MAKE BOUNDARIES
HOW TO MAKE BOUNDARIES
a life without boundaries is a garden without a fence
any dog can come along and in a few seconds change a garden into a dog toilet
There is a difference between feelings and emotions.
Feelings are
Emotions are
If you use the stories, projections, assumptions, conclusions, prejudices, expectations, resentments, and your commitment to revenge to make boundaries you produce certain results.
For example, if you let your Child Ego State use its emotions to make a boundary, the results will be that
If you let your Parent Ego State use its emotions to make a boundary, the results will be that
If you let your Gremlin Ego State use its emotions to make a boundary, the results will be that
These are very different than if you let your Adult Ego State, or Archetypal Ego State use their feelings (not emotions) to make a boundary.
Sometimes the action step attached to a feeling is to make or change a boundary. Before you can make a boundary, you will first need to experience the distinction that the boundary expresses. When I first started working with distinctions I thought that distinctions occurred in my mind. I thought that if I understood or could explain a distinction then I got the distinction and other people would get it too. I also thought that if I complained loudly enough, blamed severely enough, sulked darkly enough, exploded destructively enough, or went away permanently enough, the other person would get it. Now I think differently. Now I think that a true distinction occurs simultaneously in all five bodies, not only in the intellectual body, and that a well-landed distinction does its own work, as clean, sharp and attention-commanding as a samurai’s blade.
A boundary is a distinction. Making an effective boundary is an action that takes place simultaneously in all five bodies. If the boundary is “No Gremlin feeding in our relationship,” it goes like this:
If a boundary is not simultaneously made in all of your five bodies, it will not function as a boundary. If you think that you have made a boundary and it is not functioning as a boundary (e.g., your partner keeps doing Gremlin behavior with you, your child keeps whining at you, the customer or boss keeps intruding in your space or violating your requests, you keep feeling betrayed by your friends) then this is valuable feedback for you that you are making boundaries only in theory, not in fact. Beep! Shift! Go! Start again. Don’t forget to relocate your own Point Of Origin in your next try! Become the boundary. Let it reshape who you are.
In the beginning, your Box has full control of your mind. The Box can cause you to forget anything it wants you to forget in an instant and you will not even notice that you forgot it. A boundary made from the mind is a puff of smoke in a hurricane. Where a boundary first starts becoming solid is when it spreads into your other four bodies.
When you become a boundary in all five of your bodies the other person or persons to whom the boundary applies will instantly and automatically sense it in all five of their bodies. For example, many people have reported that when they declare a personal space around their body and become the boundary, then when they walk through the shopping mall, no one bumps into them anymore. Their personal space is respected unconsciously by all the other shoppers no matter what kind of shopping frenzy they are in. A true boundary is sensed previous to words and ideas.
By the time your boundary occurs in your energetic body you have become the boundary. “Not in my house. Sneaking, flirting, lying, manipulating, whining, deceiving, Gremlin feeding, these are beneath our dignity. This does not happen here.” Once you become your boundaries, they wordlessly shape the quality of the space. They establish the context of the current gameworld and it really cannot happen there. It cannot. The space retains a shape that will not permit it.
High Drama will not support the creation or existence of a Low Drama situation without someone being at source for the Is-Glued story that creates the Low Drama situation. Who the source person is for a Low Drama becomes transparent in a High Drama space where you do not agree to fool yourself.
Along these lines, you can develop the habit of making boundaries out at the edge of your territory, before you desperately ‘need’ them, rather than waiting until the metaphorical enemy is storming your castle gates. If you wait until someone is beating down your front door before you make a boundary, it is too late. Your hesitation indicates that you have been fogging yourself about what is really going on.
Gremlin derives a payoff for procrastination. Gremlin gets to say, “It’s not fair.” “But I didn’t know.” “They are so inconsiderate.” “There is not enough time.” With each complaint, Gremlin authorizes its own license to take immediate revenge in an ordinary Low Drama.
