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I’ve been celebrating my own personal breakthroughs a lot recently:

• 2014: New clarity on what really matters to me and beginning to learn how and why to choose who and what I focus on (RESULT: feeling happy for the first time in a decade, in spite of my beloved life partner having just passed away);
• 2015: Breakthroughs in allowing my own abundance by letting go of poverty consciousness, in allowing better connection with my body, and in becoming able to finally release an old, stressful, unwanted job and step into what I want to do with my life and how I want to serve others (RESULT: more money, more pleasure, more joy, and more adventures);
• 2016: Finally getting more and more clarity about what I actually want in a romantic relationship - and accepting that I wasn’t ready yet! (RESULT: a ton of valuable experimentation that was 40 years overdue!);
• 2017: Letting go of clutter and the past in visceral ways, and buying the Summer home of my dreams (RESULT: feeling so much...

Opra's client here has taken a stand with family that many of us hesitate to do, even with friends or colleagues.  The choice was to discontinue contact with one member, temporarily.

When we choose our own happiness over the demands of others - even close family members - it's easy to feel out of our comfort zone.  We can have a lot of "split energy" - where we feel high vibration and low vibration together - yes and no, happy and sad.

That's understandable. While we care about the person, we also know that we can't care abut what they think, feel, say, or do.  Since we can't control them, it doesn't make sense to try to care about their behavior. 

But if  we know we are not managing our vibration well on this subject, the path of least resistance can often be to break off contact until we can get a hold of our own vibration.

And often our beloved "bystanders" will rush in to tell us how wrong we are, that we are "hurting" the family, that we are cruel,...