted out
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but it's interesting to just kind of put the spiritual is this being spiritual or
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bypassing being spiritual i think it's like a mask you're telling
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yourself and you're putting your own mask on and you're putting it on for everyone else like "Oh I'm just so
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spiritual i forgive that." And you know I and um it's part of my program to
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forgive you and I forgive you but like but the feeling you have
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is them you know or you're still feeling the shame the anger the resentment that
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kind of stuff but you're the face says "Oh I totally forgive you." that kind of
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thing oh my gosh I just got the visual of those two spiritually total two faced
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Tony yeah spiritually too faced or or the church lady on Saturday Night Live yes that's it
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know it and so explain to the youngans like Morgan what the church lady is what
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What's her gig oh my gosh um I you just have to Google it go to Saturday Night
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Live Church Lady dana um Carvey is the church lady right yeah oh my god it's so
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holy too faced church lady yeah yeah like holier than thou and just not very
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spiritual and then ripping someone but I think the spiritual bypassing is
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when you're allowing it to when you're
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putting the mask on and you're believing the mask oh interesting
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you're telling yourself you put the mask on and you're like I'm putting my forgiveness mask on because I'm so
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spiritual and you're telling yourself I'm such a spiritual forgiving person
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but your real feelings are hurt an angry all that kind of stuff oh my god we
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called those people in church the hypocrites yeah that is probably spiritual
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bypassing isn't it so so I mean I feel like we've all done it though i mean we're definitely
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talking about it as an unfavorable thing but we've all done it almost every human
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and I think some of it is like I want to do I want to be there like I really want
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to be a really spiritual bypass i think that's sure want to be further along
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than we are in our spiritual growth or we want people to believe that we're further along on our spiritual path we
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want to believe it we want others to believe it yeah or we're beating ourselves up that
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we're not from a a compassionate angle like it's just our little inner child
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seeking approval that does it like we don't need to judge ourselves or others for I mean definitely there's a lot of
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critics out there like who talk about spiritual bypassing and you know make fun of people for doing it we all do it
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and we can just have compassion for ourselves when we find that we're space because we're doing it from a a space of
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seeking approval our own safety and the course tells us to keep trying
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till we get it right exactly i love it gosh that's so freeing
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i like just I like it being out in the world i just like hearing it because it
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gives you like a it's like a divine alarm clock as we it's that like oh
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that's possible i could be saying one thing and feeling another thing oh yeah that's exactly what I'm doing um yeah
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because I don't I don't really necessarily call it out on other people it's most me calling myself out
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i don't I don't call it out on other people either i don't think I don't think I do i hope I don't but what I
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sometimes do is like uh wish other people what like I kind of
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bypass for other people like I don't allow other people the full range of their emotions and I am healing it but
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like getting uptight when people express anger or any of what you know we call
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the lower level emotions that's some kind of weird twist on it but I'm I'm
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getting better about that okay so help me um reason this out so sometimes members
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of my family are upset about something like they're just mad about something
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and I kind of feel like they're projecting it on me a bit like well no okay let me take that back i'm going to
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delete that last conversation so when they're upset and mad and it could be
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nothing that I had anything to do with right but
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side but then I in the past have thought that I have to do something to make it
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right but now I am not doing something to make them feel better like they have
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to make themselves feel better right i mean that's what we're learning in the lessons this year my happiness is up to me if it's to be it's up to me anyway so
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then I'm curious do you think that I am okay am I spiritually bypassing anything if I'm
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not trying to help them process whatever they're angry about i don't know you're
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being you're not being codependent well that too
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spiritual bypassing no but there was something about that in my head that I was thinking God am I is this spiritual
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bypass that I don't know now it's gone so we can move on you see the
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perspective of it it if you took it to the point of dealing with everything in
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life that way like that's you know going and living in a cave then yeah your
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spiritual life passing light and there is no point in that so if you look at it from that point from that standpoint um
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in which I've done that a little bit with my family that I don't engage as
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much and I ask the same question you know is it serving me to not engage as
