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 Four Tips To Control Jealousy How to defeat "the jealousy ." Jealousy is a complex emotion encompassing feelings that range from fear of rejection, loss, and abandonment, to humiliation, anguish, and even rage. In essence, jealousy strikes when a person perceives a third-party threat to a valued relationship (which distinguishes it from envy, which involves the desire for things, status, or position someone else has). Jealousy is a tricky, two-edged emotional sword because, in small amounts, it can serve to protect important relationships by motivating people to be attentive and act desirably. In large amounts, however, jealousy is often very corrosive to relationships and can even give rise to violence that can utterly destroy them. As suggested above, people do not express jealousy through a single emotion or a single behavior. Rather, they express it through diverse emotions and behaviors. Nevertheless, looking at it through a higher magnification, the common experi...

 2 Ways to Deal with Jealousy Positively Jealousy. The emotion we just can’t help but feel when someone we know (or maybe even don't know!) is doing better than us in some way. Whether it’s a co-worker getting a promotion, your best friend getting married before you, or even your sister losing the baby weight so quickly, we all get jealous. It’s human nature. The problem with jealousy is we don’t use it in the right way. We often sulk, complain, and just sit there creating negativity within ourselves and for those around us. Meanwhile, we do nothing to improve our own situation. Our normal reaction to jealousy is negative and often expressed by talking badly about the person we are jealous of and trying to diminish their light in some way. Jealousy can cause us to do and say things we don’t like. It turns us into people we don't want to be, and by doing so it hides our own light! But what if we started looking at jealousy in a different way? In a more positive way. Rath...