Ep 137: Avoiding Toxic Positivity and Spiritual Bypass

When you push down your so-called negative feelings and have an attitude of "good vibes only", it's a slippery slope.

Creating a fulfilling life requires discipline, determination, hard work, and humility—in addition to a sprinkling of metaphysics.

Humans are emotional beings and I believe we are here to experience a broad spectrum of those emotions. When you push down your so-called negative feelings and have an attitude of "good vibes only", it's a slippery slope. Similarly, people in the wellness and spiritual community can sometimes choose to avoid the deeper lessons of these challenging experiences in favor of more meditation, more crystals, more breathwork, more energy healing, etc. Spiritual techniques and positivity are incredible tools to work with, but they must be incorporated into a life filled with deep self-awareness, self-inquiry, and emotional intelligence.  If you aren't doing to work to find what's at the core of an issue, it will be stored in your body and energetic field. Energy workers and spiritual teachers can help you move energy, but they can't do the work for you. Creating a fulfilling life requires discipline, determination, hard work, and humility—in addition to a sprinkling of metaphysics. When you can harness both the practical actions and spiritual practices, that's when the magic happens! 

My upcoming offerings:

• Join my weekly Energetic Tune-up sessions on Soul Tribe Online! On Mondays at 5:30 pm (Pacific) from Jan 3 - Feb 7, I'll be holding a special series to start off 2022: Magnetize and Brighten Your Energy with Gyan Chakra Kriya. In this special series, we will begin 2022 with an incredibly healing and elevating practice that tunes up the aura and activates the arcline. Each class in the series will be anchored by this practice and will include a warm-up using breath and movement. Each session will conclude with energy healing while you relax in savasana. I am excited to dive deep into this practice with you!

• Join us for the TES Collective energy work sessions in 2022! The next session is on Wednesday, 2/2/22 on the New Moon in Aquarius, the lunar new year. Join an individual session for $13 or sign up for the entire year (13 sessions) for just $155, which would give you one free session. If you join for the year, you’ll receive recordings of the previous session in January.

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