In the modern society, we learn to suppress most of our emotions that are deemed “negative”, and there is very little understanding or tolerance for free emotional expression, whether it is anger, grief, desperation, powerlessness, envy or anything else. One might say that we live in the emotional dark ages.
In reality, no emotion is objectively negative. Emotions are simply indicators of what is desired and what is not. They show us something about ourselves and our truth. For instance, anger is an indicator that our boundary has been crossed (by someone else or by ourselves), whereas envy is a sign that we desire something that we don’t believe we can have.