Inner Work 057: Spiritual Bypassing
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Robert Augustus Masters defines the term "spiritual bypassing" as a collection of behaviors and beliefs through which we use spirituality to avoid life. Some of these behaviors include anger-phobia, boundaries that are too strict or too porous, emotional numbing, and over-detachment from life.
When we engage in spiritual bypassing, we trick ourselves into believing that we're healing and working through deep issues, but we're actually only staying on the surface of what's really going. In this episode, I invite you to explore the key behaviors of spiritual bypassing so you can move beyond them into deeper, more transformative, and long-lasting healing.
Masters' book can be found here: Spiritual Bypassing.
Thank you so much for listening, and keep doing your inner work!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, dear listeners and welcome to Inner Work, Spiritual Growth Podcast. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm your host, Josephine, a second-generation intuitive healer, an English PhD, who taught college |
| 0:13.8 | for nine years before transitioning to spiritual work full-time. |
| 0:17.9 | I now specialize in helping type A and highly sensitive women, including empaths, |
| 0:23.6 | let go of perfectionism, release shame, and transform their inner critics into inner allies. |
| 0:30.6 | To find out more or join the tribe, visit www.purefieldhealing.com or contact me directly at purefieldhealing at gmail.com. As always, those links will be |
| 0:44.9 | in the show notes. And now, on to the show. Hello, dear listeners, and welcome to a new episode of Inner Work. |
| 0:57.1 | Before we dive into the episode, I wanted to extend an invitation to you to my new online |
| 1:02.4 | healing circle, which is totally free and there are no sales pitches. |
| 1:06.9 | I host this circle with fellow intuitive healer Robin Hallett, and we'll be holding the next one on Thursday, May 23rd, 2019 at 6 p.m. Eastern Time in the U.S. |
| 1:19.0 | There's also a replay if you can't make it live. |
| 1:22.4 | Our topic for the next soul gathering is the journey of the highly sensitive person |
| 1:27.0 | and how we can navigate the world |
| 1:29.0 | without compromising ourselves or our needs while staying sane. So if you're interested in |
| 1:35.1 | attending this gathering, which happens via Zoom, please register by going to www.purefieldhealing.com. |
| 1:43.4 | You will see a button that says attend a soul gathering right there on the |
| 1:48.2 | homepage. Okay, so today we're talking about the concept of spiritual bypassing. So why might this |
| 1:55.8 | concept be important for you and your spiritual journey of awakening. Well, essentially, spiritual bypassing |
| 2:02.4 | is a term that was first coined by psychologist John Wellwood in 1984. And this term is defined as |
| 2:10.3 | the use of spiritual practices and beliefs to avoid dealing with our painful feelings, unresolved |
| 2:16.5 | wounds, and developmental needs. |
| 2:19.3 | So let me add a disclaimer right here right away to say that we have all engaged in some form of spiritual bypassing, |
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