Antidote for envy

Tips to control feelings of envy

Admire the thing that other person has attained or accomplished. Learn from people who achieved greater success. Remind yourself about your unique life purpose and goals. Drop desires that are not aligned to your goals. If you still desire to have the good things other people have, decide to work harder and better and strive for greater success. Ensure you are not a victim of the media ads that rekindle and amplify desires and envy.
Know that people are all different and unique. Stop comparing yourself with others; if you compare, compare with the less fortunate. Feel worthy and magnificent. See others as an extension of yourself. Know that you are connected to everybody in the universe (you are a part of the body of Christ). Recognize the presence of God in others. Feel oneness with others.
Feel gratitude; count your blessings.
Bless people whom God has blessed. “A man reaps what he sows” (Galatians 6:7); so you get what you give!. Switch to a state of abundance. Visualize abundance for you and it is overflowing to others.

Meditate on the Words of God

A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones. (Proverbs 14:30)
Jealousy and anger shorten life, and anxiety brings on old age too soon. (Sirach 30:24)
For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice. (James 3:16)
Let each one examine his own work. Then he can take pride in himself and not compare himself with someone else. (Galatians 6:4)
Surely resentment destroys the fool, and jealousy kills the simple. (Job 5:2)
Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the LORD. There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off. (Proverbs 23:17-18)
Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. (Exodus 20:17)
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. (1 Corinthians 13:4)
Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation. (1 Peter 2:1-2)
Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong; for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away. Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. (Psalm 37:1-3 )
The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. (Psalm 23:1)