I think jealousy is my least favorite emotion to feel. It’s irrational and gross and the worst part? It comes from a small place of truth. Like, the emotion wouldn’t be there is there was not a reason to feel it? I am struggling to let go of it. I just can not get my brain back to present with it
Plenty of emotions appear without any reason to feel them.
Jealousy occurs because you have attached to something that isn’t true for you. It is a way of feeling that things aren’t in their right place. As a result, you suffer.
There is a basic truth we must accept: If we knew how to be happy, we would already be happy.
Understand and accept that you do not know how to be happy.
It is because you think you know how to be happy that you put value and importance on certain things, mistakenly believing they will provide you happiness.
When someone else has or gets something you think you need for happiness, you will feel jealous. This means you miss two opportunities:
1. You miss the opportunity to realize you do not need that thing and to be at ease without it.
2. You miss the opportunity to be happy for someone else.
Thus you are robbed of having a good moment two times over and instead suffer many times over!
It is not easy to simply let go of jealousy. That is why we practice daily meditation. It can give us the presence and resolution of mind to recognize emotions and thoughts that aren’t useful and then let them go.
Remember that letting something go is not the same thing as pushing it away. Just because you let something go doesn’t mean it will vanish. When you let go of jealousy, the feeling of jealousy might hang around for a little while. But it wont be as intoxicating and overwhelming and debilitating. It will become a more minor irritation. Furthermore, it won’t stick around as long as if you hadn’t let go.
The book The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle will be very helpful to you in understanding and putting all of this into practice.
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