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much and therefore I don't have as much drama to deal with you know or does it
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serve me better to be in the midst of the drama and be able to do what you said to um help them make more loving
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choices i think is what you're trying to say right well yeah I ask myself the
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same question i don't know the the full answer um but to me I think it means
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when I um when I've practiced enough that I
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think I can stand the weight of being responsible for it again then I think I
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I will know when that time has come that's a good point Drilla
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yeah because I'm still practicing because I'll like go "Oh maybe I should
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help this person right now." It's not my responsibility though i know it's not
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not if they don't ask for it well and that's a good point Melissa yeah like yeah I think spiritual
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bypassing in that situation would be like
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um shutting it out and not acknowledging like any discomfort it may bring up in
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you any desire to want to jump in and fix it like you can sit with all of those emotions and be spiritually
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immature enough to know it's not your battle it's not your thing to fix it's not wrong or bad that they're having
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this discomfort or they're having this experience and the spiritual bypassing
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would be like everything's fine
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you know how to feel uncomfortable in that situation but it sounds like you
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know that discomfort will probably start to self-regulate the more you practice it and then you'll be able to just allow
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people to have their experiences and not feel uncomfortable when it
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happens practice i don't know yeah no that makes complete sense Morgan yeah I
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like that or if you're acting as the focal point
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then it may dissipate and it may not happen at all or less and less
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okay so here's another question for you all so growing up we never talked about
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what was really going on in our house you know like you know dad was beating up mom and screaming and yelling at her
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and stuff like that it was like those dirty little secrets that we keep that we don't share with anybody so
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because we didn't share with anybody and we kept putting up with it i mean what
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was that is that got anything to do with spiritual bypass or not no it would be
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spiritual bypassing would be if you're like "We totally learned from that everything's okay now i've progressed so
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far from that." But you but inside you you are feeling the pain well here's the
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problem here's where I think it could have been spiritual bypass because everything on the outside looked okay
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and isn't that kind of like what spiritual bypass is sure yeah well I I
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mean went to church every Sunday you know but how much of it is That is a
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really good question how much of it is spiritual bypassing and how much of it is just not anybody else's business
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because like you know when John Mark was drinking I I I'm always I've always been an open book i mean so you know if it
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felt like a safe space to share I would let it all out and let people know going on in my life but sometimes I just
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didn't feel like it and it wasn't their business and I was emotionally drained and so you know I didn't pretend like
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everything was okay i just didn't bring it up and like so I don't know maybe it was spiritual
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bypassing in your case and maybe it was just nobody's damn business and you were just doing you could you maybe it wasn't
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spiritual bypass for me because I was just a kid while I was a teenager also but maybe it was for my mom
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because she just kept putting up with it you know I don't know i I shouldn't be taking my mom's inventory but I mean I
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was there i know what she did but um yeah okay spiritual bypass okay let's
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hear it okay i'm moving uh to Europe right in like five weeks and a spiritual
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bypass for me would be everything's going to be fine i just know it's all going to be great god's going to take
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care of everything i have it it's I don't really need to get that worried about it it's all going to work out in
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the meantime I'm super stressed so I I that would be spiritual bypassing like
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I'm trying to tell myself it's all going to be fine but really I have the anxiety
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of moving a whole family to Europe and it's it's like real it's really real i
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can't just explain it away by telling myself that um it's all going to work out even though I know it
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is um I can't cover up the fact that there is a lot of stress and anxiety in
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the whole move so what is the non-spiritual bypassing way of dealing
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look like so the non nonspiritual would be I'm not trying to tell myself it's
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all going to be okay i will say I don't know the future i know it's all going to
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work out but I don't know what it's what the future holds we may be back we may
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not um and it's going to have its up ups and
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downs it's really going to um and it might be really tough at first is that right well and that's
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really future tripping tremendously right yeah spiritual bypass like just trying to
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tell myself it's all going to be okay well but and a non-spiritual bypass could be okay yeah things are going to
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come up here's my list of things that I'm working on today and this is all I can control today and we'll just let go
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of the rest of it for the future right so you have to be in action to make sure
