Negative Emotions We have all felt negative emotions  at some point in our lives: jealousy, anger, envy or resentment. The discomfort generated by these negative emotions is momentary, but the thought patterns that have generated them tend to be permanent, as is the damage we cause onto ourselves and onto others. If we don’t put effort into trying to modify these thought patterns, we will continue to generate the same situations and bad feelings. Negative emotions imply lack of adequate behavioural choices and the presence of limited mental schemes. Negative emotions are obstacles in the way of our self-realization [...]