Awakened Conscious Conversations
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Fish Don't Hold Sacred Water in Cups: Finding Freedom from Jealousy
Jealousy—that emotion we're taught to hide, deny, and suppress—deserves a closer look. What if this uncomfortable feeling isn't something to be ashamed of, but rather a messenger pointing to the wounded parts of ourselves that need healing?
This episode dives deep into the nature of jealousy and how it manifests in our everyday lives. From childhood origins where a parent may have shown favouritism to a sibling, to past relationship betrayals that leave us distrusting current partners, jealousy weaves complex patterns through our experiences. I explore how social media's comparison culture intensifies these feelings, creating a perfect storm of inadequacy and envy.
Ready to transform your relationship with jealousy? Listen now and discover the liberation that comes from embracing all aspects of yourself with kindness and understanding.
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action. So hello, dear listeners, and welcome to this week's edition of Awakened Conscious Conversations podcast. I'm your host, the Gentle Yoga Warrior, and those of you who have been with me since the start have probably seen how much this podcast has changed Now 100%. I have a guest booked on for next week and I apologize for not being online last week. My immune system hasn't been quite the same since my trip and I've picked up a bug and I'm still not 100%, but I'm at least able to record you a podcast this week and I'm fully committed to getting my immune system back up to its usual vibrant, amazing self.
Speaker 1:And I thought what better thing to talk about today is something that I'm working on, or rather, there's a set of things I'm working on I've seen as wrong, and one of them in the seven deadly sins is envy or jealousy. But if we, kind of like, say all the time that that side of the self is wrong and um, we deny that we ever have these feelings, then they don't fully get a chance to to fully heal. And jealousy so jealousy, um, I feel is is an emotion that um can change people and people trying to keep it hidden, and a shame is sewn into jealousy and I would suspect that jealousy probably is on its rise in this society just due to the comparison on social media that there is so much in this everyday life and also, and also kind of celebrities need to always look young and they generally have a lot of money, so a lot of people can't really get to that or choose not to. I'm just using that as an example. Is that's not the only thing of jealousy?
Speaker 1:Jealousy can have many different coats. It's from a place of pain or from deep pain of feeling inadequate, um, not good enough. Something might have triggered it from that childhood and it's kind of still sewn into our being. And jealousy can have, like we kind of feel threatened by others and and, um, not ourself, and maybe we want something that someone else has got, or we have this perception of them having a a better life than us, um, and there's all different levels of jealousy and if it's a very severe part of jealousy, then obviously I would suggest that you get some sort of professional help. I'm just I'm talking about the everyday kind of lighter um jealousy that we have, like maybe someone cheated on us before and then we don't trust our current partner, so that would put pressure on the relationship because of hurtful experiences, or maybe you had a parent that favored one of your siblings more than you and they felt jealous because of that, and there's all different kind of ways in which we can feel jealous and not kind of there.
Speaker 1:And the great late Carl Jung did a lot of work on our shadow and and the importance of understanding it and bringing it into the present moment. So if you do have some shadow qualities that you feel are kind of like stuck and you would like a shamanic healing session or a long distance energy healing session, shamanichealingsearth and I will help you to remove some aspects of yourself which you no longer feel serves you. But getting back to today's podcast, and how can I help you with jealousy? So the great philosopher, as I said, carl Jung, I was able to recognize that we have all these shadow qualities and yet we try and do so much to kind of hide them and suppress them that they sometimes come out when we least expect something will trigger them and then we'll just feel kind of that extreme of that of that emotion and knowing what our shadow qualities are, knowing how they, how they, how they can make us react and how to integrate them into our being is a very um, liberating and wonderful thing that you can do.