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one of the things in in some of the coaching that I'm doing is you you create your future now and then you live
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as if you're there already so you're in Europe right now Melissa
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you're there so how would somebody who lives in Europe act today
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bonjour Penny we wink
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no I mean that's that's the thing my about to die i got um that's the thing
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is that yes you know that I don't think that's spiritual bypass living to the future that you want for yourself no but
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telling myself without allowing all the complete like shushing yourself kind of
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shushing myself yeah with especially I think with like spiritual concepts
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I think so one one way that it could look to not spiritual bypass could be like
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to coddle your inner child and say "I hear you i hear that you're worried
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we have trust and faith that things are going to work out and it's okay that you
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feel worried and anxious and stressed about this right now and we're just
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going to take it one day at a time one step at a time you know mhm i know
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hey so I have a little tool that we could maybe uh play with for a second um around that morgan thank you for
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reminding me that this is a it's called the self-love power practice and um
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so you Okay so let's just do it if that's Are you guys willing to play with me yep okay so just close your eyes and
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imagine your your little kid your little girls with you little boy and um you're
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sitting side by side each other and your little mini me is is upset about
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something or they're anxious about moving to Europe or or whatever it is and so um the self- loveve power
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practice is you just ask yourself a couple of questions and the first question is is
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sweetheart what is it that you're feeling right now and then Melissa if you want to play
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along with me if you could act like you know have your little Melissa share what she's feeling right now
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okay um just I don't know if we should be doing this i don't know if we should be doing this just fear
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okay and so then when you get the um the fear that came up then you just say "Oh
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I can see that you're feeling fear." And then what else yeah okay so
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go ahead and say it to yourself yep say it to yourself okay
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okay out loud okay say it to myself out loud okay for the example okay okay i can see
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that you're really scared i can see you have a lot of fear about this
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okay sweetheart what else are you feeling what else are you
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feeling sad just sad to leave everybody and
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um sad about new changes i can see that you're feeling sad about
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the new changes and leaving everybody i can see you're sad about making these
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changes and leaving everyone yeah and then really ask her in the most
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loving caring way like you would talk to a little child like "Sweetheart what else are you feeling
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sweetheart what else are you feeling
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um I'm going to miss I'm going to miss my mom and
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um yeah just kind of this life here that I know yeah I can see that
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you're going to miss your mom and the life that you know yes I can see that you're going to miss
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your mom and the life that you know here now
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sweetheart what is it that you need sweetheart what is it that you
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need um I just need you to hold my hand really tight
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and not let it go i can see that you need me to hold your hand and hold it really tight and not
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let it go i can see that you need me to hold your hand really tight and not let it go
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what else do you need what else do you
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need um just stay very close
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i can see that you need me to stay very close i can see that you need me to stay
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very close so sweetheart what else do you need so
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sweetheart what else do you need um I just need to feel sad
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i can see that you need to feel sad i can see that you need to feel sad
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is there anything else that you need honey is there anything else that you need
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i just need not to be like too far out in the future
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thinking about all the stuff out in the future
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yeah so I can see that you need to not think too far ahead in the future so I
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see you don't need to think too far ahead in the future [Music]
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mhm and then just give that little little Melissa a hug and let her know
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that you're going to be here and that she can you can come back to this practice at any time and any any in any
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place that you're feeling um the anxiety and the stress build up so then when
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you're ready you can just shake your head a little and come back to the room
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that's beautiful Penny yes it made me emotional so sweet
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little resistance in using those terms of endearment with yourself your little I know you you have to find the word
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that works for you but sweetheart honey those are pretty benign ones
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hopefully you know but but that's a self-love power practice from the Katherine Woodward Thomas work that I do
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that's a really powerful but and Melissa I invite you to do that with yourself every time you start getting you know
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freaked out well that's not spiritual bypassing that is like sitting in it
