A practitioner asks: “Sometimes I don’t want to further include my father’s physical maladies in my LHP-DSMR work, because he is a very difficult and problematic individual, he has said and done something deeply wrong and hurtful to other family members. I know this thought doesn’t sound in divine alignment, but I really resent him at this moment. What kind of karmic liabilities will I incur if I go down this path?” What can we tell her?

The greatest liability of engaging with a karmic dilemma, seemingly brought about by a problematic family member, is that it is creating a kind of karmic dance. As the saying goes, "It takes two to tango." When you struggle with a loved one and it takes you out of divine alignment, you become entwined with that party and become partners in owning the karmic consequences of that struggle. While you might break free of them eventually, by turning your back and walking away, for example, that will not solve the problem, the karmic entanglement will remain and, in all likelihood, the Law of Karma will see to it that you will revisit the problem with your father again in the future, if only in the next life. It may well be, you will come back having planned within the light to be a daughter of the same man and struggle with the same difficulties, because nothing will have changed, in all likelihood. Most people do not heal their karmic liabilities within the current life, and that has been the problem for the human race all along. When you are enlightened enough to see and feel there is a better path but yet do nothing to act on that knowledge, and allow an unpleasant and destructive relationship to languish or persist, you are aiding and abetting an ongoing trainwreck, so to speak, and you will likely have a karmic consequence of a similar kind with this person or someone else. In some way, it will hold you down and hold you back, to not give of yourself, to find a way to forgiveness in seeing he may be the lesser person but is deserving more of loving concern for his soul development than resentment and bitterness. The latter responses say more about you than about him because it is you who are being lowered in response to his mistreatment, and that is something you are allowing even as you know and understand there is a better path to take. You both have a healing need here and that is always true of a perpetrator and their victim.