Reasoning With the Green-Eyed Monster - Wellbeing Wisdom Tiny Bites

You don’t have to tell me – just be honest with yourself. Are you ever just the littlest bit envious or jealous of someone? You might like them, or even love them, and yet now and then you feel a flash of a green eyed monster inside yourself.

Envy and jealousy are cousins, not twins – envy is softer and lacks the anger/revenge feelings that often are present with jealousy. With envy we long for what the other has that we don’t, while with jealousy we want to deprive the other person of what they have and claim it as our own.

If you or someone you know spends time with jealous thoughts and feelings, try this: step back from the details of what the jealousy is about, and try to see the other person’s gifts as proof that you can have those things, too. Instead of spending energy focusing on what you don’t have and disliking someone who does, focus on something you’d like to achieve, and then focus on achieving it.

Voila – a cure for those jealousy attacks!

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