Boundaries - it's a bit of a hot topic in wellness and spiritual circles that seems to be showing up in a lot of other spaces lately.

I see all manner of perspectives shared on the topic and most seem to emphasize a keeping-things-out approach. While this is valid and works for some, I find that it creates an intellectual and energetic obstacle for many people in my world (especially the high sensing folks) because they see it as a barrier to the way they move through the world - like trying to experience the feel of fine silk with a gloved hand.

Many of the empaths and sensitive souls of all sorts that I know are more likely to accept the risks a poorly-boundaried existence poses to their well-being than they are risk the potential impact that they perceive gaining and maintaining strong boundaries might have on their way of interacting with others - this is especially true if their work in the world involves other people (👀 I see all you therapists, healers, teachers, helpers, tenders, and carers).

It creates a damned-if-I-do-damned-if-I-don't sense of frustration - suspecting that they're making long term trades for short term gains but not seeing any valid alternative.

This is a problem that I've spent a lot of time exploring b/c, for a very long time, this was how I operated and I reached the point - many points, actually - where it was clear that I needed to take a different tactic if I wanted to remain open and curious and sensitive in and to the world without feeling like I was forever on an out-of-control roller coaster of energetic highs and lows.

My exploration and experimentation has guided me to some interesting insights that came up recently in a conversation with the lovely souls in the WellSpring membership - a conversation that I've excerpted so I could share it with you here ...

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The video is about 8 1/2 minutes long so if you don't have that time available right now, here's the Cliff Notes version -

1- I am steadily turning up the volume on my sensitivity but it is my sensitivity to myself and I have found that shift in inner posture pivotal to being able to be as sensitive as I wish in the world.

2- We each have an inner knowing of our boundless nature that we sometimes erroneously try to access by blowing out the container for our energetic bodies but it's our bliss body that gives us access to our limitlessness and a lack of energetic integrity blocks us from fully accessing that even subtler aspect of ourselves.

3- We are fundamentally changing the nature of our relationship with ourselves with these practices and that means a lot will change as we go and that is simply not a problem; the changing and the evolving and the shifting is the nature of the journey, it is not indicative of a problem.

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If I can leave you with just one thing to ponder it's this - when we approach boundaries with an emphasis on self-containment and energetic integrity, there's far less need to give conscious effort to keeping any boogie-man away.

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I always love to hear what's alive for you; hit reply and share any aha! moments or no-freakin'-ways that popped up for you when you listened.

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Sending you Love,

Tawnia

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