What are healthy personal boundaries?
Healthy personal boundaries are guidelines we create to protect ourselves from being taken advantage of. Boundaries encourage us create a healthy space between ourselves and other people, so we can feel comfortable and honour ourselves and not be influenced by outside forces and other peoples personal agendas. Maintaining healthy personal boundaries is essential for our own mental health and well being, as they allows us to maintain in control of our relationships, our own decisions, and not to mention feelings. Let’s look into the different boundaries, and what makes them important, and how you can create and maintain them for yourself and teach your loved ones to do the same.
Physical and Emotional Boundaries
There are two main boundaries: there is the physical and there is the emotional. Physical boundaries involve physical contact or distance between two people. These can include things like your own personal space and having physical touch. Emotional boundaries on the other hand, involve an exchange of thoughts and feelings including emotions between you and another person. These might include feeling close enough to someone as to be able to confide in them about your feelings or the freedom of expressing your opinions on a certain topic.
Why Are Strong Personal Boundaries Important?
Strong personal boundaries are important for both personal space, physical safety and emotional and mental well-being. Physically speaking, having clearly defined boundaries can keep you safe from unwanted attention or unsavory situations. Effectively speaking, if someone attempts to get too close when having a conversation with you in public, having clear boundaries will ensure that person doesn’t overstep the mark into your personal space. Emotionally speaking, having strong personal boundaries is a vital element to maintaining your own self-confidence, autonomy, and your mental health not to mention your well being. It can assist in preventing you from being overwhelmed by others’ thoughts and opinions; instead, it allows you to focus on what matters most to you and in protecting, your own personal space and more importantly, mental health!
How To Create And Maintain Healthy Personal Boundaries?
Creating healthy boundaries adds a certain dimension by encouraging you to become more aware of yourself and your personal needs before engaging with others and allowing them to hijack you. This could include being aware of how much time you might spend with particular individuals or developing a new habit, by taking some time away from the usual time thieves such as social media, so that you don’t get overwhelmed with what everyone else is thinking or doing, and their opinions. Having established your own boundaries, it’s important to communicate these to those around you so they they know this is how you like to run your life, how you take care of you! Then its up to you to stick to what you’ve set, and honour yourself and the limits that have been established, even if those well meaning friends around you attempt to push the envelope, hold strong, as this ensure that your personal preferences remain respected at all times! To have help with setting and maintaining your boundaries, hypnosis and NLP is a non invasive therapy that can target trouble spots and help you identify them, so you can maintain being true to yourself.
Hypnosis
It is well known that hypnosis has been proven to be an effective method of increasing your confidence and belief in yourself to help maintain your ability to achieve many personal goals, such as to help maintain healthy personal boundaries. Using hypnosis can help you identify the specific patterns or blind spots that prevent you from maintaining healthy boundaries and help to to creatively develop new strategies for identifying and breaking those unhealthy habits. Additionally, hypnosis can help you build self-confidence and a belief and trust in yourself so that you are better able to stick to your boundaries.
Maintaining healthy personal boundaries is essential to enjoying a certain confidence in life as it allows us to stay true to ourselves while interacting with those around us in a safe and respectful way. By understanding the different of boundaries, understanding why they are important, and knowing how to create and manage them, we can ensure our interactions remain positive while protecting ourselves. Remember, when it comes down to it, no one knows better than you, and what is best for you personally, so ensure your needs come first!
Would you like to learn to stand firm on your boundaries, without the compromise, or people pleasing part of your personality that can sometimes kick in? Hypnosis coupled with NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), can be highly effective in helping you create and maintain your own boundaries and develop that inner confidence and lifestyle that pleases you. Contact Beverley at Blue Pearl and find out how hypnosis can change your life for the better. See for yourself how hypnosis and NLP can make a difference.