The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest

THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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Of course, that doesn’t mean that our thoughts are useless.
It just means that they are not always reflective of
reality and should be used as more of suggestions than
anything else.
WHY CAN’T PEOPLE FIND THEIR INNER PEACE EASILY?
The answer is that they can; most people just aren’t instructed
on how to. But beyond that, most people are
actually too scared to go into their own feeling states, because
their inner child is too traumatized.
Everyone has an “inner child”; it is the part of you that is
most innocent and pure, and it never goes away. 21 Over
time, it is your responsibility for you to learn how to parent
this inner child, who will honestly be the one to push you
away from your inner peace. They will be the one to throw
a tantrum and tell you that everything is falling apart and
that you’re going to die and that you should just give up.
In the same way that you wouldn’t let a child run your
waking life now, you can’t always believe what your inner
child is afraid of. You can, however, learn to work with
them, heal them, and make them feel safe...in the way any
good parent would.
Stephen Diamond explains it like this: “To begin with,
the inner child is real. Not literally. Nor physically. But
figuratively, metaphorically real. It is, like complexes in
general, a psychological or phenomenological reality, and