How to cure greed and jealousy?

Overcoming from the outside, that is, being less exposed to the things that make you want to be greedy, and overcoming from the inside, as long as you figure out what are the necessities.

To overcome greed, you have to calm your mind and analyze whether it is useful to you. If it's useful, you buy it, and if it's not very useful, then you don't think about it anymore. In this way, you will be able to overcome your greed.

If you want to overcome the psychology of greed, then first of all, you have to think that ill-gotten wealth cannot be obtained, you must know that you have done something unfortunate, if you always want to be greedy, you will have a lot to lose, so don't be too greedy, greed is the root of all evil.

Better overcome the psychology of greed, don't be too greedy, and then learn to be self-satisfied.

1.Improve moral cultivation. Therefore, we should constantly improve our moral cultivation, constantly broaden our horizons, and be kind to others.

2.Correctly recognize jealousy. To think that jealousy is a denial of oneself, a threat to oneself, and damage one's own interests and "face" is just a subjective conjecture. A person's success depends not only on their own efforts, but also on the help of everyone, jealousy will only harm others and themselves.

3.Evaluate yourself objectively. When jealousy develops, it is able to proactively adjust its consciousness and behavior to control its own motivation. This requires an objective and calm analysis of oneself and the identification of gaps and problems.

4.See Qiang Siqi. It is impossible for a person to be better than others at all times, and people have strengths and weaknesses. Of course, people should like themselves and accept themselves, but they should also treat the strengths of others, so that they can turn jealousy into competition and improve themselves.

5.See your strengths. Smart people will make use of their strengths and avoid weaknesses, find and open up new areas that are conducive to giving full play to their potential, so as to compensate for the desires that have not been satisfied before, narrow the gap with the object of jealousy, and achieve the purpose of weakening or even eliminating jealousy.

6.Compare hearts to hearts often. Jealousy often brings a lot of trouble and distress to the envied person, and empathy will restrain one's jealous words and deeds.

7.Divert attention. Actively participate in a variety of beneficial activities, and the poison of jealousy will not breed and spread.

8.Learn to be self-cathartic. It's a good idea to talk to close friends and loved ones who can help you stop the jealousy from going deeper. In addition, you can use various hobbies to vent and channel, such as singing, dancing, practicing calligraphy, playing chess, etc.

Greed is a pathological negative mentality, and it is a time when there is no fulfillment compared to normal desires. People's normal desires will disappear as long as they are satisfied, but the greed psychology is that the more satisfied, the greater the appetite, like a bottomless pit, it seems that it will never be filled, with this and still want that, there is no end.

Greed psychology is mostly caused by the following reasons.

Values. The values of greedy people are very different from normal people, they think that the world exists for themselves, and everything should be owned by themselves, so with this and that, there is never a time to be satisfied.

Excessive comparisons. Vanity is too serious, like to compare with others, see what your friends, colleagues or classmates have, you want something, even better than them, so unscrupulous means to satisfy your own desires, so that you become greedy.

Compensatory psychology. Many people feel that their life was not good in the past, and now they have to find ways to make up for it; What was not obtained and enjoyed before, should now be obtained and enjoyed; So greed arises spontaneously.

Vicious circle. A greedy success made it taste a certain "sweetness", so it became more and more bold, and every time it was lucky, its greedy psychology continued to breed, forming a vicious circle, endless.

So what kind of treatment is there for this serious bad psychology?

Self-inhibition. The best way to do this is self-control. To control one's greed, we must first correctly understand one's greed psychology and know which are normal needs and which are greedy desires. Then you should make a sober analysis of your own greed, such as determining what kind of psychology it is caused by, whether it is due to excessive compensation psychology, luck psychology or comparison psychology, and whether your own values need to be corrected.

By recognizing these facts and correcting these bad mentalities, we can eradicate the greed mentality at its roots.

Be self-alert. There are many ways to be self-aware. Some famous sayings and aphorisms from the past and present can help themselves to play a warning role, good people and good deeds, and the selfless spirit promoted in the society can also play a great role in motivating and demonstrating.

Contentment. The ancients said, "Those who are content are always happy." "If you want to live happily, you must know how to be content. Contentment, there will not be too much desire, greed, and this or that kind of non-divisive thinking.

A person's expectations of life should not be too high, to conform to their own reality and ability, a happy life is not a lot of money, high status and power, these are just things outside the body, real happiness comes from the heart, as long as you know how to be satisfied, happiness will come to you.