Ending suffering requires replacing old beliefs and practices with new ones. Along the journey of ending jealousy, we’ve picked up a few new practices:
loving yourself by interrupting self-criticism in favor of self-acceptance and self-improvement deepening...Loneliness is some hard core business. Codependency can be a helpful protection against feelings of loneliness, but it has some unfortunate side effects. When your sense of self is merged with another person, any break in connection with them can...
We fear there will not be enough love for us. Belief in the scarcity of intimacy has self-fulfilling consequences. Out of fear of loss, we cling to the few intimate relationships we’ve managed to find. Clinging, we fail to create intimacy everywhere,...
Insecurity is learned. We internalize the belief that we are inadequate and act on it by being hard on ourselves. Like all the structures of meaning that keep suffering in place, it can be dismantled and replaced with something better.
The Loving...
If you stop using the word “jealousy”, and instead pay close attention to what’s actually happening underneath the label, what do you notice? This is not an easy question to answer. Most of us, most of the time, make great efforts...
How would you like to no longer experience jealousy? Impossible, you say? How can we ever be free of our basic human emotions, you ask?...
