Moving past Limitations - Managing our Protective Responses

Now that we are aware and learning to expand our boundaries, we might experience a new set of triggers. These triggers fall along the lines of being unfamiliar, and not used to a certain activity. And not because it is a threat to us.

Still, when charting new territories, we might flare up, and experience a lot of anxiety. Getting to the root of anxiety can relay our core needs.

Once we know this, we can ease into the circumstance. Of whether we open ourselves more to it, or retreat for a while. The best way is to dip your toes into the circumstance. If it feels intense you can come out, and practise dipping your feet again, trickle by trickle.

The idea is to practise nervous system regulation in a new circumstance. Sometimes these changes can feel intense. However just like the seed requires an intense energy to crack open its life form, it's the same with our limits. Once we open, it creates a new ground of experiences for us.

The idea is that we need to allow our protective mechanism to exist for us to shield us, in the right circumstances, not to shut off. Remember your protective mechanism is a survival instinct.

Your greatest skill would be about discerning which circumstances are growth-related, and those that are repeating a past pattern. Once you understand the intention behind this, you can learn to manage it appropriately to your circumstances.  This opens space to navigate and connect with other humans, rather than shutting off.