I love your wisdom so much. I am an artist who focuses on healing. Could you share links to all of your sacral wisdom so I can process and make art about it.
Hello! I came back to this post after reading about your four common root causes of dis-ease. I’m wondering if the wound of denial is relevant to me, but I had trouble identifying how this manifests in the four quadrants. In the root chakra article you were very explicit about how it manifests physically, emotionally, etc. Here you touch a little on the physical (postpartum challenges, etc.). Emotionally, I guess it doesn’t manifest because the point is you’re suppressing it? How about mentally and spiritually? Your clarification is greatly appreciated!
Hi Gabriel. Thanks for asking this question- it’s a good one. Let me start by saying that when I make these associations about how each wound shows up, I’m speaking from my direct experience in my practice- but it doesn’t mean their aren’t other’s expressions. As a general rule, I think about denial in any situation where we react to something so quickly that we don’t give it a chance to even show us what it fully is.
Mental: addiction patterns, thoughts and beliefs that self sabotage (this can take many forms). In other words, we React to our thoughts so quickly we get in our own way.
Emotional: prolonged grief, emotional numbness (a lot of the hormonal patterns I named in physical sort of cross into here)
Spiritual: codependency, people pleasing, intimacy issues, empathic exhaustion, disappointed love
I hope that helps! I can put it in my queue to do a longer piece on this!
Hi! Thanks for the support. Spiritual bypassing and emotionally bypassing are alittle different- mostly because of the way I'm using the word "bypassing" in the emotional context and the way it's typically used with regard to spirituality.
When I talk about "emotional bypassing" I'm talking about suppressing or bypassing our feelings with the thinking mind. This causes problems. So I'm using the bypass to explain NOT feeling or bypassing the emotion.
When people talk about "spiritual bypassing" they are typically talking about using spirituality to bypass the human experience. So the phrase is sort of the opposite as how I use it above. In the spiritual bypassing article, I sorta rewording things and said "using spirituality to bypass ---- instead of defaulting to the term spiritual bypassing.
But conceptually, these things share the same intention- in each case we're talking about overemphasizing one quadrant of health to bypass another- and this feeds imbalance. Does that make sense? I could do a longform piece on this for you if that would be helpful. Let me know!
Thank you for answering my question. What you wrote makes sense. When I look back at my life, I can see that the emotional bypassing came first and then when I got into spirituality, the bypassing continued so that is why I was wondering if there was correlation but I can see how they are two separate things.
Any more info on this subject would be appreciated. So yes...a longform piece would be helpful.
Ohhhh- I see the connection you’re speaking to! YES- I think this is very common- we learn to emotionally bypass as kids and then because we’re so uncomfortable FEELING, we spiritually bypass later on. They are totally complimentary in that way! And putting a long form piece in my queue 😊
This series is incredibly relevant to me and healing. I’m so thrilled to have found it!
I recently was told I have a cyst or mass
I love your wisdom so much. I am an artist who focuses on healing. Could you share links to all of your sacral wisdom so I can process and make art about it.
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I would be honored to share that with you and I would love to see the art you create. Will gather the links and share them with you shortly 🥰
Mass in pelvis
Hello! I came back to this post after reading about your four common root causes of dis-ease. I’m wondering if the wound of denial is relevant to me, but I had trouble identifying how this manifests in the four quadrants. In the root chakra article you were very explicit about how it manifests physically, emotionally, etc. Here you touch a little on the physical (postpartum challenges, etc.). Emotionally, I guess it doesn’t manifest because the point is you’re suppressing it? How about mentally and spiritually? Your clarification is greatly appreciated!
Hi Gabriel. Thanks for asking this question- it’s a good one. Let me start by saying that when I make these associations about how each wound shows up, I’m speaking from my direct experience in my practice- but it doesn’t mean their aren’t other’s expressions. As a general rule, I think about denial in any situation where we react to something so quickly that we don’t give it a chance to even show us what it fully is.
Physical: PMS, PMDD, PCOS, recurrent UTIs, fertility challenges, blood sugar issues/cravings, sexual dysfunction
Mental: addiction patterns, thoughts and beliefs that self sabotage (this can take many forms). In other words, we React to our thoughts so quickly we get in our own way.
Emotional: prolonged grief, emotional numbness (a lot of the hormonal patterns I named in physical sort of cross into here)
Spiritual: codependency, people pleasing, intimacy issues, empathic exhaustion, disappointed love
I hope that helps! I can put it in my queue to do a longer piece on this!
Got it, thank you for the detail!
Great post. I recently upgraded my subscription and am catching up on all that I missed.
You recently wrote about spiritual bypassing. Is emotional bypassing the lower chakra equivalent? Is there any correlation between the two?
Any insight would be appreciated. :)
Hi! Thanks for the support. Spiritual bypassing and emotionally bypassing are alittle different- mostly because of the way I'm using the word "bypassing" in the emotional context and the way it's typically used with regard to spirituality.
When I talk about "emotional bypassing" I'm talking about suppressing or bypassing our feelings with the thinking mind. This causes problems. So I'm using the bypass to explain NOT feeling or bypassing the emotion.
When people talk about "spiritual bypassing" they are typically talking about using spirituality to bypass the human experience. So the phrase is sort of the opposite as how I use it above. In the spiritual bypassing article, I sorta rewording things and said "using spirituality to bypass ---- instead of defaulting to the term spiritual bypassing.
But conceptually, these things share the same intention- in each case we're talking about overemphasizing one quadrant of health to bypass another- and this feeds imbalance. Does that make sense? I could do a longform piece on this for you if that would be helpful. Let me know!
Thank you for answering my question. What you wrote makes sense. When I look back at my life, I can see that the emotional bypassing came first and then when I got into spirituality, the bypassing continued so that is why I was wondering if there was correlation but I can see how they are two separate things.
Any more info on this subject would be appreciated. So yes...a longform piece would be helpful.
Ohhhh- I see the connection you’re speaking to! YES- I think this is very common- we learn to emotionally bypass as kids and then because we’re so uncomfortable FEELING, we spiritually bypass later on. They are totally complimentary in that way! And putting a long form piece in my queue 😊
Complimentary is a better way to describe it than correlation.
And I look forward to that long form piece. Keep up the great work, Doc! You are helping us all in one way or another. 😊
wow, this is amazing
I’m so glad you liked it!
Aaah, this is my work! 🧡
Such good work 😊
I feel the very same way! Identifying my own feelings, so I can begin to set boundaries, is exactly what I need to work on!
Thank you for this series!
You’re so welcome! Thank you for being here. New piece in the series drops tomorrow 😊