Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Jealousy. A very difficult emotion.

Particularly if we're trying to find peace of mind and

happiness in our lives right now. Creating jealousy in our heart isn't going to get

us there very quickly. A matter of fact, jealousy is one of those emotions, one of those interactions that we have with life

that really can keep us from truly living well.

Well, what is jealousy?

Jealousy has two parts to it. The first one is a thought, a thought that someone else has something that I want, has something that I don't have, and I want it, and I think if I have it, I will be happier.

And so that sense of lack, that sense of desire creates sadness, creates envy, creates

dishees inside our hearts, so we suffer.

It's a very insidious and complicated emotion because it can come up in so many different ways.

We can be driving in our car and someone pulls up alongside of us and we think their car is a lot

nicer than mine. How come they're so lucky? What's wrong with me? Or we can walk into a

store and see someone who is so much better looking than we are

and feel less than in wishing again we were different.

And perhaps the biggest feeder of jealousy is social media.

We just casually get on our sites seeing what other people are doing and we see

that they're doing a lot more than we are.

Perhaps they purchase something, perhaps they've gotten something,

perhaps they're doing something, but things that we aren't doing, and we feel jealous, because they have more than

we do, and we want that. It can make us feel less than, it can make us feel anger, It can create so many different feelings inside of us

that in many ways it can be overwhelming and probably one of the leading factors

contributing to our unhappiness in our lives, not the only one, but it can definitely be one of the major ones.

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