WHEN JEALOUSY ARISES, our habitual response might be to suppress or distance ourselves from it. Perhaps we see afflictive emotions and thoughts—such as jealousy, anger, and fear—as a failing, as expressions of small mind, selfishness, or insecurity we’ve spent our whole life trying to get rid of. If we’re on a spiritual path, we might even think we’ve got past jealousy, so it can feel very discouraging to find it right here in our heart and mind again.
But we don’t have to feel discouraged. We have the opportunity, moment after moment, to reframe our lifelong habits of mind.
