{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Envy - Recovered 469","description":"Questions\r\nWhat is envy?\r\nHow was envy a part of your life before program?\r\nHow did envy contribute to your addiction\/codependency?\r\nWhen you were new, how did you recognize envy as harmful in your life?\r\nWhat steps, slogans, prayers, actions have helped?\r\nHow does envy manifest in your life today?\r\nWhat are some of the symptoms of active envy in your life today?\r\nWhat other shortcomings accompany envy in you life?\r\nHow can envy be turned into a good thing?\r\nWhat basic instinct of life underlies envy?\r\nHow can envy contribute to a relapse?\r\n \r\nReferences.\r\nBig Book. p. 145 Chapter 10 - To Employers\r\nThe greatest enemies of us alcoholics are resentment, jealousy, envy, frustration, and fear. Wherever men are gathered together in business there will be rivalries and, arising out of these, a certain amount of office politics. Sometimes we alcoholics have an idea that people are trying to pull us down. Often this is not so at all. But sometimes our drinking will be used politically.\r\n \r\nDefinitions\r\n\r\n\r\nEnvy is an emotion which "occurs when a person lacks another's superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it" Bertrand Russell said that envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\na feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck.\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\ndesire to have a quality, possession, or other desirable attribute belonging to (someone else).\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n12&12 Step Six, p.67\r\nWe live in a world riddled with envy. To a greater or less degree, everybody is infected with it. From this defect we must surely get a warped yet definite satisfaction. Else why would we consume such great amounts of time wishing for what we have not, rather than working for it, or angrily looking for attributes we shall never have, instead of adjusting to the fact, and accepting it? And how often we work hard with no better motive than to be secure and slothful later on--only we call that "retiring." Consider, too, our talents for procrastination, which is really sloth in five syllables. Nearly anyone could submit a good list of such defects as these, and few of us would seriously think of giving them up, at least until they cause us excessive misery.\r\n \r\n12&12 Step Six, p. 66\r\nNo one wants to be agonized by the chronic pain of envy or to be paralyzed by sloth. Of course, most human beings don't suffer these defects at these rock-bottom levels.\r\n \r\n12&12 Step 10, p.90\r\nAnger, that occasional luxury of more balanced people, could keep us on an emotional jag indefinitely. These emotional "dry benders" often led straight to the bottle. Other kinds of disturbances--jealousy, envy, self--pity, or hurt pride-did the same thing.\r\n \r\nFinal Thoughts\r\n \r\nhttp:\/\/anonpress.org\/bb\/\r\nhttp:\/\/aa.org\/twelveandtwelve\/en_tableofcnt.cfm\r\n \r\nhttp:\/\/www.hazelden.org\/web\/public\/thought.view?catId=1901\r\n ","author_name":"Recovered Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/recoveredcast.com","html":"