6 ways jealousy prevents you from getting what you want

Dr. Kulkarni of Beliefnet writes, "anyone who’s heard of law of attraction knows by now that emotions and thought patterns are associated with different energy frequencies. For instance, strong emotions like hate, anger, and disempowerment, are associated with lower energies (scientists can now actually measure energy frequencies associated with brain activity and emotions). We also know from the basic principles of law of attraction that like energy vibrations attract each other. What this basically means is that if you think hateful thoughts, you are more likely to attract people, circumstances, and events that are a vibrational match to those thoughts. Sometimes, this is easily apparent- like when you see a really angry person that turns off everyone around them- they just seem to have a negative vibe. But most of us don’t have just one strong frequency or emotion going. We think millions of different thoughts daily, and all of those thoughts have their own unique frequency associated with them. Most people also vary in their emotional set point from day to day, and therefore tend to get mixed results in terms of what they are manifesting. More subtle emotions that we don’t always outwardly show, like those of jealousy or envy, for example, also have detrimental effects on our energy that may not be as obvious.

The question becomes how exactly can jealousy or envy affect our energy negatively?

Dr. Kulkarni explains ways negative thoughts can destroy your energy and efforts:

Jealousy Has a Boomerang Effect: A jealous thought about someone does little to the person you’re thinking about. To the contrary, the thought simply bounces off that person, and comes back to you. Let’s say you’re thinking about how someone you know has more money than you, and perhaps you believe that they don’t really deserve it because you work a lot harder than them. The Universe then reflects that thought back to you and simply reinforces your core belief, which in this case, is something along the lines of “there is injustice in the world, and people are succeeding unfairly.” It doesn’t matter if the thought is actually true. If it reinforces a negative core belief you hold, it is ultimately detrimental to your manifestation efforts.

Jealousy Amplifies Insecurity: Feeling jealous about the lack of another’s affection or attention towards you, for example, has an underlying root cause of insecurity. Let’s say you are insecure about some aspect of yourself (your looks, your inability to attract or keep a partner, others’ perception of you, etc). Although you may not be consciously thinking about it, you are activating and holding a chronic underlying vibration of insecurity. This underlying insecurity often manifests as the emotion of jealousy towards a partner or another person. The partner then senses the insecurity, and causes the negative energy frequency to expand in both your lives. When you feel jealous, therefore, it works best to take your attention away from the object of the jealousy and point the finger back at yourself. As you clean up your own vibration of insecurity and doubt, the object of the jealousy often becomes a non-issue.

Jealousy Signals a Lack of Self Worth: We only usually covet what someone else has when we don’t feel worthy or capable of receiving it ourselves. People who feel confident in their ability to live their dreams and manifest their desires rarely feel jealous of others, regardless of how successful or happy another is. When we get frustrated about our hard work and efforts not panning out, or see success coming easily to someone else, it makes us doubt our own worthiness. This sets up a vicious cycle where a feeling of envy or jealousy (even though it’s a negative thought about someone else) just makes us feel worse about our self, not better.