Finally! I finished my course! So exhausting! At least I can recharge before the next one. Sometimes, I wonder how I can push myself this way. But somehow, I am also feeling the stretch. Thus, some limits have to be set. Feel my physic beingdangling at the edge. Mentally much withdrawn.
Limits are the barbed wire of real life. Boundaries are split-rail fences. When you push past limits, personal or professional, there's a good chance of being pricked as you hurtle up & over. But boundaries set apart the Sacred with simple grace. There's always enough room to maneuver between the rails if you are willing to bend.
Limits are the barbed wire of real life. Boundaries are split-rail fences. When you push past limits, personal or professional, there's a good chance of being pricked as you hurtle up & over. But boundaries set apart the Sacred with simple grace. There's always enough room to maneuver between the rails if you are willing to bend.
We want our lives to feel limitless, so we must learn the art of creating boundaries that protect, nurture and sustain all we cherish. For most of us, creating boundaries is excruciating, so we don't do it until we are pushed to the outer edge of tolerance. To create boundaries we must learn to say, 'thus far and no further'. This means speaking up. Expressing our needs. Indicating our preferences. These moments are tense nd can easily escalate into confrontations complete with tears, misunderstandings and hurt feelings. This is why many stay quiet, rendered virtually mute by unexpressed rage and unable to articulate any needs at all. But even we are mute, we are not powerless to draw a line in the sand.
Whenever we deny our need to say 'no', our self respect diminishes. It is not only our right at certain times to say 'no'; it is our deepest responsibility. For it is a gift to ourselves when we say 'no' to those old habits that dissipate our energy, 'no' to what robs us of our inner joy, ;no' to what distracts us from our purpose. And it is a gift to others to say 'no' when their expectations do not ring true for us, for in doing, we free them to discover more fully the truth of their own path. Saying 'no' can be liberating when it expresses our commitment to take a stand for what we believe we truly need.
DaRkAnGeL'S WoRdS oF WiSdOm :
"Before I built a wall, I'd ask to know. What I was walling in or walling out."
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