Coping With Jealousy

Imagine you’re having dinner with your partner at a fancy restaurant, enjoying a pleasant date, when the attractive young waitress approaches your table. As your partner places his order, the waitress makes a harmless joke and your partner laughs. As a result, you find yourself feeling mistrustful and anxious about your relationship, angry at your partner and the waitress, and bad about yourself for the rest of the night.

Jealousy and Self-Esteem

If you’ve experienced these or similar feelings in your relationships, you might be one of the millions affected by the psychological phenomenon of jealousy. Jealousy, the so-called “Green-Eyed Monster,” is a familiar part of human relationships, observable in every culture and age of man, from five-month-old infants to eighty-year-old elders. It’s also one of the most harmful and destructive emotions in the human psyche, capable of ruining jobs, friendships, and even marriages, as jealous and obsessive behaviours ironically do not bring our loved ones any closer, but actually hurt them and push them away.

While it sometimes seems like feelings of jealousy are justified, this is rarely the case. More often than not, feelings of relationship jealousy have nothing to do with what our partners are doing, but rather result from our own self-esteem issues, negative experiences in our pasts, and hurtful and self-limiting thought patterns that have been reinforced over time. This programs our unconscious minds to react with jealousy.

The Power of Thought

Fortunately, you don’t have to be powerless against these hurtful feelings! Just as the unconscious mind can be programmed over the years by negative thoughts and feelings of low self-worth, it can be reprogrammed using proven psychological techniques like hypnosis and hypnotherapy. Hypnosis for jealousy works by creating a deep state of relaxation in which the unconscious mind is more easily accessed and modified, allowing you to deconstruct the negative thoughts that cause jealousy and low self-esteem and replace them with positive, self-affirming thought processes.

By harnessing the power of your own thoughts through hypnosis, you can use the same technique of programming that resulted in feelings of inadequacy and jealousy to instead produce a healthy, successful mindset of confidence, happiness, and security. Don’t let the Green-Eyed Monster feed anymore! When you’re in control of your thoughts-you’re in control of your life!

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Steve Collier is a freelance author. For more information on jealousy and hypnotherapist please visit www.thetherapylounge.com