Spiritual bypassing means whitewashing uncomfortable realities with spiritual concepts. Instead of feeling difficult emotions, they're meditated away. Instead of addressing conflicts, they're "transformed." Instead of integrating shadows, they're denied.

With spiritual bypass, we turn to the absolute as a way to avoid the relative and use meditation or any spiritual teachings to avoid feeling pain or discomfort within or around us. If anger arises, we might ignore or dismiss our feelings by trying to force a sense of calm, oneness, or even an insistence that if we were truly spiritual, we would

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Emotional bypassing is when you intentionally use the witnessing state as a means to purposefully avoid feeling or even noticing painful emotions. It’s a spiritual form of being in emotional denial. The true witnessing state is both a freedom from being held captive by whatever you are experiencing and a freedom to experience whatever experience

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