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🔮Hello from Cuba! (and spiritual bypassing)
Published 17 days ago • 3 min read
🔮Soul Magic Sunday
The new Sunday newsletter name... you voted, and Soul Magic Sunday ran away with the vote! Thank you all for participating and sending ideas. This was way better than I could have come up with alone!
Right now, I'm in Cuba soaking in the beauty and culture of this mysterious (to Americans, anyway) island. (No, I didn't bring my computer. This was pre-scheduled!)
When I was chatting with someone about my trip he said "eh, I don't know if I'd want to go there. I don't like going where there's so much poverty."
Which got me thinking.
We live on a planet where poverty is real. Ignoring it, or pretending like it's not there, doesn't make it go away. Poverty is there whether we see it or not.
The same is true with our emotions.
Some communities have this "high vibes only" idea that you're not spiritual if you're not always happy and acting as if everything's okay.
Others (the camp I fall in) call that Spiritual Bypassing.
My perspective is that we zipped on these skin suits to experience the entirety of human emotions. Yes joy, passion, and love are awesome. But to our Souls, it's also interesting to experience shame, guilt, fear, and anger.
Remember last week when I talked about taking off those sticky notes?
They're not just beliefs. They're unprocessed emotions.
All those painful ones that felt unsafe to feel as a kid (or that our ancestors also avoided feeling) resurface during a Spiritual Awakening.
It's a natural process of release. This is what many refer to as "healing." When you feel the emotion, or take off the sticky, you're left with… you.
Pretending you're always happy and ignoring those painful emotions is bypassing the truth of what's stored in your body. It's like trying to shine your light, but no one can see it because the stickies are in the way.
I don't say all this to scare you.
I say this to empower you.
To show you that, if you've been feeling extra emotional lately, or like every fear is being thrown in your face, there's nothing wrong with you. You're just going through your Spiritual Awakening.
The best thing you can do is stop avoiding the tough stuff and just… feel it.
Have a good cry.
Scream. Yell. Punch a pillow.
Journal every F bomb and curse word that comes to mind.
Liberate the emotion.
I've been at this for 5+ years. I know just how good it can get when you stop bypassing the tough stuff.
When you're ready, I'm here to support you as well.
(Just not now. Now I'm in Cuba. But definitely starting next week! 😆).
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