Establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries is pivotal for anyone doing healing work on themselves or others.  Many who are drawn to healing have big, generous hearts but find that others take advantage of their kindness.  Boundaries help us to distinguish ourselves from others and declare what energies we are willing to allow into our lives and which we refuse.  This allows us to stay safe and healthy so that we can actualize our mission to serve others.

Because we hold soul memories of oneness, it can seem odd to declare that we are separate from others or that we have particular needs.  But, lightworkers on this planet must learn to channel high frequency light in a way that honors the dense natural laws of the earth.  On earth, we work with time and material resources in the context of a cultural space that has its own structure and assumptions.  As much as we would like to see the world as being full of light and love, it can be a dangerous place, and it is naive to think that everyone has a pure intention.  We must guard our time, our physical resources, and our psychic space so that we can maximize our potential as healers.  Boundaries help us to do this.

Our boundaries function like a gatekeeper.  Ideally, the gatekeeper will allow in friendly energies and reject harmful energies.  But, many of us have adopted detrimental beliefs that undermine our sense of self and disempower us.  We may have grown accustomed to mistreatment or resigned ourselves to a life that is less than ideal due to these unconscious or subconscious failure patterns.  Because of this, our internal gatekeeper may allow harmful energies into our space and might also keep out beneficial ones!

But as we grow in self-awareness, we can begin to build boundaries that truly serve our highest good.  This post is part 1 in a multi-part series on boundaries and healing.  Part 2 will look at how we can establish effective boundaries.  In the meantime, consider what are your boundaries?  What experiences is your internal gatekeeper allowing into your life, and which is it rejecting?  Is this in alignment with your true needs and Spirit’s will for you?