Tips To Overcome Jealousy And Envy

Everyone has been jealous or envious in at least one point in their life; it is simply human nature to want what others have or to placate yourself with platitudes about others to make yourself feel like you still are worthwhile even if you don’t have what the other person does. Jealousy and envy is just your minds way to protecting your ego; it’s an emotional response to feeling inadequate or insecure, but it really doesn’t help you. It can take the relationship you have with the person and make it sour and bitter, even more it can make you feel worse because it serves no purpose but to tear down another person.

Overcoming jealousy and envy is important to not only your relationships with other people, but with yourself; when you let jealousy and envy take over you’ll slowly be consumed by it, finding more things to feel inadequate or insecure about. Instead of making things worse, why not try these 4 tips to help you overcome jealousy and envy?

1. Love Yourself

Loving yourself and truly understanding who you are as a person can do wonders in helping to let go of jealousy and envy of others in your life. Delve deep into who you are and think about what makes you unique and worthy of love. When you find things to love and appreciate in yourself, you aren’t worried so much about what other people have.

2. Face Your Jealousy And Let It Pass Through You

Jealousy and envy can often take root when you’re unaware, slowly festering until it becomes a living, breathing green monster taking up residence in your mind. Before this happens try to face your jealousy, accepting it and the causes behind it and let it pass through you before it becomes a serious issue. Looking at your jealousy in the face can help you find out why you feel the need to be jealous of another person and help you to overcome that jealousy in a healthy way.

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3. Write It Out

Sometimes it can help to take that half formed feeling of jealousy or envy you have for another person and put it to paper, allowing all of the feelings and emotions to come forward. Writing it out can help you to root out why you are envious and make it easier for you to get a better perspective on the issues that are the underlying cause of the jealousy and envy.

4. Let Them Be Your Inspiration

Jealousy and envy are fundamentally about seeing something that another person has and wanting it for yourself. Rather than feel the deep seeded need to find fault with that person having something you don’t turn it into an inspiration to strive for what they have instead. If you see a chic woman with a fabulous job and a fashionably stylish wardrobe, use her as a model to help you get to where she is in life, but in your own way.