Remember, you can create High Drama. High Drama is not ordinary. High Drama is extraordinary. If you keep using your usual Gremlin behaviors you will crash out of High Drama quicker than you can say, “Oh my God! I can’t believe I just did it again.” New awarenesses unlock new behaviors
STARR - Boundaries and Holding Space for Making Boundaries
A PROFESSIONAL MAKING A FULL BOUNDARY
RAGE STICK
This woman is using a special stick and cushion to practice making boundaries with all five bodies, physical, intellectual, emotional, energetic, and archetypal. After practicing a few times, the stick transforms into an energetic Sword Of Clarity, carried everywhere as one of a Possibilitator's 13 Tools, and used to make distinctions and boundaries easefully but attentively in daily life.
Eyes open, looking straight ahead, no one in front of you or behind you, everyone going with you, shouting from deep in your guts before you know what you are going to say. This is how to practice making clear, adult boundaries.
Matrix Code: MAKBOUND.01
Since a boundary is made through making a decision, it may seem to you that making no boundary is making no decisions. For this one-day experiment that would be true. The (only) rules are: Do not hurt yourself. Do not hurt anybody else. Do not get arrested.
It may be best to do this experiment when you don't have to show up at work or give your day of service. The experiment is to stay in the jello state, the fog state. You don't say no, don't say yes, no stop. You may be stuck in front of the closet all day deciding which colour underwear to use.
Experiment with the obvious necessity for life to work as a human being; boundaries need to be made, but don't make them!
Write down in your Beep! Book what you've learned about the number of boundaries that you didn't make. At the end of the day, make a short 2-minute video about what you discovered and share it on Youtube.
After completing this experiment please register Matrix Code MAKEBOUND.01 in your free account at StartOver.xyz with the Youtube Link as a proof.
This Experiment is worth 1 Matrix Point.
Matrix Code: MAKBOUND.02
In those critical moments when a critical boundary needs to be made, why don't you make it?
3 days. Notice every time that you miss an opportunity to make a boundary. In reality, you decide not to make a boundary instead of deciding to make a boundary.
Hint: when you don't make a boundary, there is bitterness, an anger that says "I should have said something, I should have done something different"? When you realize later on that "I didn't want it that way", write in your Beep! Book when it happens and inquire why you didn't do it?
It's a different feeling than the anger, inquire about what the fear is. Make a list of all these fears, and these are all gateways for emotional healing processes for you to set boundaries.
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This Experiment is worth 1 Matrix Point.
Matrix Code: MAKBOUND.03
Do this with your Possibility Team.
Part 1:
Research the spaces, places in your everyday life where you're not making a clear boundary. Once you have a list of at least 10-15 situations or people where you don't make a boundary. (Use the experiment above)
Part 2:
Make a video enacting what happens in each of the situations what happens when you don't have a boundary. Max 2 minute video. Put them all in one video.
Part 3:
Make another video making the boundary. Practice making the boundary in different ways. Saying "thank you, no", but also different ways of making boundaries.
Publish these 2 videos online. Put these 10 situations in two 2-min videos.
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This Experiment is worth 1 Matrix Point.
Matrix Code: MAKBOUND.04
For the next week, study animal behaviour close up.
Study pigeons. Notice that when the male pigeon wants to have sex with the female pigeon, she never makes a boundary. She moves away, she has no boundary.
Study ants. When two ants are trying to move pieces of food back to the cave, they only argue with each other. They do not negotiate a boundary.
Study dogs. They try to ake a boundary by peeing on their territory and barking to keep other dogs away, but does it work? No.
Now study humans. Human beings are animals. Write down 10 incidents where human beings behave like animals. By trying to live without making a boundary. Write down the outcome (how well it works).
Write an article about the difference between humans and animals is that human beings can make boundaries. In the article, explore or explain the elements of intention, consciousness, purpose, energetic, space clarity, and negotiations that are involved in humans making clear boundaries. Use the link to the article as proof when you register this Matrix code.
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Matrix Code: MAKBOUND.05
Add a meeting. Any kind. Tell the people that you are going to ask them to participate in an experiment where you will establish certain boundaries so that you can together experience extraordinary space. Explain that making such boundaries is, for example, shutting the front door so the neighbours' dog does not poop on your carpet. Turning the faucet off so that water doesn't get wasted down the drain. Putting banana peels in the compost bucket so that people don't slip on the floor and break their necks. Proceed to define and negotiate 10 boundaries for making the space extraordinary. Including things like:
- using I statements
- spaceholders
- there is a scribe
- the purpose of the meeting is clear
- the context is set at adult responsibility or above
- Gremlins sit at side
If you understand this, then give a workshop about how to create extraordinary space by using clear negotiated boundaries.
