Are You Constantly Pushing Yourself Beyond Your Own Limitations?

How do you take back your power, thus enabling you to decide when enough is enough?

It is important to realise that failing to respect your own limitations may be a learned behaviour pattern. You may have been a child, when your natural ability to recognise your limitations were first taken away from you. However, you can now learn to make the necessary changes when you feel and realise something is not good for you or your health. Learn how to follow your intuition. Learn how to go with your gut feelings and not allow your own, or other people’s logic, to direct or influence your decisions.

You may doubt your intuition and gut feelings at times but if you go with how you are feeling, then that is what is right for you at this point in time. It is important to know your own limitations, it is important to recognise what you like or dislike. How can someone else possibly know, recognise, and respect your limitations if you do not know or respect them yourself? Your achievements in life are solely for you. Your learnings are unique and solely for your life’s purpose.

Our bodies have an intelligence of their own and if each of us could regain our inherent ability to listen to our bodies, and recognise our limitations, we could avoid a lot of stress and illness.

• Do you listen to what your body is telling you?
• Do you take a break of your own free will, or does it take an accident or ill health to stop you and allow you to take stock of your life?
• Do you know your limitations, or does someone else tell you when you have had enough alcohol?
• Do you wait until the barperson tells you that you have had enough?
• Or, do you wait until you are out of control on all levels? Do you wait until your brain, liver, and stomach etc, are damaged beyond repair before you begin to realise when enough is enough?

Did you ‘tune-out’ from your body’s pain level at a young age? Pain is the body’s warning system that tells you when something is wrong. If you learned to “tune out” from your body’s pain level at a young age, you may experience more difficulty “tuning in” at a later stage. Your body instinctively knows when it cannot tolerate a particular drink or food or other substance.

• When you eat, do you know your limitations?
• Do you eat what you feel like eating or do you eat the food others recommend you should eat even if it makes you feel unwell?
• When you were young your natural instincts were telling you what foods or drinks agreed and did not agree with your system.
• You may have been told to eat certain foods, despite getting stomach cramps, – because your parents believed this food was good for you.

In today’s world it is vitally important to learn ways to take better care of yourself, physically emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. It may also be a time to start evaluating your life and your life purpose and learn how you can self-heal your body, mind & spirit. This can be achieved by recognising your limitations, following your intuition and gut feelings, and having a holistic approach to your overall health and wellbeing.

When you learn how to recognise your own limitations, you can take better care of yourself and be better prepared to take care of those around you when necessary.

You may have been a child when you first experienced lack of limitations, but you may now be an adult who can create your own limitations for better health and well-being.

Read further helpful information in our Self-Healing Articles.