433 - Avoidance or Enlightenment? Spiritually Bypassing Relationship Problems

Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships

Multiamory, LLC

Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.9 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Even if you aren't a spiritual person or don't have a spiritual practice, we have strategies that allow us to avoid facing reality and minimize feeling difficult emotions during times of turmoil. We're going to discuss why we do this, what spiritual bypassing looks like in real life, and how to tell when you're engaging in healthy coping mechanisms versus unhealthy avoidance tactics. Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.com/join. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free episodes, group video discussions, and our amazing Discord community. Multiamory was created by Dedeker Winston, Jase Lindgren, and Emily Matlack.Our theme music is Forms I Know I Did by Josh and Anand.Follow us on Instagram @Multiamory_Podcast and visit our website Multiamory.com. We are a proud member of the Pleasure Podcasts network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So you can ask yourself, does this practice encourage either turning away and
0:08.8	avoiding versus turning towards and accepting.
0:12.8	I love that because I think that so many of these things
0:15.6	are about acceptance and are about understanding
0:19.2	that we in the world have things that we can control and things that we can't control.
0:25.0	And I think at its best, maybe things like spirituality allow us to be able to see
0:30.0	our place in the world and that we are smaller than we think we are in a lot of ways but that we also have the capacity to change and make things better or worse and we have the capacity to talk to our partners about challenges that we have and that we face.
0:45.8	And so if your practice enables you to be able to do that, if your meditation allows for some clarity
0:52.4	for instance, then that's great.
0:54.2	But if you are doing meditation to try to get away from a problem, maybe that's an issue.
1:00.0	Welcome to the multi-amory podcast. I'm Jace. I'm Emily and I'm
1:05.6	Dettaker. We believe in looking to the future of relationships, not maintaining the
1:10.6	status quo of the past.
1:12.8	Whether you're monogamous, polyamorous,
1:15.3	swinging, casually dating, or if you just do relationships differently,
1:19.7	we see you and we're here for you. Froms I know I did.
1:30.0	Forson me to form myself to fit.
1:37.2	On this episode of the multi-ammery podcast,
1:40.0	we're talking about spiritually bypassing relationship problems.
1:45.2	Even if you do not have a spiritual practice,
1:47.6	or even if you don't identify as spiritual in any way,
1:51.4	all of us have tactics that we use to avoid facing reality and avoid
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