The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest

218 BRIANNA WIEST
through your head again and again, you will be better prepared
for them. This is completely false. Not only are you
draining your energy imagining situations that are very
often completely manufactured, but when you are already
hypersensitive to any one of these fears or ideas, you will
actually create those circumstances simply out of your
avoidance or over-responsiveness to them.
You have to remember that among all the things to know
about the “monkey mind,” your head wants to constantly
seek out situations and experiences that will affirm itself.
If you believe something will be good, it will be. It might
not look exactly how you imagined, but the outcome will
be exactly what you expect.
Finding your inner peace is just connecting to your
deepest wisdom. It’s not something you have to create,
justify, imagine, or reach for. It’s always within you, it’s
always an option, and it’s constantly a choice. You just
have to make it.
REMEMBERING THAT YOUR FEELINGS
ARE NOT ALWAYS FACTS
The most challenging part of all of this is arriving at a
place where you can discern between which feelings are
instinctive and informative and which are rooted in fear
and ego.