How I Overcame Jealousy & Learned to Live in My True State of Prosperity & Abundance.

The Balanced Being Podcast with Gunny Sodhi

I want to begin today’s episode by sharing something that happened over the weekend. An MBA friend of mine was sharing how well his career was going. As much as I was happy for him, I realized that part of me was filled with jealousy. This was a strange feeling for me as this was a friend who I supported fully and who I knew would support me as well. While this is very personal for me, I am sharing because by uncovering things like this, we can learn from each other.

The jealousy did not feel good. It weighed my heart down. However, being aware of the feeling of jealousy taught me that by asking myself deep questions, I was able to get rid of the negative emotion.

The first thing I did was to recognize the emotion of jealousy. Then, I proceeded to do something about it. Doing something in this situation is asking myself a series of deep questions that shifted how I was feeling. I asked myself why I was feeling that way? Why I could not be happy for my friend from a place of pure love and admiration? The more I inquired, the more the jealousy faded and left only love, admiration and respect.

One of my mentors who teaches about energy, told me that jealousy is a human emotion that we all feel once in a while when someone shares something they have achieved. However, instead of defaulting to jealousy, he advises that we wish that person more abundance and more prosperity. We should do this because the energy we send out to the universe is the same energy we will receive. Thus, when we wish prosperity and abundance, that is what we will get back.

Asking deep questions will remove the jealousy and comparison. From my situation, I learned about the emotion of jealousy. We must decipher that we are not our thoughts or emotions but observers of them. When we do this, we will be able to let them pass through or be able to change them. This lesson and technique can apply to all negative emotions and not just jealousy, so give it a shot and experience the peace and freedom it can bring you.

Wishing you the best of health,

Gunny Sodhi.