Folks:
Don’t know whether it is a stupid question to ask here…
I had an insecure and bad childhood. Eventhough I am successful now, I feel envy to others. I do not mean that inside but that is what my expression conveys to people.
I do not know my insecure childhood has anything to do with it.
Is yoga(asanas,prananayma etc) has any cure to it.
Yes! Yoga heals.
Trying to understand the cause of the envy [B]and[/B] where the envy is pointing at (in what way would it satisfy you, in what way is it trying to balance your mind) also cures it.
Never negate any internal process, accept and investigate them.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Carl Gustav Jung
[QUOTE=Layman;61301]Folks:
Don’t know whether it is a stupid question to ask here…
I had an insecure and bad childhood. Eventhough I am successful now, I feel envy to others. I do not mean that inside but that is what my expression conveys to people.
I do not know my insecure childhood has anything to do with it.
Is yoga(asanas,prananayma etc) has any cure to it.[/QUOTE]
I’m not sure is asana practice can heal the mins and the envy… but yamas and niyamas practice should help…
There is a distinction to be made in answering the question. Yoga does not cure anything at all, it does not fix anything. Rather Yoga supports the systems that do the healing. To call Yoga a cure is to completely overlook significant parts of an involved process.
So the answer then is “no” but…the answer is also yes in that some tools in the vast sea of Yoga, when properly wielded, can support a person who wishes to address feelings of envy.
Hi Layman
Meditation is what could help. It is always somebody who has a better something. But if you start to do meditation you will not envy but you will wish it to others.
Take care
Ivana
If you consider yoga as a method for coming to know yourself, then yes. But if you consider it as a method of just physical exercise, or mechanical manipulation of different states of consciousness, then no. Anything which leads you towards a deeper awareness of yourself is going to be a liberating force - whether it is with envy, fear, or any other mental state. Because the problem is not that envy is there - the problem is that one is that one has been unable to remain a witness to any mental state without forming an attachment, without becoming entangled in it. Because you are not able to remain a witness in the present without clinging to whatever arises in your experience - then if fear is there, you become a slave to fear. If envy is there, you become a slave to your envy. Even if love is there, you become a slave to your love.
To understand envy - you have to see it as it is, without liking or disliking, without attraction towards it or aversion from. The moment you see it without judgment, then in that very seeing there comes a certain freedom. But if you are constantly focused on finding a cure somewhere in the future rather than understanding your own condition in this very moment, then you can continue moving in vicious circles endlessly.