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Shedding Unwanted Beliefs on Jealousy and Self-Worth

Joe Gibson, Above The Middle
6 min readJun 25, 2021

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My friend was telling me about his new house the other day. They’ve just put down the lawn. He also told me about his appointment with the nutritionist this coming week. Despite being obviously happy for him, after both statements I experienced a twinge in my chest. It’s an all too familiar one I get when I see other people doing well. I’m not proud of this autonomous reaction. If only they knew my supportive replies are said through the uncomfortable lacking I feel in myself.

Today I wanted to talk about limiting beliefs and how I am moving through them.

Some beliefs we don’t claim. I don’t choose to feel jealous, envious and ultimately lacking when I see myself mirrored up against other peoples successes. This reaction is merely the result of years of doubting myself and my own self-worth. Sure, there are decisions I could have made when I was younger to prevent these beliefs running a-mock now, but hindsight is wonderful right?

Either way, I don’t enjoy the fact I have these reactions to other peoples successes, but they’re here to stay. At least, for now. You see, by now a lot of our beliefs are imbedded in our subconscious and will show up whether we’d like them to or not and beliefs don’t…

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Joe Gibson, Above The Middle
Joe Gibson, Above The Middle

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