I just met my friend, Alison, for a Sunday afternoon writing date, and I’m buzzing with the joyful high that I’ve come to know any time we’re together. No, we didn’t indulge in illegal substances, and this isn’t even a caffeine high gratis of the coffee shop where we met. It’s the amazing, elevated feeling that comes from sharing time with someone who gets me, someone who sees me and who will see for me when I can’t quite muster up enough belief of my own that I can accomplish something I desire.
Some people help us believe there is absolutely nothing we can’t do, that there is no mountain we cannot climb. And then there are others who, after being in their company, we feel completely drained and depleted, as though we’ve been run over by an eighteen-wheeler.
Our vibration harmonizes with the five people with whom we surround ourselves the most. The people who share our environment have a direct impact on whether ours is a world in which we thrive and prosper or flounder and struggle.
Think about it. Do you want to be pumped up and live a sky’s-the-limit life, or do you want to be stuck in a life way smaller than what you’re meant to experience?
Life is too precious to keep the company of people who don’t raise our vibration. It’s our birthright to be safely held in the supportive environment of those who inspire and encourage us to be our best, most authentic selves.
I’m grateful to have special people in my life like Alison who are the collective wind beneath my wings, but I haven’t always had the wisdom to fly with a flock that propels me higher and higher.
My friend, Alison, trying her hand at a Thai cooking class we took together.
Sadly, some individuals can be thousand-pound anchors that prevent us from rising to our full, boundless potential, instead keeping us at the safe watermark of where they see us and have always known us. They may have the best of intentions to protect us from perceived harm or danger, or they may want to limit us out of envy of the heights to which we are rising.
In either case, we owe it to ourselves and to each other to ask clearly for what we need from the relationship. We might be pleasantly surprised that improved communication brings us to a shared or more complementary vibration.
If our needs remain unmet, then we likewise owe it to ourselves and to each other to reconsider whether the relationship serves our mutual highest good.
We all deserve nothing less than to soar to limitless heights. Fly with those who lift you up to higher and higher altitudes.
