Its your road, and yours alone.
others may walk it with you,
but no one can walk it for you. ~ Rumi
Years ago, I used to envy the lives of others. Lives that I perceive as being happier than mine. The thing about envy is that it rarely spurs you to respond or react positively. Instead, it salts the wounds and the bleeding of bitterness starts once more.
Envy also prevents us from being 100% happy for someone’s good news. Instead, the question “why can’t it happen to me?” pops in to over heat the self-pity soup, leaving us burnt.Then wise mentors appeared to remind and teach me to embrace and celebrate my own life. To embrace the sufferings, the pains, the anguish that appears on my own road. Just like I would embrace and enjoy the goodness, the joys, the learnings that is mine. And to practice being 100% happy for others’ goodness and joys.
I found the following steps useful:
- Practice gratitude for all blessings both big and small
- Practice deep breathing and allow the emotion of envy to surface and dissipate into the air when it pops up
- Practice being happy for others and be present to their joy
- Practice laughing more and crying less
- Practice patience as life begins to attract goodness into your life
Release envy and positively change your life.
This is a teaching worth absorbing.
This is a practice worth living.
This is a path onto total bliss.