In this week’s Wednesday Wisdom, Karissa reflects on envy, comparison, and the freedom that comes from staying focused on your own path.
A comforting reminder that someone else’s success doesn’t diminish what’s possible for you, and that choosing celebration over comparison can help bring your more peace. For the full meditation inspired by this reflection, search “Shining Light On Envy - Sleep Wave”.
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[00:00:27] Envy is a natural feeling that we've all experienced. But if that feeling of comparing yourself to others, or wishing you could have what someone else has, is keeping you up at night, it's time to bring some space and awareness to it.
[00:00:45] I once had a yoga teacher who said, stay on your own mat, to which he meant, don't look around and see what fancy thing the person next to you may be doing. It's not about doing the fancy stuff.
[00:00:59] Each of us is on our own path and are going at our own pace. But it's so easy to compare our experience to others, especially since we can be inundated with the filtered highlight reel of people's lives on social media and feel in some way that we don't match up or are missing out.
[00:01:20] One thing that sometimes was a challenge about my life as an actor was overcoming a sense of jealousy when friends would have success when I wasn't having any. I remember having an audition once in an office building, and while riding the elevator up together, a businessman asked me, how do you deal with the rejection? To which I laughed gamely and said, you get used to it.
[00:01:47] But looking back, I don't know if that was entirely true for me. There were stretches of time when I would put my whole heart and soul into a bunch of auditions and not get any of the jobs. That could be deeply depleting. But sometimes more challenging than that was watching friends book jobs when I wasn't, or an acquaintance reaching a new level of success I didn't feel like I could attain.
[00:02:16] The saying, comparison is the thief of joy, is a phrase that became startlingly true for me. So I began to try out celebrating, truly celebrating with my whole heart, when a friend booked a great job. And when I got a job I really wanted and I was riding high on that feeling of elation and joy, I would wish for the other actors I knew to have this same feeling too.
[00:02:45] Before long, there was no effort needed for me to feel a great deal of joy for my friends' wins, and I began to have more consistent success too. It became easier to see that just because someone else was getting what I wanted didn't mean that there wasn't enough for me too.
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