Spiritual Bypassing – Good or Bad? How do city planners build highways connecting cities when each town has heavy vehicular traffic? The solution is simple. Build routes that bypass cities to avoid traffic jams. So, can we avoid the heavy emotional traffic in our lives? Yogic and spiritual gurus advocate the principles of Pratipaksa Bhavanam…
The complex path between Cognitive Dissonance and Spiritual Bypassing That uncomfortable feeling you have when your beliefs are challenged by discovering new information can be described as cognitive dissonance. We all aim to seek consistency throughout our lives, whether via our attitudes, behaviours, spirituality perceptions or beliefs. However, when this consistency is challenged and the possibility…
