by Siri-Gian Khalsa

Personal "boundaries" may seem like a terrible thing to embody--perhaps bringing up images of the razor wire topped Berlin wall on a personal level--of people who never, ever let love in or out; not allowing full heart and its expression to flow between themselves and others.

That lack of flow, that separation among people can arise from those withering habits that were originally established between parent and child, or were created in other very treacherous lifetimes. Then they can be re-triggered as pain, remorse, feelings of loss and abandonment. They can become our own personal iron curtain of separation.