While discussing President Monson's talk on gratitude from this last conference a friend of mine told me how he mad a corelation between the comandment to be greatful, and the comandment of thou shat not covet.
Theory being if you are greatful for what you have, your station in life, and what ever blessings you have been given you won't covet what your neighbor, brother, friend, or enemy has.
I think this works much like anything else you are trying to remove from you life. example if I want to drink less soda, I try to drink more water. Subsitute.
So the subsitute for coveting what others have is gratitude for what we do have.
Thoughts?
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i used to have a huge problem with jealousy (coveting if you will), but i think often its because its easier to focus on potential negatives instead of potential positives. its the way the world is, we train ourselves to expect the worst. so we dont see the good in our lives and we want the good we think everyone else has. but what we need to do is start focusing instead on the positive in our own lives. i read a study that when we think positivly it creates more pathways in our brain to process positive thoughts and think of soutions in a positive way, whereas if we think of things negatively we create more negative pathways. so instead of always looking at what everyone else has, yeah, we should instead be looking at we have and being positive about that.
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