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This Experiment is worth 2 Matrix Points.
Matrix Code: MAKBOUND.06
True boundaries have true consequences. The common thoughtware about boundaries is that they are destructive and kill relationships. They force people or you to go away. The experiment is for you to have the experience that authentic boundaries are a true sign of care. Care for yourself and for the other person and for the space of relationship. So that the space of relationship can continue in a more vulnerable, more authentic, more caring, more than what you had before.
Make a list of 10 people to whom you have been giving your center away, people you've been pleasing. You do what you think they want to hear or do so that they don't go away.
For the next 10 days make one boundary per day. Purposefully, in each of the relationships, make a boundary and explain saying "I would like to keep having a connection with you, and from now on it's like this".
The boundary could be
"I want to tell you what I really want, then you tell me what you really want" or
"If you're not here on time, the meeting is over" or
"If you don't keep your gremlin conscious, the meeting is over" or
"If you start to tell me what my life should be like, this conversation is over" or
"When you talk to me as a victim and blame me for your anger, I will do conscious nonsense acting." or ..........
True boundaries have true consequences. The experiment is to notice the shift of quality in your space of relationship. It could be that half of the people can not be in relationship with you when you have boundaries. This tells you that they could only be with you when you had no boundaries and you were doing only what they wanted. Their Gremlin benefitted from it.
Another example: You speak for 3 minutes and I listen, and I speak for 3 minutes and you listen. Make a commitment and keep your commitment.
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Matrix Code: MAKBOUND.07
Title a page in your Beep! Book "my unconscious boundaries". The subtitle is "the boundaries that protect my box. What my mother never told me and my father didn't know." Make a list of 50 boundaries that you have.
A true boundary must be conscious.
Examples:
- I work 5 days a week and take 2 days on the weekend off.
- I can not wear clothing of the opposite sex.
- I can not be radically honest.
- I can not make changes in the town council.
- I can not argue with my father / mother, I have to respect their proclamations.
- I can not be on time.
- I have to go to bed before 9.
- I have to wake up by 7.
- I have to be a responsive nice boss / partner / father / .....
- I am not allowed to do what I really want.
- I can only drink water.
- I must behave in a way that people don't think I'm crazy.
- I must have reasons for everything, just in case anybody asks why I'm doing what I'm doing.
- etc.
These boundaries can hide behind proverbs like "you can't always get what you want". Or "you have to work (hard) to make money". Or "you have to go to college to get a good job". They can hide behind social rules and aphorisms.
"I have to wait 3 days before I call this person" or
- I can not have a conversation with a Trump supporter.
- I can not go into a sex shop.
- I have to give money to beggars.
- I have to give to charity to be a good person.
Do not stop before you have 50, there are fare more than 50. But once you have 50, choose them one at a time (and perhaps doing this in pairs) go through each one and ask these questions:
1. Where did this come from?
2 Is it really mine?
3. What is the real purpose behind this boundary?
4. Now that I have made it conscious, do I want to keep it or not?
If it's a boundary that you want to give back, experiment with giving it back. Somebody role-plays where the boundary comes from and use a towel or stone and give it back to them. Put golden balls in your Bubble.
Some boundaries you will want to keep, some you will want to get rid of and some you won't know. With the ones you don't know, experiment with making the boundary consciously, breaking the boundary consciously. Every option is an option. If every option is not an option, then you are following an unconscious memetic construct and you don't have access to what is truly possible.
It is an essential part of the experiment to share it. You can write an article about "The boundaries that I gave back.". You can share it in a group or team. You can upload a 3 min statement on Youtube. It is so important to share your experiments because many people have never thought of doing these things and you might open a door of their box.
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Matrix Code: MAKBOUND.08
Reserve a slot of 30 minutes in undisturbed atmosphere
Write down all the boundaries you ever wanted to make with your mother. Candidly and very clearly. She should not ..
