Self-Worth Bypassing Doesn't Work. Here's Why.
Have you ever heard the term “spiritual bypassing”? If you’re not familiar with it, spiritual bypassing means that you use spiritual tools and practices in an attempt to avoid your real inner work.
Clinical psychologist and author John Welwood coined the term, and here’s how he explained it:
“When we are spiritually bypassing, we often use the goal of awakening or liberation to rationalize what I call premature transcendence: trying to rise above the raw and messy side of our humanness before we have fully faced and made peace with it. And then we tend to use absolute truth to disparage or dismiss relative human needs, feelings, psychological problems, relational difficulties, and developmental deficits.”
In the same way, self-worth bypassing is an attempt to speed past the hard work of repairing your relationship with yourself so you can step into your true calling and full authority as a leader - no matter your path in life or in business.