Your Upper Limit

There is a set amount of energy we are able to express and still maintain our sense of our embodied self. It is healthy to stay within this limit. Doing so protects us from insanity, volatility and collapse.

As we move towards goals that are bigger than our current identity can hold, we encounter our upper limit. Unless we first expand our upper limit,  we may find ourselves destroying another part of our lives to make room for this new success. Or perhaps, knowing this intuitively, we will pull back from our new success through a subtle form of sabotage. 

Think of your upper limit as the amount of amps your house is safely wired for. When you plug too much into one of outlets the fuse blows and everything on that circuit shuts down. In most cases we can work around this in our homes by understanding how many amps run to each circuit and dividing our high power needing appliances between the circuits evenly so as not to overload them. The same is true with our inner energy flows. Only we may not understand how we are wired or that we may be trying to run too much energy through our sexuality circuit, as an example, but have plenty of juice available through our friendship circuit that could handle a new relationship.

What is important is to recognize your upper limit and learn to respect it. When we attempt to cross our upper limit without acknowledging it, we can create power failures that lead to other areas of our life becoming suddenly dysfunctional. If we keep pushing we can trigger a main breaker and lead to a life crisis. Rage and impatience are not the best tools to pushing through such a dilemma. If necessary, unplugging everything and hiring an expert to help re-wire certain energy circuits to handle more flow is the next step.

Action: Acknowledge your upper limit of energy flow. Use your intuition to focus on what is most important to you at this time and be willing to let go of other things to make room for your priorities without overload.

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Dane E. Rose