These are all the boundaries you want to make with your mother. Any boundaries. Reasonable or Unreasonable. Make none of them and realize that you don't have to because you have shifted identity from being her little boy or girl to being a Possibilitator. Her actions no longer apply to your world. The target that she delivers her behaviours towards is no longer available. Doesn't exist. Every time you try to make a boundary against your mother she controls you. You strengthen that which you oppose. A boundary is opposition.
This is about shifting identity and holding space for yourself and in the world. Rather than holding space for yourself in relationship to your mother or other authority figures. You can stand alone in your own authority. Each person has authority in reality.
Celebrate becoming the source of your own authority, free of being against anything else.
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Matrix Code: MAKBOUND.09
Manipulation taps into your unconscious fear of losing / missing something in order to fulfil another person's intention. This could show up in your life as ..
Be vigilant where you agree with such statements. These are the moments you hand your authority and power to that person. You are losing your boundary and accept being manipulated.
For one week, notice these statements. The energetic moves from the people around you to make you do what they want. Where are you forfeiting your clarity? Write them down.
After 1 week communicate the results (with your Possibility Team, a 3-cell, a Possibilitator) and work out 3 practices to stand your ground and communicate your boundary.
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Matrix Code: MAKBOUND.10
Start viewing boundaries as mechanical structures you use to build bridges into new possibilities. Remember that a boundary that you make that you forget about is no longer a boundary. Boundary disappears as soon as you're not holding it there.
This experiment is to build bridges and walk on them into new territory. Meaning, if you forget that the boundary is there, you fall into the abyss.
For example, make the boundaries and tell the people around you you're going to spend 6 hours a day 5 days a week writing a book that the manuscript will be finished in 3 months, and then walk into that world.
Do whatever it takes so that your boundary is true and let everything else fall where it may. In this way, you can build bridges into whole new lifestyles, worlds, qualities of relationship, creativity and discovery.
Warning: do not try to build too many bridges at the same time (more than 2). You can't walk on more than one bridge at the same time. Build a bridge, walk it.
Note: you can build other bridges for other people to walk simultaneously. Meet together.
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Matrix Code: MAKBOUND.11
This experiment depends on you joining Rage Club. In the Rage Club request from the spaceholder that you practice making boundaries until you become the boundary.
Requires making the boundary at high-intensity anger, more than 65% pure intense anger. Becoming the boundary changes the shape of your Being, which forces the universe to change its shape around you, therefore becoming the boundary changes the shape of the universe. Changing the shape of the universe is an innate capacity of a Possibilitator. It is so. This is the way.
Go to Rage Club. Don't worry if you lose a few friends by changing your shape. There are a bunch more new friends waiting for you on the other side. When people ask what happened to you, look them straight in the face and say "Go to Rage Club and find out for yourself." The world is an amazing playspace.
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This Experiment is worth 2 Matrix Points.
Matrix Code: MAKBOUND.12
You have a closer look at your day. You take hundreds of decisions what to do and what not to do. You may have an exact plan for the day you meticulously follow - or you find yourself in a jungle of possible things to do and you decide from moment to moment what best meets your current needs. How aware are you about your actual attribution of life energy to specific purposes and projects?
Start with establishing an X on the map where you are. Take your Beep! Book (or a notepad) and write down every (non)activity you do. Note the time. And leave one column open for finding a purpose (identify purpose at the end of your experiment). An example:
h__ | activity____________________ | comment________| purpose
6:30 | wake up.. bathroom procedure_| cold shower_____ | .......................
6:55 | breakfast __________________ |________________| family, healthy food
7:45 | facebook, newspaper, mails___ |________________| ??
8:55 | read Website Make Boundaries_|________________| personal growth
..........................................
Observe yourself protocolling your day. What do you feel when having a double focus on doing and observing/protocolling? Do it as precise as you can do without getting upset.
Do this for consecutive 3 days. How does the fact of observing yourself in the course of the day subtly influence your decisions? If you forget to protocol for some time, estimate the time and reconstruct the activities.
On the 4th day, take 30 min of your time and find a purpose-category for each entry in the daily list. Answer these questions for yourself:
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A life without boundaries is a garden without a fence.
Any dog can come along and in a few seconds change a garden into a dog toilet.
- Clinton Callahan