Overcoming Jealousy, Anger, and Control in Relationships Overcoming jealousy is like changing any emotional reaction or behavior. It begins with awareness. Awareness allows you to see that the projected stories in your mind are not true. When you have this clarity you no longer react to the scenarios that your mind imagines. Jealousy and anger are emotional reactions to believing scenarios in your mind that are not true. By changing what you believe you change what your imagination is projecting and you can eliminate these destructive emotional reactions. Even when there is justification for the reaction, jealousy and anger are not beneficial ways to deal with the situation and get what we want. Trying to change anger or jealousy once you are in the emotion is like trying to control a car skidding on ice. Your ability to handle the situation is greatly improved if you can steer clear of the hazard before we get there. This means addressing the beliefs that trigger jealousy instead of attempting to control your emotions. To permanently dissolve the emotions such as anger and jealousy in relationships means changing the core beliefs of insecurity and mental projections of what your partner is doing. The steps to permanently end jealous reactions are: 1) Recovering personal power so that you can get control of your emotions and refrain from the reactive behavior. 2) Shift your point of view so that you can step back from the story in your mind. This will give you a gap of time in which to refrain from a jealous or angry reaction and do something else. 3) Identify the core beliefs that trigger the emotional reaction. 4) Become aware that the beliefs in your mind are not true. This is different than “knowing” intellectually that the stories are not true. 5) Develop control over your attention so you can consciously choose what story plays in your mind and what emotions you feel. There are a number of elements that create the dynamic of jealousy. As such, effective solutions will have to address multiple elements of beliefs, point of view, emotions, and personal will power. If you miss one or more of these elements you leave the door open for those destructive emotions and behaviors to return. From: Pathway to happiness...pathwaytohappiness
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 23:16:59 +0000