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Understanding Jealousy: Causes, Effects, and Coping Strategies

You really have to experience this emotion to understand its
strong

hold on a persons mind. Not only their mind, but their entire
being.

I have been asking and asking questions regarding jealousy from

people that experience it and people that have to deal with it
through

someone close to them.

I have written an article and I will let you read part of it
before I

continue with my thoughts.

“Jealousy as many women knows is a very hard emotion to control
, it

takes your stomach and twists it into knots until you scream for

release. Problem is when we scream it is usually misunderstood
and

frowned upon.

Jealousy has a mind of its own and it is strong enough to make
us

believe and see things that are not even there or that have not

happened yet.

Jealousy can cloud our what is most of the time clear thinking.

Jealousy can make us worry and put our minds into a prison that
we

cannot escape, it locks the doors and does not let us out till
it wants

to.

Jealousy can keep our minds from sleep because it knows that
sleep

makes us strong and will help us to fight it.

Jealousy knows no rational thinking , feels as though it has no
reason

or rhyme, which makes it very hard to get support from people
around

us, and even harder to try to explain why we react as we do when
we are

captivated by this horrible emotion.

Jealousy does have a weakness though and that is LOVE and TRUST
and

women helping women to figure ways to combat this nasty thing
that

grows inside of us.

Jealousy can be redirected and from our site and all the help of
women

out there joining together we will defeat this , one step at a
time.

I will not stop till I unlock and set myself free from Jealousy.”

Jealousy is very much connected or may be even caused by ones
low

self-esteem. It depends on the elements that each person
experiences.

People of every size and gender can be afflicted by this
emotional

nightmare. It truly is a mind set.

There are several types of jealousy: mistrust caused by a
breach of

trust. mistrust caused by ones own infidelities, and the real
beast

that is born inside us without any reason we can explain.

Each one is a hardship and pulls us down into the loneliest
place.

Imagine having a fear, and your mouth is glued shut so you are
unable

to voice your pain and terror. This is a small example of how a
person

feels when their jealousy takes a hold of their mind. If they
talk

about it, they appear accusing and confrontational. Others feel
they

are being attacked for something they have no control of. It
truly is a

no win situation for anyone involved. But to keep it glued
inside only

gives birth to an ugly seed of pain ,agony and real loneliness.

Jealousy feeds on our strength making us weak in our judgement
of

what is real and whats not. We are in a prison that separates us
from a

world of happiness.

Why I ask? Why are we in this prison of jealousy, when we did
not ask

to be? We broke no rules to be punished for. When we look at
another

person, we see only what we wish to be.

Jealousy blinds us of who we are and what we have to offer to
the

world. Jealousy captivates our minds to the point of no return
in many

cases has caused terrible results.

People think that one can just say “Go Away”. We wish it was
that

easy. If jealousy could be defeated with a mere thought, we
would be in

a truly perfect world. Do you really think we enjoy this lonely
place

of jealousy? I know that I would much rather be in a happy place

anytime.

Jealousy does have one fear, that is “Love”. Love conquers all
and

that is as real as the pain we feel inside when we are
imprisoned by

the fears of jealousy.

Also as funny as it sounds, to trust a person imprisoned by
jealousy

is as important as wanting that person to trust you. We need to
know

that you trust us and that you know that we are not in control
of this

thing that causes us to fear life.

To know you are on our side and want to help us defeat this

loneliness, will truly give us that extra bit of strength that
we need

and the will to combat our own fears and jealousy.

We also need to focus on our minds and through help from our
friends

and others that feel our loneliness, use that strength to work
against

the negative thoughts that jealousy controls. We must tell
ourselves

that we are safe, we are loved, and we are needed. We must focus
on the

good around us and use our thought energy to force positive
thoughts in

place of negative jealousy ones. When we do defeat our negative
mind,

we should pat ourselves on our backs, because this is truly a
conquest.

Identify with the fact that you have won and the win will be
greater

the next time. It will happen, we just need to continue to
search for

ways to a higher self-esteem.

Together ladies we will conquer this loneliness. Strength is in

numbers and that we have. To close my thoughts, I leave you with
a

quote sent to me by one of my sweetest friends and member of my

website.

Stacy , you are beautiful and thank you again.

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit
the

changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”