How To Turn Envy Into Inspiration

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Envy: a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else’s possessions, qualities, or luck. (Oxford English Dictionary). Let’s face it. We all have it. Especially in today’s day-and-age where social media is significantly impacting and exacerbating your feelings of scarcity and not enough-ness, as it actively invites you to compare themselves with shiny imagery and perceived lifestyles.

Envy is a low vibrational emotion. An emotion that generates a desire and feeling separate from that desire, lending itself to sensations of resentment, jealousy, frustration and discontent. Your conditioning, based on past experiences, determines the level of envy that you experience and what you do with that energy. Envy can generate more low-vibe emotions judgement, shame, anxiety, sadness, etc. It can paralyze you from taking action towards your potentiality, as it keeps you stuck living in the past, supporting your unconscious patterning. When you contain and hold an energetic frequency of envy you are literally signally to the Universe the belief that you are unworthy and in a state of lack.

Quantum physics theorizes that consciousness is fundamental and that all matter is an emergent property of consciousness. The currency of your thoughts and belief systems generates the experiences you encounter. Everything created in your environment stems from thought. You are creating your experiences and events based on your energetic frequency, as nature responds and will return to you the results of your inner thoughts, feelings, intentions and actions. As they say, “as you sow, so shall you reap”.

Envy is unconscious and can surface unexpectedly. Instead of fueling the envy or shaming yourself that you feeling envious, can you allow the envy to guide you towards change? Can you get so curious about the envy and possibly allow the envy to birth inspiration?

Desire is natural. The purpose of this 3D life as human beings is to create: to feel desire and to manifest those desires, no matter how impossible they may seem. A feeling of envy is communicating with you from an energy of desire. Instead of allowing the low-vibrational feeling to generate more low-vibrational energy, why don’t you try to transmute it? Envy stems from a scarcity mindset, whereas inspiration is an abundance mindset. The Law of Duality (again quantum physics) means that two exact opposite results derive out of a same thing. Inspiration and envy both stem from desire.

The resentment, jealousy, frustration and discontent that rises up within you from someone else’s success is just fear-based thinking that their success will take away from your own opportunity and success… but the Universe is unbounded, potential and endless. Feeling envious is really an opportunity to rewire these thoughts and belief systems: to make a difference choice in your mentality. TO CHOOSE TO FEEL INSPIRED BY WHAT IS POSSIBLE. You too can manifest the exact same desires that you feel envious about, simply by tuning in to your internal field. Choose to acknowledge and remove the low vibrational energy, replacing it with the question, “What am I desiring in this moment?” Is it possible you can soothe yourself with compassion and kindness, reminding yourself that this energy and thinking mindset is not who you really are. It’s just conditioning.

Within this moment, space for you reframe your mindset: choose to feel inspired to take an actionable step toward your desire, choose to feel worthy of your desire and choose to feel gratitude and abundance for you what you previously desired and made manifest.

Remember, this is a practice.

Erica