Aspects of spiritual bypassing include exaggerated detachment, emotional numbing and repression, overemphasis on the positive, anger-phobia, blind or overly tolerant compassion, weak or too porous boundaries, lopsided development (cognitive intelligence often being far ahead of emotional and moral intelligence), debilitating judgment about ones negativity or shadow side, devaluation of the personal relative to the spiritual, and delusions of having arrived at a higher level of being. IFS is an outstanding spiritual tool that can help people do their inner work safely, effectively, and efficiently. It has built-in mechanisms for noticing and avoiding spiritual bypass. Like all spiritual techniques, it can be done incorrectly and therefore contribute to spiritual bypass; but it is one of the most spiritual bypass-free approaches I have encountered, with some of the sturdiest mechanisms for identifying and overcoming the tendency to spiritual bypass. Very important issues in spiritual and personal development work!!!
Posted on: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 07:20:37 +0000
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