"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."

When was the last time the ugly green-eyed monster visited you? Jealousy is the last thing that I would wish on anyone; neither feeling jealous of someone else or having someone jealous of you. Jealousy is a negative energy that serves no one at all.

I’ve often heard it said that jealousy is the result of an incomplete love. In some cases this is true – those times in our romantic relationships where we distrust our partner and get jealous – this is an incomplete love. Jealousy however, has more causes than this sadly. Jealousy springs forth most commonly from a feeling of inferiority or ultimately a lack of self esteem, desire. Jealousy is nothing more than a projection of our fears. Someone is prettier, more intelligent, richer, faster, or luckier. Someone always has more – the grass is greener on the other side.

Well guess what. There will ALWAYS be people who are smarter, prettier, faster, luckier etc., so you have two choices; learn to deal with it (accept it) or learn how to kill yourself slowly with jealousy. There is a very physical impact of jealousy depending on how angry we get. When we are angry our body suppresses a chemical called Immunoglobulin-A, essential to a healthy immune system. (Shealy and Church, Soul Medicine 95-6)

The real hurt however is to the person who is the target of jealousy – especially if they are innocent. They did nothing to harm; they are merely being themselves. Our jealousy perverts reality and truth in everything around us and the target of our jealous behavior. The target of our jealousy then is forced to live in an altered reality and truth, forced to make wrong choices – not the best karma for those feeling jealous, to be certain.

Love and Bright blessings ~ Richard