Envy is when we compare ourselves to others or compare our accomplishments to other folk's accomplishments. This envy maybe laced with bad intentions where we wish bad things to happen to those persons we envy. Envy is fueled by our negative-self view and negative intentions. If we accept ourselves, we don't spend much time comparing ourselves with other people. We wish them a good and abundant life. Comparison and negative intentions leads us to dislike others or to self-hate. When we envy, we often wish others hard times and knock how they achieved their success. Here the underlying belief holds that others' success takes away from our own. These beliefs and intentions may be in part the product of a competitive childhood and the modeling of negative intentions.

Negative intentions bring harm to their holder.

The control of intention is a very key ingredient to living an enjoyable, fullfilling, and a less conflicted life.

Some tips on envy:

Envy is often linked with coveting someone else's possessions and recognition. Acknowledge this error and be prepared to exchange covetous beliefs for more beliefs driven by positive intentions. Recognize the many good things we already have. Allow contentment to multiply. Focus on the good and beneficial and see how you might be more charitable to others.

*Experience those states of consciousness that allow you to know of your deeper connection to socalled others.

*See what you have, not what you lack. Wish what you have on others who are a part of your greater self.

Two Envy Drills:

The Tibetan Envy Drill:

This drill is based in part on an ancient Tibetan Meditation on sympathetic joy. An outstanding version of it can be found on P. 213 in "Words of My Perfect Teacher" by Patrul Rinpoche. Here's my spin on it with left nasal breathwork and a hearthold.

TIBETAN ENVY DRILL

(1) Pinch your right nostril shut with your right thumb and place your next two fingers in the notch beneath your nose. Breathe through your left nostril only during the duration of this drill.

(2) While continueing the facial hold and breathing, place your left palm over your heart.

(3)Allow yourself to visualize with all of your 5 senses someone you strongly admire and see them with all their wonderful possessions and accomplishments.
When you can really see and feel this admirable scene, wish them even more success and good fortune. Visualize it and experience it with all your senses. Really feel the good fortune. Build on even that scene by creating even more good fortune until the good feelings about it are almost overwhelming.

(4) Now do what you just did in step 3 for someone you are indifferent about.

(5) Now choose people you envy and dislike or who are even enemies and do step three with them as well. Build the intensity of the visualization by adding in all your senses.

(6) Allow yourself to bask in the strong positive experiences as you dwell on these persons growing good fortunes. Note how much better the experience of preferring good fortune for others feels than harboring envy and malice. This exercise will help uproot envy.

TRANSFORMATIONAL ENVY DRILL

Ask yourself the following questions and respond to them with what you will do and feel. If envy has been a challenge, you may want to ask yourself these questions either twice in the morning or twice in the evening at a set time. Steady practice with these questions can bring about the changes you desire.

(1)After you recognize you are multi-faceted, what positive and neutral qualities will you recognize in yourself?

(2) When you notice your positive attributes and successes, how might you draw a picture of them or would you rather write an essay about them?

(3)As soon as you recognize and accept your envious feelings, how might you notice what is good and right with you?

(4) When you imagine the good things others have, how might you imagine your positive intentions toward them growing?

(5) When you imagine the good things that others have multiplying, how might you wish them well and really feel that?

(6)After you hope and wish for the successes of others, what good things might you do for yourself.

(7) When you recognize others are apart of your your universe and are formed of the same energy as you, how might you experience that in consciousness? What if you peeled the label conciousness off both you and them?

(8) The moment you let go of comparing yourself to others, how might you wish them complete success and really feel that at the heart level?