What is Spiritual Bypassing?

Spiritual bypassing is something that can negatively impact your intentional manifestation practice and is also something which can work to your detriment when it comes to living a genuine, authentic, Soul-Aligned life.

For such reasons, it is important that you know what Spiritual bypassing is so that you can be aware of it and so that you can recognize when you are doing it so that you can correct, face, heal, and thrive as a Spiritual being currently human incarnate.

What is Spiritual Bypassing?

Spiritual bypassing is when you use your Spirit and /or Spiritual practices and ideologies to bypass the density of the human experience here in the 3-D plane. When you are Spiritually bypassing, you are oftentimes forgetting that you incarnated into the 3-D plane of density to have an experience of healing and oftentimes of triumph in response to struggle.

You did not incarnate into the 3-D plane of density to experience heaven on earth

The 3-D plane of density is known for being a plane of free will and, thus, of conflict. Hence, while much of what we experience here in the 3-D is lower vibration than other dimensions, the reason we chose to come to the 3-D is to experience the 3-D plane and to thus experience all the pain, suffering, and conflict which abounds here in the 3-D.

While we oftentimes, in Spiritual circles, tend to view our trauma and our life experiences from a more zoomed out, Higher perspective, such a viewpoint can lead us to fail to take that which we experience with the level of seriousness or realness which it is meant to be given. When we do this, it is called “Spiritual bypassing.”

Furthermore, Spiritual bypassing tends to be a response supported by some presupposed judgement of some experiences or emotions as “bad” here in the 3-D plane and thus worth avoiding with others being “good,” which is a uniquely human conception and is, ironically, less Spiritually sound. In truth, all of the experiences both those which are higher vibration and those which are lower vibration are experiences which can contribute to the expansion and to the evolution of our Soul.

When one goes to Spiritually bypass a “negative” or more dense emotional response to an experience here in the 3-D, one is judging certain experiences or feelings as bad and thus as something which ought not to be faced when in fact all experiences are conducive to the expansion and evolution of the Soul.

When Do Humans Do Spiritual Bypassing?

Humans do Spiritual bypassing when there is something uncomfortable and/or painful happening in their human experience which they would like to feel better about experiencing.

Instead of facing this discomfort, pain, and/or trauma and thus deeply feeling how uncomfortable it is and eventually healing from it through conscious response, which is oftentimes a messy and even more uncomfortable experience, humans will use their own Spirit and/or Spirituality practices and ideas/ideologies to completely ignore or “bypass” the uncomfortable or painful experience.

An Example of a Time in which You May Spiritually Bypass:

To better understand the concept of Spiritual bypassing, it may be best for you to visualize of imagine an experience so that you can see it in action.

For instance, someone who you love dearly dies. This is a painful experience because it is so uniquely 3-D. Hence, in response to this death, you will feel something, and this feeling will be discomforting in some way because it is so uniquely human.

If you respond to this experience with something like, “she is in a better place” instead of allowing yourself to be upset or to cry, you are Spiritually bypassing.

Spiritual Bypassing Is a Moment-by-Moment Experience

Hence, while it is true that death is an illusion in the context of the Spirit or the Soul, death is a fact of the 3-D plane. While referencing Spiritual Truths is something which enables us to better understand the 3-D plane and our place within it, it is also important to remember that the 3-D plane is the thing which we are here to experience.

When we use our Spiritual Insight and overly attach to our Spirt, we are avoiding feeling the painful experience which is unique to the 3-D plane and thus pretending that we are not human for the time being.