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and letting and accepting it and allowing it that's I feel calmer thank you yeah yeah you're
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welcome all it takes is a little love right
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we ready to wrap this up with a bow
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okay on that note I think yeah I think it would be wise to say that the um the
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work that we're doing even though we're talking about spiritual bypassing in any part of what we do could look like or it
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could actually be spiritual bypassing um you know it's it it still can be
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just spiraling down you know you take three or four steps up you might spiral
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one or two but the goal is that you've always made progress right so we
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definitely want to say that it's not to stop trying just because you may have experienced bypassing and you know
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shaming yourself for it um that's not what we've intended out of this um
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podcast today so just wanted to add that yeah I'd like to something too i um last
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year as part of my Kundalini yoga teacher training we did a um we developed a class series and it was
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based around the map of consciousness and when we did the intro we had to explain what the map of consciousness is
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and because it's a scale going from lower to higher it's easier to think in
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terms of better and worse so we had to kind of introduce what we were doing and
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explain that it's not um it's not like one is better than the other so I just
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wanted to read this little introduction an excerpt from this little introduction that we wrote in case it's helpful in
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clarifying so um the only variable as you ascend
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the map of consciousness which for reference goes from shame at the bottom to like enlightenment at the top um the
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only variable as you ascend the map of consciousness is the degree to which you embody love important things to
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understand about the scale are that the descriptions characterize your predominant state what this means is
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that maybe you calibrate at the level of will which is a 310 hertz calibration
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but then something really scary can happen that makes you feel anxious and scared like Melissa's little girl was
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just feeling which calibrates at 200 this doesn't mean that you are now calibrating at 200 but just experiencing
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temporary emotions typically associated with lower energetic expressions it's
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easy to look at the scale and say "Wow 500 love is better than 200 courage."
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And that is a misrepresentation or a misinterpretation grounded in the concept of polarity instead of looking
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at these states as better or worse a more appropriate way is to simply view them as different gradients of the
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expression of consciousness they're all simply a part of the human experience is
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blue fundamentally better than purple no no they're just different colors with their own unique properties is a rose
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better than a dandelion you may have a preference but in reality they just are what they are and so a very enlightened
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being at 650 hertz is not better than someone calibrating at 200 they're just
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living in a different paradigm which expresses itself accordingly we are all our own at our own unique phase of
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evolution which is in perfect harmony with nature and realizing this breeds
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compassion for yourself and for others wow so
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almost done what you resist persist the goal is not to bypass or avoid the lower vibration emotions and states of
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consciousness as long as we're in density we'll always experience the full range and so avoid shaming or feeling
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guilty when you find yourself experiencing the quote unquote lower levels that I think uh I probably need
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to find who to site for that we pulled it from different places on the internet but anyway I thought that was helpful
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that's beautiful well I've only got three postits
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today but let's do them so the first one is uh here we go spiritual bypassing is
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putting on the mask and believing you're holy i like that yeah and uh keep trying
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um till till I get it right that's an ACIM quote that Drisilla said i love
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that and then Morgan what you were just reading the different gradients of the
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um different gradients of the expression of consciousness is what we're going through as we were discussing all those
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different Yeah potential or non- potential spiritual bypasses that we were discussing today if that makes
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sense yeah they're just different gradients we're all just on a journey right
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yeah so what came up for you during this conversation to I'm saying this to all of our beautiful listeners did you
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notice any places where you might be bypassing instead of healing i know I
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did it's a process right well the good news is that awareness is everything
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and you don't have to be perfect just like what Morgan read we don't have to be perfect it's just a a gradient on the
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scale and you just need to be willing willingness is really what will set us
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free willing to tell the truth willing to meet the messy raw beautiful parts of your humanity and um yeah that's just
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the beautiful part about life is let's get messy let's squeeze a few lemons let's get get it you know messy and
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juicy all all over the place right yeah so one of the things that you can do right now is on the squeeze we're
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featuring a journaling series called Meeting the Shadow it's for anyone who
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