Hi, I’m Alison, founder of The Longevity Garden, a sanctuary where we learn to playfully embrace longevity now! Today I’d like to talk about the tree of Jealousy.

This is a tree with spreading branches and vines that cling around and wind themselves spreading into every aspect of our lives; both professionally and personally.

Here are 4 common symptoms:
• In our career we might feel jealous of a co-worker who gets that promotion, or maybe we envy another colleague’s easy ability to hang out and communicate in a great rapport with the team.
• Maybe we’ve been trying to conceive for years. After diligently working hard and dedicating ourselves to a career full of adrenaline, functioning in a man’s world and denying our feminine nature for so long, we find we’re unable to conceive. With so many years of unsuccessful attempts, we may turn bitter towards others. When we look at a woman with her swollen belly, we feel so much jealousy. That stab of jealousy ages us on a cellular level.
• We may feel something completely different. It may be when we look at someone else’s strength, we feel so weak and full of doubt. We see that self confidence and we feel jealous.
• Maybe it’s that girlfriend that gets all the relationships, enjoying easy dating and then “poof” she finds her soul mate and we feel so eaten up.

Whatever the trigger might be the effect is the same. That poison and bile of jealousy rises within us. It takes the blossoms in our garden and just withers them. It turns us into dry sticks of bitterness and robs us of the quality of our life and longevity that we need and deserve. I heard a definition once, “Jealousy is the fear of losing what you don’t own.” How silly can that be? Why would we want to take our time and precious energy, turn our focus outside and compare ourselves to other people and allow jealousy to eat away at the core of our being?

Here are 4 simple solutions we can use to cut down the tree of jealousy from our gardens:
• Remove our attention from comparisons with others
• Turn our attention within and take an inventory
• Learn to appreciate the things we do have on a visceral level
• Bask in gratitude and feel that joy blossoming within us When we’re in that state we will attract everything we ever desired in our lives, be it the baby, the promotion, the soul mate, you name it. We become like a magnet in our lives attracting all we desire.

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