Why Do We Set Personal Limits?

Why do we set personal limits? We want to do so much when we are children and somehow somewhere along the line we become fearful and we halt. We become cocooned and we stop growing. It is painful, it burns and it aches, but we do it to ourselves. In fact no one can hurt us as much as we can hurt ourselves. We don’t hurt ourselves with fists or whips, possibly not even with words, at least not verbal words. But the torture we mentally put ourselves through is probably the worst kind of hurt.

We do severe damage to our psyche. We freeze our destiny with limiting beliefs. We set unnecessary boundaries. We tell ourselves how ignorant or helpless we are. We keep ourselves from obtaining the future we always dreamed of as children. Somewhere, somehow the dreams stopped and we died. Not a physical death perhaps but certainly a spiritual death. The soul just stops growing, reaching, breathing. There are hundreds of thousands of lifeless individuals who do the same thing day after day because they lost their enthusiasm. They are no longer challenged. Oh they may be stimulated a little but there is no energy.

It would seem that they just stopped living when they stopped dreaming. This is sad but so many people exist this way. These are the individuals that have very mundane lives. They wake up daily; eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at the same time. They may even eat the same thing for the most part; there is no challenge and no life in this kind of existence. This is personal abuse. People need challenge they need to live on the edge and stretch. Stretch to the maximum and always always have a goal and a challenge.