Spiritual bypassing or the spiritual bypass is defined as: the “tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks”. The term was first introduced in the 1980s by John Welwood, a Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist. Spiritual bypassing is something which we can observe clearly in both …
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The ego is a tricky beast, it even knows how to camouflage itself even on the spiritual path. The “spiritual ego” is not a distinct type of ego, but rather how the ego hijacks our spiritual awareness and inverts it. Instead of putting our awareness towards becoming better, more compassionate people within the world, using …
The ego is not something to be ashamed by but aware of. We all have an ego: the aspect of ourselves that deals with self-image, self-esteem and self-importance. The ego deals with the ‘self’, all of the things we put after the statement ‘I am’. It’s common to see the ego talked about with negative …