Speaker 1:Can you think of times that when you felt really jealous um, was it to do with a partner? Was it to do with a colleague? Was it to do with someone you don't even know? Was it something completely silly, ridiculous? And how did that jealousy come out? What was the trigger for that jealousy? So, by all means, listen to the podcast and they can go back with a pen and paper and work with this. And what was your navigation point through this? So how could you kind of bring yourself out of that jealousy? So the jealousy is there to kind of let you know that there's a part of you that feels really vulnerable and hurt, and by learning to heal that, then you're going to have better relationships with yourself, with other people, and they won't suffer at the wrath of your kind of insecurities. At the same time, sending yourself some lovely, loving, compassion and and kindness towards yourself can make a massive, huge difference within all this.
Speaker 1:And just to quote the great late roman, roman amazing poet, he asked in one of his poems are you jealous of the ocean's generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to oneself. Fish don't hold the sacred liquid in cups. They swim in the huge fluid of freedom. So I'll repeat that are you jealous of the ocean's generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to oneself? Fish don't hold the sacred liquid in cups, they swim the huge fluid freedom. So maybe we should try and unpack that now together. So are you jealous of the ocean's generosity? So the ocean can feel like it's infinite, right, and it's got lots of fish in it. But they're not thinking, oh, there's no joy for those fish, there's no generosity for the fish. So why would you refuse to give your joy to anyone? So that, to me, feels like. It's like thinking, like actually there is enough, I have enough, there is enough for everyone. Why would we refuse to give them joy? And fish don't hold sacred liquid in cups. They swim in the huge fluid freedom.
Speaker 1:So it's not about grasping or thinking that that comes from like a place of lack. Grasping or thinking that that comes from like a place of lack, um, but seeing the infiniteness of oneself and the infiniteness of one's soul is is an absolutely beautiful way to kind of bring the depth into this. Maya Angelou said and I like this a lot. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself. How would you like to navigate through feelings of jealousy? Are you aware when they pop up and do they change the way you act? These are foods for thought and very much worthy of a like five minute journal each day and let me know how you get on, if it helps building, bring you back into a state of awareness and how it's going to help you today. So thank you for listening. So remember, if you would like some help with removing these shadow qualities, then do reach out to me at shamanichealingsearth.
Speaker 1:Top tips for the meditation is either sit nice and cross-legged on the floor with a nice straight back, always nice to sit on a block or a cushion, or that's not available for you. You sit in a chair with the back nice and straight. The important thing is you're not slouching and if you're doing something that requires your concentration, all you need to do is just pause this and you can reconvene the meditation at a time that is good for you. If you're doing the meditation, let's begin. So, as you close your eyes, just feel that darkness around you and remember the universal womb of the world, the way that we're held is we sleep at night and by going into that darkness, that space of being the space where life came from, that space, within that space of stillness, a space without distractions.
Speaker 1:And yet, if distractions come and go in this meditation, just allow them to be like a wave going over you. You do not have to, you do not have to attach yourself to any thoughts. Just because they come does not make them so, and you can allow them to be there without fighting them. But equally, you can be in who you are now. So you're just going to take some slow, calm, deep breaths. This is all that you need to do as you navigate through today's meditation.
Speaker 1:Just think slowness, calmness, allowing ourselves to fully be in and out through the nostrils, as you just allow the slow, calm breath of the inhalation, the slow, calm breath of the exhalation, as you flow with this breath and you just allow it to be.
Speaker 1:So calm breaths in a rhythm that is in rhythm with you, do no need to force, do no need to rush, but allowing that breath to be Feeling held, loved and supported, feeling the universal hug of the universal womb, that place of being that place of knowing, that place of stillness within, just feeling the warmth, the kindness, the care. And as you are here in this moment, breathing and allowing yourself to simply be, can you think of a word to boost your morale, something that you respect and like about yourself, something that you allow yourself to be, this calmness, this love, and you can remind yourself of that kind word as you go throughout the day. So, when some negativity tries to creep in, can you bring this word, this vision, into your everyday life. Vision into your everyday life, and this is the way to take the mindfulness, the yoga, the philosophy off the mat and into your everyday life. So take a nice, final, calm, deep breath in this meditation, as you inhale, as you exhale, as you slowly come back into the room, back into the moment.
