I Love You Keep Going with George Haas Attachment & Spiritual Bypassing
Nov 24, 2025
Explore the intriguing concept of spiritual bypassing, where meditation can become a way to avoid intimacy. Discover how to regulate both positive and negative emotional states to enhance relational engagements. Learn about the Ideal Parent Figure practice aimed at reconditioning painful responses and the importance of genuine integration through meditation. George also discusses how our memories shape emotional meaning and how to fully engage with life while maintaining equanimity. Dive deep into the connection between attachment and mindfulness for a more meaningful existence.
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Meditation Isn't A Getaway From Pain
- Spiritual bypassing uses meditation to avoid negative experiences rather than integrate them.
- Medivipassana trains both positive refuge and vipassana investigation so you can hold all states without avoidance.
Bliss Can Become A Spiritual Trap
- Bliss generated intentionally can stop investigation and create unconsciousness.
- Deep practice yields positive and negative states together, so true practice holds both.
Memory Reconstructs, It Doesn't Replay
- Memory reconstructs experience by activating gist-patterns, not by replaying recordings.
- Recalling an event mixes the original memory with every subsequent remembering and its emotional state.
