Misusing Thought as a Means to Suppress Feelings (Spiritual Bypassing)

Based on fear and ignorance, we use thought like “It’s all good” or more advanced "I am loving awareness or pure consciousness" to bypass or suppress our feelings. In this way we often have used thought as a band-aid to turn away from our feelings, to avoid them, because we didn't have, at the time of their arising in us, the capacity and/or the understanding how to meet them.
But eventually those (suppressed) feelings will re-surface and wish to be freed from the idea of a separate me, to be met, seen, felt or "enlightened" in the light of loving awareness, in understanding.
This is an excerpt from the online "Meetings in Beings" recorded on November 26th, 2023.
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[@RussAdrian]

Hello everyOne 🙂 Please feel free to share any of your reflections, thoughts or questions here in the comments. Thank you. With love, Adrian 🙏🧡

[@YoutubevideoSEOspecialist138]

beautifully presented Adrian Russ

[@RussAdrian]

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[@1infoful]

Suppressing thoughts leads to trauma in the body. Learned that from a spiritual Shaman in Peru. Release it and let it flow through you and out of you.

[@RussAdrian]

Yes, I would say “rather express than suppress”. Thank you for sharing 🙏

[@roubaix11]

Lovely ❤ I’ve noticed the experience of ‘polarity’ arise spontaneously, often after quite blissful meditative practice … being ‘triggered’ into sometimes shocking negative reactive response/thoughts/feelings … almost as if the bliss needed to be ‘balanced out’ with negativity/reactivity. It can be triggered behind-the-wheel or impatience with ‘others’ or something small at home, like spontaneous impatience with my coffee maker. While I typically notice it quickly, I have also noticed the spontaneous holding of my breath. It is often so subtle and immediate that I just don’t notice it … but my change in breathing rhythm or, halting of it, or interruption, feels quite involuntary. Therefore, I am ‘playing’ with it more by bringing Awareness to my breath now as I navigate my daily life … not just during meditative practice. … and especially attempting to shine the light of Awareness on it during times of stress and reactivity. Thank You! ❤️🙏🏼😌

[@RussAdrian]

Thank you 🙏 Beautiful that you noticed. This is a very common. After the bliss often some extra “material” comes up for clearing. Your very noticing, shining the light of awareness on those negative reactive patterns will take care of them effortlessly ❤️