Internal Boundaries - the key to emotional balance
Internal Boundaries - the key to emotional balance
“Internal boundaries could also be described as self-discipline or taking responsibility or growing up. They are what is necessary for any real growth to occur. It is necessary for an alcoholic to start having internal boundaries in order to stop drinking - for anyone to stop any addictive, compulsive, or obsessive behavior. In order to start changing our behavior it is necessary to have an internal boundary with the child in us who wants immediate gratification/immediate relief from the feelings. In order to change what we are doing so we can change what we are getting - it is necessary to start having some internal boundaries with ourselves.” “Part of the task in recovery, is to learn to realign our defense system with healing and Love instead of with self destruction. We need to retrain the rebel to fight the good fight on behalf of what is healthy and aligned with growth - instead of aligned with unconsciousness. This is part of the process of learning to be our own best friend, our own protector, our own Loving parent. By learning how to have internal boundaries we can fight the good fight in a way that serves us instead of hurts us.”
On this page is an article by inner child healing pioneer on the developing internal boundaries as a key to emotional balance.
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Internal Boundaries - the key to emotional balance was originally published online as Inner Child Healing Part 9 - More on Internal Boundaries on January 18, 2001 on Inner Child / Codependency Recovery topic page I used to edit on the Suite101.com Directory.
Originally published at https://joy2meu.com/internal_boundaries.htm