130: Stop using your spirituality as a bypass to pain

Today Betsy talks about using the excuse that you are spiritual so that you can avoid dealing with confrontational issues happening in the world around us. Transcript: Welcome to The Art of Living big. I’m your host, Betsy Pake, and this podcast is designed to share interviews and new ideas to help you redefine what could be possible for your life. Now, let’s go live big. You’re listening to Episode 130 of The Art of Living bag. All right, you guys, we’re gonna get right into it this week, you know, every week, when I talk on the show, I’m bringing you lessons that I’ve learned or things that I’m thinking about, like, I literally record the show, and then make it live. Like there’s not I’m not doing it months in advance. In fact, most of the time, I don’t even have notes. Sometimes I sit down, and I don’t even know what I’m going to talk about, until I just have a moment and, and reflect on my week. And then what is important, tends to surface and then I know what I’m going to say. So here’s what I’m going to talk about today. And this is something that has really it’s been something that I’ve struggled with and trying to figure out, like what feels right. So I’m doing air quotes, like what feels right, like, what’s the right thing to do? What’s my intuition, say, okay, but today, I really want to talk about, like a spiritual bypass that we do that I do, to avoid things that are uncomfortable and hard. And especially, especially things on the news, okay, so if you don’t watch the news, and it and you try to, like limit your exposure to like negativity, please listen. And in, in May, maybe you are struggling with this too. And so maybe this will help you think a little bit differently. I’m not going to tell you what to do you, you will eventually know what to do, but maybe having another opinion, or someone else’s thoughts on it will help you to process this in a new way. Here’s what I have done. I try really hard to stay high vibe. And you’ve heard me talk on the show about like, nobody’s life is perfect. Everybody has struggles, right. And I have struggles I have things going on in my life, that are really difficult and honest to God, sometimes those are all I can take, like to look at the world’s problems is like, Look, I got my own crisis going on. Like I can’t even. And so one of the things that I have done, and I’ve talked about it, and I’ve been very proud, I don’t watch the news. I haven’t watched the news in years. And sometimes I will. That’s wrong. I have watched the news, like if it’s on my husband’s watching or something, but like I don’t record it, I don’t make it a habit. I don’t marketing my calendar, I don’t it’s not a regular thing. I don’t have TV on in the morning. In fact, I generally, I could not have a TV and I’d be okay. But here’s what happens is I do hear about things going on in the news. And I’m troubled. And I use my spirituality as a bypass as an opt out as a defense mechanism for things that are uncomfortable. And I go like, you know what, like, I have other things to focus on. I’ve got my own life to focus on. And I donate money to those kids every month in Uganda that have club feet. So I am trying to change the world and I can’t change everything. And I can’t be in charge of everything. And it doesn’t feel right to me to be like a protester, or do you know what I’m going and maybe you do this too. Now, here’s where I’m getting good. Here’s where I’m going. And this is what happened to me this past week. So I think that the news is bias, I think maybe it is wise to filter what you’re exposing yourself...