Most spiritual and healing modalities have you go \u201cinward\u201d.<\/p>\n
Into the emotions or pain, to fully express it so it can be released. Into dialogue with your inner parts, to restore inner harmony. Or into the meditative silence, to connect with your true nature.<\/p>\n
These modalities CAN be helpful. They definitely were to me at different points in my past.
\nBut they\u2019re also incomplete.<\/p>\n
To spend all your time going inward, trying to heal or clear or connect, so that you can THEN finally live the life you know you\u2019re meant to…is backwards. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s actually the real spiritual bypassing. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s focusing incessantly on the distraction of your conditioning (which ends up reinforcing it) instead of taking the DIRECT actions that you know deep down are true for you – but keep putting off until you\u2019re \u201chealed enough\u201d to do so. <\/p>\n
The true, direct actions that would also FREE you from that conditioning in the first place. And in a fraction of the time. <\/p>\n
Again, going inwards to heal\/release\/connect is not without its benefits. But those benefits are often slowwww to come – with years or decades of practices\/sessions\/work needed to re-wire lifelong patterns – and even then, never quite getting to the depths you hoped for. And always feeling like an endless work-in-progress.<\/p>\n
And even if a session is able to help you catch a glimpse of your true nature – feeling whole, alive, free, at peace – it\u2019s often only that, a glimpse.<\/p>\n
Then you leave the session or meditation mat and go right back to following the same dead patterns. Ignoring your authentic internal movements. And within days, hours, or moments, returning to that heaviness and anxiety and confusion once again. Thinking you just need to schedule more sessions, do more practices, go further inwards… <\/p>\n
The fact of the matter is – your true Self will only ever be a place you momentarily VISIT until you begin to ACTUALLY follow it in every nook and cranny of your life.<\/p>\n
Then, and only then, will you be able to truly LIVE there. Full time. <\/p>\n
But this requires you to get off the mat. And actually DO the direct actions in the outer world that are true for you. From moment to moment to moment.<\/p>\n
The actions that you\u2019ve been terrified to do. The actions you\u2019ve been putting off until you\u2019re \u201chealed enough\u201d or \u201cready\u201d (whenever that may be!). The actions that would hurtle you out of the comfortable patterns of the known, straight into the magic aliveness of the unknown. <\/p>\n
Everything you\u2019ve ever wanted from going inwards is actually available to you by \u201cgoing outwards\u201d. By taking the real-world ACTIONS and making the CHOICES that are actually true for you.<\/p>\n
(Key distinction being what\u2019s ACTUALLY true for you. Most coaches who espouse \u201ctaking massive action\u201d are doing so from conditioning, not truth. Which may lead to nice looking surface results, but not to the deeper, whole being re-orientation we\u2019re talking about here)<\/p>\n
And when you begin to LIVE what\u2019s true for you more and more, then even the distinction between \u201cinwards\u201d and \u201coutwards\u201d begins to collapse. <\/p>\n
There\u2019s no more discrepancy between what you\u2019re experiencing in your \u201cinner world\u201d and how it\u2019s manifesting in the \u201couter world\u201d.<\/p>\n
No more tending endlessly to the \u201cinner\u201d, hoping it\u2019ll birth the desired results in the \u201couter\u201d.<\/p>\n
All of that just collapses into One. Seamless. Movement.<\/p>\n
No more inner. Outer. Processing. Integrating. Practicing. Healing. Releasing. Trying. Pushing. Efforting!<\/p>\n
None of that.<\/p>\n
Just YOU being you.<\/p>\n
Natural. Easeful. Thriving. <\/p>\n
The way you were naturally designed to move through this world. <\/p>\n
And can return home to. If you choose it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Most spiritual and healing modalities have you go \u201cinward\u201d.<\/p>\n
Into the emotions or pain, to fully express it so it can be released. Into dialogue with your inner parts, to restore inner harmony. Or into the meditative silence, to connect with your true nature.<\/p>\n
These modalities CAN be helpful. They definitely were to me at different points in my past.
\nBut they\u2019re also incomplete.<\/p>\n
To spend all your time going inward, trying to heal or clear or connect, so that you can THEN finally live the life you know you\u2019re meant to…is backwards.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s actually the real spiritual bypassing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jaeminyi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pexels-rakicevic-nenad-1274260-e1641525325381.jpeg?fit=1400%2C1333&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79mZF-GN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2663,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions\/2663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}