Spiritual Bypassing

Years ago in my journey a kind person recommended a book for me on spiritual bypassing. It was a soft way of letting me know that I may be at risk for it.

This journey is one of finding balance. Balancing pride and shame. Balancing arrogance and humility. Balancing inner and outer. It is all found through balance.

It is not healthy or conducive to be stuck in the state of the purely physical. Getting drawn down by the events of life and giving up hope. Getting locked in our heads with the thoughts floating around and anxiety running rampant. So, i tried escaping to the spiritual realm. I fell into the teachings of the body is not real, and this world is not real. I would solve my problems through meditation and higher consciousness. I would escape to the higher vibrations and these problems would fall away like an old skin.

That did not happen. Thankfully. Instead I was forced to confront my fears. To find who I am, and to see the truth. This reality is not real in a certain respect. It is a projection of consciousness. That also makes it a representation of my consciousness embodied in form. I learned to love and work with my body. The importance of movement and opening the channels physically. I learned that shadow work may be done in other realms, but often has to be faced in the 3D (as we sometimes call it). I learned that divinity is expressed in the inner and outer and is there to see at all times if i allow myself to.

It is through facing my limitations in the 3D that the genuine FEELING of challenge, fear, doubt, excitement, and ultimately the end product of success, growth and faith are experienced, revealed and deepened. I have come to see that what I turn, or shy away from are the areas I most need to face in myself to continue on this journey I have laid for myself. The bypassing was not wasted time. I learned so much while doing it, and I experienced growth, but it was not balanced. There was so much I was not letting myself feel, and the revelations didn't have the durability (ability to last and be deeply integrated into my consciousness). The deep habits were still persistent because the fears and false beliefs didn't have the opportunity to be proven in the concrete way that is a strength of the 3D. We are all at least 3 consciousnesses. The mental, spiritual and physical. The body is a consciousness that is part of our being in this plane. Without loving, respecting and communing with that consciousness we are at risk of stagnation.

You may as, what about this enlightened master (fill in the blank)? Nothing that I say is a hard and fast rule. It is what I see in life. In myself, and in my clients. It is completely possible to have a wide open doors blown off awakening. And it is possible it will be sustained. I can say that is something that generally is given, more than asked for. If I am wrong, that is ok. What is the worst that can happen? you make a better life for yourself. I know that is what this shift has given me.