Easy Does It
October has been an interesting month. Several seeming setbacks have occurred and relationships with some loved ones appear very fragile. Sometimes I've been tempted to "throw in the towel". Other times I've been tempted to perform a spiritual bypass.
What's spiritual bypass? It's when you are feeling really badly but you attempt to skip the grieving and anger and move straight to happiness because it just feels better.
And most of the time it doesn't work.
Why? Because underneath the "fake it til you make it", your true inner core is hurting. To loosely borrow Course in Miracles speaker Jacob Glass' expression, "It's like putting pink icing on a cake made of feces."
At times like these I remember that I am not my feelings. My feelings are human experiences that I cannot bypass. I can, however, be kind to myself and walk through these emotions. As Abraham Hicks advises, we cannot necessarily move from sad to happy, but we can begin at sad and move up the vibrational scale to a better feeling emotion.
So I'll start at sad and move up to hopeful or grateful. Hopeful that I'll feel better soon and grateful that I have the awareness that I am not my emotions and this too shall pass.
What's spiritual bypass? It's when you are feeling really badly but you attempt to skip the grieving and anger and move straight to happiness because it just feels better.
And most of the time it doesn't work.
Why? Because underneath the "fake it til you make it", your true inner core is hurting. To loosely borrow Course in Miracles speaker Jacob Glass' expression, "It's like putting pink icing on a cake made of feces."
At times like these I remember that I am not my feelings. My feelings are human experiences that I cannot bypass. I can, however, be kind to myself and walk through these emotions. As Abraham Hicks advises, we cannot necessarily move from sad to happy, but we can begin at sad and move up the vibrational scale to a better feeling emotion.
So I'll start at sad and move up to hopeful or grateful. Hopeful that I'll feel better soon and grateful that I have the awareness that I am not my emotions and this too shall pass.
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