Bypassing Quotes

“Bypassing the issue does not solve the root causes of that issue, it just makes a person feel better until the issue reappears in different ways or in different parts of the body.”
― Karl Forehand, The Tea Shop

“I am learning to “sit” with problems and own them instead of trying to bypass them. I am learning to empathize with people instead of trying to find a quick solution to their issues.”
― Karl Forehand, The Tea Shop

“Spiritual bypassing
separates us from our humanity and all its messiness and struggles
and pain and It makes us feel good briefly.”
― Karl Forehand, Being: A Journey Toward Presence and Authenticity

“While mystical channeling might feel transcendent, Reich saw it as bypassing the body's real needs. This leaves energy pent-up and leading to chronic anxiety or dissociation.”
― Laurence Galian, Crossing the Forbidden Highway: The Untold Story of Orgone, Body Therapy, and Suppressed Emotion